Hi Everyone,
I'm working on a Flying Geese quilt - started the top from a quilt in a day quite a few years ago, and occasionally find time to do a few stitches. I got the enough green, beige, bronze and gold fabric from a scrap bin to do a whole quilt that doesn't look too scrappy.
I recently found that Flying Geese is an Underground Railroad pattern that along with other symbolic patterns used to be hung out on clotheslines as a sign that household was a safe haven for slave escaping to Canada.
Does anybody know of other patterns or have examples they could post? I find this a doubly fascinating quilt topic. First our foremothers made quilts in religious and theme patterns just for their own family and community use, but to then use specific patterns in this wonderful way is pretty compelling.
Will try to do a decent photo and try send this aft. I'm terrible at this bit of techie stuff, so here's hoping.
Maurene