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Tessellations 6: Quadrilaterals---Oddrilaterals
Sixty Degrees of Tessellation IVby Carol Gilham JonesCarol's been exploring tessellated shapes and color.The shape has 4 sides---it will tessellate or tile.A different anglebut one piece covers the...
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Cranberry Collection: Thinking Red and Green
Cranberries and Cardinalsby Jean Stanclift, Quilted by Lori Kukuk24" BlockJean found a well-worn masterpiece in an antique store and decided to preserve the quilt by copying it in updated fabrics....
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Fashion and Virtue in New York
Fashion and Virtue: Textile Patterns and the Print Revolution, 1520–1620is an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan through January 10, 2016.A Modelbuch from 1553.A pattern book for...
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Wild Oats Quilt Pattern for Old Cambridge Pike
Wild Oats from Miss Rosie's Quilt CompanyCarrie Nelson at Miss Rosie's Quilt Co. has created an official pattern for my latest mid-19th-century reproduction fabric collection from Moda: Old Cambridge...
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Rotation, Rotation, Rotation
Matisse and I collaborated on this Photoshop painting"Too Late to Rip" See his painting at the bottom of the page.Many errors in quilt patterning are rotation problems. Intricate designs often require...
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Barkley's Birds: Fat Quarters
The bird feeders are up and running.It's indeed Fat Quarters around here.Quite a few birds check in every day.Neighbor Barkley spends his winter barking at them through the window...Barkley's Birds,...
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Baltimore Album Quilts - 7 x 7 set & Carrots
Detail Baltimore Album quilt. Made by members of the Hargest Family, Baltimore, Maryland, Dated 1845.95" x 95" International Quilt Study Center & Museum. IQSCM #2005.022.0001.This quilt is...
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Alice's Scrapbag: Mama's Wrapper
A small sprig print in my reproduction collectionAlice's Scrapbag is named Mama's Wrapper.Scrapbags, real and imaginary, would have fabrics leftover from making wrappers.A wrapper was ladies' at-home...
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New Galleries at Quilt House in Lincoln
Here are some pictures of the International Quilt Study Center & Museum's expanded galleries. Last summer they opened the new space recently built behind Quilt House.I recently visited. The size...
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A Little Red and Green
Red, White and Green All Over: Traditions and Variations of 19th Century Appliqué is the current exhibit at the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery in Lincoln, Nebraska. Curator Holly Zemke is a...
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Abba May Alcott's Garden Path Quilt
Quilt attributed to Abigail May Alcott (1800-1877),collection of Orchard House Museum in Massachusetts, the Alcott family home.This four-patch strip quilt may be the perfect reproduction quilt for my...
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Looking for a Challenge? BOM and BOD's
Ad for the Lion Sewing MachinePerhaps you have a new sewing machine?And you are looking for a project.Sarah's Revival by Sue GarmanSue Garman has two BOM programs at Stitchin...
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Tessellations 7: Five-sided shapes
Five-pointed stars can contain pentagons, which is wherequilters usually encounter the regular five-sided shape.Silk Quilt, about 1880From the Collection of the Museum of American Folk ArtRegular...
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Sophia Peabody Hawthorne and the Old Cambridge Pike
Yardage for my latest Moda reproduction fabric collectionhas been shipped to quilt shops.Each of the prints in the new line is named for a place or a person important in themid-19th-century New England...
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National Crazy Work Show 1885
Well here's something we missed.A big quilt show in New York City....131 Years Ago.New York SunNovember 18, 1885From the Library of Congress site Chronicling America.The Sun article tells us:"All Kinds...
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Antler Quilt Designs Pattern for Old Cambridge Pike Prints
Jubilee, Pattern by Doug Leko of Antler Quilt Designs,pieced primarily of my Old Cambridge Pike collection of fabric for Moda.See the quilt in the Moda catalog by clicking...
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Quilts of Carolyn König
You only have a week left to see Carolyn Konig's quilts at the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum.In the British Tradition: Hand-Stitched Reproduction Quilts by Carolyn KönigHer spectacular reproduction quilt...
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Simple Baskets in Old Cambridge Pike: Free Pattern
A Simple BasketI have been looking for simple patterns for my Old Cambridge Pike collection, which has a lot of pinks and browns in it. The theme is the generation called Young America, particularly...
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All In a Row Blog Hop: Scotties & Westies
We Moda designers did a cooperative book.Moda All-Stars All in a RowWe're doing a blog hop in January and today is my day!For the book we each designed a row and stitched it in our Moda fabrics.Mine is...
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William Morris in Tokyo
William Morris quilt by Sizuko KurohaAcanthus by Yoko UedaAnother Morris inspired quiltMy friend Merikay Waldvogel is in Tokyo at the fabulous 2016 Tokyo Quilt Festival.I Love Feedsacks #1She has the...
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