Learn the Fascinating True Story of Fabrics in America...Make Your Own Period Quilts. The comprehensive guide to fabrics and their influence on American quilts, from the machine age to the atomic age. Essential companion volume to America's Printed Fabrics 1770-1890. Includes 9 quilt projects inspired by vintage quilt designs and fabrics. Packed with historic photos, stories, and insights into the role of fabrics in everyday life
The comprehensive guide to fabrics and their influence on American quilts from 1890-1970. Includes 9 quilt projects.
Mary Ellen deconstructs all kinds of blocks into easy-to-piece units: from Rail Fence to 18-Patch blocks, all you'll need is squares and triangles! First issued over fifteen years ago, this volume has been updated extensively.
quilted hearts, and edge scallops of an exquisite Quilted Valentine Coverlet designed by E. Marion Stevens. It is a lovely thing for a girl's room or to form part of her trousseau, for the heart motif is featured extensively in the ...
This updated second edition of Enrichment Clusters provides the rationale for including this important enrichment program for all students, suggestions for creating buy-in, and a step-by-step guide for successful implementation of a self ...
In Clues in the Calico Barbara Brackman unveils a much-needed system for dating America's heirloom quilts.
The author, Professor Z. V. Togan, staged a counterrevolution, who first interacted and bargained with Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky and the rest of the Soviet and Bolshevik luminaries of his own time for Baskurdistan and Turkistan.
The book profiles more than forty of the quilting world's most influential people--from early twentieth-century quilt designer Ruby McKim to quilt curator Jonathan Holstein to contemporary art quilter Nancy Crow.
This fun, inspirational book also uncovers sewing’s colorful history, from the introduction of the sewing machine to the modern DIY movement, and features interviews with today’s hottest fabric and pattern designers, including Amy ...
... Making History : Quilts and Fabric from 1890–1970 . Lafay- ette , CA : C & T Publishing ... Fabric . New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold , 1973 . Cooper , Patricia , and Norma B. Allan . The Quilters : Women and Domestic Art : An Oral History ...
Prepare to be inspired. This book shows novice and expert quilters alike new ways of planning, designing, and constructing contemporary quilts. The Modern Quilt Workshop takes you through every step...