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Have you discovered old quilts and/or patches in your attic or a closet? Are there quilting patterns there?
When cleaning out a closet in the old farmhouse where I grew up, after my mom developed Alzheimer’s, I discovered some old quilting patches. Some were simply pre-cut pieces and others consisted individual blocks with the pieces […]
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If your quilt could tell a story, what would it say? I think of the quilt I call, The Wedding Quilt. I recall it always lying on the bed in the guest room of our farmhouse. I can visualize one day, as Mother, Sister and I cleaned the room and made the bed for a visit […]
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Do you believe that escaping slaves, during the Civil War [in the United States], often used quilts and their symbols as guides to freedom?
Are you on side of the story that maintains there isn’t enough evidence, only folklore, to justify this theory?
Or are you trying to figure out just where you stand?
Much discussion has evolved and […]
Ah! The joys of introducing youngsters to quilting! I’ve had a deligtful week exploring the world of patchwork and quilts with fourth graders. We’re not doing actual “hands-on” quilting, but we’re discussing this art and participating in some “show and tell.”
Instead, this exploration has evolved from reading The Rag Coat by Lauren Mills. (The illustrations […]
Redwork, a popular type of quilting in the mid to late 1800s, consisted of creating designs by embroidering with red floss on muslin background. Since pre-printed squares, as well as a skein of floss often could be purchased for one cent each, redwork also was referred to as “penny squares.”
This type of quiltmaking is gaining in popularity again. […]
Ruby McKim’s quilt patterns, instructions, and history now appear in the e-book, Two Hundred and One Vintage Quilt Patterns. These include the patterns and information in her famed book, 101 Patchwork Patterns, that quilters have enjoyed for years.
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Ruby McKim wrote the classic quilt pattern book, 101 Patchwork Patterns, many years ago. She became well-known in the quilting world before she died.
Now her granddaughter, Merrily McKim Tuohey, with the encouragment of Ruby’s family, has set up a web site, McKim Studios , with stories of her life, quilts, patterns, and other treasures.
At WomenFolk.com, […]
To climax National Quilt Month (March), Judy Howard, of Buckboard Quilts, is designating March 29 as Charity Quilt Day.
“This is a campaign to raise awareness and funding for the sacrificial volunteer work of hundreds of thousands of quilters who provide quilts for sick babies, orphans, homeless people, nursing homes, cancer and Alzheimer’s patients, soldiers and […]
Writers say they have “muses” that inspire them with their work. Once at a writers’ workshop I attended, the teacher instructed us to describe our muse, either in words or a sketch.
Until then I didn’t even know I had a muse or was supposed to! However, as I put pencil to paper, a whimsical lady […]
With our modern computerized sewing machines, some so automated they’ll sew without you touching them, many quilters may not realize that there once existed “people-powered” or non-electric sewing machines. I learned to sew on a treadle machine, so called because there was a flat plate, about 12x 9-inches square under this machine on legs that […]
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