Gran used to quilt, all the odd bits of material left over from Mum's dress making cut into 6 sided shapes and stitched together with feather stitch. She also used to rag rug, using a sack that Dad had liberated from the ICI as a base and all the thicker bits of material from the dress making.
Mum still had one of those old rugs in her kitchen in about 1990, and Gran died in 1972. They were made to last!

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