Newspaper article: "Female Ingenuity. --Miss Jane Craighead, a young lady of this borough, has recently completed a quilt, which for beauty and ingenuity exceeds any thing of the kind we have ever seen. It is composed of 6521 pieces, all of the same size and shape, but each one of a different pattern. Any one can judge of the work there is on it, as well as of the patience of the lady who made it, from the fact that it was commenced sixteen years ago, and has occupied the most of her leisure moments ever since. Harrisburg Chronicle. Our opinion is, that Msss[sic] Jane Craighead has wasted sixteen years of the period of life most desirable and valuable, in a most ridiculous manner; and that if she had been employed in the acquirement of useful knowledge, and the performance of ordinary female duties, it would have been much more creditable to her than this miserable wastage of time and labor upon a patchwork bed quilt, worth about as much as any other which might be made in three or four weeks. We think that the woman who thus throws away time and the opportunity for improvement, is entitled to reprehension and not to commendation. We trust never to have such a notice presented to us for publication, of the labor of any woman of this country. We know they can, and we hope they will find better employment for their time."
