Quilting and Patchwork

May 4th, 2008

Quilting & Patchwork Mentioned on Tales of the Trails End Quilters

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Tales of the Trails End Quilters blog consists of stories about my quilting heritage. 

My quilting heritage began at Trails End Farm in Milan, New York. There I often sat beside my grandmother cutting squares and sewing them by hand. Eventually I realized that my mother and her sister, their grandmother, and others made quilts here, too. […]

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April 14th, 2008

Trails End Quilters of the 1870’s - My Quilting Heritage

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 As I read my grandfather’s writings, Fifty Years Ago, Rural Life from 1876, I was delighted to realize he had included information about his mother’s quilting at Trails End Farm, in Dutchess County, NY.  I know from this that my quilting heritage definitely traced back to my great grandmother, Mary Barker Coon.
 Papa Coon, as our […]

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March 3rd, 2008

Are You Recording Your Quilting/Family Memories?

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Quilters and fabric artists create memories…some of recent projects, others we made longer ago, and perhaps some connected with quilts stitched by former generations.  Do you write about your memories and events connected with them?
They can be recorded any number of ways:

Blogs
Journals
Scrapbooks
Videos or DVDs
Published materials

Quilts from my family heritage, as well as projects my daughter and granddaughter are undertaking […]

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January 30th, 2008

7 Random Facts About Quilting & Me

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Cyndi at Layers Upon Layers and Noreen at Hankering for Yarn tagged me for the 7 Random Facts Meme that has been going around.  I participated in it previously, but there are always facts and ideas I can relate that you’ve not heard before.

I like old quilts and finding the stories connected to them.
My granddaughter is making a […]

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