Stitching Through Time: Making a 19th-Century Inspired Quilt with Morris Fabric

This video is kindly sponsored by Serious Readers, the makers of Serious Lights! You can use the link below and the code SR494 for £100 off High Definition (HD) Lights + free delivery https://try.seriousreaders.com/pages/sr494/ Hello everyone and welcome to a new video! I really think I need to get 'jack of all trades, master of none' on a t-shirt at this point. There's just something incredibly exciting about learning all about the history and the techniques of a new craft, and sewing and textile crafts have such endless possibilities. I already knew a little about quilting, as I quilted a few bits of garments and costumes in the past, but I hadn't had the chance to make a full quilt before. I had read a bit about it during my Master's programme in Dress & Textile Histories, mostly about its role in the home and the types of fancy work and plain work that women did as part of domestic work. This quilt took a huge amount of effort, even with sewing the quilting portion itself by machine, so I can only glimpse the amount of pride and accomplishment women through history must have felt at these incredible pieces of work. Many people used them as expressions of their life and creative thought, and also as a memento of their time, almost like a diary. I am absolutely delighted with the result, and I hope it serves in my house for a long time! Sources about quilting: https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/an-introduction-to-quilting-and-patchwork http://www.womenfolk.com/quilting_histo