My mother and her sisters would exchange quilt patterns. They were traced out on newspaper. At my grandmother's house there would be a quilt frame hanging from the ceiling (let down during the day/evening for quilting and pulled up at night) In our rural homes quilts were always a part of of lives. They kept us warm!!!! My mother was not really fond of the need to make quilts and when double blankets came out we got several of those. Also no one even thought of piecing these quilts by machine, they were all hand pieced. Feed sacks were used to make our clothes and the scraps were always saved for quilts. No one I know ever had a stash of anything but scraps from clothing.