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  2. Quilters (musical) - Wikipedia

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    Quilters. (musical) Quilters is a musical with a book by Molly Newman and Barbara Damashek, and lyrics and music by Barbara Damashek. It is about the lives of American pioneer women based on the book The Quilters: Women and Domestic Art by Patricia Cooper and Norma Bradley Allen. The show was originally developed and produced by the Denver ...

  3. Conservation and restoration of quilts - Wikipedia

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    The quilter's hand or sewing machine passes the needle and thread through all layers and then brings the needle back up. The process is repeated across the entire area where quilting is wanted. History Composition. Quilting, sewing together layers of fabric to create a cohesive whole, has been around for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years.

  4. Joseph Hedley - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Hedley. An 1826 postcard showing an illustration of "Joe the Quilter's" Cottage, Homers house. [1] Joseph Hedley (also known as Joe the Quilter, 1749 or 1750 – 3 January 1826) was a Quilter from Northumberland. During his life he was renowned for his quality of craftsmanship, with his work being exported as far as America.

  5. Quilts of Gee's Bend - Wikipedia

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    Quilts of Gee's Bend. A 1979 quilt by Lucy Mingo of Gee's Bend, Alabama. It includes a nine-patch center block surrounded by pieced strips. The quilts of Gee's Bend are quilts created by a group of women and their ancestors who live or have lived in the isolated African-American hamlet of Gee's Bend, Alabama along the Alabama River.

  6. They made one-of-a-kind quilts that captured the public’s ...

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    Gee’s Bend quilters served as an inspiration for Target’s Black History Month collection, though the quilters reaped limited financial benefits […] The post They made one-of-a-kind quilts ...

  7. Molly Upton - Wikipedia

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    Martha Neill Upton (September 30, 1953, Pittsfield, Massachusetts – March 30, 1977, San Francisco, California) was a watercolorist, sculptor and studio quilt artist. Her quilted tapestries helped quilts become seen as fine art, rather than craft work, during the early 1970s. [1] Her quilts were shown in the first major museum exhibition of ...

  8. Lap Quilting with Georgia Bonesteel - Wikipedia

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    1979. ( 1979) –. present. Lap Quilting with Georgia Bonesteel is a "how to" show on PBS hosted by Georgia Bonesteel. The show debuted in 1979 on UNC-TV (now PBS North Carolina) and has been on the air for over 40 years. [2] By 1983, it was being distributed out of Boston to 120 major PBS stations, [3] including Chicago 's WYCC. [4]

  9. Rotary cutter - Wikipedia

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    Rotary cutter in use on a cutting mat. A rotary cutter is a tool generally used by quilters to cut fabric. It consists of a handle with a circular blade that rotates, thus the tool's name. Rotary cutter blades are very sharp, can be resharpened, and are available in different sizes: usually smaller blades are used to cut small curves, while ...

  10. They made one-of-a-kind quilts that captured the public's ...

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    The older generations of Gee's Bend quilters are known for one-of-a-kind designs with clashing colors and irregular, wavy lines — visual effects borne of their material constraints.

  11. Longarm quilting - Wikipedia

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    Longarm quilting is the process by which a longarm sewing machine is used to sew together a quilt top, quilt batting and quilt backing into a finished quilt.. A complete longarming system typically consists of a sewing machine head, a frame, a table with a layer of plastic (under which is placed a pantograph), and several rollers on which the fabric layers and batting are attached.