Merel Van Looi last remembers her body feeling normal at her second QuiltCon in Pasadena, California. Three weeks later, the Netherlands quilter and fabric shop owner of Birdblocks, was hospitalized for a partial spinal cord lesion which would leave her body with limited leg function. The bleeding around her spinal cord, which was onset by reasons outside of her trip to Pasadena and Bali three weeks prior, would change her daily function and quilting productivity, but it would not stop her from living a creative life.
