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New Museum Catalogs: Antique Quilts & Fabric
Four Centuries of Quilts: The Colonial Williamsburg Collectionby Linda Baumgarten and Kimberly Smith IveyColonial Williamsburg's impressive quilt collection has finally been documented in a catalog....
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Houston Quilt Market 2014
My virtual Quilt Market booth for October, 2014Quilt shop buyers and other quilt world professionals are in Houston this week for the annual Quilt Market in which designers show off their new stuff for...
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Virtual Sample Spree: Free Union Blues Fabric
Union Blues:My newest collection for ModaJelly Roll of strips cut to 2-1/2"Sample Spree is one of the craziest events atquilt market.The fabric companies bring sample bundles of thenew lines they are...
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Linda Makes Me Look Good
Barbara's Birdsby Linda Frost and Barbara Brackman2000-2014,28-1/2" x 38"Years ago I got an idea---to do a state birds quiltthat was sort of like the diagram below.A Double Irish Chain quilt with...
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Union Blues for Spring Delivery
Typical eagle from Baltimore Album quilts of the 1840s and '50sUnion Blues, my new Moda reproduction collection, isscheduled for delivery to shops in mid March and shop buyersare planning their spring...
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Scary Stories
I save horror pictures---the kind where a quilt fades so badly the original design is significantly changed.For Halloween I thought I'd scare youwith pictures of quilts made between 1880 and 1920when...
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Thousand Pyramids Charm Quilt
Thousand Pyramids Charm quilt and Dorothy BarkerI recently got out an old reproduction quilt and spread it over Dot's love seat.I made the triangle quilt in the early 1990s and it's been folded uptoo...
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A Tale of Two More Chairs
Side chair newly upholstered with the Strawberry Thiefreproduction from my 2015 Best of Morris for Moda.On my Modernism blog this week I show some mid-century modern chairs found in Roseanne's...
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Elbe Herbert Johnson's Sampler
Elbe's SamplerCollection of the Sanibel Historical Museum & VillageWillow Ann snapped this picture of a wonderful turn-of-the-20th-century sampler when she was in Florida. See her post...
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My Fabric in Quilts I Didn't Make (yet)
Sister's Paint Box by Carla at Cora Quilts Carla had two packs of Moda precuts: My repro line Metropolitan Fair and Paint Box by Edyta Sitar for Laundry Basket Quilts.She was pleased to see how well...
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QuiltMania Comes to Visit
Last month I got a phone call from France. QuiltMania editorCarol Veillon was on her way to the Houston quilt market. Could she drop by to interview me?This Friday????I corralled some willing friends...
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Threads of Memory BOM Coming to a Close
Threads of Memory Sampler by Rosemary YoungsOver on my Civil War Quilts blog we've been doing a free Block of the Month called Threads of Memory on the theme of the Underground Railroad and the history...
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Sampler Sets in Traditional Fashion
Cookie's Creek's version of my Dixie Diary BOM12 Blocks Set with SashingI've been designing block-of-the-month (and block-of-the-week) samplers for several years for my various blogs and books. I'm...
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AQSG Quilt Study 2016 19th-C Basket Quilts
Star and Flag Quilt by Dawn on her Collector with a Needle BlogSee Dawn's post about this Civil War Study Quilt...
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HUMOROUS QUILTS: Keeping Us In Stitches
Sunbonnet Soup by Bette KelleyHUMOROUS QUILTS: Keeping Us In Stitches is currently on display at the New England Quilt Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts through December 27, 2014...
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AQSG's Past & Present Quilt Challenge
Circa 1825 collection from In the BeginningThe American Quilt Study Group is sponsoring a repro fabric challenge in collaboration with In the Beginning Fabrics. In the Beginning has a fabric line...
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Di Ford & Miss Porter & Me
Miss Porter's Quilt by Di Ford, 66" x 66"You can find the pattern for this terrific interpretation of an 18th-century quilt in Di's 2013 book Primarily Quilts...19th Century Inspirations published by...
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Two New Books from Friends
Sujata Shah's living room full of quiltsfor her new bookCultural Fusion Quilts: A Melting Pot of Piecing TraditionsSujata at Quilt Market last OctoberSujata is what we'd have called a penpal when I was...
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Austen Family Album Last Block
Block 36 Modern Envelope from the Austen Family Albumby Becky BrownLast Sunday I posted the last block of my 2014 free block of the week The Austen Family Album. The 36th block was for Jane's friend...
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Jason Pollen. Unfurled: Thirty Years in Kansas City
Jason Pollen, Havana, 2014SilkDon't miss the second phase of Jason Pollen's two-part show at the Kansas City (Missouri) Public Library's Main Branch. Unfurled: Thirty Years in Kansas City comes down...
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