Walking Through the Time Warp of Your Quilting World
August 8, 2008 by Mary Emma Allen
Filed under Home & Living
As I read Liz Strauss’ blog entry, Stopping Time, over at Successful Blog, I thought about quilters and their quilting heritage. In a way, as we look at old quilts we possess or those in a museum, it seems time has stopped for a moment.
Then I realized, it’s more like walking through the time warp of the quilting world and going back to previous generations of quilters. Sometimes we know their stories; other times we have no idea who made a particular quilt or piece of needlework.
However, as we learn about old fabrics and quilting styles, we glean a feel for that era. If we know the maker, especially if it’s our own ancestor, we step from the present to the past into their world.
I learn more about my great grandmother when I read what my grandfather (her son) wrote about her quilting bees in his journal. Cousin Virgilia cames “alive” when Mother shared the letter she received from her about quilting as a young girl. Then Mother related sitting with her quilting relatives and sewing when she was only six years old.
Can you walk “through the Time Warp” of your quilting world? Even quilts that aren’t family mementoes will have a history, if only in the type of fabric used.
So….in a way we stop time with our quilts, yet carry it forward, too, for future generations.
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(c)2008 Mary Emma Allen
What a lovely way to look at our family heritage!
What lovely reflections, Mary Emma. You’ve jogged a few memories for me as well
Thank you, Eileen, for visiting Quilting and Patchwork and sharing your thoughts. I’m pleased I jogged some memories. Hope they were enjoyable ones.
Interesting way of looking at it!