A quilt of patchwork.
1886. What is generally called “crazy quilt” in the States, and patchwork in England.—Pall Mall Gazette, Nov. 12. (N.E.D.)
1908. Henrietta says, ‘Now, grandma, you’ve got to make a crazy quilt; you’ve made every other sort that ever was heard of.’… Finally I says: ‘Here, child, take your pieces. If I was to make this the way you want me to, they’d be a crazy quilt and a crazy woman too.’—Eliza C. Hall, ‘Aunt Jane of Kentucky,’ p. 77.
