25 Jobs an Appalachian Quilt Did That Had Nothing to Do With Sleep (One Was for the Dead)

🔗 [Ebook offer — one line + payback claim]: [LINK] [One sentence on what's inside / price anchor.] On the first hard frost of the year, my neighbor covered his tomatoes with plastic, and I covered mine with my grandmother's ugly old work quilt. His were black by morning. Mine were green. My grandmother, Ruth Sizemore, would have told him a quilt had about twenty-five jobs before anybody ever slept under it, and she never wrote one of them down. So I'm writing them down now. You'll hear how a pot of beans cooked all afternoon with no fire under it, why the girls dropped a cat in the middle of a finished quilt, the quilt-code story I believed for thirty years and where I had it wrong, the quilt that carried my granddaddy out of a mine, and the last job a quilt ever did up here: the one for the dead. Nothing to buy. Just what she knew. She taught me. Now it's written down. CHAPTERS: 00:00 Introduction 01:35 #25 The Door 02:32 #24 The North Wall 03:29 #23 The Window at Night 04:23 #22 The Privacy Wall 05:17 #21 The Wagon Robe 06:13 #20 The Frost Blanket 07:05 #19 The Potato Hole 08:01 #18 The Fireless Cooker 09:04 #17 The Ironing Board 09:59 #16 Moving Day 10:47 #15 The Cold Lamb by the Stove 11:43 #14 Dinner on the Grounds 12:35 #13 The Croup Tent 13:32 #12 Paying the Doctor 14:26 #11 The Church Fundraiser 15:22 #10 The One for the Leaving 16:16 #9 Shaking the Cat 17:10 #8 Thirteen Quilts 18:04 #7 The Family Record 19:00 #6 The Signal on the Line 19:58 #5 The One Warm Room 21:00 #4 The Roof Over the Children 21:55 #3 The Stretcher 22:47 #2 The First Thing a Baby Touched 23:39 #1 For the Dead 25:10 What the Quilt Became 25:52 Your Turn 26:33 Next Video Preview A note on safety: never put a stove-hot brick against cloth or in a bed. Keep quilts away from stovepipes and open flame. Retained-heat ("haybox") cooking must start at a full boil and be brought back to a boil before eating. A croupy child who is struggling to breathe, turning blue, or drooling needs a doctor right away, not a home remedy. Old Appalachian quilts, mountain folklore and the old ways, told by a woman who learned them at her grandmother's elbow. Subscribe for new videos every week.