Many of our family quilts were "stuffed" with home made batting. We'd collect the wool jackets off of the rag mans' cart. Many were the old wool uniforms, cast away by the war returnees, as WWII had recently ended. Granny would dip them into the cauldron of boiling water for just a couple of minutes to kill anything that was on them. (She told me wool moths.) They were draped across anything that didn't move to dry. Then we'd cut off the buttons. (Usually the buttons had already been removed.) Granny and my aunts would cut the jackets into wide strips, cut the sleeves off and open the seams, and whip stitch them together to form blankets. The pieced quilt tops held the blankets together. There were a lot of tied quilts, but many were cross hatched. They were heavy and they were warm!