Dust off an Old Quilt Book
When Bea proposed this Blog Hop, I knew I had just the book. The Romance of the American Quilt, with a copyright date of 1935, certainly qualifies as an old book! I rescued this book a while back, when it became too worn for the library to continue lending it out. But I loved the book, so it came home with me! It's a book I treasure not only because of the detailed history that is almost a century old – but also because of a few quirky things that make me look at things from a new perspective. For example, in the Forward, the second paragraph starts with the following sentence: "When the World War was over..." I remember thinking “which world war, one or two?” Then it occurred to me that when this book was written there had only been “the war to end all wars” which would not become known as “World War One” for several more years. A second "ah ha" moment was when I realized the author had researched, documented, and created all t
