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I was always told the difference between a quilt and a comforter was the closeness of the stitching/tying. Quilts were closer stitched/tied. Comforters were stitched/tied much further apart. If you look some comforters are as far apart in stitching as a foot. Some are only stitched/tied around the edges and very little in the center. I just call them as the words roll of my tongue. I have no problem with standing and being corrected. All opinions and corrections are welcomed. Just be nice, please!
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I've read several debates on this subject, some of them rather heated. I appreciate the tenor of this one. My grandmother and my mother have tied many wonderful quilts that are being passed down and loved into rags. I'm in agreement with the thought that comforters are store bought, and I also agree that a comforter is not pieced. I think, for my self, that I lose a blessing by being ultra defensive about if they are quilts, blankets, comforters, etc.
#16
I think a lot of it depends upon what country our ancesters came from as to what they called a "Quilt"
When I was growing up quilts didn't always have batting in them. Old worn out blankets were used for the middle layer and then the Quilt was tied to keep the blankets from shifting.
When I was growing up quilts didn't always have batting in them. Old worn out blankets were used for the middle layer and then the Quilt was tied to keep the blankets from shifting.
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I think a lot of it depends upon what country our ancesters came from as to what they called a "Quilt"
When I was growing up quilts didn't always have batting in them. Old worn out blankets were used for the middle layer and then the Quilt was tied to keep the blankets from shifting.
When I was growing up quilts didn't always have batting in them. Old worn out blankets were used for the middle layer and then the Quilt was tied to keep the blankets from shifting.
And....I am always learning new things. I decided to look up when comforters came into existence and instead found a really good article about our craft. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_quilting
And now, I know I really didn't know anything about the history of quilt making. I wonder how often we use our knowledge and come to conclusions based on our own individual lives. Ironically, all my observations were only true for me. lol
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......I decided to look up when comforters came into existence and instead found a really good article about our craft. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_quilting A
Many of you know that my family has donated a pieced, Broderie Perse with applique quilt to to Colonial Williamsburg's Textile Museum. It was made in Virginia by Martha Frances Collier. OUR quilt was dated by that Museum as being from 1780 OR EARLIER.
Mrs. Collier also made a whole cloth quilt that, along with our pieced one, received a Premium award in a fair in Waco, TX in 1874 as being "the oldest quilt in the state at the time and for its many fine stitching designs." Quotes are from a written provenance that accompanied the pieced quilt when my immediate family received it into our care in the mid 1950s. It was written by one of Mrs. Collier's granddaughters who was in her 90s when the quilt passed to us. Both the whole cloth and the pieced quilts were passed through the line to granddaughters who moved to Texas following the Civil War for a period. There may have even been other quilts by this remarkable lady, but we have lost all contact with any but our pieced quilt. As best we can tell I am the fifth generation of 'daughters' to have cared for this pieced quilt.
Just as an interesting side note: Mrs. Collier was married to Capt. Thomas Collier of Portobello Plantation, Yorktown, VA. That homestead was land that is now the secretive government-owned Camp Peary off I-64 at the Colonial Williamsburg exit. I lived just a couple miles from it during my brief time in Williamsburg 2000-2003; felt like hallowed ground through the whole area while I was there.
Jan in VA
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