NEW ULM — Theresa Westrup was smiling a lot talking while with friends and quilting enthusiasts at the 2026 New Ulm Quilt Show at the Royal Oak Event Center Friday. “Quilting has been a wonderful hobby. I find myself in my ‘happy place’ when stitching a quilt together,” she said. The featured quilter at the show, she admitted to making thousands of quilts over the past 45 years, but said the quilt with a number of garden flowers may be her favorite. “When I sold my house a few years ago, I left my flower gardens behind, so I made a garden quilt I hang in my dining room now ...