What are the bare essentials for making a quilt?
I admit it - I am a bit envious -
I would like - so much - to have
a great big organized studio with great lighting and lots of electrical outlets
a long arm quilting machine
a nicely decorated organized studio
storage space so that everything is easily accessible
while I'm at it - an efficiency apartment attached to the studio so that I would not ever have to "go home."
But what is really needed to make something nice?
I wonder what Mrs. Jane A. Stickle had for supplies and tools to make her fabulous quilt?
Or the Farmers Wife Sampler quilts?
or the others made from those eras?
I would expect that - some (mostly) women had "lots" more to work with than others - just as now - but if you were only "allowed" to have the bare minimum to make a quilt using materials and tools available today - and 100 pounds of "stuff" - including machine(s) was all you were allowed - what would you want to have?
(You would be allowed to replenish fabric when prior project is completed)