I would never dream of using barbed wire to fence in my horse. I spent this morning researching barbed wire and have decided to not re-do the block. Barbed wire was used a lot in the 1900's. It was first invented in 1874. It was used to fence in cattle. While barbed wire may not be ideal for cattle it may have been safer than having the cattle roam free. Anyway the people of the period of the Pony Club would have used barbed wire so I decided to leave it in the quilt. AND in my quilt the parts actually fenced in have no horses in them
Thanks for the info QuiltingNinaSue! I feel so much smarter today after all that research.