Remember Me: Women & Their Friendship Quilts

by Linda Otto Lipsett
loaned by Mary Verbick, paperback 135 pages
genre: history / quilting

The women featured in this book had records left behind - their signed friendship quilts, but also letters and photographs handed down. Their stories are fascinating, but it makes me think of how many people have left no record at all. The popularity of friendship quilts gave interesting insight into people's lives in the 1800s. The women who lost husbands in the Civil War struck me the most. Raising children alone in relative prairie and not even knowing if your spouse was alive or not - horrible! What an interesting book, though not strong in a narrative sense.