Yuba County Judge Melanie K. Bendorf carefully attends to the outlines and patterns surrounding her, whether she is examining a court case, assembling a puzzle, or stitching together the squares for a quilt.
"I have the hobbies of someone from the 1850s," she said with a chuckle.
Bendorf said she prefers to create her own patterns when constructing a quilt. And while she finds some analogies with her... (continued)