Stories in a Crazy Quilt

Every quilt has a story, none more so than a crazy quilt. In general, crazy quilts consist of fabric scraps from dressmaking or other leftover materials.  After all, the old expression “waste not, want not” is just as true today as it was in our grandparents’ time.  Indeed, it is the motto of many quilters.  

Who hasn’t made, or planned to make, one of these quilts?  Why else would you be saving all those tiny scraps left over from that last quilt you made?  In addition, there are many other sources for scraps other than your recent finished quilt.  For example, your children’s baby clothes or toddler clothes would make a wonderful crazy quilt/memory quilt.  That is, if you can bring yourself to cut them up!  

Crazy quilts often evoke nostalgia because of the happy memories brought to the surface from the scraps.  On the contrary, they can also evoke extreme sadness because of events one doesn’t like to remember.  Such is the case in this one Grandma’s story from Quilting Daily.  

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