title: Quilts: Their Story and How to Make Them
author:  Marie D. Webster 
description: A milestone in the history of quilting, this was the first quilt book, originally published in 1915. With wit and wisdom, it traces the origins of appliqu and quilting in the ancient world, in medieval Europe and in the pioneer days of America. Twenty-four of Marie Webster's own quilts are illustrated in color, with 60 additional black and white photos of historic quilts and needlework from the original edition, as well as photos from Marie Webster's family album.
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  # Westerfelt
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Will N. Harben
  
  
  This page formatted 2005 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  Chapter I
  
  
  Chapter II
  
  
  Chapter III
  
  
  Chapter IV
  
  
  Chapter V
  
  
  Chapter VI
  
  
  Chapter VII
  
  
  Chapter VIII
  
  
  Chapter IX
  
  
  Chapter X
  
  
  Chapter XI
  
  
  Chapter XII
  
  
  Chapter XIII
  
  
  Chapter XIV
  
  
  Chapter XV
  
  
  Chapter XVI
  
  
  Chapter XVII
  
  
  Chapter XVIII
  
  
  Chapter XIX
  
  
  Chapter XX
  
  
  Chapter XXI
  
  
  Chapter XXII
  
  
  Chapter XXIII
  
  
  Chapter XXIV
  
  
  
  
  
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  E-text prepared by Al Haines
  
  
  
  
  
  WESTERFELT
  
  
  A Novel
  
  
  by
  
  
  WILL N. HARBEN
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  New York and London Harper &Brothers Publishers 1901 Copyright,
  
  
  1901, by Harper &Brothers. All rights reserved.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  TO
  
  
  MY WIFE
  
  
  
  
  
  Westerfelt
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Chapter I
  
  
  
  
  
    
  They had had a quilting at the house of the two sisters that day.
  
  
  Six or seven women of the neighborhood, of middle age or older, had
  
  
  been in to sew on the glaring, varicolored square. All day long they
  
  
  had thrus