In the mid-20th century, a group of young women visiting Pinecraft, Florida, on the outskirts of Sarasota, collaborated on this friendship quilt, embroidering their names and their home communities into its blocks. The act tied them together, despite the distance of their home settlements in Ohio, Indiana, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.

Since the late 1920s Pinecroft has attracted both Amish from northern Amish settlements to winter in the Florida sun. According to Kraybill, Johnson-Weiner, and Nolt’s recent study The Amish, the community has grown to an estimated 4000 “snowbirds” who take buses from Amish settlements.