20 Old Appalachian Quilt Patterns and the Stories Grandma Never Wrote Down

🔗 Appalachian Quilt Patterns: The Complete Story Guide — Free Download: [link] Every pattern in this video written out in full — its history, its Appalachian meaning, and the story she told me about it or the story I found after she was gone. My grandmother made every one of these twenty patterns at least once. She knew the name of each one and the story behind the name and who each quilt in her life was made for. She did not write any of it down. I know some of it. Less than I should, because I asked the wrong questions when she was alive — I asked how to make the pattern, and she answered, and I learned the technique, and I did not ask why the pattern had that particular name and what the name meant in her county and whose hands it had been in before it reached hers. Twenty patterns in this video. Number fourteen is the one she told me she would never make. She made it once, and I am going to tell you why. Number eight has two names from two different parts of the same county, and they tell two stories about where the people who named it were standing. And number one is not a pattern most people know by name — but every woman in her county knew exactly what it meant when she started making it. CHAPTERS: 00:00 Introduction 01:10 #20 — Nine-Patch 02:15 #19 — Four-Patch 03:20 #18 — Log Cabin 04:30 #17 — Courthouse Steps 05:40 #16 — Flying Geese 06:50 #15 — Bear Paw 08:00 #14 — Crazy Quilt 09:15 #13 — Cathedral Window 10:30 #12 — Double Wedding Ring 11:45 #11 — Dresden Plate 13:00 #10 — Grandmother's Flower Garden 14:20 #9 — Star of Bethlehem 15:40 #8 — Bear's Paw and Duck's Foot in the Mud 16:55 #7 — Jacob's Ladder 18:05 #6 — Tumbling Blocks 19:15 #5 — Schoolhouse 20:25 #4 — Road to California 21:35 #3 — Ocean Waves 22:45 #2 — Single Wedding Ring 23:55 #1 — The Pattern Without a Name 25:15 Final Reflection 26:00 Next Video Preview Traditional Appalachian quilting history and pattern knowledge, shared for historical and educational purposes. Traditional American quilt history from the mountains of Appalachia. Subscribe for new videos every week.