When my friends and I start a new quilt, we go to the guilt shop, buy yards of fabric at $10 a yard, take it home, cut it in little pieces, and then sew it together. That's not how our mothers and grandmother quilted. The fabric they purchased was for clothes for their families. When the sewing was done, they took the scraps and made them into beautiful but functional covers for their beds.
Today I went to my scrap tubs - fabric left over from other quilt projects - to find just the right material for some potholders. I enjoyed making something from "nothing", just like my mother.
Our mothers and grandmothers also used the quilts on beds, not to hang on walls or quilt racks. Remember the braided rugs made from old rags? Nothing was wasted.
ReplyDeleteJurdis,
ReplyDeleteI was thinking exactly the same thing! How weird is that?
Judy