(the
book has a detailed index) e.g. photographs and transcriptions of tape-recordings.
Patchwork quilt, log-cabin pattern, turn of the 20th century, made
in Stornoway, Quebec, by Muriel's grandmother MacDonald who came
to Canada at the age of 3 months. Quilted with hand-carded wool
from local sheep.
Christie MacKenzie:
For the really old quilts, it was just odds and ends of your dresses
and aprons, and so on. They never had material enough of one kind,
like. Just hit and miss... And tacks, you know, rolled tacked quilts
made... instead of quilting them, they were tacked.
Ruth Nicolson:
The ladies would let everybody know that we were going to quilt.
And we would take three or four days to make a quilt-I think the
quilting bee was a good opportunity to get together-and tell stories
too! We used to have fun and have our tea-break, which was very
nice. Each one'd bring something. There were some good quilters
here.
