Pockets on Quilts

 While I haven’t worked on the #AHIQPockets prompt this month, I have used them in several older quilts. They are especially useful on t-shirt quilts. Sometimes the pockets can be cut out and added as a decal or appliqué.

Even better is when I kept them open at the top. The band shorts pockets of two sisters were added to their quilts so their mother could slip loving notes in them when they went to college. 

Another young friend had a special doll she wanted to keep. I added a pocket and a short ribbon to the quilt so the doll could be snapped onto the ribbon and tucked in the pocket. She never worried about losing the doll and unsnapped it for washing.

Links to many of my old t-shirt quilts can be found here.

Ann

AHIQ Prompt July 2025

Dangerous Coats

by Sharon Owens

Someone clever once said

Women were not allowed pockets

In case they carried leaflets

To carry sedition

Which means unrest

To you and me

A grandiose word

For commonsense

Fairness

Kindness

Empathy

So ladies, start sewing

Dangerous coats

Make pockets & sedition

Since Audrey is offline for a while, we need a new prompt for the second half of the year. Nann had a great suggestion: Dangerous Coats using the poem above. 

Here's what else she had to say.

If you've been watching the delightful show Elsbeth -- her last name is Tascioni.  One article I read pointed out that that's a variant of the Italian word for pockets. (Tasca ; la taschino = breast pocket.)  

BTW, there is a really good book about pockets.  https://www.amazon.com/Pockets-Intimate-History-Things-Close/dp/1643751549

Coats or pockets Let’s use #AHIQPockets for this prompt. Fairness or understanding. How would you interpret this poem? 

Who else is in?

Ann