Sep
25
Rayela of Fiber Focus blog is selling a few of her Ralli quilts in her Etsy shop. Go here to see all six and see what she says about them.
[tags]Ralli quilts, Sindhi women, Southern Pakistan, Vintage, fiber, collectible, textiles[/tags]
Sep
20
This afternoon during a Sunday afternoon drive to Greenwood (population around 7000), I noticed this For Sale sign on what used to be a fabric store. I had visited there once and had admired the 1800s building that housed the shop.
I stopped the car and snapped some photos. Check out…
Sep
17
This sampler quilt is from a new book The Farmer’s Wife: Letters from 1920s farm wives and the 111 blocks they inspired by Laurie Aaron Hird. If you join Homestead Hearth’s Farmer’s Wife Block of the Month (BOM) program you will get a discount on the book. If…
Sep
11
This is one of Barbara Brackman’s (quilt historian and author) favorite patterns for showing off prints – notice the large squares that are not pieced. Size is 32″. Available for free download at Barbara Brackman Web site.
While on her site, be sure…
Aug
26
The Marcus Fabrics blog gives us a peek of a new book Women of Influence: 12 Leaders of the Suffrage Movement. The book accompanies the Kansas City Star quilts’ BOM (block of the month) project Women of Influence designed by Sarah Maxwell & Dolores Smith.
Go to Homestead…
Aug
24
Thanks to Whipster and Sewing I visited the Commercial Pattern Archive (CoPA) this morning. Though geared towards garment sewing, I searched on “quilts” and it returned this Quilted Turkish Coat (1975) from the Folkwear pattern company. It also returned a Log Cabin jacket (1981),…
Aug
23
This quilt from the American Folk Art Museum is the earliest Log Cabin in their collection. Photo by Schecter Lee. Quilt description:
This quilt is constructed in a Barn Raising pattern in which light and dark fabrics are arranged to form concentric diamonds.…
Aug
13
If you are reading this, then you are part of the movement this film documents. If you live or will be in the Los Angeles USA area this weekend, you should check it out. The movie event includes a mini fair…
Aug
2
I love this Mary Mannakee quilt block just completed by Inspired by Antique Quilts. Go here to get her show and tell. The Mary Mannakee quilt pattern is available to purchase from the DAR museum store. 
Jul
26
When I hear a statement like the Apollo missions with men walking on the moon was faked, never happened, I go to Snopes Rumor Has It and see if they have anything on it.
Do you ever wonder if everything you’ve been taught about quilting is accurate?…
Jul
11

- Image from Selvage Quilts
Quilt historian Kimberly Wulfert gives us a history lesson in string quilts. It starts,
During the economic slump of the early twentieth century, string style quilt making thrived. Rural mid-century women, cut off from mainstream society and markets,…
Jul
7
Kyra Hicks of Black Threads blog announced the puplication of her latest book titled This I Accomplish: Harriet Powers’ Bible Quilt and Other Pieces. Read more about it here. Available on Amazon.
[tags]quilting, quilt history, black history, Bible Quilt, Pictorial Quilt, Harriet Powers, Kyra…
Jun
20
Image from Coverlet Museum
This pattern uses fabric from The Coverlet Collection II from Baum Windham Fabrics.
Go here to download the free pattern.
Go here to see the The Coverlet Collection II.
The American Beauty Flag Quilt kit is available at The National Museum of the American…
Jun
10
Image from Library of Congress
This quilt is part of an ethnographic field collection of 410 photographs available to view at the U.S. Library of Congress. Selections are from the Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project and the “All American Quilt Contest”. Go here to…
Jun
1
Image from Amazon
Amazon sellers list this out of print Barbara Brackman book 1 new from $195.93 and 9 used from $77.87. Here is what the author Barbara Brackman has to say about the high prices:
This book brings outrageous prices on the used book sites…






