Do You Want To See Where Quilts Really Come From?
#43
My Grandmother told me that after a field was picked, she would go back and pick the cotton that was left behind and make her own quilt batt from the left over cotton, seeds and all. That was back in the depression days when money was scarce. She said that making quilts for her doctor is how she paid for him to deliver her 8 children.
#46
How fun to see these pictures! You hear stories of how the hands of the people picking the cotton were so scratched up, now you can see why. Those pods have sharp points. Now machines do it. I understand that cotton fields are inching their way north. The weather pattern is changing. Good post!
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Just imagine the ingenuity that man had to figure out a piece of machinery to do all the steps that a cotton gin does. Was it Eli Whitney? Seems like I remember that name associated with the cotton gin. Anyhow, I applaud whoever it was.
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Thanks for those wonderful pictures!! My Dad worked in a cotton field in north Texas and they went to a country school to hire teens to work in the fields ... that's where he met my Mom! They were married 53 years & had 9 children! :)
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