Anne of Green Gables

   Well, as usually happens when I delve in, I immediate had to research some tidbit that I read. This time: Cotton Warp Quilts. I've wondered about them before. Mrs. Lynde finds time to churn them out all while "keeping a sharp eye on everything that passed." 

    About every four years or so I reread the entire "Anne" series by Lucy Maud Montgomery. It is a well tented ritual that I look forward too. I generally have to wait for the urge to come upon me to begin it at the beginning AGAIN. For some unexplained reason, this tends to happen in the Spring. 

   Today, I delved into Anne of Green Gables with relish. During a recent trip to my parents farm, I repossessed all my old paperback copies of the series and also the short stories, the stand-alones, and the Emily and Pat series. Some of the books are missing covers and backs. Some look as though they were left out in the rain. They all have that particular Bantam cheap paper smell from the 1970's publications.
   Just sleuthing google didn't turn up much. I wanted photos, not descriptions. I wanted to visualize the material grasped in Rachel's hands. And then, I found this post over at LadynThread. Oh, my. She is incredible, this women. Her blog post is extremely well researched and concise. It leaves no questions unturned. I won't be able to do justice to her research by condensing it here, so you much go THERE to check it out.