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CONNECTICUT QUILTS

This major exhibition exploring the history, culture and craft of quilt-making in Connecticut. About 30 stunning selections from the Connecticut Historical Society's approximately 150 quilts ranging from the last quarter of the eighteenth century to the present day will be displayed alongside costumes, photographs, and artifacts that illustrate the stories behind Connecticut quilters and quilting.

"The good wives of New England, impressed with that thrify orthodoxy of economy which forbids to waste the merest trifle, had a habit of saving every scrap clipped out in the fashioning of household garments, and these they cut into fanciful patterns and constructed of them rainbow shapes and quaint traceries, the arrangement of which became one of the few fine arts. Many a maiden, as she sorted and arranged fluttering bits of green, yellow, red, and blue felt rising in her breast a passion for somewhat vague and unknown, which came out at length in a new pattern of patchwork. Collections of these tiny fragments were always ready to to fill an hour when there was nothinge else to do; and as the maiden chattered with her beau, here busy flying needle stitched together those pretty bits, whe, little in themselves, where destined by gradual unions and accretions, to bring about at last a substantial beauty, warmth, and comfort, --emblems thus of that household life which is to be brought to stability and beauty by reverent economy in husbanding and tact in arranging the little useful and agreeeable morsel of daily existence."