Archive for July, 2011
Friday, July 29th, 2011
Product DescriptionPulitzer Prizewinning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich has remarked, Much of the social history of early America has been lost to us precisely because women were expected to use needles rather than pens.” This book, part of the multivolume series of the International Quilt Study Center collections, recovers a swath of that lost history and shows us some of America’s treasured material culture as it was pieced and stitched into place. American Quilts in the…
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Tags: 18701940, American, Center, Collections, International, Modern, Quilt, Quilts, Study
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Thursday, July 28th, 2011
- For use with your rotary cutter with rotary cutting mat
- Just cut strips, then turn for complete squares, triangles, diamonds, chevrons, and hexagons
- Layer and cut multiple fabrics for a quick cut for class projects and kits
- Measures 12 by 18 inches
Product DescriptionShape Cut Rotary Cutting Tool is for use with your rotary cutter and rotary cutting mat (each sold separately). Just cut strips, then turn for complete squares, triangles, diamonds, chevrons, and hexagons. You can even cut several layers of fabric at the same time. Can cut 1/4 inch strips. Tool measures: 12 by 18 inches….
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Tags: 12Inchby18Inch, June, Plus, Ruler, Shape, Tailor
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Thursday, July 28th, 2011
Product DescriptionSeventeen years after leaving home “for good,” self-sufficient single mother Janisse Ray leaves her comfortable life in Montana to revisit her cracker origins. Craving a life built on “land, history, and blood,” she moves into the family’s rundown 1920s farmhouse in Baxley, Georgia. There she rediscovers the nearly lost pleasures of country life – a Thanksgiving syrup boil, alligator trapping, and neighbors – as well as family skirmishes. Wild Card Quilt is the stor…
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Tags: Card, Chance, Home, Quilt, Taking, Wild
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
Product DescriptionQuiltmaking has long been associated with the culture of tiny Prince Edward Island on Canada’s east coast. Nearly twenty years ago, Sherrie Davidson launched her Heirloom Quilt Survey, dedicated to preserving the history of quiltmaking on Prince Edward Island. Quilts of Prince Edward Island-The Fabric of Rural Life presents the results of Davidson’s work in a lushly illustrated, scrapbook-style volume, complete with excerpts from diaries and news stories, and discus…
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Tags: Edward, Fabric, Island, Life, Prince, Quilts, Rural
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Monday, July 25th, 2011
Product DescriptionFOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A homemade quilt ties together the lives of six generations of the author’s immigrant Jewish family, remaining a symbol of their enduring love and faith….
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Tags: Keeping, Quilt
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Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
- ISBN13: 9780486239903
- Condition: New
- Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!
Product DescriptionColossal spectacle preserved in 128 rare, vintage photographs with concise, fact-filled text: 200 buildings — 79 of foreign governments, 38 of U.S. states — the original ferris wheel, first midway, Edison’s kinetoscope, much more. 128 black-and-white photographs. Captions. Map. Index….
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Tags: 1893, Chicago, Fair, Photographic, Record, Worlds
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Monday, July 18th, 2011
Product DescriptionThis econometric study covers the world outlook for comforters and quilts made from purchased materials across more than 200 countries. For each year reported, estimates are given for the latent demand, or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.), for the country in question (in millions of U.S. dollars), the percent share the country is of the region and of the globe. These comparative benchmarks allow the reader to quickly gauge a country vis-a-vis others. Using econo…
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Tags: 20112016, Comforters, from, Made, Materials, Outlook, Purchased, Quilts, World
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Monday, July 18th, 2011
Product DescriptionThis econometric study covers the world outlook for comforters and quilts made from purchased materials across more than 200 countries. For each year reported, estimates are given for the latent demand, or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.), for the country in question (in millions of U.S. dollars), the percent share the country is of the region and of the globe. These comparative benchmarks allow the reader to quickly gauge a country vis-à-vis others. Using econ…
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Tags: 20092014, Comforters, from, Made, Materials, Outlook, Purchased, Quilts, World
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Sunday, July 17th, 2011
Product DescriptionThis book will inspire women everywhere not to turn aside from helping others, in little ways and ordinary ways. Illustrated pictures of 19 work-worn quilts….
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Tags: Comfort, Difference, Made, Passing, Quilts, Women
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Friday, July 15th, 2011
Product DescriptionAn instruction book for making the template, marking and cutting the fabric and sewing techniques for “trip around the world” quilts (quilts that have rows of squares forming their design). Includes color photos of finished quilts….
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Tags: Around, Quilts, Trip, World
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