Twenty-Five Mountain Quilt Lessons That Kept Us Warm (Most Of Them Are Forgotten)

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• MA

  @marionchase-kleeves8311 · 1 day ago

  Gunnie sacks! They brought back that style in the 70s. Ribbons, lace, muslin, feed sacks.

• WE

  @wendydevereux4375 · 1 day ago

  ❤ thank you for sharing the love they sewed into your quilts

• MA

  @marenlarsen2652 · 9 days ago

  Best description of quilting I have ever heard.  Thank you.

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• JI

  @jimmiebruner4284 · 2 days ago

  Love this story. I quilt…but I’m a scrappy quilter. My MawMaw taught me that quilts are for warmth…and you show love and care for your family through the quilt. You’re not worrying about going to an art show. While I very much appreciated the beauty in the quilt…I loved the way it kept me wrapped in love and warmth more♥️

• RO

  @roberthawkins2628 · 2 weeks ago

  My momma buys every old quilt she finds for sale, she always says,  “their people may not appreciate the love, work and skill in those quilts, but I damn sure will”.

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• SI

  @silvanap.1930 · 2 weeks ago (edited)

  I am watching from Germany, not the first place of quilting history . At 54 years now, two and a half years ago I discovered the handwork of quilting and it became my “passion”. Since I am suffering from a chronic disease, causing inflammation on the nervous system, the quilting is the best thing that could happen to me, since it calmes down my nerves and is filling me with deep peace.<br>Since I have no one to teach me , YouTube channels like yours have become a treasure to me. Especially when it’s about the old traditional way, like using raw cotton or wool as batting. I love to stitch it all by hand. But miss so much the company of old days when women gathered together for the quilting. Back then the quilts truly has been of such an important use. They were appreciated, cared for and handed over to the next generation. How I do miss such a thing. Tradition, especially within a family and the community where you grew up, is like the roots of an oak tree, or a chestnut tree . &nbsp;May the Lord Jesus bless you Sir, and your entire family.

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• AM

  @amydement. · 7 days ago

  Thank you! &nbsp;I grew up in Marietta, GA, but my parents and family is from east Tennessee - Appalachia and surrounding areas. &nbsp;THIS - the stories of people and quilts and what they really mean is my very favorite thing. &nbsp;It&apos;s on which I love to focus on my own channel. &nbsp;Tihs IS what gives quilts meaning and every quilt and quilter has a story - from history to modern. &nbsp;The day we stop learning at someone&apos;s knee or from a loving community is the day we lose it all. &nbsp;I cringe everytime I hear someone say &quot;this is not your grandmother&apos;s quilting.&quot; &nbsp;It better be - what more could one ask for? &nbsp;What history and love we lose by taking that approach. &nbsp;I truly appreciate your sharing this history and story with everyone. &nbsp;Nothing could be more important in the world of quilting.

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• BO

  @BonsaiQuilter · 4 days ago

  Love your video and information. My grandmother made a quilt in 1927 for her 1st daughter with leftover men&apos;s suit fabric pieces with flannel for the backing and hand embroidered across each seam with colorful embroidery threads to bring colors to the quilt since the wool suit fabrics were browns, blacks and grays. My grandmother was a tailor making mens suits if they would bring the fabric so they could get a job. She also fed hobos from the kitchen back door, giving them clothes and washing their dirty clothes. There was a post at the back gate to the yard that the hobos had carved a cross, loaf of bread, a jacket and a door signaling to others a kind Christian lady would help. My grandmother was Minnie Crouch Reeves of Jefferson County in Birmingham, Alabama.

• SA

  @sarahhebbe3319 · 8 days ago

  Thank you for this validation. As the older generation has passed on. I have been picking up the needle to build these treasures. When my kids were small, they had the task of returning the needle. For me now, I am working on the more intricate patterns. Like the double axe handle, &nbsp;nosegay, plus a few other patterns that I had never made. I have made those hand-tied quilts on a homemade frame simply because that is how I was taught. My mother is 94-years young. I made her a new one out of fabrics left from my Dad&apos;s old farm clothes; for her quilt, it&apos;s new, just to remind Mom of Great Aunt Emma and Grandma and the family skills passed on. . It&apos;s time to remember.

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• R.

  @r.m.1284 · 2 weeks ago

  How I love the world of quilts, esp. the old ones!

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• DE

  @debbiemayville691 · 13 days ago

  It really gets cold as hell good thing grandma have all those quilts and they are beautiful and I love you story stay warm ❤️❤️❤️🐾

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• MA

  @marionchase-kleeves8311 · 1 day ago

  Navajo weavers leave a flaw in their blankets or a thread going to the edge to let out any meanness caught in the threads