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My Virtual Booth: Quilt Market Salt Lake City
I went all out this year and shipped in every Civil-War-relatedquilt I know of for my virtual booth at Quilt Market this week.Above a Photoshopped picture of the imaginary booth.Spring Quilt Market...
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Morris Hexathon 3: Camelot Star
Block #3: Camelot Star by Becky BrownThis week's block is one of the most commonly seenversions of the hexagon block...Camelot Star by Bettina HavigKatherine Shely FretzlenSilk quilt dated 1776-1876,...
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String Lanterns & Melons
String quilts were rarely published so the variationsdon't have "real names" or "book names". This pattern, most often seenin southeastern Pennsylvania, is a mystery design.It's far more organized than...
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Baltimore Blues: Moda Reproduction Prints
Quick. What's your favorite color?Baltimore blue.A few mid-19th century quilts....The dye was Prussian blue.Patterson Park (#8342-12) in Harbor Bluefrom Baltimore BluesThe shades were vivid sky blue to...
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Morris Hexathon 4: Box Hill
Morris Hexathon Block 4: Box Hill by Becky BrownThis week's block is a variation on the classic box design,what we might call Baby's Blocks.Collection of the Brooklyn Museum, 1880-1900The design is...
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Quilts from the 1960s
I was making quilts in the 1960s. Someday I'll have to post them. HAH!1961 Bowtie But I do have a few date-inscribed quilts made by others from that decade in my file of dated quilts. Just enough to...
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Quilts Using My Fabric Collections
Earthly Paradise Squares Kit Quilt79" x 88"Hancock's of Paducah is selling an exclusive kit for my Morris Earthly Paradise collection for Moda---the range of the collection plus a very dark and a very...
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Morris Hexathon 5: Upton
Morris Hexathon 5: Upton by Becky BrownBlock #5 UptonTwo pieces: a hexagon and a quadrilateral---a tumblerUpton by Bettina HavigI don't think Bettina and Becky saw each other'sblocks but they fussy cut...
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Quilts of Cumberland County: 1700s to 1970 x
New bookQuilts of Cumberland County:1700s to 1970Lin Keller and Susan Dilorioexamining quiltshttp://www.letortquilters.com/documentation-project.htmlNice layoutfeaturing overall and detailsinfo about...
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Baltimore Album Quilts: Medallion Sets
Odd Fellows Album by Mary Ann McCueMuseum of Fine Arts HoustonMed-8Click here to see a large picture of this...
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Fritillary and EPP
Becky's Blocks.How does she do it?Becky's Block #2 has a star with blue sunflowers fussy-cut to rotate around the center.The print is Fritillary from Morris Earthly Paradise. We printed #8334  in four...
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Morris Hexathon 6: South Kensington Star
Morris Hexathon 6: South Kensington Star by Becky BrownMorris Hexathon 6: South Kensington StarThis week's block is one triangular piece repeated 18 times, a geometrical puzzle found in many...
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Adjusting Quilt Pattern and Printing Size
Readers write that they are having a hard time printing the pattern for the weekly Morris Hexathon because their printers are not giving them a hexagon with 4" sides---or 7" across.Becky says this is a...
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A New York Quilt Project 100 Years Ago
"All Saints"Watercolor of an antique quilt byVirginia Beauchamp,Onondaga County Public LibraryBetween 1919 and 1923 New Yorker Virginia Beauchamp recorded quilt patterns she found in local families....
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Morris Hexathon 7: Avebury Stones
Morris Hexathon 7: Avebury Stones by Becky BrownThis week's hexie is three pieces, a hexagon, a diamond and a half a hex or tumbler.Avebury Stones by Bettina HavigI named it for a neolithic...
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Morris The Earthly Paradise
If you do a web search for Morris Earthly Paradise--- fabric is not what comes up.You will see this book.The Earthly Paradise is William Morris's famous literary work, a poetic saga.He published it in...
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An Indiana Pattern?
I remember this quilt that we documented in the Kansas Quilt Projectvery well. It is signed in bold applique "Mary A. Turley 1869"It's certainly an unusual pattern.It's in my Encyclopedia of Applique,...
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Morris Hexathon 8: Greenwood
Morris Hexathon 8: Greenwood by Bettina HavigGreenwood is a single diamond shape: 12 of them.Greenwood by Ilyse MooreGreenwood by Becky BrownBecky fussy-cut a tulip shape from the Compton print in...
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Morris Earthly Paradise Project & Kit
For each fabric collection we do at Moda we have a Project pattern. The project for Morris Earthly Paradise is a 75-inch square quilt that includes pieced stars and simple applique.Morris Earthly...
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Rosenberg Quilt Collection-University of Alberta
Patriotic QuiltRosenberg CollectionUniversity of AlbertaCelebrate Canada Day on July 1 with quilts from the University of Alberta in Canada. They have a spectacular collection of Canadian quilts...
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