Over the holiday weekend I was entrusted with the care of about 18 family heirloom quilts! I was asked to document them with pictures and descriptions and evaluate whether they should be (or can be) preserved, restored, cut up to distribute among family members or disposed of. Their condition ranges from really good to extremely bad (one pillowcase appears to be full of just a huge fluffy mouse nest now). About 1/2 the quilts came from my grandmother's side of the family and those have notes with them telling who made them. The oldest of those was made by my grandmother's great-grandmother! (Grandma died about 5 years ago just 4 months shy of 100 years old) The only information on the other half of the quilts is Grandma said they were in the home when she married my Grandpa in 1928. She considered them heirlooms from his family but did not put any information with them as she did with her family quilts. This will be an interesting project learning and recording as much as I can about these quilts so their descendants will know about them.