quilt-patterns

Updated: May 12, 2025

The shivering women crowded around the blazing and welcome fire, and seated themselves on rude benches and log seats while they ate and exchanged doughnuts, slices of rusk, or pieces of "pumpkin and Indian mixt" pie, and also gave to each other receipts therefor; and they discoursed in low voices of their spinning and weaving, of their candle-dipping or candle-running, of their success or failure in that yearly trial of patience and skill their soap-making, of their patterns in quilt-piecing, and sometimes they slyly exchanged quilt-patterns.

Alice Morse Earle - Sabbath in Puritan New England