The ladies' hand book of fancy and ornamental work ... (1859)
Hartley, Florence · Philadelphia : G. G. Evans · leaf 195
o look as if in time it mightbecome a quilt; then, as the little girl grows up to young ladyhood, the blushesflit across her cheeks when, as she bends over her sewing, grandmamma suggeststhat making patchwork is a sign of matrimonial anticipations ; then the mother,exercising all her ingenuity to… … PATTERN FOR PATCHWORK. From the house of the rich mother who finds expensive silk, sewed in pretty pat-terns, the choicest covering for her darling, to the poor hovel, where every ragis treasured to eke out the winter quilt for the little ones, we find patchwork. Stories by famous authoresses, and…
Fancy work
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