The Underground Railroad Quilt

This quilt was a start to finish quilt for Michelle and me. She pieced and bound it an I quilted it. The neighbor woman is a great admirer of quilts but she doesn't sew , so she has been a great customer of ours. She has a brother -in -law that is black and is interested in the Underground Railroad. She and some other family members commissioned us to make this for his birthday this summer. We had such fun doing it. Michelle got the patterns for the blocks from the book "Facts and Fabrications: Unraveling the History of Quilts and Slavery" by Barbara Brackman. I included the names of the blocks and descriptions from the book. Some of the blocks, as you can see, have different names than we know them by. I had a mistake in the block posts....."Birds in the Air" is a block to recall freedom.

Tim