If you look closely, you can see the unfolding story of a well-to-do St. Paul, Minn., family stitched into the pieces of an elaborate Victorian crazy quilt, which dates to the 1890s. It tells of the ...
She was born in 1870, and we think she died in her 20s, so the quilt was probably made in the 1890s. APPRAISER: Well, it's the ultimate Victorian crazy quilt, and it's called a crazy quilt because ...
Q While cleaning out an aunt’s estate, we found a box full of fancy embroidered robes and quilts. My great-grandmother taught in China in about 1915 or 1920 so we guessed that these were things she ...