I chose some of the same fabric I used on the top of Pink for the backing. It was just not big enough so I added a brown and white calico print onto one side.
Now the front, back and batting are pinned. I just have to sew it all together and tack it.
I realized that I didn’t include the second letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams in any of my posts so I’ll do that now. This one is stitched below the pink center…
“...It was rumored that an eminent, wealthy, stingy merchant… had a hogshead of coffee in his store which he refused to sell to the committee under six shillings a pound.
A number of females, some say a hundred, some say more, assembled with a cart and trucks, marched down to the warehouse, and demanded the keys, which he refused to deliver. One of them seized him by his neck and tossed him into the cart. Upon his finding no quarter, he delivered the keys, when they tipped up the cart and discharged him; then opened the warehouse, hoisted out the coffee themselves, put in in the trucks, and drove off. It was reported that he had a personal chastisement among them; but this I believe was not true. A large concourse of men stood amazed, silent spectators of the whole transaction.” Abigail Adams July 31, 1777
