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Cheetos Challenge #2
See yesterday's post for the rules.Here are the results of our Round RobinAnnetteBarbaraCarmel  Cheetah Tracks?Helen Silver lame is always appropriate.JanetMataNote: lime-green ball trim.PamBarbecued...
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Charm Pack Cherry Quilt
The Fat Quarter Shop has a clever new scrappy patternfor Charm packs (5" squares) from Moda.The call it Charm Pack Cherry.Charm Pack Cherry QuiltFrom the Fat Quarter Shop52-1/2 x 54-1/2"Above is one of...
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Y Spell It With Fabric?
My letter is....                 YAs Moda's historian I've been given the philosophical letter Y. At the risk of sounding like a  3-year-old,  I'll answer each question with another:...
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WINNERS!
I picked the first and last commenter. There were 520 comments when I woke up this morning and Deb G was the last. Rosemary Y the first. Deb and Rosemary: I've got your email addresses so I'll get your...
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Flourishes from the Ladies' Album
Here's a late-19th-century four-patch block.The dark print was the inspiration for "Forget Me Not,"a print in my Ladies's Album reproduction collectionfrom Moda."Forget Me Not" is available in three...
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A Few Feathered Stars: Miscellaneous Centers
Online AuctionLate 19th-centuryOnce you've figured out the basic feathered star patternyou can draft anything for the center squareMay Louise Weeksfrom the New Jersey Project at the Quilt...
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Jean Mitchell Quilts Spencer Museum
Virginia Jean Cox Mitchell, Rode to Phila. detail,1987-1988Here are detail photos of a patchwork piece by Jean Mitchell, being shown this spring in Personal Geometry, a two-artist exhibit in Lawrence,...
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Austen Family Album
http://austenfamilyalbumquilt.blogspot.com/I was born to blog. As my friend Deb says--- it's like having your own personal newspaper:An audience---you!No editors, so I can put commas wherever I...
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Remembering Ricky Clark
Red and Green Quiltfrom the cover of Quilters NewsletterRicky ClarkRicky Clark died recently in Oberlin, Ohio. She was a quilt scholar who did much to move quilt history from imaginary tales of pioneer...
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Big Dotz Table Runner
Big Dotz Table RunnerI've been playing with EQ7 and Moda Charm Square precuts (5" square) and came up with a table runner design.I started with my Civil War Jubilee collection from last summer. The...
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The Costumes of Downton Abbey
Winterthur Museum galleryPerhaps you have heard that the Winterthur Museum in Delaware has installed a new exhibit called The Costumes of Downton Abbey.Winterthur has rented costumes, primarily from...
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Fun with Fabric
Zach Braff in and on William Morris's Acanthus printChrysanthemum by MorrisMorris prints invite the idea of fading into the wallpaper.Yayoi Kusama's been playing with the wallflower idea for years.She...
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Morris Flowerpot Design
Flowerpot Embroidered PanelDesigned by William MorrisEmbroidered by daughter May MorrisCollection of the Victoria and Albert MuseumThere is some confusion over who designed this cushion. The V&A...
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Ladies' Album Yardage Shipped!
Becky BrownBlock 1: Portsmouth Star for Threads of Memory.I hear the yardage for my latest reproduction collection for Moda has been shipped and should be in your shop momentarily. The precut packages...
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ROAD TRIP THIS WEEKEND: 4 Quilt Shows & a Shop Hop
If you are anywhere near Kansas City this weekend you'd better pedal on over to my town Lawrence, Kansas, which used to be basketball central but is now quilt central (at least for the 2014 Final Four...
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EMPORIA ROSE: NEW BOOK AT THE PRINTER
Emporia Rose:Applique QuiltsKarla Menaugh and I have written a new book for C&T Publishing. Here's the cover. Several readers have mentioned they've pre-ordered it. Thanks for buying it based on...
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A Few Feathered Stars on a Large Scale
Star quilt from the collection of Susan ParrishBaltimore's quilters must have been in a tizzy in October, 1851, waiting for the judging results at the fourth annual Maryland Institute fair. These city...
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Meanwhile in Boston
Quilt by New Yorker Mary (Betsy) Totten, called Rising Sun in her will.Collection of the Smithsonian InstitutuionRead more about Betsy Totten's quilt...
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Tuesday Afternoon Gallery Talk by Jean Mitchell
Bill and Jeanfrom a LJW photo by Thad AllenderWell I didn't mean to put this up on this blog but you will probably enjoy the photos that belong on the guild blog.Do plan to stay for the afternoon...
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Spencerian Penmanship in Albums
Signature with a flourish and perhaps a poemMy Ladies' Album reproduction fabric collection fromModa takes its inspiration from 19th-century album quilts.Woman about 1860 holding an important book.An...
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