Salvage Sister and Mister

Quilting: The Art of Necessity "Early settlers could not afford to simply discard things when they wore out; necessity required they carefully use their resources. Therefore, when blankets became worn, they were patched, combined with other blankets, or used as filler between other blankets." - Quilting in America I have always loved a good quilt. When I was younger, our family knew an older couple who owned a set of cabins in the woods of Wisconsin. From what I remembered, the couple had a little shop with wares the wife had made like handmade quilts. As a young girl, I was impressed. I can't imagine how I would feel about it now, "I'll take one of everything please!". Our family didn't have a lot of money, but one year I got one of her quilts. I loved that quilt!  For ...