[joanie-f]

Per a request:

A photo of an Amish handmade quilt that I have on the bed in our guestroom. This is a pieced-quilt that probably took over a hundred woman-hours to make. It consists of more than five thousand tiny hexagonal fabric squares pieced together, with all of the quilting done by hand, each stitch about a sixteenth of an inch in length, and the stitch lines as straight as an arrow. Although I think it is beautiful, pieced-quilts don’t hold a candle to appliqué quilts (which generally cost many times as much as a pieced-quilt – often several thousand dollars, and worth every penny).

[CharliefromKS]

Thanks. It's beautiful. Does one Amish woman usually make a quilt? I have seen, like in movies, lots of them sitting around a wooden thing stitching a quilt. Do they usually work in a big group like that? Did you buy yours right from an Amish farm?

[Minuteman23]

This is beautiful Joanie.

When I was on vacation out in northern CA a few years ago, I ran across a quilt shop that sold nothing but Amish quilts. They imported them from PA, OH, and IN. There were probably hundreds of them and because of the shop's location it was very popular. I went in just out of curiosity because it seemed to be a popular place and the lady sold 2 of them in the short time I was in there.

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