Originally Posted by BellaBoo
Since when did a quilt show become the Awareness showcase for all social ills? I go to a quilt show for escape of the world's stresses not to be reminded of them at every corner. How depressing to sit and study the subject intent of this quilt and who would want to?
So I'm guessing when you see scrap quilts you don't recall that our foremothers sewed them because they were trying to keep their families warm with their bare hands and a pile of rags?
A lot of the traditional quilts you see on this site every day invoke stories of times past, and not all of them were "happy fun times." We pass around Civil War and depression-era FQs like they're the latest thing, but they aren't - they are reminders of a time when quilting might have been a woman's only way to tell her story, or warm her child, or bury her husband.
I choose to honor our history when I quilt. It's fine not to think about it that way, but dishonest to pretend it isn't there.