Are you interested in quilt history of America? I just found a site that I added to my blogroll on just that - Among the Usual Days. I haven’t explored the whole blog site as of yet having just found it or the web site but I’m sure I will be exploring it in days to come! But it looks really interesting. There is a newsletter that you can sign up for — it comes out about once a month. I ran across this site a long time ago but you know how it is you get busy and do not get back to something and forget to mark it and you forget where it is. From this blog by Judy Ann you can get to her other blogs and web sites that feature free patterns and the history of those patterns.
This quilt on the side is a quilt that I did several years ago. It is my own design of a Postage Stamp quilt. You can click on this link or the photo to see it close. I’m not exactly sure how old the postage stamp pattern is in history – when did quilters first start to make them? If someone has the answer let me know.
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Hi Karen. Thanks for the link, very interesting the history of quilting. I remember as a kid my grandmother, my great aunt and a couple of local ladies sitting in her parlour quilting and paying no never mind to what they were doing.
Now I am quilting, have a couple of their quilts and truly appreciate the work and LOVE that went into the quilts.
It was a way for these women to socialize as their days were long, the workload of their day to day makes me wonder how they survived it all.
Happy New Year. A lovely visit to this blog.
thanks Nancy I always find the history of quilting interesting as well. I can’t begin to imagine doing all the hardwork the ladies in the past did without all of our modern conveniences – even quilting has been made easier! Karen
Holy Cow Karen this is something else! I can’t even believe it.
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