By Katie Bianco November 3, 2020
Diane Canney launched the COVID-19 U.S. Honor Quilt and she’s building it square by square.
When Diane Canney’s mother reached a milestone birthday during quarantine, Canney found herself inspired to make a difference during this surreal era. “I have a very active 95-year-old mother,” says Canney, an artist who also owns both Sunset Hills Vineyard and 50 West Vineyard in NoVA. “She asked me to do something that would help the community. My mother, at her age, said ‘What can we do to help people?’ Her generation was very community-minded.”