The quilt that I received as a wedding gift in 1971 and the one I finished as a home ec project a few years before that was muslin blocks colored with crayons and hand embroidered by my mom and her sister in the 1930s both lasted over 25 years. These two quilts were used constantly and washed and dried frequently. Once they got too threadbare to wash I hung them on a quilt rack along with one that the top had been given to my dad long before he and my mom met in the 1930s. It was also used daily and washed and dried frequently from the time I was in high school until the late 80s/early 90s. I was very sad that they were destroyed when our house burned in 2000.
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