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I slept with my Grandma from the time I was 3yrs. to 10 yrs. old. The quilts and blankets on the bed were so heavy I couldn't sleep with my feet pointing straight up. But we didn't get cold even though the room was not heated.
That's great, I slept under blankets like that, so heavy you could hardly move under them. But, you are right, I never got cold, except in the morning when I got up to start up a fire in the heating stove. Often times broke a thin layer of ice in the water bucket 🪣 No indoor water for me 😅 I have indoor water now.😅😅🎉❤🎉🎉
My youngest son and I are cleaning and organizing the basement of the house I grew up in. Going through the quilts in an old steamer trunk recently, I suddenly exclaimed “There’s my dress!!” Once I outgrew that dress, it was pieced as part of a patchwork quilt my mother made, and that quilt is precious to me! 🥹
It just gets better every time you read to us Tipper. I like all of the photos, but in particular this time, the one in front of Dr. Williams house, with the quilts over the fence with the goat.🐐
Hi Tipper, talking about the 9 pound quilt I have a weighted blanket and I use it all the time and I have several quilts from my family and save them in my hope chest. Thank you for sharing.😊❤_🙏🏻
I grew up in the very humid Florida panhandle where absolutely everything would get mildew and mold in the hot summertime. My momma would put mattresses and pillows out to sun regularly. Of course in the 40’s and 50’s mattresses were nothing like what we have today. Makes me laugh to even imagine us trying to get one of our queen or king sized mattresses out of the house and onto the porch rail or the hedge. When momma was feeling especially determined to win the mildew battle, she would take anything and everything she possibly could out into the sunshine. I remember rainy spells when Daddy’s dress shoes for work would grow mildew in two days! We left the closet doors open always in summer. I could tell you stories of what the humidity did to our food! In Florida there was nothing we didn’t put in the fridge if we had room.
Tipper thanks for reading to us. Enjoy so much. These stories about the quilts is like a glimpse into the mountain way of life in times that would be lost if not for people like you and a few other channels I watch about Appalachia
Tipper I love seeing these quilts. You can see all of the delicate work that went into them. I don't sew a lick, but my best friend in school her mother had a quilting frame and got together with her friends and had quilting bees. ❤❤
I enjoy hearing about superstitions that I haven't heard before. There are many connected with certain quilt patterns but I've never heard about the Lone Star needing another element to avoid bad luck. Great pictures and stories today.
I lived in Tennessee for over 30 years. I was figuring out the blocks of that last quilt. I got a lot of them, but not all. It made my evening. I really enjoy your readens. I have always loved to be read to. Even in my 40's my Mother would read to me. I have a tape of her reading a book to me. She had ask me in her later years if there was a book I would like her to read to me on tape.
Love this reading as always Tipper. Excited your born in TN! I was born in Chattanooga (on a frosty morning) many years ago now. Thank you for continuing to make Appalachia so special.❤ God bless you & sweet family. 🙏🙂🙋
I was the recipient of my North Carolina grandmother's quilts. It set me out on my journey of collecting but never making one. I don't regret it because the modern textiles just don't do it for me. My home in North Georgia was built in 1910 where all my quilts are used or displayed.
While cleaning my mother's home after she had passed I found a quilt that looks like it has been made from my dad's suits and another made of mom's dresses. Both quilts show some wear and tear but are still usable. I had no idea these quilts existed and don't know when they were made but by the looks of them it was quite awhile ago. i hope my kids treasure them as much as I do when I am gone.
My first quilt was Grandmothers Flower Garden. My Mother-In-Law, Helen Irene Waters Dyson, taught me to hand quilt when I was 18 in 1976. We live in Johnson County, Tennessee (the farthest east point in Tennessee) on Fox Hollow Road. Helen never learned to drive or worked outside her home. Helen cared for her Mother-In-Law, Cora Dyson, from the day she married Robert Andrew "Andy" Dyson until Cora passed away in 1975. Helen sewed, crafted dolls, and quilted. She washed clothes with a wringer washer and cooked on a wood cook stove. She collected the eggs every day, churned butter and made cottage cheese and ice cream. She baby-sat so many children over the years and they all called her "Nannie." She made and left many quilts to my daughter, Elizabeth Ann Dyson Baker.
I love hear the stories behind each quilt. They are all so interesting. The quilts are beautiful and just amaze me at the many different patterns they used and stitched them by hand, along with quilting each one by hand in so many designs. I think my simple square t-shirt or simple block quilts are difficult and I use a sewing machine, then tie them off like the utility quilts are done. I have started quilting some by machine, but again it’s just simply stitching in the ditch of the blocks. Nothing fancy for sure, but I know mine are made well and with proper care they won’t fall apart. At least none have so far and hopefully won’t. Finishing up a baby quilt now. Then I’m going to try an actual pattern quilt, but not sure which pattern yet. A lot to choose from!
Wow, so many beautiful quilts in this reading. They all have such interesting stories to go with them. I think all quilts have stories behind them, sometimes only known to the quilt maker. My husband’s grandmother made him a quilt from his dad’s wool navy uniforms. There were also other fabrics in it and it was so heavy, but warm. It was plain squares, a tied (comforter) quilt. When it was washed the wools and the cottons all shrank differently so it was none too pretty, definitely a utilitarian quilt. We used that quilt on our bed till it was nothing but a rag. Good memories.❤. I am like you, I don’t think the quilters have ever stopped, I just think the news talks about it ever few years. TeresaSue
My favorite part was hearing about the cross stitch quilt...in 1980 when I married my husbands aunt made us a beautiful cross stitch quilt as a wedding gift...the cross stitch was all done in turquoise blue and a mossy green against an all white background then beautifully quilted...I adored this quilt and it was made from a quilting kit...my husbands aunt was from Lexington Ky...unfortunately during one of our many moves the quilt was stored in a trunk at my MIL's home after the death of my in laws that trunk was taken by another family member and I've never seen that quilt again 😢 but I do have pictures of it on the bed in my guess room...and alway have the memory.
Chinquapin Eyes: This one reminded me of each Spring, as a lad, seeing my Mom take all of our many quilts out, and putting them on the clothes line for "airing out". My favorite quilt is one made for me by Becky UsesArrow, who married Dwayne UsesArrow of the Hunk Papa Sioux of the Standing Rock Tribe in Fort Yates, North Dakota. In the 1990s, her Dad, who was a close friend of mine, and I made six trips from Roanoke to the Reservation that straddles North and South Dakota to take food and clothes to the Native Americans. Their area was like a third world nation. This quilt has the tribes colors and symbols on it and will forever be a family treasure of mine. Skip Salmon, Turkey Bottom
I have previously read John Rice Irwin's, A People And Their Quilts, borrowed from a local library. Upon listening to you read it I decided I needed a copy and ordered one from an online used book site. I belong to a quilt guild in Emporia, Kansas. Carrie Hall and Rose Kretsinger who were mentioned today in the reading were residents of Emporia. Many of their original quilts can be seen through searching on the internet. Many, if not most of those, are beautiful appliqued quilts.
I look forward to your reads all week! Speaking of the resurgence of the quilting popularity....I think it has to do with the state of the economy and the stability of people's lives. I believe (& there is statistical evidence to support this), that in economic downturns and more so coupled with uncertain times such as in vast & quick changes to everyday life (I'm trying my best to avoid the term 'pandemic and all the false natives that fell out of that), people naturally revert back to comforting and sustainable ways of life...like gardening, repairing broken items, quilting, simple living lifestyles, etc..
I totally agree. It’s historic fact. Wish people could hold on to those things when times get better. I am a quilter, gardener, and preserver of our food. Have been for over 40 years. I’ve watched exactly what you said happen over and over. God bless.
We have relatives in Mississippi who used to go to the local dump and get discarded material from the shirt factory. My Mother and I would make trips to buy the tops they would make from them and we'd quilt those. Also, did you ever hear that when you get a new quilt, the first time you sleep under it, if you have a dream, that dream will come true.
Tipper, My sweet Mom passed recently and I inherited the most beautiful hand sewn quilts from my payernal Granny. She was raised out in the country in MS. I called my grandfather PaPaw just like you! Although I live in the greater Boston area now, my love for the South and it's culture remain. I eat collards cornbread and milk biscuits grits...but I am afraid to wash these beautiful quilts but I want to use them as it gets real cold here but I don't want to hurt them. Any suggestions? Love you and your family and your life❤❤
I'm sorry you lost your sweet mother!! I wash my quilts on gentle with cold water, but that may not be what's best. Hopefully someone will chime in with their best advice on how to wash them.
Hi Tipper These quilts are so beautiful and the stories are so nice ,for except the sad stories. These women worked so hard to get the material to make these beautiful quilts . We will never see this again in our life time ...God Blessyou and your family . Tipper you gave me the PO Box but I misplace the address please send it to me .❤thank you patsy
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Who needs TV on a Friday night when Tipper is going to read to us. What a joy these readings become to me. Tipper you are a true treasure.
So glad you enjoy them 😊
Laying under a home made quilt, feels like a big hug
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Sure does, and the hug feeling last a long time. ☺
I slept with my Grandma from the time I was 3yrs. to 10 yrs. old. The quilts and blankets on the bed were so heavy I couldn't sleep with my feet pointing straight up. But we didn't get cold even though the room was not heated.
That's great, I slept under blankets like that, so heavy you could hardly move under them. But, you are right, I never got cold, except in the morning when I got up to start up a fire in the heating stove. Often times broke a thin layer of ice in the water bucket 🪣
No indoor water for me 😅 I have indoor water now.😅😅🎉❤🎉🎉
Every week these quilt stories keep us warm. We probably all have quilt memories that come back to us with your good reading. Thank you Tipper.
My youngest son and I are cleaning and organizing the basement of the house I grew up in. Going through the quilts in an old steamer trunk recently, I suddenly exclaimed “There’s my dress!!” Once I outgrew that dress, it was pieced as part of a patchwork quilt my mother made, and that quilt is precious to me! 🥹
Thank you so much for reading Tipper. I love how significant a quilt can be to a person, family or community. ❤
You are so welcome!
Love the reading. 😊
It just gets better every time you read to us Tipper. I like all of the photos, but in particular this time, the one in front of Dr. Williams house, with the quilts over the fence with the goat.🐐
I liked the goat too 😊
Hi Tipper, talking about the 9 pound quilt I have a weighted blanket and I use it all the time and I have several quilts from my family and save them in my hope chest. Thank you for sharing.😊❤_🙏🏻
That is great 😊 thank you for watching!
I was going to comment it was the original weighted blanket lol!
Every spring my momma would sun our quilts, feather beds and pillows.
I grew up in the very humid Florida panhandle where absolutely everything would get mildew and mold in the hot summertime. My momma would put mattresses and pillows out to sun regularly. Of course in the 40’s and 50’s mattresses were nothing like what we have today. Makes me laugh to even imagine us trying to get one of our queen or king sized mattresses out of the house and onto the porch rail or the hedge. When momma was feeling especially determined to win the mildew battle, she would take anything and everything she possibly could out into the sunshine. I remember rainy spells when Daddy’s dress shoes for work would grow mildew in two days! We left the closet doors open always in summer. I could tell you stories of what the humidity did to our food! In Florida there was nothing we didn’t put in the fridge if we had room.
Thank you ❤️🙏🏼❤️
Tipper thanks for reading to us. Enjoy so much. These stories about the quilts is like a glimpse into the mountain way of life in times that would be lost if not for people like you and a few other channels I watch about Appalachia
More interesting, and personal, displays of honest appreciation in daily living.👏👏👏 Tipper's reading is a real pleasure!!!
Great video thanks for sharing 👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thanks Tipper for sharing your reading today , great stories .Have a wonderful weekend stay safe
Beautiful quits and stories to go with it. Thank you 😊
Tipper I love seeing these quilts. You can see all of the delicate work that went into them. I don't sew a lick, but my best friend in school her mother had a quilting frame and got together with her friends and had quilting bees. ❤❤
Glad you enjoy them 😊
So interesting all the stories that go with all those beautiful quilts thank you Tipper God bless ❤
I enjoy hearing about superstitions that I haven't heard before. There are many connected with certain quilt patterns but I've never heard about the Lone Star needing another element to avoid bad luck. Great pictures and stories today.
Thanks for sharing.
I love all the quilts so far. But I also enjoy hearing about their history and the people's history. Thank you Tipper.
Tipper, I knew you were a Tennessean at heart!! 💗 Really enjoy hearing you read about the quilts. Love your channel!
I lived in Tennessee for over 30 years. I was figuring out the blocks of that last quilt. I got a lot of them, but not all. It made my evening. I really enjoy your readens. I have always loved to be read to. Even in my 40's my Mother would read to me. I have a tape of her reading a book to me. She had ask me in her later years if there was a book I would like her to read to me on tape.
That is wonderful!
Love this reading as always Tipper. Excited your born in TN! I was born in Chattanooga (on a frosty morning) many years ago now. Thank you for continuing to make Appalachia so special.❤ God bless you & sweet family. 🙏🙂🙋
I love quilts! They all have a story to tell.
Another awesome reading... I particularly appreciated the Tennessee quilt story... thanks Tipper 👍💐
On the quilt at the end of today's reading, the cotton block is my favorite 😍
Thank you Tipper for your Friday readings! I hope you continue to read to us each week, I so enjoy it!
You are so welcome 🤗
I love that Lone Star quilt.
Been waiting all day, Tipper ha.
So glad you enjoy it 😊
Love these videos. Love quilts. I have one, that my grandma Miller, Aunt Marie, and my mom helped to quilt it. A Double Wedding Ring quilt.
That is great!
I was the recipient of my North Carolina grandmother's quilts. It set me out on my journey of collecting but never making one. I don't regret it because the modern textiles just don't do it for me. My home in North Georgia was built in 1910 where all my quilts are used or displayed.
Rye Cove. What a sad story. I just listened to the song. Thank you for sharing these stories. Amazing how much deep history a quilt can engulf!! ❤️
While cleaning my mother's home after she had passed I found a quilt that looks like it has been made from my dad's suits and another made of mom's dresses. Both quilts show some wear and tear but are still usable. I had no idea these quilts existed and don't know when they were made but by the looks of them it was quite awhile ago. i hope my kids treasure them as much as I do when I am gone.
That is great!
My first quilt was Grandmothers Flower Garden. My Mother-In-Law, Helen Irene Waters Dyson, taught me to hand quilt when I was 18 in 1976. We live in Johnson County, Tennessee (the farthest east point in Tennessee) on Fox Hollow Road. Helen never learned to drive or worked outside her home. Helen cared for her Mother-In-Law, Cora Dyson, from the day she married Robert Andrew "Andy" Dyson until Cora passed away in 1975. Helen sewed, crafted dolls, and quilted. She washed clothes with a wringer washer and cooked on a wood cook stove. She collected the eggs every day, churned butter and made cottage cheese and ice cream. She baby-sat so many children over the years and they all called her "Nannie." She made and left many quilts to my daughter, Elizabeth Ann Dyson Baker.
Praying and Blessed! 🤗🙏💕
Thank you!
I love hear the stories behind each quilt. They are all so interesting. The quilts are beautiful and just amaze me at the many different patterns they used and stitched them by hand, along with quilting each one by hand in so many designs. I think my simple square t-shirt or simple block quilts are difficult and I use a sewing machine, then tie them off like the utility quilts are done. I have started quilting some by machine, but again it’s just simply stitching in the ditch of the blocks. Nothing fancy for sure, but I know mine are made well and with proper care they won’t fall apart. At least none have so far and hopefully won’t. Finishing up a baby quilt now. Then I’m going to try an actual pattern quilt, but not sure which pattern yet. A lot to choose from!
I love your quilts 😊
Wow, so many beautiful quilts in this reading. They all have such interesting stories to go with them. I think all quilts have stories behind them, sometimes only known to the quilt maker. My husband’s grandmother made him a quilt from his dad’s wool navy uniforms. There were also other fabrics in it and it was so heavy, but warm. It was plain squares, a tied (comforter) quilt. When it was washed the wools and the cottons all shrank differently so it was none too pretty, definitely a utilitarian quilt. We used that quilt on our bed till it was nothing but a rag. Good memories.❤. I am like you, I don’t think the quilters have ever stopped, I just think the news talks about it ever few years. TeresaSue
What a treasure of a quilt!!
My favorite part was hearing about the cross stitch quilt...in 1980 when I married my husbands aunt made us a beautiful cross stitch quilt as a wedding gift...the cross stitch was all done in turquoise blue and a mossy green against an all white background then beautifully quilted...I adored this quilt and it was made from a quilting kit...my husbands aunt was from Lexington Ky...unfortunately during one of our many moves the quilt was stored in a trunk at my MIL's home after the death of my in laws that trunk was taken by another family member and I've never seen that quilt again 😢 but I do have pictures of it on the bed in my guess room...and alway have the memory.
I’m so sorry you lost the quilt.
I liked when John Rice's Pap said "That's my suit!"
😊
Chinquapin Eyes: This one reminded me of each Spring, as a lad, seeing my Mom take all of our many quilts out, and putting them on the clothes line for "airing out". My favorite quilt is one made for me by Becky UsesArrow, who married Dwayne UsesArrow of the Hunk Papa Sioux of the Standing Rock Tribe in Fort Yates, North Dakota. In the 1990s, her Dad, who was a close friend of mine, and I made six trips from Roanoke to the Reservation that straddles North and South Dakota to take food and clothes to the Native Americans. Their area was like a third world nation. This quilt has the tribes colors and symbols on it and will forever be a family treasure of mine.
Skip Salmon, Turkey Bottom
What a treasure! Thank you Skip 😊
I have previously read John Rice Irwin's, A People And Their Quilts, borrowed from a local library. Upon listening to you read it I decided I needed a copy and ordered one from an online used book site. I belong to a quilt guild in Emporia, Kansas. Carrie Hall and Rose Kretsinger who were mentioned today in the reading were residents of Emporia. Many of their original quilts can be seen through searching on the internet. Many, if not most of those, are beautiful appliqued quilts.
Thank you!
I love when you read it good
Glad you enjoy it 😊
Beautiful artwork
I absolutely love these quilt stories. I will hate to see you finish it up, but quite sure you will have another good book to read us, Tipper. ❤
So glad you’re enjoying them 😊
Very interesting hearing about all the quilts and the maker's, my mother in-law was an advid quilter, she made a quilt for all of her family members.
Glad you enjoyed 😊
My Granda Poe would keep her quilting frame pulled all the way up to the ceiling.☺️
I still drag my quilts out every spring to air out. I just throw them over the cloths lines.
I look forward to your reads all week! Speaking of the resurgence of the quilting popularity....I think it has to do with the state of the economy and the stability of people's lives. I believe (& there is statistical evidence to support this), that in economic downturns and more so coupled with uncertain times such as in vast & quick changes to everyday life (I'm trying my best to avoid the term 'pandemic and all the false natives that fell out of that), people naturally revert back to comforting and sustainable ways of life...like gardening, repairing broken items, quilting, simple living lifestyles, etc..
I totally agree. It’s historic fact. Wish people could hold on to those things when times get better. I am a quilter, gardener, and preserver of our food. Have been for over 40 years. I’ve watched exactly what you said happen over and over. God bless.
Thank you Johnny!
We have relatives in Mississippi who used to go to the local dump and get discarded material from the shirt factory. My Mother and I would make trips to buy the tops they would make from them and we'd quilt those. Also, did you ever hear that when you get a new quilt, the first time you sleep under it, if you have a dream, that dream will come true.
I haven’t heard that! Thank you for sharing 😊
My great aunt Opal Harness Hatmaker is on the cover. Section of the Harness family is my family too!
Love that!
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Tipper, My sweet Mom passed recently and I inherited the most beautiful hand sewn quilts from my payernal Granny. She was raised out in the country in MS. I called my grandfather PaPaw just like you! Although I live in the greater Boston area now, my love for the South and it's culture remain. I eat collards cornbread and milk biscuits grits...but I am afraid to wash these beautiful quilts but I want to use them as it gets real cold here but I don't want to hurt them. Any suggestions? Love you and your family and your life❤❤
You have to go into black communities here to eat our food❤ Soul Food❤
I'm sorry you lost your sweet mother!! I wash my quilts on gentle with cold water, but that may not be what's best. Hopefully someone will chime in with their best advice on how to wash them.
Hi Tipper
These quilts are so beautiful and the stories are so nice ,for except the sad stories. These women worked so hard to get the material to make these beautiful quilts . We will never see this again in our life time ...God Blessyou and your family . Tipper you gave me the PO Box but I misplace the address please send it to me .❤thank you patsy
Thank you Patsy! It’s PO Box 83 Brasstown NC 28902 😊
Thank you so much..
💝🌸⭐️🌷
Hey sweets we pronounce it New Mad-rid. ❤️
I wonder if they threw the shirt scraps out so the women who worked there wouldn't see them as charity.
Why, on the last one, do they say there is 15 but there is actually 16 squares
I noticed that too 😊 I guess a typo of sorts that no one caught when they edited the book.
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