Trunk Full of Treasures

Look at this crazy quilt I found in an old trunk at my brother’s a few years ago.  He lives in the old family homeplace built in 1897.   I suspect the crazy quilt was the handiwork of my great-grandmother Sarah Jennings Herrell.  She was born in 1876, married and lived in the farmhouse from 1906 until her death in 1939.  Crazy quilts became popular in the late 1800’s.  Crazy quilts were seemingly random shapes with needlework on all the seams. 


Several of the shapes have an embroidered “S”  I believe for Sarah. 


This postcard block looks like S Jennings to me.  



S for Score! Bunches of old quilts and quilt blocks in the trunk too.  There are feed sack quilts from the early-mid 1900’s.  There is a wool quilt, a denim(maybe from overalls) quilt and a few “I don’t know what you are made of ” quilts.  None of them are masterpieces but I love them because they are old and made it all the way to the 21st century with our family.   




 Herrell Family Homeplace