mxley Posted February 19, 2007 Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 I love the Baptist Fan quilting pattern, but it occured to me I had no idea why it's called "Baptist Fan". I googled it, but only got sites selling templates, or photos of people who had used the pattern. Why is it called "Baptist Fan"? Why not Pentecostal Fan, or Catholic Fan, LOL. Anybody know? Mary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tymless1 Posted February 19, 2007 Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 Mary...... Maybe it was named after fans that the ladies would use in church down south. In old southern movies the ladies were always fanning themselves, hummmm I wonder too. I also love the quilting pattern. Rebecca Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patch Posted February 19, 2007 Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 I read about Methodists and their fans in "Christy", by Catherine Marshall. They used to be stuck in the pews at the revival meetings in the mountains, and the ones in her book had funeral home ads on the back. How nice, worshiping with a funeral ad...... :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted February 19, 2007 Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 I'm Baptist and I can't figure it out. I tried to search quilt history but came up with blocks not quilting. Hummm!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patch Posted February 19, 2007 Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 I like that it's a Baptist fan, as I grew up Baptist and there are many things I miss about that church. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mxley Posted February 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 Rebecca, I had thought that might be the reason - I'm in TX and all I can say is thank goodness for air conditioning, LOL. Mary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lyonden Posted February 19, 2007 Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 I don't know for sure but I believe I read somewhere that the fans started in the South and there sure are an abundance of Baptist there. You may find the following sites interesting. I know I did. http://members.shaw.ca/kitchenwitch/kitchenwitch/quilting.htm http://www.womenfolk.com/historyofquilts/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marion Posted February 20, 2007 Report Share Posted February 20, 2007 Maybe because the baptists dunk you into the water, sometimes several times. Kind of a repetitive motion. I am going to try the circle maker thing on my next quilt and may try to do the baptist fan if I can figure out how. It is one of those mystery wheel designs that I enlarged as it was a large print I was given from Hawaii. (Purple and white and black). The design was too large for the mystery wheel in the new calendar I recieved for Christmas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patch Posted February 20, 2007 Report Share Posted February 20, 2007 Carol, thank you for those informative sites! After seeing the actual pattern, I believe it was called "Baptist Fan" to distinguish it from a Geisha fan or something. Baptists (having been one I know this) didn't believe in anything fancy, so if they had to use a fan they were like ping-pong paddles. I remember my mother had one that shape, and she was born and raised in Atlanta. Must have been a Southern thing, but called Baptist to point up the Baptist's penchant for plainness. Yup. Baptists dunk you three times: Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Oh no, wait - Holy Spirit, that's right. Holy Ghost is the Reformed or Missouri Synod Luth. I think. At least we have the Ghost in our Presby church we're in right now...... Oops, OT. Sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted February 20, 2007 Report Share Posted February 20, 2007 I'm Southern Baptist, we dunk once...I guess we think that is sufficient. Three times!! I thought when you went down for the thrid time you were drowning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennan100 Posted February 21, 2007 Report Share Posted February 21, 2007 Hello, former Babtist...we did it once. Now Pentecostal, as often as you want, one dunk at a time! And yes, the pattern is named after the fans that were used before a/c. I remember picking one up in the foyer before going into the servce and then leavng it stuck in the hymnal pocket on the back of the pew in front so it would be there when we came back that night! I still see them in antique stores, they are collectable! They always had a biblical scene on teh front and some kind of advertsing on the back, not always funeral homes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patch Posted February 21, 2007 Report Share Posted February 21, 2007 Do you miss the old hymns like i do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennan100 Posted February 22, 2007 Report Share Posted February 22, 2007 We sing all the old ones and all the new ones, too! We spend about an hour just singing! I am totally tone deaf, my grandmother was a soprano, my uncle a tenor and my dad a baritione and they used to sing together in church, she said I ways sing an octave off. Whatever THAT means! To me it sounds like harmony and that's how I sing! But the old hymns are the ones that pop in my head and I find myself humming them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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