Crazy Quilt Craze

 

I'm not sure what started the Crazy Quilt craze, the last time I checked the scholarship, most historians were unsure as well.  But here is what I do wrote in one of my copyrighted research papers:  I think it was the first really national quilt pattern phenomenon.  And it went international because we know there were British and Canadian and I think French crazy quilts.

Only a year after the above quilt was made, this article appeared in our local newspaper:

And later this same year, this lovely poem appeared:

Have a safe and happy day!