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Category: Web Finds

  • Quilts and Quiltmaking in America 1978-1996

    Continuing with our Quilting History post last week, here’s another great site, with wonderful photos, and 181 interviews with quilters. Quilts and Quiltmaking in America showcases materials from two American Folklife Center collections, the Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project Collection (1978) and the “All-American Quilt Contest” sponsored by Coming Home, a division of Lands’ End,…

  • Quilting History

    I had a lovely email this weekend from Judy Anne Breneman sharing with me her Quilting History web sites. I had a great time exploring these sites. Patterns from History Womenfolk: The Art of Quilting Patches from the Past While exploring, I came across this document entitled, A Collection of Notes on the Historical Aspects…

  • Tutorial: Charm Square Quilt

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    Here’s a fantastic way to use up charm squares, Charm Square Quilt. You start with a basic nine patch of charms, then cut them down the middle and re-arrange with gorgeous results. The finished piece looks more complicated than it really is, just don’t tell any of your non-quilting friends and they’ll never know the…