While traveling west with her family in 1850, a young girl make a patchwork quilt chronicling the experiences of the journey and reserves two special patches for her pet hen Josefina.
When a generous quiltmaker finally agrees to make a quilt for a greedy king but only under certain conditions, she causes him to undergo a change of heart.
A pioneer mother lovingly stitches a beautiful quilt which warms and conforts her daughter Abigail; many years later another mother mends and patches it for her little girl.