The Amish and their quilts

I’m a member of the De Young museum, one of the fine Fine Arts Museums in San Francisco. This Sunday, I spent the morning poring over the amazing Amish quilts and exploring some parts of the museum that I haven’t spent time in. While behind the times in their quilt styling, the Amish quilters used an incredibly unique technique that mimicked how they lived their lives. It was important for a community to make decisions about quilts which were given as gifts at weddings and baby showers.

Here is a link on the history of the Amish quilt.