Template talk:POTD/2008-07-30

Work vs. pastime

Quilting wasn't a "popular pastime" in early America, it was real, necessary work and craft to create warm bedding that was integral to family comfort. It was a way to make something new out of materials at hand, so nothing was wasted. The fact that women got together to accomplish it was a means of making the work lighter, just as in other social work projects, like making barns. We are social beings, after all. People didn't have enough leisure for "pastimes". Women made quilts for their daughters as a kind of dowry, to get them started in life with items important to their new lives, not just as a sentimental gift. Quilts had real purpose and use. The fact that women turned quilts into art was because we are also aesthetic beings. We create out of our deepest impulses, in everything we turn our hands to.--Parkwells (talk) 10:15, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Well, that's how it's stated in the patchwork quilt article, where the POTD blurb was taken from. If you have an issue with that, I suggest you bring it up there. howcheng {chat} 16:25, 31 July 2008 (UTC)