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Thanks for sharing the information about quilts. I remember my mother and grandmothers talking about where the scraps came from... a family member' s dress or a shirt ....you could hear the warmth of memories in their voices and eyes.
Thanks for sharing this book! I just ordered it along with John Rice Irwin’s book on Appalachian basket weavers and baskets. I am a basket weaver and love quilts. Years ago I participated in several days of a quilting bee. I decided right away that there would not be any quilt making in my future! I do small pieces of needlework and greatly appreciate the lovely family quilts that I have.
Thank you Tipper for reading from this wonderful quilt book. The history behind them is amazing. Also, I was able to get the slaw recipe & will be putting up today.😊 Terri R.
I’m loving these videos! These quilts are so beautiful! I’m from East Tennessee and love hearing about the familiar places these quilts came from, and the people who made them. I’m kin to the Hensleys mentioned from Sullivan county! I cherish the quilts made by my grandmother, great grandmothers, and great great grandmothers.
Thank you Tipper for sharing this book. Amazing how this one art form, beautiful to look at, also fills so many other roles; utilitarian for warmth, social, where quilters gather for sewing & sharing ideas, creativity as these artisans develop their own designs, historical,as each is a potential heirloom. Amazing & still continues to this day.
Really enjoyed looking at the quilts.and the stories. I remember going to the women's building at the Indiana State Fair and admiring all of the beautiful quilt exhibits . Encased in art Deco exhibit cabinets. Great memories. ❤❤
My oldest daughter has many fond memories of playing under a quilt on the quilting frame while we were down at her great grandmother’s house. That was my husband’s maternal grandmother and she taught me many things and quilting was one of those things. TeresaSue
A quilt exhibition was established in the county seat where I live. It amazed me that teenaged boys could recognize and name the patterns represented. Just shows how quilting was and still is an important part of the culture of place. My great grandmother kept a quilt frame hanging from the ceiling of a spare bedroom. In summer the frame was hung on the wide screened front porch--she always referred to it as the gallery.
Thank you so much for sharing this book and your memories. Because I enjoyed sewing and making clothes for my young children, my Aunt Vera gave me some fabric with some quilt pieces and suggested I make quilts. I have made several including pieced quilts, a flower garden quilt, many pieced baby quilts, 2 strip quilts. After my children were grown I was given 2 quilt tops that my great grandmother made. I had gone to work after my youngest child was in high school and didn't have time to quilt them. I retired and took care of some of my grandchildren while their parents worked. I really need to get busy now and quilt those tops. The picture you mentioned with the stuffed horses reminded me of my Aunt Boots making and selling pictures like that in the early to mid 1960's. Her pictures were western scenes with horses. The printed fabric was backed with a heavy cotton fabric and there were slits in the backing. Aunt Boots would push stuffing into the slits and when they looked right to her she sewed the slits up and framed the pictures. Thanks for reminding me of some of my memories. ❤
I love making quilts, but have had more pleasure in finishing and repairing old quilts. I like to think the lady who started or made the quilt is looking down and happy that it has either come to life or will live on.
That is so cool learning about quilts. My Mamaw was a quilter and had a big frame hanging from her ceiling. Unfortunately, I lost all of her quilts when our storage got auctioned off. But she must have made a hundred for all the family. Mostly patchwork, but she made a fake izod quilt for my little brother when the preppy dad was so popular back in the late 70’s! She cut out a big alligator to put in the center of it. She was really talented!!
I have a King size Dresden Plate quilt my Mom made me during the early 70’s, a Queen size Double Wedding ring made by my Aunt Dean, and the last pieced quilt top my Granny Bryan made from scraps.I had the quilt top quilted and will treasure these forever. My Mom, Aunt Dean and Granny have all passed away and I’m very sorry I never learned the art of quilting. Much of my childhood was spent around the quilting frame that hung from the ceiling at my Granny’s and was let up and down as time allowed for quilting. Such sweet memories.😊
I really enjoyed this. Who needs audible? I really mean it. This made me want to quilt and I only participated once in a quilting bee and once tried to sew one on a machine with someone else's squares. I really love Hawaiian Applique Quilt and the Friendship Ring Quilt with the red background. And the Baltimore Album Quilt is so beautiful. Thank you Tipper!
Oh wow, I live in Sparta, TN. Where the sunburst quilt was made, it is gorgeous! I’m going to start quilting again now that I’m retired and live where it gets cold! Maybe I can get two baby quilts made before for some special little boys arrive!
Granny made the Dutch Doll squares for me and the Boy fishing squares for my brother. He didn’t want his so I took both of them and had them pieced and quilted. Granny used Pawpaw’s overall to make the little boys overalls. I love these quilts. She mostly made the Dresden Plate patterns. I also have my baby quilt are made for me over 60 years ago. All the squares are embroidered with the little girl watering the flowers pattern.
My mother has a friendship quilt that she has had since December 1963. She said all of the squares have at least 1 if not all have passed away. She calls it her memory quilt now.
Thank you for another enjoyable reading, Tipper. Many quilt names changed from region to region as a maker named it for their own personal reasons or location. The Humility block was and is a common thing in the quilting world. Makers do it intentionally OR it happens often when a mistake is found after all the quilting and binding are already applied as a laughing explanation of the mistake. Trapunto (tra-PUN-toe) is still commonly done in applique' quilts. I have a crazy quilt made by my gr'mother. We call the Dutch Girl pattern Sunbonnet Sue &/or Sam. I've made that pattern for a grandndaughter. Beautiful pictures and very inspirational!
I have a redwork quilt that's been in my family well over 100 years. It was made by someone in my father's family shortly after the civil war up in Auburn NY, where they were from. A beautiful treasure.
I think these works of art are amazing. How did they work these patterns out? When you think back it's a wonder these women had the energy and determination to sit and quilt after a day of relentless housework. Each stitch and patch held a memory of their hands to be cherished and passed down the generations.
I learned a great deal of information about quilts in tonight's reading. As I look back now, remembering the days when my Mother in-law and I would cut scraps of cloth, making different quilt tops. Sewn by hand, not a sewing machine. She tacked all of her crazy quilts, log cabin, and stuffed pattern designs... It's really sentimental to me, knowing that the thread came from the cotton mill where my Father in-law, husband, and I, once worked together. Nothing fancy, but I cherish the love and memories that we made together. Thank you for sharing Tipper. Praying and Blessed! 🤗🙏💕
All the quilts are so beautiful, quilt making is a bygone eria , a very important part of the people in the past. I have a healthy respect for those quilters having made only one myself, the Irish Chain, it was very time consuming but worth it when it was finished.
I sew a lot and have since I was 12 and made my first apron. But I have never made a bed-size quilt. I like to blame it on ADD because I can’t seem to stay focused long enough to finish such a big project. My grandmother, on the other hand, made many beautiful ones. I still have two of them.
I know I've mentioned this before: I've gotten into quilting because of my late mother in law, whom I've never met. I'm restoring the quilt she made my husband maybe 15 years ago. I'm thoroughly enjoying the process, and I'm thinking I'd like to be The Quilter of the family, who makes quilts for family members and special occasions. After I finish this quilt and our wedding keepsake quilt, I plan to make a memory quilt for our friend out of her late father's shirts. Then go from there. Likely something for my parents. But I don't want to plan too far ahead.
Love this! As a quilter, it is really interesting to see the quilts from the 1800’s. I especially loved the star within a star! Some of my quilts I have professionally quilted and others I tie. Love both ways!
Absolutely loving this reading about quilts since I'm a quilt maker myself. I'm currently working on a scrappy quilt right now, who knows it might end up in the mail to Brasstown, NC.
Tipper thank you so much for showing pictures of quilts. The stories about the quilts are so wonderful and just reminds me how many memories travel with quilts. I so hope that some of my quilts we also keep some precious memories.
When I moved into & renovated an old, passed down family home the attic rafters held a hidden secret of an old quilt rack. Wish it could tell it’s stories. Thank you for sharing the stories. My house dates back to the late 1890s
I have fond memories of my family and friends gathering together and quilt. At times we had people from 5 generations all working together to produce the quilt. Many of these quilts are in my possession and will be passed to my children and grandchildren. My most treasured quilt is the one they all got together and made for a wedding gift for my wife and I-the only double wedding ring made by the group that I am aware of. Thank you for the videos. God bless all.
I love listening to you read the stories. I will close my eyes and see as you read. I’m in late 60s and as a young lady in the church, I recall quilting bees that the women’s group would have in the building of a marriage quilt for newly engaged couples. Because I was young I wasn’t a stitcher but I would read while they sat around the quilting frame. I read mostly from Laura ingles books Little House on the Prairie and her others! Many of the ladies were in their 70s and 80s so they would stop me and comment on passages reliving similar experiences in their past. What a joy quilts are and so many special memories they keep like a time capsule. Thank you so much.
My mom, born 1920, made many quilts when I was a child. A majority of them were pieced from parts of clothing I and my baby brother had outgrown, or the good parts of worn out clothes belonging to her and our father. I still have them and enjoy looking at the various squares and remembering what they were cut from. They all tell a story of her loving care for her family.
I recognized every one of those patterns. I have made a Dutch Doll quilt....modern day it's known as Sunbonnet Sue and there is a boy version called Sunbonnet Sam. I also have a quilt made from my Mother's maternity clothes, better known from my Aunt who made the quilt as my Mother's 'hatching jackets'. lol She lived in Alabama. She gave it to me out of a cedar chest that my Grandfather had hand made. He was a wood worker and I have the cedar chest today still. I've also made a school house quilt and a Grandmother's Fan quilt. I love everything about quilting especially the history out of Tennessee, where my Dad was from around Knoxville and Chattanooga...Dayton. My parents were both from the south and are one of the couples that migrated North to Michigan for work. They stayed here, where I still live today. We currently have over a foot of snow and it hurts to breathe outside at 0 degrees tonight. Wind chill or real feel is -23 degrees. Hang in there for snow, it was all in the south, I think you'll get yours eventually this year. 😊Thank you for choosing this book, I am really enjoying it.
Mom had made a couple of those trapunto pictures, I assume when she was a teen. IIRC, they were raccoons on branches. The raccoons and branches were stuffed to give dimension. When I looked on the back of the picture, I saw the printed image had been sewn onto plain white fabric. She'd stitched the outlines of the puffy shapes, cut open the white backing, and stuffed it with poly-fil, and some quick-and-dirty stitches to somewhat close up the cuts. We ended up donating them when we moved, because neither of us wanted them.
That was so interesting, Tipper! It makes me want to quilt with my sister. I liked seeing the Dutch Doll quilt, took me back home. Thank you, Dear Tipper! ❤🙏
When I heard some quilts were considered too good to use, I remembered I pieced a quilt and had Amish ladies in Kenton, Ohio quilt it for me. I have never used it! I think I should or it will just live on a shelf forever. Good wake up for me!
I definitely don't like the Victorian crazy quilts, personally, but given the background, they're fascinating. I don't understand why people want to ignore them? They're pieced, ergo they are quilts. I understand the mindset behind them. They're basically a novelty quilt, possibly a scrapbook in quilt form.
I'm thoroughly enjoying this as i am following along in my worn copy that i bought last year from someone Kentucky. After your ready of Alex Stewart, I really appreciated John Rice Irwin's work and dedication to preserving Appalachian ways. I think quilting reflects a true love for family and friends that is reflected in their necessity and praticality in daily life. I'm thankful for your love of 'mountain ways' and choosing this book to read. I've listened to all the books you've read. Happy i found this channel nearly two years ago. Keep up the wonderful work Tipper!
I didn't know there were so many different names and types of quilts... I should be ashamed since my mom and grandma quilted several of these patterns.🙄 Thanks Tipper 🤗❤️
My mom made me a king size double wedding ring quilt and hand quilted it, gorgeous...when she passed I got a ton of fabric and boxes of quilt blocks...there were 3 wedding ring tops sorted, 2 were throw size and 1 twin...I'm currently finishing the 3rd and oh my goodness I will never make another 😂 they have tested my patience! I was intimidated by stars but turns out I love making those!
My grandma said she made one wedding ring quilt and would never make another. She made it for my mama and now it has been passed on to me. I treasure it!
@@CelebratingAppalachia thank you. When she got too old to quilt, I’d buy her quilt magazines and we would look at the pretty quilts together. She’d say, “my hands may be too old to do the stitches, but I still love looking at the pretty quilts.” She’d tell me stories and we would stay up til late. She always said I can sleep when you go home. 👩🌾💚
In case anyone is interested eBay has some pretty good prices on this book and there are maybe four or five for sale at reasonable price. Of course they will be used...
Two women, Opal Hatmaker and Jeanette Galloway were mentioned in tonight’s reading. These ladies were from my hometown, Lake City, TN. I remember them well from my childhood. Also I emailed you info and picture of ElizabethHarrell.
The name Stooksbury was mentioned a few times during your reading. I buy milk from Stooksbury Dairy and Creamery, which is located in Jefferson City, TN. I really thought Kate Stooksbury’s double wedding ring quilt was interesting because the backing was made from dairy feed sacks. I wonder if there’s a connection between Kate Stooksbury’s quilt and the Stooksbury’s that own the dairy? 😊
Hi Ms. Tipper! Do you sew or make quilts? I'm almost 64 and have always wanted to learn how. Guess I'd better get started lol. The book is very interesting and inspiring. Thanks for the read!
I like that Della McNeil quilt. It's a shame the boy wasn't allowed to use it. 😕 I think quilts should be used. As long as you take care of them, they'll last forever.
My father’s mother quilted. She had 3 sisters and they would get together and quilt. I have one of hers and one of my aunts. When she got older and couldn’t manage the bigger quilts, she would by the printed squares and do the trapunto method. I’m sure she had no idea it was called trapunto. She would say, “Here’s a cat scrap I stuffed for your room.” She was a hoot! 🤣
Do you have suggestions for books with these patterns? Patchwork, I can figure out, but I have seen some of the most beautiful patterns from decades ago. I would truly love to replicate some of the amazing patterns you named.
I would visit your local library. They usually have a lot of o.der quilt pattern books and would most likely have historical ones. Good luck and happy quilting. American Patchwork and Quilting is a suggestion.
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So many beautiful quilts.
Thank you for sharing these beautiful quilts. Such wonderful work. 🌹
Biography, autobiography, quilting types are my favorites. Thanks to Tipper's reading I now know so much more about quilting!
This has been one of my favorite reads. Thank you.
So many beautiful quilts with such unique patterns! I love each story behind them!
Thanks for sharing the information about quilts. I remember my mother and grandmothers talking about where the scraps came from... a family member' s dress or a shirt ....you could hear the warmth of memories in their voices and eyes.
My grandmother made quilts and I remember her living with our family and piecing quilts. Learned a lot about quilts thanks Tipper
They are all so beautiful and auch a lot of work so pretty thanks Tipper God bless ❤
Thanks for sharing this book! I just ordered it along with John Rice Irwin’s book on Appalachian basket weavers and baskets. I am a basket weaver and love quilts. Years ago I participated in several days of a quilting bee. I decided right away that there would not be any quilt making in my future! I do small pieces of needlework and greatly appreciate the lovely family quilts that I have.
Thank you! 💐💗
I love quilts
Thank you Tipper for reading from this wonderful quilt book. The history behind them is amazing.
Also, I was able to get the slaw recipe & will be putting up today.😊
Terri R.
I’m loving these videos! These quilts are so beautiful! I’m from East Tennessee and love hearing about the familiar places these quilts came from, and the people who made them. I’m kin to the Hensleys mentioned from Sullivan county! I cherish the quilts made by my grandmother, great grandmothers, and great great grandmothers.
Thank you Tipper for sharing this book. Amazing how this one art form, beautiful to look at, also fills so many other roles; utilitarian for warmth, social, where quilters gather for sewing & sharing ideas, creativity as these artisans develop their own designs, historical,as each is a potential heirloom. Amazing & still continues to this day.
❤ My Faves were Grandmother's Kansas Flower Garden and Dutch Dolls . But they are all Beautiful. Lot of time goes into those Quilts, Just Amazing.
I like the name of the quilts. I heard of some of them but some I never heard of.
Really enjoyed looking at the quilts.and the stories. I remember going to the women's building at the Indiana State Fair and admiring all of the beautiful quilt exhibits . Encased in art Deco exhibit cabinets. Great memories. ❤❤
My oldest daughter has many fond memories of playing under a quilt on the quilting frame while we were down at her great grandmother’s house. That was my husband’s maternal grandmother and she taught me many things and quilting was one of those things. TeresaSue
A quilt exhibition was established in the county seat where I live. It amazed me that teenaged boys could recognize and name the patterns represented. Just shows how quilting was and still is an important part of the culture of place. My great grandmother kept a quilt frame hanging from the ceiling of a spare bedroom. In summer the frame was hung on the wide screened front porch--she always referred to it as the gallery.
Since I live in Union County, this brings it close to home 😄
Thank you so much for sharing this book and your memories. Because I enjoyed sewing and making clothes for my young children, my Aunt Vera gave me some fabric with some quilt pieces and suggested I make quilts. I have made several including pieced quilts, a flower garden quilt, many pieced baby quilts, 2 strip quilts. After my children were grown I was given 2 quilt tops that my great grandmother made. I had gone to work after my youngest child was in high school and didn't have time to quilt them. I retired and took care of some of my grandchildren while their parents worked. I really need to get busy now and quilt those tops. The picture you mentioned with the stuffed horses reminded me of my Aunt Boots making and selling pictures like that in the early to mid 1960's. Her pictures were western scenes with horses. The printed fabric was backed with a heavy cotton fabric and there were slits in the backing. Aunt Boots would push stuffing into the slits and when they looked right to her she sewed the slits up and framed the pictures. Thanks for reminding me of some of my memories. ❤
Thank you for sharing!
I look forward to seeing The Dutch Girl quilt top.
I love making quilts, but have had more pleasure in finishing and repairing old quilts. I like to think the lady who started or made the quilt is looking down and happy that it has either come to life or will live on.
Love that 😊
That is so cool learning about quilts. My Mamaw was a quilter and had a big frame hanging from her ceiling. Unfortunately, I lost all of her quilts when our storage got auctioned off. But she must have made a hundred for all the family. Mostly patchwork, but she made a fake izod quilt for my little brother when the preppy dad was so popular back in the late 70’s! She cut out a big alligator to put in the center of it. She was really talented!!
Hello, Tipper. I ordered a cookbook last night, and you have already shipped it today. I am so excited. Thank You!!!
Hope you like it!
I have a King size Dresden Plate quilt my Mom made me during the early 70’s, a Queen size Double Wedding ring made by my Aunt Dean, and the last pieced quilt top my Granny Bryan made from scraps.I had the quilt top quilted and will treasure these forever. My Mom, Aunt Dean and Granny have all passed away and I’m very sorry I never learned the art of quilting. Much of my childhood was spent around the quilting frame that hung from the ceiling at my Granny’s and was let up and down as time allowed for quilting. Such sweet memories.😊
I really enjoyed this. Who needs audible? I really mean it. This made me want to quilt and I only participated once in a quilting bee and once tried to sew one on a machine with someone else's squares. I really love Hawaiian Applique Quilt and the Friendship Ring Quilt with the red background. And the Baltimore Album Quilt is so beautiful. Thank you Tipper!
Oh wow, I live in Sparta, TN. Where the sunburst quilt was made, it is gorgeous! I’m going to start quilting again now that I’m retired and live where it gets cold! Maybe I can get two baby quilts made before for some special little boys arrive!
You are so sweet 😊
Granny made the Dutch Doll squares for me and the Boy fishing squares for my brother. He didn’t want his so I took both of them and had them pieced and quilted. Granny used Pawpaw’s overall to make the little boys overalls. I love these quilts. She mostly made the Dresden Plate patterns. I also have my baby quilt are made for me over 60 years ago. All the squares are embroidered with the little girl watering the flowers pattern.
My mother has a friendship quilt that she has had since December 1963. She said all of the squares have at least 1 if not all have passed away. She calls it her memory quilt now.
Thank you for another enjoyable reading, Tipper. Many quilt names changed from region to region as a maker named it for their own personal reasons or location. The Humility block was and is a common thing in the quilting world. Makers do it intentionally OR it happens often when a mistake is found after all the quilting and binding are already applied as a laughing explanation of the mistake. Trapunto (tra-PUN-toe) is still commonly done in applique' quilts. I have a crazy quilt made by my gr'mother. We call the Dutch Girl pattern Sunbonnet Sue &/or Sam. I've made that pattern for a grandndaughter. Beautiful pictures and very inspirational!
I have a redwork quilt that's been in my family well over 100 years. It was made by someone in my father's family shortly after the civil war up in Auburn NY, where they were from. A beautiful treasure.
Continuing to enjoy you sharing these quaint quilt stories and photos with all of us ❤
I think these works of art are amazing. How did they work these patterns out? When you think back it's a wonder these women had the energy and determination to sit and quilt after a day of relentless housework. Each stitch and patch held a memory of their hands to be cherished and passed down the generations.
I learned a great deal of information about quilts in tonight's reading. As I look back now, remembering the days when my Mother in-law and I would cut scraps of cloth, making different quilt tops. Sewn by hand, not a sewing machine. She tacked all of her crazy quilts, log cabin, and stuffed pattern designs... It's really sentimental to me, knowing that the thread came from the cotton mill where my Father in-law, husband, and I, once worked together. Nothing fancy, but I cherish the love and memories that we made together. Thank you for sharing Tipper. Praying and Blessed! 🤗🙏💕
I love all the quilts thank you Tipper. I hold so much respect and awe for those quilters.
All the quilts are so beautiful, quilt making is a bygone eria , a very important part of the people in the past. I have a healthy respect for those quilters having made only one myself, the Irish Chain, it was very time consuming but worth it when it was finished.
That's my favorite pattern...collecting purple and green fabric to one day make myself one 😊
I sew a lot and have since I was 12 and made my first apron. But I have never made a bed-size quilt. I like to blame it on ADD because I can’t seem to stay focused long enough to finish such a big project. My grandmother, on the other hand, made many beautiful ones. I still have two of them.
I know I've mentioned this before: I've gotten into quilting because of my late mother in law, whom I've never met. I'm restoring the quilt she made my husband maybe 15 years ago. I'm thoroughly enjoying the process, and I'm thinking I'd like to be The Quilter of the family, who makes quilts for family members and special occasions. After I finish this quilt and our wedding keepsake quilt, I plan to make a memory quilt for our friend out of her late father's shirts. Then go from there. Likely something for my parents. But I don't want to plan too far ahead.
I agree with the granny who didn't want dogs on her quilt.
Love this! As a quilter, it is really interesting to see the quilts from the 1800’s. I especially loved the star within a star! Some of my quilts I have professionally quilted and others I tie. Love both ways!
I am currently working on a quilt and have so enjoyed listening while working. Thank you for sharing these amazing stories.
My grandmother made me a bonnet baby quilt when I was 15 to go in my hope chest. I am now 67 and past it to my niece to keep it in the family.
Absolutely loving this reading about quilts since I'm a quilt maker myself. I'm currently working on a scrappy quilt right now, who knows it might end up in the mail to Brasstown, NC.
That is wonderful 😊
Tipper thank you so much for showing pictures of quilts. The stories about the quilts are so wonderful and just reminds me how many memories travel with quilts. I so hope that some of my quilts we also keep some precious memories.
When I moved into & renovated an old, passed down family home the attic rafters held a hidden secret of an old quilt rack. Wish it could tell it’s stories. Thank you for sharing the stories. My house dates back to the late 1890s
Oh wow! That is great! Thank you 😊
Thank you so much Tipper for taking the time to read to us about the history of quilts. Enjoy seeing the pictures of the quilts as well. 😊
I have fond memories of my family and friends gathering together and quilt. At times we had people from 5 generations all working together to produce the quilt. Many of these quilts are in my possession and will be passed to my children and grandchildren. My most treasured quilt is the one they all got together and made for a wedding gift for my wife and I-the only double wedding ring made by the group that I am aware of. Thank you for the videos. God bless all.
What wonderful memories 😊
I love listening to you read the stories. I will close my eyes and see as you read. I’m in late 60s and as a young lady in the church, I recall quilting bees that the women’s group would have in the building of a marriage quilt for newly engaged couples. Because I was young I wasn’t a stitcher but I would read while they sat around the quilting frame. I read mostly from Laura ingles books Little House on the Prairie and her others! Many of the ladies were in their 70s and 80s so they would stop me and comment on passages reliving similar experiences in their past. What a joy quilts are and so many special memories they keep like a time capsule. Thank you so much.
That is such a sweet memory. I loved reading Laura Ingalls Wilder books when I was young. I am a quilter now like my grandmother. 🧵🪡💙👩🌾
So glad you enjoy it!
My mom, born 1920, made many quilts when I was a child. A majority of them were pieced from parts of clothing I and my baby brother had outgrown, or the good parts of worn out clothes belonging to her and our father. I still have them and enjoy looking at the various squares and remembering what they were cut from. They all tell a story of her loving care for her family.
I recognized every one of those patterns. I have made a Dutch Doll quilt....modern day it's known as Sunbonnet Sue and there is a boy version called Sunbonnet Sam. I also have a quilt made from my Mother's maternity clothes, better known from my Aunt who made the quilt as my Mother's 'hatching jackets'. lol She lived in Alabama. She gave it to me out of a cedar chest that my Grandfather had hand made. He was a wood worker and I have the cedar chest today still. I've also made a school house quilt and a Grandmother's Fan quilt. I love everything about quilting especially the history out of Tennessee, where my Dad was from around Knoxville and Chattanooga...Dayton. My parents were both from the south and are one of the couples that migrated North to Michigan for work. They stayed here, where I still live today. We currently have over a foot of snow and it hurts to breathe outside at 0 degrees tonight. Wind chill or real feel is -23 degrees. Hang in there for snow, it was all in the south, I think you'll get yours eventually this year. 😊Thank you for choosing this book, I am really enjoying it.
Those quilts are just wonderful 😀 thank you!
I would love to kearn to quilt and do the braided rugs. Theyvlast a long time and i love the fact they us used material
Mom had made a couple of those trapunto pictures, I assume when she was a teen. IIRC, they were raccoons on branches. The raccoons and branches were stuffed to give dimension. When I looked on the back of the picture, I saw the printed image had been sewn onto plain white fabric. She'd stitched the outlines of the puffy shapes, cut open the white backing, and stuffed it with poly-fil, and some quick-and-dirty stitches to somewhat close up the cuts. We ended up donating them when we moved, because neither of us wanted them.
That was so interesting, Tipper! It makes me want to quilt with my sister. I liked seeing the Dutch Doll quilt, took me back home. Thank you, Dear Tipper! ❤🙏
The coleslaw you could ut ina bowl and add majonaise
Tipper you might already know but Rita's Roost you can see her and her friends quilts they are so beautiful.
Thank you.
Thank you!!
When I heard some quilts were considered too good to use, I remembered I pieced a quilt and had Amish ladies in Kenton, Ohio quilt it for me. I have never used it! I think I should or it will just live on a shelf forever. Good wake up for me!
We call Dutch Doll, Sunbonnet Sue. Comforters we call tied quilts. TeresaSue
I definitely don't like the Victorian crazy quilts, personally, but given the background, they're fascinating. I don't understand why people want to ignore them? They're pieced, ergo they are quilts. I understand the mindset behind them. They're basically a novelty quilt, possibly a scrapbook in quilt form.
I'm thoroughly enjoying this as i am following along in my worn copy that i bought last year from someone Kentucky. After your ready of Alex Stewart, I really appreciated John Rice Irwin's work and dedication to preserving Appalachian ways. I think quilting reflects a true love for family and friends that is reflected in their necessity and praticality in daily life. I'm thankful for your love of 'mountain ways' and choosing this book to read. I've listened to all the books you've read. Happy i found this channel nearly two years ago. Keep up the wonderful work Tipper!
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I didn't know there were so many different names and types of quilts... I should be ashamed since my mom and grandma quilted several of these patterns.🙄 Thanks Tipper 🤗❤️
I did not realize that there were so many quilt names/styles! I just thought a quilt was a quilt. lol
Grandma Fergie made a shag rug, made from 1 inch peice's of cloth' about 1920. God Bless.💕&🙏🙏'ers. Jean
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My mom made me a king size double wedding ring quilt and hand quilted it, gorgeous...when she passed I got a ton of fabric and boxes of quilt blocks...there were 3 wedding ring tops sorted, 2 were throw size and 1 twin...I'm currently finishing the 3rd and oh my goodness I will never make another 😂 they have tested my patience! I was intimidated by stars but turns out I love making those!
My grandma said she made one wedding ring quilt and would never make another. She made it for my mama and now it has been passed on to me. I treasure it!
What a treasure she made you! And how pleased she’d be that you are finishing her work 😊
@@CelebratingAppalachia thank you. When she got too old to quilt, I’d buy her quilt magazines and we would look at the pretty quilts together. She’d say, “my hands may be too old to do the stitches, but I still love looking at the pretty quilts.” She’d tell me stories and we would stay up til late. She always said I can sleep when you go home. 👩🌾💚
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I am fortunate enough to own several quilts made by both my Grandmothers. I wouldn't trade them for a million dollars. ❤
Could it be that the lady who made the big quilt had a lot of kids sleeping under the same quilt at the same time. lol
In case anyone is interested eBay has some pretty good prices on this book and there are maybe four or five for sale at reasonable price. Of course they will be used...
Two women, Opal Hatmaker and Jeanette Galloway were mentioned in tonight’s reading. These ladies were from my hometown, Lake City, TN. I remember them well from my childhood. Also I emailed you info and picture of ElizabethHarrell.
The name Stooksbury was mentioned a few times during your reading. I buy milk from Stooksbury Dairy and Creamery, which is located in Jefferson City, TN. I really thought Kate Stooksbury’s double wedding ring quilt was interesting because the backing was made from dairy feed sacks. I wonder if there’s a connection between Kate Stooksbury’s quilt and the Stooksbury’s that own the dairy? 😊
Hi Ms. Tipper! Do you sew or make quilts? I'm almost 64 and have always wanted to learn how. Guess I'd better get started lol. The book is very interesting and inspiring. Thanks for the read!
You should look up your local quilt guild. That’s how I learned. The women were so welcoming and eager to teach a newcomer.
I don’t but wish I did 😊
@@CelebratingAppalachia you should look up some of the older quilters in your area and interview them. 💙🧵🪡
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I like that Della McNeil quilt. It's a shame the boy wasn't allowed to use it. 😕 I think quilts should be used. As long as you take care of them, they'll last forever.
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My father’s mother quilted. She had 3 sisters and they would get together and quilt. I have one of hers and one of my aunts. When she got older and couldn’t manage the bigger quilts, she would by the printed squares and do the trapunto method. I’m sure she had no idea it was called trapunto. She would say, “Here’s a cat scrap I stuffed for your room.” She was a hoot! 🤣
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Do you have suggestions for books with these patterns? Patchwork, I can figure out, but I have seen some of the most beautiful patterns from decades ago. I would truly love to replicate some of the amazing patterns you named.
I'm sorry I don't, but hopefully some of the quilters will chime in with some suggestions 😊
I would visit your local library. They usually have a lot of o.der quilt pattern books and would most likely have historical ones. Good luck and happy quilting. American Patchwork and Quilting is a suggestion.
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Thank you 😊 for the suggestion. Logical place to begin.🙏🙏
@@jhenniceamorrow5936 I love the library!
I'm sorry, I was checking out quilt patterns but I don't love history. Much love for Granny and all y'all! ❤❤❤