25 Quilting Secrets My Mother Never Wrote Down (Except One)

In the fall of 1993, the week after we buried my mother, I opened her sewing basket and found one folded sheet of paper in the bottom of her thimble tin. She quilted for sixty years and never wrote down a pattern, a measurement or a recipe for starch. That paper is the only thing about quilting she ever put in writing. I'm Hazel, I'm 84, and tonight I'm telling you twenty-five things my mother did at the cutting table and the quilt frame that you won't find in a pattern book, from the sandpaper on her cereal-box patterns to the quilt pattern that came printed inside a batting wrapper. Stay for number one, because what she wrote on that paper was me. Hazel's Feed-Sack Quilt Book — 40 farm quilt blocks, large print: hazelsquilts.com Chapters: 0:00 The Thimble Tin 1:33 Sandpaper on the Pattern 3:29 Press Toward the Dark 4:19 Strips of Ticking on the Frame 6:32 Your Own Spit, Your Own Blood 7:49 Not Every Old Quilt Was Made by Hand 8:50 The Pattern on the Batting Wrapper 10:17 Never Let It Touch the Cedar 12:32 The Last Stitch 13:05 The Paper in the Thimble Tin What's one thing the woman who taught you to sew did that you've never seen in a book? Tell me in the comments. I read every one. #quilting #feedsackquilts #quilthistory