August 7, 2022
Crazy quilt . . .
In putting together today’s note, I started with a list of links that at seemed to have nothing in common. Then I thought of patching them in a “crazy quilt” pattern—like this glorious example created by Edna Force Davis in Fairfax County, Virginia, 1897:
Quilts like this were intended to use up odd-shaped bits of fabric, and salvage scraps of embroider…