Quilt Notes: The quilt design called MEMORY is featured in QUILTS! QUILTS!! QUILTS!!! (Quilt Digest Press, 1997) by Diana McClun and Laura Nownes, with 5 distinctly different color combinations, suggested by 5 contemporary quilters. But one thing all the combinations have in common is that they share a certain "vividness" of color, which does seem appropriate to the name.

MEMORY is similar to the WYOMING VALLEY block and to AMISH STAR. It is included in Barbara Brackman's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PIECED QUILT PATTERNS, where it is dated back to Clara Stone's PRACTICAL NEEDLEWORK QUILT PATTERNS, 1906.
"SHE slept beneath a tree
Remembered but by me.
I touched her cradle mute;
She recognized the foot,
Put on her carmine suit, --
And see!"

(With a Tulip.)
~ Emily Dickinson