Monmouth Weekly Herald

The Ornamental Knit Shell Bed Spread exhibited at the State Fair, is worthy of special notice, the more so as it was manufactured by one of the fairest daughters of New Jersey, who is and has been from her birth totally blind, as were also six others of the twelve children of the family, who reside at Rocky Hill, in Somerset county. The amount of skill and labor which she has bestowed on this ingenious specimen of her handiwork is truly astonishing. It is three yards broad, by three and a quarter yards long, covered over with small knit shells, surrounded by an elegant border, each ornamental figure and shape being of such exact and uniform size and proportion as to create surprise how any one deprived of the blessing of sight could, by the mere sense of feeling and counting each stitch and motion of the fingers in knitting, produce what taken as a whole, appears so entirely symmetrical, so beautiful, and so ingenious a piece of useful and elaborate workmanship.