Some patchwork quilts were really beautiful. Every one had a name, There was ‘Dolly Madison’s Star’ (named after an American President’s wife) and ‘Flower Basket’, There was ‘Nine Squares’ and ‘Wedding Ring’. You needed to plan your patchwork quilt very carefully. Then you cut hundreds of small paper shapes and the same number of fabric shapes, a little bigger than the paper ones. You sewed a paper shape inside each fabric patch. Then you sewed the patches together. The paper shapes were almost always made from reused paper. Sometimes the same papers were used in several different quilts.