I mean….WOW! Loved this!! I can feel her passion and love for quilts thru my screen--I swear!!! And to be so young and have such impressive knowledge and how she continues to hone her passion and craft. I’m so elated that she is keeping the history, good and bad, if quilts going.…….she is a total badass,too!!!
Sara! You make me blush. :) Thank you so much for watching. I really do love this stuff! If you want to see me nerd out a LOT more, drop by my Quilt Nerd livestream show! Three times a week, I go live here on the RUclipss and on Twitch (where the show started) and I truly nerd out about quilt history and culture for like 2+ hours every time, lol. All the past shows are here on my YT channel, so you can take a look here if you'd like. Thanks again, Sara. xoxo Mary
I love your videos and my quilt history was spot on with this video. I took my first quilt class in the late 70s, I was in my late 20s. Not only were there no quilt stores around, 100% cotton was hard to find in fabric stores, mostly kettle cloth... I remember my dad telling me that after the depression his family discarded their quilts and bought new blankets at JC Penney! And my quilting obsession started when I discovered rotary cutters at a quilt store in the early 80s. I was working on a scrap quilt while I watched this video in an effort to thin down my stash! Thank you❣️
Oh, man! This was a tour de force. Mary, you are one of a kind. Thank you for sharing your passion with us. Now I want to know more. Keep making these videos, please.
Nine Patch was a great quilt store in Berkeley Ca owned and run by the late Elaine Zelnik. That store started in the 1970s and was in Berkeley for 35 years. E had so quilt/ textile knowledge beyond compare and her store was like Aladdin’s cave- ! not only quilts - lots of other new and old treasures all hand curated by E. in the 70s she actually had quilting circles in Berkeley- imagine that! Love you Elaine and miss you so! She would’ve loved this quilt romp! Thank you!
I absolutely loved this wonderful and very animated trip through the history of the American quilt and its development. THANK YOU. love history too and you made it so much fun!!!! My family has several generations of quilters and you helped me appreciate a whole new dimension of love and admiration for the quilts and their creators.
I love watching your lectures! I first saw you on Karen Browns interview and can't get enough of learning about quilts! Thank you for putting these lectures on RUclips!
I can relate to your experience in the museum. The Underground Railroad Museum in Cincinnati had a quilt show of 500 years of slavery. Each quilt focused on a single year of that history. I walked through that exhibit for hours, openly weeping. I learned so much history that I never knew. The works were spectacular. There is an incredible quilt on permanent display there as well. Thank you for telling a more complete history of quilts.
Your personality and enthusiasm were AA balm to my heart. Being sequestered ...it was good to find a young woman who lives the love of our diversity, history, textiles, artistry, frugality of quilting .
Hi from France ! I just discovered your channel thanks to this video and this is so interresting for the stitch nerd I am and I'm going to watch your other videos! Thanks for this amzing work !
Hi Cat ❤ I'm a recovering planner need. I don't even want to think about all the money I've spent on fancy planners since I got my first one back in the 80's. . All the fancy features always ended up being neglected/going to waste because I'm not a CEO, I'm just a regular person. It's taken me years to figure out a simple page is all I really need. Even a bullet journal is more complicated than I need. I'm loving your composition book method, simple, concise format, not heavy to lug around. At the beginning of the school year our Walmart always has these marked down to 50c. I stock up while the price is down. Thanks for your inspiration😊
I work at a fabric store and it kinda bugs me when people balk at the prices. I get it, but it's still made in India, China, Pakistan, Indonesia, etc where those countries can get away with less strict labor laws. That's why so many Western products are made in China because the workers get paid less. On a better note, once when I was putting fabric away I overheard a mom tell her daughter not to step on the fabric that was trailing on the floor because (paraphrasing) "people work hard in bad conditions to make that for us to buy." A glimmer of hope for the future.
One very important invention in the mid 1800's that effected quilt making was the sewing machine. Applique quilts faded away some in comparison to the pieced quilts that could be made so much quicker with the machine. Other than than that, excellent talk!
Great presentation, very interesting. Glad I'm in touch with the reality of quilts during the American Revolution so I'm not living in fantasy land. It's quite different from what I'd imagined. Oh and I love it when you call a picture out for being haunted. 😂
Mary, I enjoyed this video so, so much! I can see the passion you have for the subject and appreciate the immense effort in compiling the images for this video. I’d love to see a video where you discuss art vs craft or even your favorite quilt history books or resources.
Sherry, hi! Thank you so much! I love nerding out on quilt history and it's been great to see that a lot of other people like nerding out on it too, lol. I'm passionate for sure - and by the way, come see the livestream show I do on Twitch three times a week! It's just a bunch of nerding out on quilts - LIVE! Go to twitch.tv/yomaryfons and click 'Schedule' and you can tune in and geek out on quilts with all of us. Hope to see you and thanks again, Sherry. xoxo Mary
Mary, so happy to see you again and I love this quilt history video! That very popular “minty green” color you mention in the 1930s Depression Era quilts was called Nile Green. I have a Nile green (and white) wedding quilt from my mother-in-law’s 1933 wedding. It is a block pattern quilt called Wedding Ring - BUT not the curved wedding ring pattern that most people think of. This pieced pattern is also called the Crown of Thorns. Ginny
I found you through the Just Get It Done Quilts interview with Karen Brown and I'm so glad! A kindred Spirit! This was amazing and I learned so much and can't wait to gobble up more! About 20 mins in I shared this video to my fb in the perpetual hope that I have that more people will find the love of quilts that I have...crossing my fingers that one day I can lure more people to the dark side lol
So interesting hearing that the quilt show at the Whitney traveled to Japan. American quilt designs were very popular in Japan at that time. My grandmother passed down a number of Japanese quilt magazines from the 60s and 70s that had like articles talking about like the Amish tradition in quilting and explaining victory quilts and the like. And these magazines would always include lots of lovely photographs and patterns for "American" style quilts.
Loved this so much 💜 found your channel just today and subscribed. I learn more about quilts and quilting everyone morning during breakfast, and often at lunch, your being added to that time slot. From a Canadian quilter, thanks so much for sharing your passion.
I love your quilt history episodes! This is quilt history at high speed!Please can you add to the comments the book about the 1930s Quilts and the world fair that you mentioned. I could not catch the authors names. Thank you! Please keep making these episodes!
I was curious, too, and I think I found it! The book is "Patchwork Souvenirs of the 1933 World's Fair" by Merikay Waldvogel and Barbara Brackman. Hope this helps!
Ooh…I was just thinking this…I wonder about links for all the books mentioned in the episode, but also museums, quilt guilds, etc. that would be amazing!
Mary, I think you just came up with a dozen more topics. 😹 I am 50. I remember watching Georgia Bonesteel and Eleanor Burns with my mom and being fascinated.
I remember as a child us cousins playing under the wooden quilting rack as my grandmother and aunts quilted. Quilts were recycled, just adding new quilt tops made from whatever fabrics available. They would become so heavy (invention of weighted blankets??) a small child couldn’t roll over under them. I still have some of those quilts and have carried on the quilting tradition, although I use her pedal Singer for an end table!
This is so interesting. My biggest regret regarding quilting is to live in a french canadian province where we are quilting, but where I can't fin this kind of informations. I wish you were French Canadian and could tell me our history like that. I don't event have access to a guild close to home in my neighbourhood and I'm living in Montreal! Not the most little and remote city in Quebec! Thank you so much for all you do and the passion with which you do it, and transmit it. You are important. Thank you!
This is SO INTERESTING!! I would LOVE LOVE LOVE for you to do another one like it getting deeper into it. It's like a mini classroom lecture, but more fun than actual school! LOL I know it's a LOT of work, but you are a natural teacher!! Can I find any of your lectures online anywhere????
I'm trying to keep up. Your enthusiasm is overwhelming. I know of you because of your mother. Whom I love. I saw you on a special some years ago. You said there was no actual written history to back up the underground railway quilts story. (Or something like that) I always hoped I simply misunderstood you.
Wonderful! You have a unique style that I absolutely love. I listened to this podcast while I walked, so I missed out on the visuals. I'm a member of a quilt guild in Bulverde, Texas. Keep on keepin' on! Have you heard this little dirty? "Sewing is my therapy and threads are my meds." Apropo for BooHissCovid times.
This is so well put together. When you said that you cried looking at the quilts on display, I felt like someone out there understands me. I come from a long line of quilting women (some of which were pioneer women) and it is something I hold very near and dear to my heart. Thank you SO much for this beautiful content and for just being you!
Knit ... wow. This is a lovely comment, indeed. It's my pleasure. Thank you so much for watching and for what you said. I totes get you, girl! (lol) If you want to be further understood by a bunch of likeminded quilt nerds, you should totally watch my live show, 'Quilt Nerd'. I broadcast three times a week (at least) on Twitch. Just go to twitch.tv/yomaryfons and you'll get the scoop. We'd love to have you. xoxo Mary
Ok - I admit - I saw you on Quilty and didn't really groove on your style. But THIS! **THIS**! The galloping romp through history (You had me at Vince Vaughn). You can really see your passion for the topic as well as your in-depth knowledge. ("I know I didn't talk about it - I will -- later!) Well done.
In the 1500's people not only cut hand woven cloth, but also pieced it together. The body of a man was discovered in a bog who had died in the 1500's. Due to the nature of a peat bog the body and clothing where well preserved. He was wearing a hand woven cloak , that not only had been cut, but had been pieced together in a patchwork way to complete the garment and to not waste the valuable cloth. People would keep the areas of clothing receiving less wear, to repair clothing up to the time of Queen Victoria,
also before you could buy fabric you used clothes. it was common for women to have baskets of old clothes that were ready to be peiced together for quilts
Thank you for This amazing video I believe that sonia delaunay, as a major abstract painter might have been first and foremost referencing her own abstract painting and that she might be more suited for the modern quilting timeline but that’s just my opinion
Story. When I was a young Mom, I bought a cheater printed top and set it up on a traditional frame just so I could hand quilt. My little children played underneath it like a Fort. Love finds a way. 🇨🇦
I totally played under a quilting frame when I was 4. Best days of my life. When I got tired I just watched my great aunt's fingers reaching for the needle 🪡 🙃
I enjoyed this so much! I have so many questions and am looking forward to checking out more videos (this is my first one). One big question for now: Not that long ago, I read The Island at the Center of the World by Russel Shorto about the pre-British history of America, particularly of the Dutch and native peoples in modern day Manhattan. Can anyone point me toward quilt history in that area?
LATEST SHIFT: quilt the schmotz out of the thing so it looks like a printed cardboard. The whole thing quilted by machine SOOOOOOO tight on super thin batt that there is no puff. There are huge machines in homes that make thread designs not related to the cloth pattern. Will these be called the "covid era" quilts? They are so different there will be no mistaking them from traditionals.
Also communities of women would get together and trade fabrics with each other for more variety in their quilts. Or each woman might make squares on their own, so when they got together they would have a "quilting bee" to quilt the quilt sandwich together. Often this was done like having a bridal shower for a young woman prior to her marriage. Thank you for the video.
Anyone have the name of The 1930’s quilt with a big star and swirl of rainbows? When she was talking about the worlds fair quilt competition. I just cant make out the text and I would love to look into this quilt more.
What I love is seeing cotton fields growing again in America and having automatic picking machines. Bringing our industries back to America is something to be proud of.
a brief reaction to your comments on Sonia Delauney. Did she get her inspiration from American quilts? Probably not. There was a long tradition of patchwork in several countries in Europe, altough these domestic textiles were never studied much. There was much interest in patchwork, often callen mosaic work in ladies magazines, in the 1800's. She may easily have picked the idea there. Or in very poor contexts were fabrics were sewn together haphazardly to make something big enough to be a bed cover. This was still being done in some religious orders in the 20th cent. But examples are very hard to find. A lot of our textile history is not easy to detect, because objects were not deemed worthy of keeping, collecting and studying. I made my first patchwork in the late 1960's (in my early 10,s) after seeing a 19th cent patchwork in a Dutch museum, long before seeing any how to do books. Just seeing it with paper templates still inside was enough to set me on the way to make them. Later I learned about precious patchworks in silk made in the middle ages, and wool quilts done in a sort of intarsia technique as early as the 1700's. Patchwork must have been around in colonial times in the US, but only for people wealthy enough to own precious scraps of silks, linens and cottons.
Hi amirca is not the only country that women do quilting i am from kingdom of hashemat jordan i have a quilts from my grand mother and frome my mother and i do quilting
6:20 America cannot be the first country or group of people to use slaves to pick cotton. Slavery has been in the world for thousands of years (esp) for agriculture labor. Why do Americans think we are the only ones to do things? Such a bombastic statement to make.
Thank you, Mary! I cannot even believe it took youtube 4 years to suggest your videos to me! What?!?! Love it all. So excited to learn more.
Anyone who says their were no quilts made in the 40s-60s never met my wonderful grandmother and her even more wonderful quilts.
Thank you for supporting the American quilts and the people who've made them.
I mean….WOW! Loved this!! I can feel her passion and love for quilts thru my screen--I swear!!! And to be so young and have such impressive knowledge and how she continues to hone her passion and craft. I’m so elated that she is keeping the history, good and bad, if quilts going.…….she is a total badass,too!!!
Sara! You make me blush. :) Thank you so much for watching. I really do love this stuff! If you want to see me nerd out a LOT more, drop by my Quilt Nerd livestream show! Three times a week, I go live here on the RUclipss and on Twitch (where the show started) and I truly nerd out about quilt history and culture for like 2+ hours every time, lol. All the past shows are here on my YT channel, so you can take a look here if you'd like. Thanks again, Sara. xoxo Mary
Thank you soooo much for this primer! I am thirsty, I am ravenous, I am all in. Why? Enjoyment, pure enjoyment.😊
You are absolutely AMAZING!!!!! Thank you so much for sharing the history of something I love so very much!
I love your videos and my quilt history was spot on with this video. I took my first quilt class in the late 70s, I was in my late 20s. Not only were there no quilt stores around, 100% cotton was hard to find in fabric stores, mostly kettle cloth... I remember my dad telling me that after the depression his family discarded their quilts and bought new blankets at JC Penney! And my quilting obsession started when I discovered rotary cutters at a quilt store in the early 80s. I was working on a scrap quilt while I watched this video in an effort to thin down my stash! Thank you❣️
Oh, man! This was a tour de force. Mary, you are one of a kind. Thank you for sharing your passion with us. Now I want to know more. Keep making these videos, please.
Giiiiiiirl!!!! You just show and teach and distract and shine with this amazing vídeo! Congrats! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Nine Patch was a great quilt store in Berkeley Ca owned and run by the late Elaine Zelnik. That store started in the 1970s and was in Berkeley for 35 years. E had so quilt/ textile knowledge beyond compare and her store was like Aladdin’s cave- ! not only quilts - lots of other new and old treasures all hand curated by E.
in the 70s she actually had quilting circles in
Berkeley- imagine that!
Love you Elaine and miss you so!
She would’ve loved this quilt romp!
Thank you!
I absolutely loved this wonderful and very animated trip through the history of the American quilt and its development. THANK YOU. love history too and you made it so much fun!!!! My family has several generations of quilters and you helped me appreciate a whole new dimension of love and admiration for the quilts and their creators.
I love watching your lectures! I first saw you on Karen Browns interview and can't get enough of learning about quilts! Thank you for putting these lectures on RUclips!
I can relate to your experience in the museum. The Underground Railroad Museum in Cincinnati had a quilt show of 500 years of slavery. Each quilt focused on a single year of that history. I walked through that exhibit for hours, openly weeping. I learned so much history that I never knew. The works were spectacular. There is an incredible quilt on permanent display there as well. Thank you for telling a more complete history of quilts.
Your personality and enthusiasm were AA balm to my heart. Being sequestered ...it was good to find a young woman who lives the love of our diversity, history, textiles, artistry, frugality of quilting .
I loved this SO MUCH. A critical look at quilt history! Fantastic stuff!
Outstanding! But, we need more! Thank you, Mary.
Thank you so much for putting this together! These large scale overviews are so important for grounding our foundations as we learn more.
What an INTERESTING video!!!!!!!!! Thank you for all the work it had to of taken on your part Mary!!!!!!
Thank you Mary thank you so much keep up this wonderful work you are so appreciated and timely
Mary, thank you so much for putting together this ton of information in one video. I'm Mexican, and want to initiate myself into quilting.
Hi from France ! I just discovered your channel thanks to this video and this is so interresting for the stitch nerd I am and I'm going to watch your other videos! Thanks for this amzing work !
Hi Cat ❤ I'm a recovering planner need. I don't even want to think about all the money I've spent on fancy planners since I got my first one back in the 80's. . All the fancy features always ended up being neglected/going to waste because I'm not a CEO, I'm just a regular person. It's taken me years to figure out a simple page is all I really need. Even a bullet journal is more complicated than I need. I'm loving your composition book method, simple, concise format, not heavy to lug around. At the beginning of the school year our Walmart always has these marked down to 50c. I stock up while the price is down. Thanks for your inspiration😊
So glad I found your you tube videos. Very thought provoking, informative, on the history of quilting. I plan to watch more and follow!
Loved!! 💕💕💕😊. Thank you for all the work you put into this presentation. Now off to your other quilt history videos😊
I work at a fabric store and it kinda bugs me when people balk at the prices. I get it, but it's still made in India, China, Pakistan, Indonesia, etc where those countries can get away with less strict labor laws. That's why so many Western products are made in China because the workers get paid less. On a better note, once when I was putting fabric away I overheard a mom tell her daughter not to step on the fabric that was trailing on the floor because (paraphrasing) "people work hard in bad conditions to make that for us to buy." A glimmer of hope for the future.
Thank you for your passion and showing this video. I love this!
Fascinating! Can’t wait to see more. Thank you Mary
One very important invention in the mid 1800's that effected quilt making was the sewing machine. Applique quilts faded away some in comparison to the pieced quilts that could be made so much quicker with the machine. Other than than that, excellent talk!
Great presentation, very interesting. Glad I'm in touch with the reality of quilts during the American Revolution so I'm not living in fantasy land. It's quite different from what I'd imagined. Oh and I love it when you call a picture out for being haunted. 😂
Mary, I enjoyed this video so, so much! I can see the passion you have for the subject and appreciate the immense effort in compiling the images for this video. I’d love to see a video where you discuss art vs craft or even your favorite quilt history books or resources.
You made this so fun! I love your personality & passion for quilting 👍
Sherry, hi! Thank you so much! I love nerding out on quilt history and it's been great to see that a lot of other people like nerding out on it too, lol. I'm passionate for sure - and by the way, come see the livestream show I do on Twitch three times a week! It's just a bunch of nerding out on quilts - LIVE! Go to twitch.tv/yomaryfons and click 'Schedule' and you can tune in and geek out on quilts with all of us. Hope to see you and thanks again, Sherry. xoxo Mary
That was wonderful! I'm so glad I found your videos! Thank you.
Mary, so happy to see you again and I love this quilt history video! That very popular “minty green” color you mention in the 1930s Depression Era quilts was called Nile Green.
I have a Nile green (and white) wedding quilt from my mother-in-law’s 1933 wedding. It is a block pattern quilt called Wedding Ring - BUT not the curved wedding ring pattern that most people think of. This pieced pattern is also called the Crown of Thorns.
Ginny
Thank you for such an informative and enjoyable talk about quilts!
Loved this, SO much. Thank you. Paula
Wow! I really enjoyed your presentation! Thank you so much!
I found you through the Just Get It Done Quilts interview with Karen Brown and I'm so glad! A kindred Spirit! This was amazing and I learned so much and can't wait to gobble up more! About 20 mins in I shared this video to my fb in the perpetual hope that I have that more people will find the love of quilts that I have...crossing my fingers that one day I can lure more people to the dark side lol
Great video, honest but also informative. I appreciated it.
Missed you! So sad to c "Quilty" end! Thrilled to c and hear u again! Thanks for sharing yur knowledge and love of quilts with everyone.
So interesting hearing that the quilt show at the Whitney traveled to Japan. American quilt designs were very popular in Japan at that time. My grandmother passed down a number of Japanese quilt magazines from the 60s and 70s that had like articles talking about like the Amish tradition in quilting and explaining victory quilts and the like. And these magazines would always include lots of lovely photographs and patterns for "American" style quilts.
Loved this so much 💜 found your channel just today and subscribed. I learn more about quilts and quilting everyone morning during breakfast, and often at lunch, your being added to that time slot. From a Canadian quilter, thanks so much for sharing your passion.
I love your quilt history episodes! This is quilt history at high speed!Please can you add to the comments the book about the 1930s Quilts and the world fair that you mentioned. I could not catch the authors names. Thank you! Please keep making these episodes!
I was curious, too, and I think I found it! The book is "Patchwork Souvenirs of the 1933 World's Fair" by Merikay Waldvogel and Barbara Brackman. Hope this helps!
Ooh…I was just thinking this…I wonder about links for all the books mentioned in the episode, but also museums, quilt guilds, etc. that would be amazing!
@@beccaz3 Thanks!!
Mary, I think you just came up with a dozen more topics. 😹 I am 50. I remember watching Georgia Bonesteel and Eleanor Burns with my mom and being fascinated.
Really well done. Thanks!
This was amazing! Thank you :)
Fabulous and enjoyable!🙂 Can't wait to see what your other and future videos are!
Wonderful, wonderful show!
You say "screw you" you Crack me up! I know alot of things now! You are very informative. Love the pic of your mom and Liz in their 80's vests❤
I remember as a child us cousins playing under the wooden quilting rack as my grandmother and aunts quilted. Quilts were recycled, just adding new quilt tops made from whatever fabrics available. They would become so heavy (invention of weighted blankets??) a small child couldn’t roll over under them. I still have some of those quilts and have carried on the quilting tradition, although I use her pedal Singer for an end table!
another good one. You and Ken Burns need a documentary
Thanks for all your research and information 💕
thanks for making these vids mary
This is so interesting. My biggest regret regarding quilting is to live in a french canadian province where we are quilting, but where I can't fin this kind of informations. I wish you were French Canadian and could tell me our history like that. I don't event have access to a guild close to home in my neighbourhood and I'm living in Montreal! Not the most little and remote city in Quebec! Thank you so much for all you do and the passion with which you do it, and transmit it. You are important. Thank you!
This is SO INTERESTING!!
I would LOVE LOVE LOVE for you to do another one like it getting deeper into it. It's like a mini classroom lecture, but more fun than actual school!
LOL
I know it's a LOT of work, but you are a natural teacher!! Can I find any of your lectures online anywhere????
I'm trying to keep up. Your enthusiasm is overwhelming. I know of you because of your mother. Whom I love. I saw you on a special some years ago. You said there was no actual written history to back up the underground railway quilts story. (Or something like that) I always hoped I simply misunderstood you.
International quilt museum is fabulous. The building is a work of art in itself!
Wonderful! You have a unique style that I absolutely love. I listened to this podcast while I walked, so I missed out on the visuals. I'm a member of a quilt guild in Bulverde, Texas. Keep on keepin' on! Have you heard this little dirty? "Sewing is my therapy and threads are my meds." Apropo for BooHissCovid times.
This is so well put together. When you said that you cried looking at the quilts on display, I felt like someone out there understands me. I come from a long line of quilting women (some of which were pioneer women) and it is something I hold very near and dear to my heart. Thank you SO much for this beautiful content and for just being you!
Knit ... wow. This is a lovely comment, indeed. It's my pleasure. Thank you so much for watching and for what you said. I totes get you, girl! (lol) If you want to be further understood by a bunch of likeminded quilt nerds, you should totally watch my live show, 'Quilt Nerd'. I broadcast three times a week (at least) on Twitch. Just go to twitch.tv/yomaryfons and you'll get the scoop. We'd love to have you. xoxo Mary
Hah! Really enjoyed this! Well told story!
This is absolutely fabulous
Great video, thank you!
Oh my gosh...you talked about Clare, MI...my grandparents had a farm outside of Clare and my Mom grew up there...I still visit once in awhile.
This is incredible, thank you
Ok - I admit - I saw you on Quilty and didn't really groove on your style. But THIS! **THIS**! The galloping romp through history (You had me at Vince Vaughn). You can really see your passion for the topic as well as your in-depth knowledge. ("I know I didn't talk about it - I will -- later!) Well done.
Love this!
In the 1500's people not only cut hand woven cloth, but also pieced it together. The body of a man was discovered in a bog who had died in the 1500's. Due to the nature of a peat bog the body and clothing where well preserved. He was wearing a hand woven cloak , that not only had been cut, but had been pieced together in a patchwork way to complete the garment and to not waste the valuable cloth. People would keep the areas of clothing receiving less wear, to repair clothing up to the time of Queen Victoria,
also before you could buy fabric you used clothes. it was common for women to have baskets of old clothes that were ready to be peiced together for quilts
Thank you for This amazing video
I believe that sonia delaunay, as a major abstract painter might have been first and foremost referencing her own abstract painting and that she might be more suited for the modern quilting timeline but that’s just my opinion
I'm so happy you're back, Mary!!!!!!
I appreciate this so much!
Story. When I was a young Mom, I bought a cheater printed top and set it up on a traditional frame just so I could hand quilt. My little children played underneath it like a Fort. Love finds a way. 🇨🇦
I totally played under a quilting frame when I was 4. Best days of my life. When I got tired I just watched my great aunt's fingers reaching for the needle 🪡 🙃
I enjoyed this so much! I have so many questions and am looking forward to checking out more videos (this is my first one). One big question for now:
Not that long ago, I read The Island at the Center of the World by Russel Shorto about the pre-British history of America, particularly of the Dutch and native peoples in modern day Manhattan. Can anyone point me toward quilt history in that area?
LATEST SHIFT: quilt the schmotz out of the thing so it looks like a printed cardboard. The whole thing quilted by machine SOOOOOOO tight on super thin batt that there is no puff. There are huge machines in homes that make thread designs not related to the cloth pattern. Will these be called the "covid era" quilts? They are so different there will be no mistaking them from traditionals.
awesome. thank you.. love this :)!!!!!
Also communities of women would get together and trade fabrics with each other for more variety in their quilts. Or each woman might make squares on their own, so when they got together they would have a "quilting bee" to quilt the quilt sandwich together. Often this was done like having a bridal shower for a young woman prior to her marriage. Thank you for the video.
What a wonderful presentation! You’re welcomed at my dinner table anytime you’re in Huntsville Alabama!
Anyone have the name of The 1930’s quilt with a big star and swirl of rainbows? When she was talking about the worlds fair quilt competition. I just cant make out the text and I would love to look into this quilt more.
Did you do the quilts of under ground rail road already. Really looking towards that one.
What I love is seeing cotton fields growing again in America and having automatic picking machines. Bringing our industries back to America is something to be proud of.
a brief reaction to your comments on Sonia Delauney. Did she get her inspiration from American quilts? Probably not. There was a long tradition of patchwork in several countries in Europe, altough these domestic textiles were never studied much. There was much interest in patchwork, often callen mosaic work in ladies magazines, in the 1800's. She may easily have picked the idea there. Or in very poor contexts were fabrics were sewn together haphazardly to make something big enough to be a bed cover. This was still being done in some religious orders in the 20th cent. But examples are very hard to find. A lot of our textile history is not easy to detect, because objects were not deemed worthy of keeping, collecting and studying.
I made my first patchwork in the late 1960's (in my early 10,s) after seeing a 19th cent patchwork in a Dutch museum, long before seeing any how to do books. Just seeing it with paper templates still inside was enough to set me on the way to make them.
Later I learned about precious patchworks in silk made in the middle ages, and wool quilts done in a sort of intarsia technique as early as the 1700's. Patchwork must have been around in colonial times in the US, but only for people wealthy enough to own precious scraps of silks, linens and cottons.
I’m taking notes!
Hi amirca is not the only country that women do quilting i am from kingdom of hashemat jordan i have a quilts from my grand mother and frome my mother and i do quilting
Love seeing you on u tube
More please!
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I own one of those gas powered irons!
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Hello I never quilted before, my name is Wes.
so many haunted photos in here, this is a haunted video.
This was great but the music in the intro sections was WAY too loud!
Interesting.
The comment Bad A___ was not appropriate. A better choice of words could have been used. A lot of history I really enjoyed.
6:20 America cannot be the first country or group of people to use slaves to pick cotton. Slavery has been in the world for thousands of years (esp) for agriculture labor. Why do Americans think we are the only ones to do things? Such a bombastic statement to make.
There is not one culture, tribe, or peoples that has not been in slavery. The Americans is not the first or only country to do so. 💕🍪
I’ve found my people.
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you are awesome
I viewed a very inappropriate picture on one of your videos. You might check that.
Does anyone else think Mary looks like the actress Anne Hathaway?
So much more could have been seen & taught had 1. Left personal comments out 2. Left shots of herself out.
3. Left “what could have been” out.
Etc.
Interesting but really wish it had been more concise.