Originally Posted by ghostrider

The quilts you describe are now called scrap quilts. They have always been, and will always be, made with the materials on hand at the time of their making. In the 60's and 70's, that material was primarily synthetic so that's what the quilts were. It has nothing to do with hippies or hippie culture. I don't know where you got your information, but it does not ring true at all in my experience.

As a card carrying Hippie (that'd be my AARP card), I can assure you that quilting during that period was the furthest thing from my mind. I made quilts both before and after the years I spent living what you call "the hippie lifestyle", but certainly not during and I'd be willing to bet those women you speak of who "just seemed to pick up one (piece of fabric) after another without paying attention to design or color or hue" were merely experiencing an alternative state of consciousness and had no intention of sewing them together.

Originally Posted by ghostrider

... I'd be willing to bet those women you speak of who "just seemed to pick up one (piece of fabric) after another without paying attention to design or color or hue" were merely experiencing an alternative state of consciousness and had no intention of sewing them together.

Originally Posted by jaciqltznok

HEY..I am from the 60's!!..ehehhe
couldn't resist that one...

lots of really GOOD things came from the 60's!

I did not have a quilt, but in the 80's I found a long skirt at the goodwill shop..all patched worked together,different fabrics, pieces on a plain black sheet type fabric, buttoned down the front..it was awesome...I wore it over my bathing suit for years!

Originally Posted by sewmary

Right on sister! The 'hippies" were busy with other things and sewing would be the furthest thing from their minds! (tripping, smoking, protesting, communing, etc.!!!)