Family heirlooms are the theme for this month’s column, including a fine example of an American “crazy quilt,” a porcelain night light, an Early American pattern glass carafe, an aeronautical school ...
At last week’s Lancaster-Lebanon Quilt Show, Wayne Kern carried two family heirloom quilts past the art quilts, the quilted sneaker kits and the $10,000 sewing machines. One quilt was lightweight, ...
A Victorian-era quilt is already chockablock with many different rich fabrics. Look closer and see more layers of decoration. There are embroidered booties, birds, flowers, anchors, bucks and a spider ...
Q While cleaning out an aunt’s estate, we found a box full of fancy embroidered robes and quilts. My great-grandmother taught in China in about 1915 or 1920 so we guessed that these were things she ...
Quilting teacher Shaw (Stunning Stitches for Crazy Quilts) shares her knowledge of needle arts with this crafty little book of “dazzling diamonds.” Her crazy quilts are modern: they still comprise ...
SPECIALTY: Nineteenth- and early-20th-century American quilts. STITCH IN TIME: The earliest date back to the 1700s, but most American quilts were made between the 1850s and 1870s. QUILTING CAPITALS: ...
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