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Quilting and Patchwork

October 5th, 2007

Quilt Depicting One-Room Schoolhouses Created at Nursing Home

                                                
Quilters at the DeKalb County Nursing Home will donate a quilt to the Northern Illinois University’s Blackwell History of Education Museum.  Titled DeKalb County One-Room Schoolhouse Quilt, it consists of  nine  squares, picturing one-room schoolhouses of DeKalb County.
Pat Barger, a volunteer at the nursing home, constructed the quilt along with 13 other quilters who meet at the nursing […]

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October 4th, 2006

Quilts Evoking Schoolhouse Memories

When I see quilts made with the “Schoolhouse” pattern in its many variations, I think of my years attending school in a one-room schoolhouse or my mother’s career teaching in one.  In the book, Twentieth Century Quilts, 1900-1950  by Thomas K. Woodard and Blanche Greenstein, I viewed two of these “Schoolhouse” quilts, both in green […]

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