Quilts, quilting, and history provide so much for us, I believe it is a shame that anyone perpetuates myths.
"Critics of the book said that it had some serious flaws:
- There are hundreds of first-hand accounts of the Underground Railroad. None of them mention quilt codes.
- There are hundreds of slave narratives collected by the WPA in the 1930's. None of them mention quilt codes.
- Some of the patterns mentioned in Hidden in Plain View were not used until the 20th century, according to Quilt Historians." http://tedpack.org/quilt1.html