At 95, Estie Norris Is Sew Cool

The quilter of many decades says the key to living nearly a century is keeping busy.

Her blue-veined hands move over the blocks of basted fabric, pulling together a pattern one rectangle at a time. In the sewing room at the Powder Springs Senior Center, Estie Norris is in charge, as she has been since the center opened in 1992.  At age 95, Norris has been an avid quilter for decades. Stitching just goes with the territory when your career was at the now-defunct Coats and Clark's textile mill, which was right down the road in Austell until it closed in 1983. The site now houses the Threadmill Mall and Austell City Hall, as well as one of the county sheriff’s outposts. Norris has long been accustomed to sewing for herself, but she really became proficient at quilting for others once she retired "in the '70s, I believe."  How…

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