trupeach

Just asking most times doesn't help because they don't know as in the Joann post about a ham. You need to fine a shop or designer that you know knows their stuff. Then also there were different prints from the North or South. It is very involved but my personally feeling is why not interchange North and South who is too say that before the war someone didn't travel to visit someone and buy fabric in the area they were visiting. The quilts also changed from class to class. The slaves wouldn't have the same fabric as they had at the big house. Then there would be the difference between slave owners some were more generous then others. Slave quilts were also tied they were meant to be used and were often needed in a hurry. The beautiful quilts that still exsist today were show quilts. the quilts that took forever to make. In the south the wives and daughter would sew the afternoon away with their tiny stitches and lovely handwork. So you have to read and research and decide what you want in the way of CW and go from their. OH and just an after thought the slave quilts were filled with cotton but the cotton often was not carded it still have the hard prickly outside on it.