for weddings. A superstition existed that it was bad luck to incorporate heart motifs in a wedding quilt (the couples' hearts might be broken if such a design were included), so tulip motifs were often used to symbolize love in wedding quilts.

The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience in New Orleans holds a 19th-century exemplar of a "crazy quilt" (one without a pattern) "that was made by the Jewish Ladies' Sewing Club of Canton, Miss., in 1885 to be raffled off to help