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Southern Spin: Mary Ann Rouse Thomas
Mary Ann Rouse Thomas Blount County, AlabamaQuilt made perhaps 1890-1920About 1950 Robert Cargo, a young Alabamian, inherited a group of quilts made by his great-grandmother Mary Ann Rouse Thomas....
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Daredevils Block #11: Elsa's Wheel
Daredevils Block #11: Â Elsa's WheelScroll down to see the pattern for a 15" finished block.Dorry Emmer's #11Becky Brown's block #11 with an empty center.How it really looks.A sunflower style circle...
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Antique Quilt Shows Fall 2019 & Winter 2020
Embroidered & dyed roadster needleworkHop in the roadster and head for a quilt show featuring antique quilts..2018 showAlabama, TuscumbiaBelle Mont Mansion, The annual quilt show at this museum:...
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AQSG 40th Anniversary Seminar
Cindy Rennels and her domain at the quilt merchants' area.Really old quilt behind her. The triangles at the bottom are a deep fringe.1800-1825?Spent several days in quilt heaven at the American Quilt...
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Daredevils Block #12: Evelyn's Star
Daredevils Block #12: Evelyn's StarScroll down for the 15" pattern.Becky Brown's #12Dorry Emmer's Block #12They followed the pattern!The last block in our series was modified from a Kansas City Star...
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Formidable Women: Liza MacKinnon
Ada LovelaceThe talk of Lawrence, Kansas lately has been Liza MacKinnon's sculpture show at the Percolator Gallery. Too bad---but it's over.Liza, a librarian, makes paper dresses to recall formidable...
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Virtual Booth - Quilt Market 2019 Houston
Here's the sketch for my virtual booth this year, kind of dreamy,kind of classical.All imaginary.Especially since I have nothing new to sell.But wait till Spring!Two books!Dot loves Quilt Market.It's a...
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Daredevils Border
Daredevils by Becky Brown45" x 60"No borderDorry Emmer finished her top 48 hours ago.But you might want a borderIf you have pieced the dots into the corners (true Daredevils!) you will want to piece...
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Early Carolina Quilting Frolics and Camden Gossip
Women quilting in a 1797 watercolor by Isak KiolstromLocation? Source?In French:"Wreata Viloster's Party"Not much has changed.James Kershaw (1764- after 1825) of Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina...
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Furniture Chintz---Fashion Chintz
Periodically, fashion dictates that furniture chintzis the perfect fabric for a dress.1960 ??? Netherlands, 17th centuryAnd France in the 18thMadame PompadourPucci in the 1970sFrench 1850sPhiladelphia...
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A Dickensian Fabric Shop
Horatio SparkinsAlias Mr. SmithThis Dickensian fabric shop in England was illustrated by George George Cruikshank (1792-1878). He drew the pictures for the 1838 edition of Charles Dickens's first...
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Quilt Style: Partial to Prussian Blue
Prussian blue is a mineral dye, discovered about 1800 and put togood use by cotton and wool printers as the decades went on.It produces a variety of blues, maybe a little warmer and certainly...
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Twins: Mariner's Compass & Princess Feather
Illustration by Olga Heese Bogart for the cover ofNeedlecraft/Home Arts magazine in July, 1939.The quilt alternates a mariner's compass with a princess feather block.The artist was possibly inspired by...
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Southern Spin: Kentucky Stars
19th-century quiltBelieved to be made by Lura Eyestone's mother. Donated to ISU Museum.http://www.quiltindex.org/fulldisplay.php?kid=16-33-14DWhile looking through the Illinois Quilt Museum's...
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Past Perfect: Cynthia Collier
One of the hits at Houston Quilt Market's 40th Birthday Bash a few weeks ago was Cynthia Collier's exhibit of reproduction style quilts:Â Applique: The Timeless Beauty of Broderie PerseShe included...
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New Editions: BlockBase & Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns
The old BlockBase programA page from Electric Quilt:"We are working on re-releasing the stand-alone BlockBase software in a new format (for Windows and Mac users) in 2020. Along with the re-release of...
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Women's Work in Copley Portraits
Sarah Morris Mifflin (1747-1790) and her husband ThomasPainted by John Singleton Copley, 1774Â Philadelphia Museum of ArtSarah is weaving a decorative fringe on a small loom.Perhaps like the edge on a...
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Square in a Square/Diamond in a Square
Basic piecing in a patchwork fragment from about 1850.From an online auction.A square in a square block alternating with plain printed squares set on point.Same pattern 30 years laterThe pattern is...
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Exhibit and Symposium at the DAR Museum
In mid-November the Daughters of the American Revolution Museum in D.C.held a one-day seminar A Piece of Her Mind: Culture and Technology in American Quilts inconjunction with their exhibit of the same...
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DAR Seminar Papers 1: Mind Reading
Quilt offered by Thomaston auctions in 2014Terry Terrell and Deborah Kraak gave a paper at the November seminar at the DAR Museum about Floral Literacy as a key to understanding the look of...
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