Olivia Joseph

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Ologies with Alie Ward · Culcitology (QUILTS) with Luke Haynes, Olivia Joseph, and Joe Cunningham · 26 Feb 2026 podcast

So it was the well-to-do women that got their servants to make these imitation European bed coverings.

That's how quilting got started here.

And then what happened was that, well, the life of a woman in late 1700s, early 1800s was, I mean, the way I understand it, it was just sheer delight, right?

Everything, all the time.

Yeah.

Back-breaking, constant labor and isolated labor, right?

I mean, lots of times where the men would go off and work with other men and have like social life during their work life.

But many women were confined to the house with the kids, making the food, growing the food, growing the babies and cleaning and everything all by themselves.

And so along comes this fashion that

for quilted bed coverings.

And what you have to do to make a quilted bed covering is to sit there.

You sit down at the frame, one hand under the quilt and one hand on top, and you run your needle along this line.

And it's going to take at least 100 hours, could take more.

And you're sitting there and you're making a blanket, right?

So nobody can claim that you're not working.

So you're sitting there.

And your mind, as a longtime quilter, I can tell you, your mind is free when you're quilting.

You get into a flow state, you know, it's fantastic.

And then sometimes you get together with other women around the quilt frame.

So in America, for some reason, it caught on.

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