Olivia Joseph
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 26 Feb
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If you get a chance to see it in person, they're super vibrant.
But that's like another one that comes to mind that's super colorful that I really love.
It starts off with this squared centerpiece, and then you have different rectangular strips of fabric that kind of start to border the initial square piece.
It's supposed to be influenced by the log cabin in the way that the pieces of fabric are kind of stacked on each other.
Sometimes that very center piece can have different colors.
So you might get a black piece, you might get a piece that is red or yellow, and all of those have different meanings.
A red center piece would have symbolized the hearth of the home.
Yellow, kind of like the light that is coming through the windows of the home, and black is commonly...
associated with being part of the Underground Railroad and indicating that that is a safe house.
Oh.
So yes, people would hide messages in their quilts.
I've actually gotten a chance to spend time with a quilt guild in San Diego where I'm originally from.
And they shared some of the Underground Railroad quilts that they have.
But yeah, different patterns could signify different things.
And so when I mentioned earlier the log cabin, that was typically used to indicate a place of safety, a safe house.
And so
I think typically when we're talking about the Underground Railroad, it wouldn't necessarily always be a quilt that has a bunch of different patterns on it, like spelling out a message.
Sometimes it was just one big quilt with one motif, maybe hung somewhere as a sign or
It was after World War II.
During World War II, so many women went into the workforce, right?
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