Today is National Quilting Day.
I wonder if you have ever looked closely at a quilt and what it takes to create one? It is a wonder and an amazement to look at those close stitches one after the other, one as close to the other as possible. When I was being taught how to properly quilt, the stitches, I was informed, had to be 13 stitches to the inch. Imagine how tight and how small that is.
For years they were made by hand. For years they were the product of left overs that could be used...
Published on March 19, 2011 02:12