My paternal grandmother had quilts, but I never saw her quilting or sewing. They lived in an old farmhouse where only the living room and kitchen were heated in the winter. When I was small, they would put about 4 of us to a bed under a ton of quilts in the unheated bedrooms. The sheets were so cold that you didn't dare move all night once you made a warm spot.
I remember the quilting frame at my maternal grandmother's house hanging from the ceiling in the winter. The aunts and older cousins would all sit around the quilt and sew while they visited. I now recognize that they were quilting the Baptist fan pattern. I don't remember sleeping there in the winter, but I remember sleeping on a pallet of quilts in the summer with lots of other cousins. She had a stack of quilts about 5 ft. high in a closet that came out when company came for the night.
Grandmother always made us flannel nightgowns for Christmas on her treadle sewing machine.
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