I spent this week traveling with my family, so I didn’t have much time for crafting. The rest of my family considers a vacation day a failure if we don’t drive at least 10 hours or get at least 20,000 steps, or some combination thereof (sigh). I did get started on my quilt label, though.

I also got to see quilts at Paul Revere’s house and Orchard House. The Alcott family was part of the Underground Railroad, and the tour guide suggested that their flying geese pattern quilts might have been part of a code system. She said their wasn’t anything written down at the time about this system, but their have been lots of rumors about it.

The Elm Creek Quilts series also has a book about this. I love this idea, and my theory is that many women of the time couldn’t write, and even when the war was over they didn’t want to leave proof laying around.

Do you think this system existed? What are you creating?