Did you notice a difference in the quality of the quilts from the time that they were hand-sewn early on, early quilts that were just hand-sewn, and those that came later, the more recent quilts that were probably sewn at least partially using a sewing machine?

Well, we have to talk about what kind of difference in quality are we talking about here.

I mean, are, are we talking about, um, you know, the hand piecing versus piecing with a sewing machine? Um, in, in which case we certainly would have, you know, maybe a little bit more accuracy with the hand piecing, where you could do paper piecing and turn it, than with a sewing machine.

But people got very good at using the sewing machine with quilts really fast.

Um, so you, you can't really say there's a difference in quality, maybe a, a difference in, um, the fact that you could spend more time, um, maybe doing hand quilting because you pieced it with a machine, meaning how your time is used, and you could allocate that time.

Um, I, I, I don't know if women made, or people made more quilts in a shorter amount of time.

We don't really have documentation on that that I know of.

And, you know, the, th- the w- thing that came to mind when you were just answering this question was the time that it takes, and the planning, again, back to the planning, um, issue, that for a celebration, if they're commemorative for a specific celebration, um, you know, as in an anniversary of one of the cen- the centennial, for example, how far ahead did people start thinking about and discussing and planning to make sure that the quilt was done in time for, say, the 4th of July?