From Francis Spufford’s The Child That Books Built (Amazon, Powells)
As well as her fiction, Rose (Wilder: daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder) wrote the world’s only ideological celebration of American needlework. She saw expansive, unprecedented liberty in the Ohio Star and Log Cabin patterns of American quilts, and oppression in European patchwork, cramped by kings and communists.
Spufford’s book also has a very interesting read on the Randian substructures of The Long Winter (which Rose plausibly played an important role in writing and editing).