Originally Posted by Yooper32
I can't help but marvel at the work that some women did so many years ago, especially in light of how much harder everything was for them to do in every day life. No micro, no fridge, probably no electric, only gas or oil lamp to work by in the evening, gather wood for stove, bake bread for the day and no Maytag, for sure, haul water, heat up water, scrub on board with soap that you had to make first and on and on and on. Then they maybe got to sit and cut and sew after the children were fed and bedded down, by pale flickering light. I just can't imagine how they managed it all. I marvel at the results.
um...my great aunts only quilted in the afternoons when the light was best. The babies slept and the other older kids looked after younger ones, played outside, did chores, fished etc. Bread was baking, soup or stew slowcooked, while they quilted, often several women together. Sometimes they had a non-quilting reader who read the bible or novels or the newspaper aloud.