Patchwork QuiltsPatterns in Quilts

What is Patchwork? Patchwork is pieces of fabric cut into

different shapes and sewn together into patterns.

During the first 100 hundred years of our country, many women, girls, and even a few men and boys- sewed patchwork.

Why is it important? No one could afford to waste good

fabrics. In that time women wove all their

fabrics at home. Even when machines and factories

began to produce fabric, it was expensive and difficult to get.

What would people use? People could use the tiny scraps left

over from the dresses and shirts they had sewn.

They could re-use fabric, cut into small pieces, from outgrown or worn-out clothing.

All of these were sewn together by hand.

Usually did this with friends. These would be made into warm quilts.

Ideas for designs and names of patchwork patterns Tools they used Toys children played with Some came from plants, animals, or

stars After a special event, an important

person, or a story in the Bible No two patchworks are alike They can tell use how people lived when

our country was still young and growing

Theme Names Anvil Postage Stamp Buggy Wheel Queen Charlotte’s Crown Churn Dash Rocky Road to Kansas Does and Darts Storm at Sea Eight Hands Round Tobacco Leaves Flying Geese Underground Railroad Grandmother’s Fan Variable Star Honeycomb Windmill Indian hatchet X Jacob’s Ladder Yankee Puzzle Kite’s Tail Zigzag Log Cabin **There are thousands more Maple Leaf Necktie Old Tippecanoe