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Daredevils Block #3: Hazel's Star
Daredevils #3Hazel's StarScroll down to see the two-page pattern for a 15" finished block.#3 Hazel's Star by Becky Brown#3 Hazel's Star was adapted from Star of the East, another original block...
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AQSG Fundraiser: Repro Print Scrap Bags
Get rid of that fabric you are never going to use.STASH BUSTINGNO SEWING REQUIRED(SOME IRONING MAY BE REQUIRED)Claire and I got this idea last year to sell scrap bags of hard-to-find reproduction...
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Daredevils Block #4: Hélène's Star
Daredevils #4 Hélène's Star#4 by Dorry EmmerThe model makers, Daredevils all, add pieces to the basic pattern.Scroll down to see the official pattern for a 15" finished block.Becky Brown's block...
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Presidents' Toile: Two Editions
You'd know this guy anywhere....George Washington, First President of the United StatesAnd this man with a curl on his forehead.Thomas Jefferson, 3rd PresidentThe man with the curly wigJohn Adams,...
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Past Perfect: Carol Hopkins
Nanette Chopin Cook's version of Carol Hopkins's Enduring LoveSee Nanette's blog here:https://doitrightquilter.com/This month's Past Perfect quilt designer is Carol Hopkins.Enduring Love from Carol's...
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Daredevils #5: Pancho's Garden
Daredevils #5: Pancho's GardenScroll down to see the two-page pattern for a 15" finished block.Friendship Garden by Dorrie Emmer....It looks like she followed the OFFICIAL pattern.Becky Brown's block...
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How Old is this Quilt?
Here's everything a quilt historian dreams about. An 18th-century quilt on eBay. Cheap.The Maryland seller--- trying conscientiously, I suppose, to show the worst damage---used this photo and...
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Daredevils #6: Willa's Wheel
Daredevils #6 Willa's WheelScroll down to see the pattern for a 15" finished block. #6 Willa's WheelBecky's actual block. She can't resist adding a few seams (more fabric!)Fussy Cutting in the points...
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Cotton Facts
We're all big cotton consumers but we don't know much about it---at least it looks that way from the kind of comments I get about the price, importation, trade and the fabric advertised as "made in...
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Blogs --- Quilt History Product
Family portrait at my house in the digital ageI'm planning my panel presentation for the AQSG meeting in Lincoln next month. Terry Terrell, Carolyn Ducey, Merikay Waldvogel and I are going to talk...
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Daredevils #7: Harriet's Star
Daredevils #7 Harriet's StarScroll down to see the pattern for a 15" finished block.Denniele Bohannon's #7 Harriet's Star with pink curved pieces added digitally.Becky Brown's #7There was enough to...
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Martha Washington Teaches Quilting
Quilt begun by Martha Dandridge Custis Washington and finished by granddaughterEliza Custis Law. Collection of the Smithsonian.Constance Cary Harrison (1843-1920)from a locket in the collection of the...
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Earliest Sampler Quilt?
Blocks dated 1841-1842 Ella Maria Deacon (1811-1894)Mount Holly, New JerseyArt Institute of ChicagoWe had a good time recently in one of the Social Media groups showing sampler quilts, with some...
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Daredevils Block #8: Ruth's Compass
Daredevils Block #8: Ruth's CompassScroll down to see the pattern for a 15" finished block.Ruth's Compass by Denniele BohannonShe appliqued corner circles after setting the blocks.The basic pattern is...
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Whig's Defeat - Indiana Rose
This quilt in the collection of the Kansas City Museum maybe date-inscribed 1844. If so it's the earliest example of the pattern with a date on it.Whig's Defeat quilt, signed Esther T Brawley,...
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Sunshine
Here's an old pattern with an art deco look.You see it most often in wools with seam-covering embroidery---relatives of the crazy quilt.Kansas Museum of HistorySometimes in silks.But more common in...
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Daredevils Block #9: Florene's 9-Patch
Daredevils Block #9: Florene's 9-Patch.Scroll down to see the pattern for a 15" finished blockDorry Emmer's #9Fussy-cut bird#9: Florene's 9-Patch by Becky Brown.Fussy-cut swirlsBlock #9 is based on a...
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Sewing Sampler Books
Miniature apron with instructions as how to make oneI've been doing a little research for my sister who volunteers at the town historical society. They have an unidentified item, a needlework sampler...
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AQSG & the Quilt Research Center
Our first AQSG meeting was in 1980....Not so long ago as the doctored photo.Only about 40 years agoI recognize Lucy Hilty, Cuesta Benberry, Flavin Glover, Bets Ramsey, meThe American Quilt Study...
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Daredevils Block #10: Katharine's Wheel
Scroll down to see the pattern for a 15" finished block.# 10 Katherine's Wheel by Dorry Emmer Katharine's Wheel by Denniele Bohannon with pink corner shapes drawn in.Becky Brown's block, modified....As...
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