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(Black Cat by TQS Member: BeckyA)

It's Friday the 13th, are you afraid? What do you think might happen? Everyone has superstitions, for example, will you let a black cat cross your path? Did you know that there are quilting superstitions as well? How about a traditional verse to kick things off?

"At your quilting, maids, don't tarry.

Quilt quick if you would marry.

A maid who is quiltless at twenty-one,

Never shall greet her bridal sun."

As you'll see, a lot these superstitions have to do with love and marriage. Perhaps you've heard of some of these sayings: 

If a single women was the first person to sleep under a new quilt, she would dream of her husband.

                  If you were designing a bridal quilt, you had to make sure it had a continuous border of vines or ribbon-like patterns.

                    A broken border signified a broken marriage.

Some quilters in certain parts of the country believed bridal quilts should only feature hearts as a motif.

If a quilt was soon to be completed, single women would vie to put in the last stitch as it was believed that the person who put in the last stitch, would be the next to marry.

You don't want your husband or boyfriend to sleep under a quilt with the "wandering foot' pattern it would cause them to eventually leave home.

Do you have quilting superstitions of your own?