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GRANDMA's patchwork quilts
Posted On 03/15/2014 16:24:43 by Notgrnyyet




Grandma made the quilts that covered us each night.


She sewed the pieces together with needle thread & might.


She made the feather bed where we lay our selves down


The pillows stuffed with feathers, were passed all around.


We were tucked in and covered, clear up to our nose


Till we looked like a cocoon from our head down to our toes.


We slept warm and snug in that ol' cast iron bed, with springs


That would squeak every time you moved your head.


Many quilts were piled high, hot bricks for your toes.


Some Vicks upon your chest, your back and up your nose.


You'd lie there warm as toast, till nature would kick in,


Unwrapped you would be then do it all again.


There were so many quilts that if you moved and squirmed


You'd be liable to get tangled at least until you learned.


But the very worst thing I think that you could do


Would be to turn over with so many covers on you.


One night I flopped and flounced moving all about


Lifting up those covers and that's when I found out.


When you are weighted down with covers and you try to move,


Your like to wind up on the cold floor with them on top of you!!!!




Tags: Quilt Sewing Feather Bed



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03/17/2014 04:59:22




03/15/2014 20:05:57

Mine was called a 'Feather Tick', made by my Mom from plucking chickens of their fine, fine down feathers.. She also made all our pillows..I still have the pillows, but can't use them as my other 1/2 has allergies and the 'Feather Tick', had it's day many years back.  Now an electric blanket has its uses, but Moms 'Feather Tick' was
very special..  Mom used a very heavy, dense material that a feather could not get thro the covering, I think it may have been called 'ticking'.. Can't remember. Then over that, there was another cover, like a duvet cover,  it looked like a huge pillowcase and domed at the bottom, so it was easy to slip off and get washed, everytime the 'Feather tick' got aired out.  Cheers Nancy





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