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Baltimore Album Quilts: 4x5's and Pineapples
Baltimore Album quilt with a pineapple block.See 4x5-2 below.For all you filing fans:Here's a list of the 12 BAQ's in my files that are set 4 blocks by 5 blocks.The Baltimore standard was a 5 x 5 set....
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Pushing Red, White and Blue
It's flag day tomorrow, a celebration of the red, white and blue.I realize I am a slave to fashion whenI notice the size of my idea file packed with pictures of this color combination.Red, white and...
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Where Poppies Grow: World War I Memorial Quilts
If you are coming to Kansas City for the June 19-21 Kansas City Regional Quilt Festivalyou must make time to see the exhibits at the National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial.The Liberty...
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Patterns & Kits: Union Blues
Barn Chicks posing in front of Heartspun Quilts' Union Blues pattern at a Buggy Barn retreathttp://www.heartspunquilts.com/shop/Heartspun-Quilts-Patterns/p/Union-Blues.htmThe quilt without the...
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My New/Old Applique Sampler: The Feather Crown
Applique sampler, about 1840-1860 I'm still trying to get a good picture. Too rainy to hang it outside here.I recently bought this quilt from a vendor at our local guild's annual quilt show. One...
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Morris Jewels: First yardage
Look what showed up on the front porch.I'm not talking about the amaryllis blooms, althoughthat was another pleasant surprise. It's the fabric--- The Morris Jewels from Moda.We re-colored the Best of...
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Folk Art Fakery
The Quilt Detective doesn't get many shady cases.But there's some forgery---- or perhaps just misrepresentation--- that's been going on in the antique quilt market for over a decade. The code of the...
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Lazy Quilt Reporter
Quilt of many pieces, about 1935"Mrs. M.L. Simpson, of Phillipsburg [Kansas], has recently completed a quilt with 3,711 pieces. It is claimed so far as known this beats all other records. She was about...
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Antique Quilt Exhibits: Summer and Fall 2015
The Pasadena CaliforniaThimble Club on a field trip in the 1930sGet your friends on a bus and go. Detail of a Confederate applique quilt made by Susan Robb,1861-1862. Collection of the Museum of Texas...
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Free Label for Your Union Blues Quilt
Print this label onto fabric for a period look to your quiltmade of my Moda Union Blues fabrics.How to PrintCreate a word file (regular size) or a new empty JPG file that is 5" x 5".Click on the image...
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Quilt Detectives Solve Case
"Nick, Nora! Did I pay too much?"We've been working on a case.The mystery concerns these similar figurative quilts, sometimes advertised as genuine African-American folk art from the turn of the 20th...
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Fall, 2015 Repro Collection: Old Cambridge Pike
Moda sales reps are showing Old Cambridge Pikethis month to shop owners.We work months ahead, so July is the shop owner'schance to buy fabric scheduled to be outin December, 2015.Here's the official...
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Morris Jewels Give Away
The Precuts are here!The Precuts are here!Here---but not at your shop yet.....Supposed to be shipped this month.So I am going to give away a few of these layer cakes, jelly rolls, charm packs etc. Here...
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Morris Jewels Winners
On July 16th we had a giveaway for my new Moda fabricMorris JewelsThe winners are:Jacqueline LSusiefloozieO'QuiltsIda from Central PAThe contest is over but here's a sketch of a quilt to make witha fat...
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Reproduction Prints Are So Dull?
An old Fuddy-DuddyReproduction block by Becky BrownOccasionally I run across a comment or overhear a shopper claiming that she doesn't care for reproduction prints because they are too drab.Valerie's...
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Antique Quilt Values---2015
Quilt perhaps 1840-1880Did you see the PBS Antiques Roadshow episode aired July 13, 2015 in which they revisited the appraisal on this mid-19th-century quilt?In the year 2000, the appraiser valued it...
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Pattern Names: Romance & Revision
Red RobinPrint out this EQ7 sketch for an 8" pattern forbeginner's applique.We discussed the Laurel Leaf pattern several weeks ago. We could call it Photinia. Bill V. suggested Red Robin. Of course, we...
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Color Box
Color BoxSomebody recently asked me what my favorite pattern was. I was taken aback.How can you pick just one?But after I thought about it I realized the pattern I've made most often is the Housetop...
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My New/Old Quilt: The Pomegranate Blocks
This is an unusual pattern from my recent quilt acquisition.I've been calling it a sampler because my definition of a samplermeans at least 3 different blocks. And there are 3.I'm trying to identify...
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My New/Old Quilt: More Clues
When last I posted I was about to ask Jan Patek where she found this pattern for her 2007 sampler Spencer Museum Quilt.Jan's version (sewn by Dixie) Photoshopped into bright blues.Jan quickly replied...
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