Our quilt club made the UGRR quilt as a project; unfortunately I still have to finish mine. Some of the members did finish theirs and they were beautiful. It was a fascinating story and one of our members had a greatgrandmother who was a slave and researched the story for us. I read some comments about this by Barbara Brackman and was really dismayed by the "attitude" I got. She essentially seemed to discount the whole idea, citing what patterns were in existence, etc. As a side thought, my daughter teaches middle school history and told me that this method of communication existed in the Revolutionary War. I tend to believe that the purpose of the quilt is true.