Tag: history

The crazy quilt I posted about a few weeks ago is on it’s way to a new home! I can’t even begin to fathom how this would have gone if there were no Internet. Probably the challenge of finding a good home for this quilt would have ensured that it continued to live under my sewing table. Instead of writing a blog post and a small collection of emails, I would have had to print actual, physical photographs and write actual, physical letters to strangers asking for help. Not to mention that I wouldn’t have had the slightest idea where …

Back in the early-mid 1990s, my grandmother gave me a quilt top, since I was into quilting. I think she may have picked it up at a garage or estate sale, but I don’t know for sure. It’s a traditional crazy quilt, with hand-embroidery around the edges of every single piece of fabric. The time and love that went into making this is a bit mind-blowing. The fabrics are all over the map, but they tend toward the satin, silk and velvet. Some of them look like they started life as ribbons. Not all of them have held up so …