tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045565.post3453982407952663325..comments2023-09-30T03:57:11.799-05:00Comments on ahistoricality: Pictures: Family QuiltsAhistoricalityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04004964192885891003noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045565.post-58508010687289117432007-09-08T07:26:00.000-05:002007-09-08T07:26:00.000-05:00Needlework is such an intimate way of writing hist...Needlework is such an intimate way of writing history. "This was part of the dress in my Kindergarten picture" and "this is part of your christening gown" are wonderful bedtime stories for our little ones. <BR/><BR/>Creating art out of junk is fabulous all aroundSuzanne G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06863323950020960209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045565.post-23910087879506025822007-09-07T15:30:00.000-05:002007-09-07T15:30:00.000-05:00My 25-year-old daughter is a quilter. (It's somet...My 25-year-old daughter is a quilter. (It's something she picked up and taught herself, since I was absolutely no help.) The first one she sewed was made of club t-shirts from groups she belonged to in high school. Then she went through a stretch of doing video game quilts - Tetris, Pacman, etc. Now she's trying to learn all the old traditional patterns. She's starting a family legacy all on her own.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045565.post-61928531231331976202007-09-07T13:58:00.000-05:002007-09-07T13:58:00.000-05:00It's great to know the history of these things! Th...It's great to know the history of these things! <BR/><BR/>The other great thing about quilts is that they're often reversible. The Little Anachronism has several quilted wall hangings from a Grandmother which have different designs on each side, and every so often, will request a change.Ahistoricalityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04004964192885891003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045565.post-555281773057848352007-09-07T06:30:00.000-05:002007-09-07T06:30:00.000-05:00I have a huge (about six feet a side?) handmade Vi...I have a huge (about six feet a side?) handmade Virginia Star quilt, in faded pastel prints, made as a wedding gift in the 1940s, probably in North Carolina. It was given to Mr. & Mrs. John Richardson when the got married in 1948. In 1993, when the widowed Mr. Richardson was moving out of the family home, he donated a bunch of stuff to a church rummage sale in Durham, that I was running. I just couldn't put the quilt in the sale where it would get sold for a few bucks, and this was a decade before eBay. Instead, I wrote a big check (esp. for a grad student) and bought it myself. It took a few years till I lived in a place with high enough ceilings to display it, but it's hanging on the wall behind me as I type this. <BR/><BR/>Quilts make good decorations for California, because they're more earthquake-safe than heavy, breakable framed things. So my daughter's bedroom has three small quilts on the wall--one made as a baby gift for her, one a gift on the occasion of her brother's birth, and one a personalized alphabet quilt.Penny L. Richardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com