[quote=craftinggrandma]I have made rag quilts but have never made a regular quilt.
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What do you mean, the rag quilt wasn't a regular quilt? Of course it was a real quilt. If someone could cover up with it and keep warm under it, it was a regular quilt, and don't let anyone tell you any different. Quilts have been made that way for we don't know how many hundreds (or thousands?) of years. Sheer necessity has made women make quilts to keep themselves and their families warm in harsh weather.
Go on making lovely rag quilts, and give some of them to those you love and want to keep warm.
I learned with my Grandma as teacher. WV winters are cold and miserable and you need heavy, warm quilts for a good night's sleep. I can remember one of mine that Grandma sewed by hand, made of squares of some of Grandpa's old pants and shirts and coats. All quilts I can remember were squares, except for the rare crazy quilts, but those were in the main just for decoration and not night time use. You draped them over a piano if you were rich enough to have one, otherwise over a sofa or a big chair to let friends see what you were capable of doing.