Sadly I am the oldest one left in my family. No one left to ask. I am loving your videos and I really want your book.
My momma taugnt me to lay out a pattern and sew by hand when I was 7. Whn i was 11 she taught me to see on a 1913 Newhome treddle. I kept that treddle and I sewed our wedding clothes on it in 2001. For a wedding gift my husband bought me my first electric machines.
My daughter now 23 has finally asked me to teach her to sew. She said she wantes to make a quilt with me.

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”.

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.
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 .  May the Lord Jesus bless you Sir, and your entire family.

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

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

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

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

Wonderful storytelling. Thank you.

Best wishes, Maggie, Chester UK x

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♥️

I’m the first quilter in my family, inspired by my Grandmother-in law and a coworker’s wife.
My husband has quilts that his grandmother made for him around 1980. Repairing them by hand, when I didn’t even know how to sew, was my motivation to learn.  Within a months of a few lessons and a lot of Missouri Star Quilt Co videos, I had made dozens of quilts. I use a sewing machine to piece and quilt (except for one lap quilt) but I am happy that I have take up the craft. I hope to leave something behind to possibly inspire the next generation.
Thank you so much for this wonderfully told history. You’re really good at telling stories, another art form!

Quilt.  My grandmother quilted my sister and I  quilt. We love it. We give most of our quilts away. When I make a quilt and someone in my family says that's beautiful grandma, it goes home with them.

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

Love your video and information. My grandmother made a quilt in 1927 for her 1st daughter with leftover men'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.

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,  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's old farm clothes; for her quilt, it's new, just to remind Mom of Great Aunt Emma and Grandma and the family skills passed on. . It's time to remember.

I have been hand quilting since I turned 40. Still had 3 young uns under 6. Worked as an RN summers at my local United Methodistsl church camp, kids and 1017 electric portable Singer came along, too. Have taught generations to tie a quilt when we put all 21 elementary classrooms quilt together. They hung in the tiled Gymnasium/lunch room. It only decreased the sound/noise by 2 decibels.  All were sew pleased!
I taught the 4th grade classroom about Underground Railroad quilts. They each sewed a quilt block to another for their classroom...each block was a drawing of an Underground Railroad block and it's meaning. I had taken a girlfriend's Grandma's portable sewing machine in it's own cabinet. The teacher used it every year.
When visiting my Southern ALABAMA grandparents, every summer,  I was taught hand quilting stitches and crochet with a tiny hook and thread from a ball. It was for my Placemats for when I got married.
Thank you for keeping the world of Quiltmaking ALIVE !!

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

Love your story. I am a quilter. The only one in my family. I love keeping my family warm❤

I thought I was the only one who spent countless hours sitting under a quilting frame pushing the needle back up to the top of the quilt as a small child. You are the only other place I have heard that mentioned.

Thank you for your history of your family’s quilting. I still have my great grandmother’s quilt frame. Also a quilt I learned is called Apple core. I wish I could have sat along side my grandmother & listened & learned from the best. I’m trying to learn hand quilting, but the hardest part is the perfect stitches.

I remember being the kid under the frame.  It was the best of worlds, with the laughter and tears of the quilters and the sounds of needles piercing fabric … a magical world filled with women’s’ knees and kids. And the coffee cans in the corners, because these women chewed tobacco. Thanks for sharing your stories.