Posts Tagged ‘Quilts’
Friday, October 7th, 2011
Product DescriptionRenowned quilter, collector,and lecturer, Tina Gravatt offers another look at miniature quilts. Tina has spent over ten years researching and constructing nearly 150 miniature quilts. She has collected nearly 200 doll beds, of all sizes, time periods, and styles, upon which to accurately display her quilts. Exhibitions of her work include the Museum Ter Zijde, Wouw, Netherlands; Garner Museum, Quincy, IL; McMinn County Living Heritage Museum, Athens, TN; Museum of t…
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Tags: Connecting, Miniature, Quilts, Worlds
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Saturday, September 10th, 2011
Product DescriptionOriginally published in the early 1950s, this rare quilt making book contains many unique vintage patterns not found in other quilting books like Round the World, Blue Bells of Scotland, Shamrock, Alcazar, Red Poppy and Fleur De Lis. Other designs include Martha Washington’s Wreath, London Square, Maple Leaf, Greek Cross, Pineapple, Dutch Windmill — all charming designs deriving their design influence from many countries.
This book includes 12 designs along with f…
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Tags: Instructions, Making, Patterns, Quilts, Round, Vintage, World
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
Product DescriptionAlmost 54,000 quilt enthusiasts from all over the world descended on the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas in 2004. They came to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the annual International Quilt Festival. Enjoy up close, narrated footage from the best antique and cutting-edge quilts in the world and watch interviews with the award winning quilt makers, in this personal look at the world’s largest and most prestigious annual quilting event….
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Saturday, August 6th, 2011
Product DescriptionThe Irish Chain pattern is combined with the Trip around the World pattern for an exciting “Irish Trip”! This fresh approach shows you how to expand traditional quilts with innovative design twists on two classics. Try “Irish Squares,” “Irish Stars,” “Crossing Chains,” and more. · Five projects spotlight Irish Chain and Trip around the World blocks, plus others such as Nine Patch and Sawtooth Star · Customize the size of each quilt with directions for three …
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Tags: Combining, Favorites, Ireland, Quilts, Trip
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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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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 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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