It's a wonder there are any pre-Civil-War quilts left.
Here's one well-worn survivor from the years before 1840. It has a lot of
wear in the middle (the reason it's in my home for orphan quilts.)
Had somebody followed the advice below....
Vermont, The Green Mountain Freeman, 1862
And cut out the middle strip, making a narrower quilt, it
would have warmed a hospitalized soldier (a noble death for a quilt)
but then again...
It's a wonder there are any pre-Civil-War quilts left.
In the depression era, ladies did that with old sheets. When the middle was worn, the sheet was cut in half and the edges seamed. I inherited a couple sheets from my mother-in-law that were seamed down the middle and the edges hemmed.
ReplyDeleteAs expensive as cotton sheets are today I will remember that recycling tip.
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