What's in an attic?
Junk?
Or treasure?
A flour sack.
Long ago it carried
Flour - daily bread -
four cakes,
seven pies,
a month's worth of breads, and dumplings,
and who knows what else.
What's in an attic?
A flour sack -
And -
Qult squares!
The quilt squares were made around 1900, maybe a few years later. They were to be sewn together into a friendship quilt. We think they were given to Lela (Leila?) Dierdorf (Carlton?). There are twenty squares in all. I'm trying to find out more about the people, who made the squares.
If you know anything about old quilts and have any ideas about how to handle the squares and what to do with them, please comment.
I wonder why Lela didn't make the quilt.
Elaine
Here are the individual squares:
Dear Lela,
A candle in the window,
A fire in your hearth,
And love in your heart
Say, "welcome" to your home.
Ethel
The hours we spend at your quilting frame -
and our laughter and friendship -
kept away Iowa's winter gloom.
Beulah
Remember Easter morning?
And the muddy footprints Pepper
and Fido made chasing the possum
through the kitchen?
We told our kids the Easter Bunny
left them.
Simple, trusting, the kids believed us.
Iva
Where kindness dwells,
With love,
Where kindness dwells -
God is there.
Della
Friends forever
and ever.
Margaret
Your pies were always the best,
The crust flakiest,
The cherries juiciest.
Your quilts were always the best,
Your stitches tiniest,
Your corners perfect.
I am jeallous.
Jessie
My children called you "Moma two".
And I loved yours like my own.
You held my baby, my little one,
I remember,
And you held my hand,
When Joey passed to God.
Vida
Through the miles,
Through the years,
Best friends forever.
Pearl
Every day,
You have been a blessing to me.
I thank God.
Love,
Mother
A mother's love is forever.
May this quilt and our friendships
Keep you warm in winter.
Floy
Jim and I danced at your wedding,
and you danced at ours.
May we all keep dancing
for a long, long, time.
May
May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine gently on your face.
May the rain fall softly on your field.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.
Effie
Think kindly of me through the years.
Grace
Remember when Lovell let the snake loose at Valley Baptist Church?
Ruth
In our gardens, we planted sunflowers, and memories.
Tall, smiling flowers, and friendships lasting forever.
Hazel
You're nearer to God in the garden,
Than any place else on earth.
Ethel
Remember when Pete and Jessie played hookey from school, and walked two miles up the road before Pete's Pa found them?
They got whopped, and you and I watched through the knothole and didn't get caught.
Alice
May your life be full of flowers and music.
Margaret
We raised flowers, and children.
We raised the barn and raised the roof.
We raised our glasses in friendship.
We raised cain and laughed.
Your friend,
Audrey
