Luckmann said the project was started by a Brownie Girl Scout troop leader in Missouri, Donna Turvin, who wanted to demonstrate the sisterhood of Girl Scouts and Girl Guides to the girls in her troop with a special project for Thinking Day.

Thinking Day is celebrated on Feb. 22, a day when Girl Scouts and Girl Guides worldwide share with sister groups in other countries to promote international. Turvin enrolled the help of other troops in her area to make quilt squares with their troop's logo, and send one square to each of the other troops involved in the project. In this way, each troop could make a quilt and have all the area's troops represented.

Twenty-one troops made quilts for the Friendship Star Quilts. In addition to Tennessee, troops represent California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas, and Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan in Canada, an Adelaide, Australia.

Senior Girl Scout Troop 5 in Knoxville decided to send the Luckmann troop's quilt to the Pathfinders, a Boy Scout/Girl Scout unit in Obninsk, Russia, as a gesture of friendship between Girl Scouts of Tanasi Council and the Obninsk Pathfinders.

"We framed the stars for our quilt in blue and red," Luckmann said. "Blue is the color of the uniform worn by Cadette and Senior Girl Scouts in the United States. Red is for the beauty of Russia. We included with our Friendship Star Quilt this scrapbook about all the Girl Scouts and Girl Guides who helped make it."