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Pattern Names in Allentown, Pennsylvania
Princess Feather from Webster's book.Quilt pattern collectors are always on the lookout for period names, the vernacular names that people called their quilts before publications like the Ladies' Art...
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A Christmas Present Give-Away: Morris Fabric
William Morris angel slightly modifiedholding hexagons by Becky BrownI've got one more fat-quarter bundle of William Morris fabric from thenew Best of Morris collection from Moda.Give-Away Rules1. One...
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Link of Friendship: Supply Chain
Supply ChainHere's my un-entered design in EQ's December Design Challengehttps://doyoueq.com/blog/2021/12/eq-design-challenge-giveaway-best-of-morris/It's a mid-20th-century design done here in late...
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Three Related Missouri Quilts: #1 California's
Los Angeles County Museum of ArtAn impressive quilt with an unusual border and stuffed quilting given to the museum in 1930 by Lulu Tyson Russell. Lulu probably gave the information that the makers...
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Three Related Missouri Quilts: #2 Texas's
Rose of Sharon with Buds QuiltAttributed to Margaret Wright Dickinson of Missouri.Texas Quilt Project & the Quilt Indexhttps://quiltindex.org//view/?type=fullrec&kid=25-21-349Yesterday's post...
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Ankey Keaton Hutchison's Verse Quilts
A remarkable pair of quilts by Ankey Keaton Hutchison (1820-1908)in West VirginiaThe quilts were discovered far apart in the 1980s, both in the hands of family members, one in Nebraska and one still in...
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Three Related Missouri Quilts: #3: Texas to the D.A.R.
Collection of DAR Museum Gift of Mrs. T.L. Tolbert1852 made in Cooper County, Missourihttps://quiltindex.org//view/?type=fullrec&kid=16-12-286The last of the three related Missouri quilts was...
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Three Related Missouri Quilts & a Fifth
Well, I thought I was finished with the comparison of three stuffed workquilts with swag borders and the links to Missouri.American Museum of Folk ArtTo say nothing of a fourth with a link to the...
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Rattlesnake Quilt
Ileana Villazon who has an eBay quilt shop recently showedthis Southern rattlesnake quilt top to us over at the QuiltHistorySouth Facebook...
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Article in Blanket Statements
I don't often get anything written---footnotes, editing, etc.Editing?Why I blog---no references, self-editing.But I did write a short article published in the current American Quilt Study Group's...
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A Curious Coincidence in Out of Scale Borders
Looking for a clever set for next year's applique BOM atmy Civil War Quilts blog page I came across this quilt that looks to be 1840-1880, pictured in the 1981 Quilt Engagement Calendar.The border...
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Raffle/Opportunity Quilts 2022
Escher from the Springfield Guild, designed byChristopher WeinholdI figure you can get a handle on what is currently fashionableby looking at the guild raffle quilts. Here are a few to be won in...
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Molly Upton's Quilts 1974-1976
Molly Upton, Watchtower, 1975Museum of Fine Arts CollectionThe important exhibit Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts is over. Many friends got to see it and were...
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Rocky Mountains & Crown of Thorn Quilts
Collection of Charlene Bongiorno StephensOver at the QuiltHistorySouth Facebook page we have been looking at variations of this pattern. It's one of my favorites due to its complexity and the many...
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Electric Quilt Design Challenge: Best of Morris
Electric Quilt has a monthly Design Challenge featuring a fabric line to upload to your EQ8 program with a fabric prize for the winner picked randomly from the entrants. In December '21 the winner got...
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Boston's Sewing Circles 1888
Smithsonian InstitutionEmbroidered border on a medallion quilt attributed to Bostonian descendants of John White, an English Puritan known as “Father of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, although he never...
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Lightning Strikes
https://quiltindex.org//view/?type=fullrec&kid=17-13-2274The Connecticut Quilt Project found this dramatic blue and white quiltthat seems to be one of a kind, made about 1900.The owner who bought...
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A Pair of Eagle Quilts
64" x 70"A rather tattered eagle medallion quilt in the collection of theWisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts.Worn but definitely worth saving. I saw this quilt, photographed by the Wisconsin...
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Early Snowfall in the Best of Morris Prints
Early SnowfallAn EQ8 sketch for a quilt pieced from my Best of Morris collection:In stores now!The inspiration: An early quilt from the New Jersey project & the Quilt IndexA Nine-Patch Star...
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Millard Fillmore---Not a Quilt Inspiration
Quilt featuring embroidered portraits of presidents,a popular late-20th-centuruy idea.Millard Fillmore (1800-1874)Brady Studios Photograph, 1949Yale's Beinecke Library owns this photo of Millard...
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