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A Few Feathered Stars: Radiant Star 2248
We tend to call this design Feathered Star,a rather generic name that means a starwith serrated or feathered edges.This particular quilt looks to be from about 1880-1920. The faded khaki, probably once...
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Tranzlating English
Hexagons from Morris ModernizedA stitcher in Tasmania tells me she is having trouble finding fabric from my Morris Modernized collection for Moda. With all the online shops delivering fabric all over...
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Modernism Pre-Cuts in Shops
Modernism is my latest Moda line, a small-ish collection, 30 different bolts.Reading about history and biography is one of my major recreational activities. Every year I pick an era and read and read....
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Threads of Memory: Civil War Block of the Month Begins January 25
On my Civil War Quilts blog we are going to do another free online Block of the Month.Threads of MemoryBlock of the Monthby Becky BrownI bet there will be another border.The theme for 2014 Threads of...
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A Few Feathered Stars: Dated Examples
Quilt dated 1838 in the quiltingfrom my collection.The blocks are on point.Here's the block.The quilt was found in Kansas.Fabrics are indigo blue, a few browns and a pink on white.There is an...
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A Few Feathered Stars: Names
The Illinois Quilt Research Project found this quilt assembled later from blocks and borders. The blocks are pieced in the pattern we'd call Feathered Star. In the border is appliqued:...
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Floral Cretonnes
Tulip quilt with a cretonne border19th centuryfrom Laura Fisher at Fisher Heritagewww.laurafisherquilts.comI've done a few posts on cretonnes,the end-of-the-19th-century version of chintz furnishing...
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Paris in the Twenties
Zelda FitzgeraldI recall Nancy Milford's Zelda: A Biography,published in 1970, was the initial inspirationfor my imaginary Parisian life. There have been requests (TWO and that's enough, thank you) for...
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World War I Remembrance:Quilt Block of the Month
Father's ChoiceSunday morning I opened my Kansas City Star newspaper to find this lovely quilt block as the first in a new series: “Where Poppies Grow … Remembering Almo,” a block-of-the-month honoring...
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Quilters Newsletter Article on Modernism & Quilts
I've been writing for Quilters Newsletter magazine since1977 I think. I have an article in the February/March 2014 issue.Somebody there reads my Historically Modern blog and asked me to summarize the...
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Modernism: Free quilt pattern from Moda
Modernism66½" x 72½" Free quilt project from ModaSusan Stiff, Moda's graphic artist, and I came upwith a modern neighborhood for the project forthe Modernism collection.See the project sheet with the...
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A Few Feathered Stars: Variations with Sunbursts
This quilt from the Kansas quilt project and the Quilt Indexlooks to be about 1880-1910,made by Sarah States in Illinois.I have pictures of several similar quilts from the end of the 19th century with...
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Dixie Diary Done
Dixie Diaryby Denniele BohannonShe appliqued stars on the pieced blocks.Denniele used prints from my reproduction collection1862 Battle HymnIn 2013 I posted a free Civil War block-of-the-month pattern...
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Ladies' Album Reproduction Precuts & A Free Pattern
Charm Pack 5" squaresThe precut packages for my latest Moda reproductioncollection are in shops now.Ladies Album has 40 different bolts.The precuts include Jelly Roll strips 2-1/2",Fat Eighth Packs,...
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Cabin Fever?
1890-1920Snowed in?Here's a quilt therapy idea.Start stitching half-square triangles.Moda Candy precuts (2-1/2") will give you half-squares that finish to 1 5/8".Charm packs cut to 5" will give you...
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Moda Quilt Olympics Give-Away
The 2014 Sochi Olympics arefeaturing a patchwork logo.So Moda's Cutting Table Blog is having some games and contests.Today Feb 10 is one I helped with.Challenge #2: Name That Block.Click here to see...
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Cabin Fever II: Blizzard
Block by Roseanne Smith fromLadies's Album (and a little yellow).If you started the triangles with 4" squares you'd get a finished 31-1/2" block.Thursday: I'm still snowed in here,although Roseanne in...
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Sweetheart Pincushions
Sweetheart pincushions are needlework inspiration withan appropriate history for Valentine's Day, 2014.These heart-shaped pincushions were made by British soldiersrecovering in hospitals during World...
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Ladies's Album Print: Love's Token
Love's Token from Ladies' AlbumEach of the prints in my new Ladies' Album collectionfor Moda is named for a sentiment one might find in an album quilt...Signature with flourish from the Quilt Indexor a...
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Cheetos Challenge #1
Last year we were at our annual January quilt retreat.The weather was great, the company quite amusing, the food was nutritious...And pretty soon all we could talk about was Cheetos.Somebody decided to...
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