RobertaMarie

Well, Sweet, I was born in 1933 and I have a quilt that was made from friendship (signature blocks) given to my mother while she was pregnant with me. When I received the blocks after she died, I made them into a quilt. Some of the blocks had been chewed by mice and some were stained from who knows what, but, I replaced them with reproduction '30s fabric and it looks pretty authentic. My mom didn't have a block, so I made one and copied her signature from one of her letters and added it to the quilt. I suppose she never made the quilt because of the cost of fabric when she was first married (we were very poor) and yes, we wore clothes made from feed sacks, flour sacks, and my grandmother even bleached out salt sacks and sausage sacks for background piecing in her quilts. We used to save the scraps from our dresses and send them to my grandmother to use in her scrap quilts. I still have some of them. The old days were hard, but they were also good, as they instilled love and togetherness in families. Roberta Marie