Like other FSA photographs, it is unclear how staged this tableau may have been, but it nevertheless depicts women engaged in various steps of the handwork associated with making quilts. Tygart Valley Homestead in West Virginia resettled families left stranded when the coal mines and lumber industry suffered during the Depression.

[Full title: "Housewives in Tygart Valley, West Virginia, have weekly group meetings in home economics. Here they are quilting."]