Missouri Pettway, 1902-1981. Blocks and strips work-clothes quilt, 1942, cotton, corduroy, cotton sacking material, 90 x 69 inches. Missouri’s daughter Arlonzia describes the quilt: “It was when Daddy died. I was about seventeen, eighteen. He stayed sick about eight months and passed on. Mama say, ‘I going to take his work clothes, shape them into a quilt to remember him, and cover up under it for love.’ She take his old pants legs and shirttails, take all the clothes he had, just enough to make that quilt, and I helped her tore them up. Bottom of the pants is narrow, top is wide, and she had me to cutting the top part out and to shape them up in even strips.” (via supernice)
I love this:
I going to take his work clothes, shape them into a quilt to remember him, and cover up under it for love.
I don’t make very many things for myself but I have a few bags of baby clothes that I intend to quilt in order to hold onto the many joyful days that have come and gone. I hope to have more big and wonderful loves as the years come but I think, I’m almost positive, I would be content to be able to wrap myself in the ones I have had so far because just small flashes of them make my heart swell so big it feels like it could burst.
Missouri Pettway, 1902-1981. Blocks and strips work-clothes quilt, 1942, cotton, corduroy, cotton sacking material, 90 x 69 inches. Missouri’s daughter Arlonzia describes the quilt: “It was when Daddy died. I was about seventeen, eighteen. He stayed sick about eight months and passed on. Mama say, ‘I going to take his work clothes, shape them into a quilt to remember him, and cover up under it for love.’ She take his old pants legs and shirttails, take all the clothes he had, just enough to make that quilt, and I helped her tore them up. Bottom of the pants is narrow, top is wide, and she had me to cutting the top part out and to shape them up in even strips.” (via supernice)
I love this:
I going to take his work clothes, shape them into a quilt to remember him, and cover up under it for love.
I don’t make very many things for myself but I have a few bags of baby clothes that I intend to quilt in order to hold onto the many joyful days that have come and gone. I hope to have more big and wonderful loves as the years come but I think, I’m almost positive, I would be content to be able to wrap myself in the ones I have had so far because just small flashes of them make my heart swell so big it feels like it could burst.
