The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-29
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OLD FASHIONED QUILTS.
How Two Georgia Women Are Reap
ing Harvest.

How Two Georgia Women Are Reap
ing Harvest.
yes, my mother and l have lust finished
our ninety-seventh quilt since last Novem-
Der" said Miss Jane Sims of Columbia
county, Georgia
You see, it began in his way: Our farm
is morigaged ana when my brother who
supports my mother and was taken i'll in
the middle of the cropping season. we
knew we w0uld have an extra hard time
to make both ends meet Then to make
matters worse. the drought came on and
cut the crops off untif there was next to
nothing to gather. BY this time YOU NAV
be sure we were worried. and morning
noon and night I tried to hit on some way
I might make money.
MY mother has a number of o,d-fasbion-
ed quilts. many Of them made by her m tn
er and given her on her marriage. They are
beautiful as old fashioned quilts go. have
adj been taken sood care of and never used
except on state occasions. and therefore
are good rs the day they were finished
Well one morning during our trouble 7
came in and found my mother on her
knees before one Of the big chests in which
she keeps her quilts.
Jane she remarked, Il was thinking
may we might get d few dollars for some
of these quits. 1t would be better. fhon
having them packed away doing nobody
any good.
In minute l thought of The peo3le ot
the Bon Air Hotel The people from fhe
north who come there every winter And
knew the hotel was fun right then: 50
mace up my mind, and in less than a half
hour mad selected two Of the prettiast
quits, a rising sun and a rose bud
pattern ana Was on my way to the Bon
Air.
Il sold those quilts to The first lady who
looked al them, ana when The other ladies
heard 1 had more they made up a party
! and drove over to look at them. We
sold siXteen-au that my mother would
| part with. Then one of the ladiesNasked
If we couldn't make some more and gave
us an order for five. We received orders
for ninety-seVen, and as I said, we have
just finished them.
For the patchwork kind. the log
cabln, the worm fence the hour glass >
! The maltese cross and others on that or
her we receive SO each, and make them
in any colors wished. But for the rose
bud, The pond lily the rising SUM- the
sun flower, The watermelon vine and
Others where the pattern has to be an
pliqued, we charge from $40 10 $50 and l
assure you that they are worth H.
OF course You know the patterns are cut
out OF the various colored calicos and an
pliqued on a fine white sheet of the de-
sired SIZE. Then a sheet to match is
stretched on the quilting frames and over
this IS spread double layer of cotton
| bats carded by hand; not the kind bought
in rolls; those are too thiAl and have a
! sort OF harshnesS about them that can
never be disguised. Well. after the bats.
the top is laid on. stretched. of course. and
the quilting begins. OF course, on a white
ground We can draw no lines, so we have
10 use our eyes and you may be sure it
takes careful. da inty work. My mother
is a fine needle woman and my work is
really good. II Is, however impossible
for US to get the beautiful French cali
cos used in the old quilts, so, of course,
although we use only the finest calicos
and cambrics we simply cannot make our
new quilts quite like the old"