Over the years quilts have become cherished items that are given and received with love. In fact they are very rarely used to provide warmth but many people give them as gifts because they have come to symbolize something very personal. Today it is an art and the art of quilt making has become a craft of the very few,. In olden days it used to be quite commonplace, but the scarcity of quilt makers today only adds luxury and sentiment to quilts. For this reason many people love keepsake quits! Think about it, what better gift to give a newborn baby than a keepsake quilt that he/she will have forever to remember the very first day they were wrapped in love?
In olden times quilts were actually used to keep warm in cold weather and many were also used as bedspreads. And even those that were used and laundered many times over can still be found displayed in homes today with that added sentiment of the past.
Quilts are usually made by salvaging fabric from clothing and other sources and the sewing of these pieces of fabric together to form one large piece of fabric. Today this is referred to as a crazy quilt. There was no set pattern that the quilt followed. It...