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Feathered Star Dated 1838
 I've had this quilt for years. Part of my sub collection: "Quilts Before 1840 not in very good shape."The extraordinary thing about this one is the quilted dateinside the red threads here.I printed...
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George Washington Anniversary Quilt & the Walker Family
  It's George Washington's birthday---at least theday Americans celebrated it for years.February 22, 1932 was the 200th anniversary ofhis birth.It's always good to celebrate a Presidentwho "cannot tell...
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Wool Quilts
 Most of the pictures are from online auctions unless otherwise captioned.It's still February around here---the reason people made wool quilts.Nebraska Historical SocietyMarie Tejkova Prokopek...
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Drake Family Bible Quilt
 76" x 71", estimated date 1900-1910In the 1980s the Kentucky project recorded this four-block Biblequilt as having been made by a member of the Drake family in Thomaston, Georgia.See the project...
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Southern Spin Quilt Along
 Circles & Spikes Georgia auctionTennessee project, Betsy Parker?Alabama, Flavin Glover's familyThere's a certain appealing style of quilt. We've seen a lot of them on ourFacebook group...
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Half Drop Repeats
 A puzzle for the quilt pattern fan.Quilt may date to early to mid- 20th centuryI had it filed under the strip quilts but it's really a block quilt.Here's the block, a square in a square.Pretty basic....
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Prickly Path in Morris Prints
 So---one might have a few yards of a large scale print and be inneed of an idea. Strawberry ThiefBest of Morris from ModaLooking through the pictures files of strip quilts I came upon this...
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Variable Value: Mid-20th-Century Quilt Style
 This former art teacher might want to bring up the principle of value with the unknown quiltmaker here.Value is the darkness or lightness of a color. Here value darts around from white to black with a...
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Triangular Blocks Adrift
 An interesting repeat in a quilt from about 1900.There's a place in the Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patternsand BlockBase+ for quilts pieced of triangular blocks. It's a small place with just a few...
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Eagles in A Wreath of Berries (?)
 A strange bird. Is that a sweater vest or an American shield on the breast?It must be an eagle, the symbol on the Great Seal of the U.S., usually shown witharrows and olive branches in its talons and...
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Southern Spin #1: Circle Saw
 Southern Spin: Block #1 Circle SawBlock #1 by Becky BrownShe's using colors she doesn't often work with, hand dyed from Vicki Welsh's Colorways.From the Tennessee project & the Quilt...
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An Odd Mod Pattern: Skylark
 A strange pattern from a mid-20th century quilt in an online auction.Should be in the 2-Patch section of the Encyclopediaof Pieced Patterns. But n-o-o-!Was it ever published?It's an interesting...
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Fannie Edmunds Cork's Shoe Quilt
 High-button shoes are an unusual image for appliqued quilts.This one in wine red and white is in MichiganState University's Museum's Cuesta Benberry collection,donated by the son of the quilt...
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2022 Kaw Valley Quilt Guild Show
 Kaw Valley Quilt Guild members were all glad to be back at ourquilt show in person the first week of April.I took a few pictures and focused on color (we Kansans are a little starved for color about...
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Accuquilt's Goose Tracks Die
 A familiar patternQuite popular with quilters and pattern companies.Accuquilt asked me to talk about their cutting die for Goose Tracks yesterday.Block dated 1900Goose Tracks was published as a name...
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Which Harriet Dishong?
Harriet J. Dishong created a most extraordinary Ocean Waves quilt,pictured many years ago in a Quilt Engagement Calendar whenit was in the inventory of the New York shop America Hurrah.From the caption...
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Milestones in Textile History: Richard Peek Gets An Idea
Imaginary sack featuring Richard Kimbrough Peek (1892-1962), the man who thought up selling commodity sacks in pastel colors toappeal to home-sewing housewives.Depending on who is telling the story you...
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Four Quarter Circles: Possibilities and Possible Disasters
 Looking for a little applique that doesn't require too much prep timeI recalled this little top I made a few years ago.I enjoy appliqueing these quarter circles  (you can piece yours),a variation on...
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Flying Geese-Wild Goose Chase
 Mark French AntiquesClassic quilt in the Wild Goose Chase or Flying Geese design.The earliest publication I've been able to find is the Ladies' Art Company,which called the pattern Wild Goose Chase in...
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Southern Spin #2: Southern Star
 Southern Spin #2: Southern Star by Becky BrownOur second Southern favorite is a variation of a Mariner's Compass based on 6 spokes.Southern Star by Denniele BohannonThe pattern is a classic north and...
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