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Friday's walk at the state park: lupine, daisy fleabane, coreopsis, blue flag iris (native), hybrid iris (I look for it every year), golden Alexander, Canadian anemone, yellow flag iris (non-native).
On Friday I went to a rummage sale. As I looked at craft items I mentioned that I'm a quilter. The woman said she had some fabric leftovers in the house that she'd bring out. I bought all of them -- contemporary prints -- for $10. The woman's mother was managing the checkout and said, "I have some old fabric from my mother. I can bring it tomorrow ...
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Good news! My Preserving Our Quilt Legacy Virtual Workshop is coming up soon. Sessions take place on five Saturdays, Jan 28 - Feb 25 2025. This is a rare opportunity to learn about the many aspects of restoration and conservation all in one package. Find out more:
A full description and registration info
An introductory video
Besides lectures and demos, you’ll receive a set of samples of tools and fabrics, access to video demos of techniques and stitches, links to other resources. You’ll be able to show a quilt and see everyone else’s quilts and learn about how ...
I absolutely love this quilt! If it had been in a shop rather than coming to me for repair, I might have just "had" to buy it.
Part of why I love it is that green is my favorite color. (To see another 1930s quilt with a green background, take a look at a Magic Vine quilt which I bought as a nearly completed top, which I finished and quilted.) I also love the use of that dark green in (most of) the cornerstones and corners of the quilt. They are a great example of how a bit of a ...
I made the flimsy way back in 2020 when I had the notion that I could reduce the Civil War stash. (All posts for that project are labeled CWRSRP. It is a longterm goal. <g>)
Baptist Fan for the center and border, with circles in the inner border.
The back is nearly vintage. It was an 8-yard piece that I got at an estate sale about 15 years ago. I have 3-1/2 yards left.
North Prairie UMC ("the other Methodist ...
Taking good care of antique and vintage quilts is taking good care of family, textile, and social history. It’s a wonderful journey!
My
next workshop will be held January 27 - February 24 2024, on 5
consecutive Saturdays. All the details and registration are on my website. If you have questions, contact me here or at annquilts@comcast.net.
Restoration
Conservation
Preservation
Philosophy
Techniques
Supplies
Each student can present one (or two if time allows) quilts for discussion of how, when, and why to use the various supplies and techniques. All eras and styles are welcome. This will be our ...
read moreTaking good care of antique and vintage quilts is taking good care of family, textile, and social history. It’s a wonderful journey!
Preserving Our Quilt Legacy Virtual Workshop
My next workshop will be held January 27 - February 24 2024, on 5 consecutive Saturdays. All the details and registration are on my website.
We will cover many aspects of the process. Restoration, conservation, and preservation. Finding patching fabrics, which includes gaining knowledge of the history of fabric printing and dyeing. Learning about needles, threads, and other tools of the trade. Learning stitches and tips for well-sewn patches. Learning how to ...
Quilt Repair Tidbits. The next (somewhat) weekly installment of quilt repair tidbits and photos.
This week’s tidbit: A hand-me-down set of vintage/antique Mosaic/Grandmother’s Flower Garden blocks.
I’ll be teaching a virtual quilt care and repair workshop in winter 2024. One thing I’ll be talking about is learning how to tell the age of the fabrics in old quilts. These blocks have a secret key to their age.
All the info about the workshop is on my website. And you can email me to be added to the interest list for notification when registration opens ...
read moreThe next post of fun quilt repair moments.
This week: a prize-winning family heirloom quilt. Check out the design and sewing skills, about as perfect as a quilt can get.
I hope this beauty will inspire you to join in the virtual quilt repair and care workshop that I will be teaching in winter 2024. All the info is on my website. Email to be added to the mailing list for notification when registration opens.
The workshop will cover restoration and conservation supplies and techniques and how to choose which to use, and also, fabric history, and preservation concepts like ...
The second installment of weekly quilt repair tidbits and photos.
Schoolhouse quilt, c. 1915-20
This week: a wonderful schoolhouse quilt, a lovely and unusual rendition of a favorite traditional block. One of the benefits of working with antique and vintage quilts is that it’s like having your own up close and personal quilt show!
I hope I can inspire you to join the virtual quilt repair and care workshop I’m planning for winter 2024. All the info is on my website. Email me to be added to the mailing list for notification when registration opens.
The workshop will ...
The worktable. Grandmother’s Flower Garden c. 1980
I’m starting a new little outreach project here. A weekly tidbit and photos. A new insight or skill? A really cool fabric? Who knows what it’ll be!
This week’s tidbit: I’ve found myself ending up patching with fabrics that at first glance I was sure would look terrible. They certainly aren’t exact matches, but end up being just right.
My underlying goal is to inspire new students for the virtual workshop I’m planning for winter 2024. All the info is on my website. And you can ...
Here comes some thinking and wondering that I've been doing lately.
Over the last few years, people have been asking me to repair soooo many really seriously damaged quilts from the 1960s-70s and onwards. For the most part, these are family heirlooms, made by beloved grandmas and great-grandmas.
I'm thinking that what I'm seeing are the quilts that have been used and loved and "used up" in the old-fashioned terminology.
Many are not fancy in pattern or workwomanship. Part of this is that in the 1950s-70s era, the making of super intricate quilts kind of drifted off ...
read moreThis small quilt that came to me for repair is a family heirloom with a touching story.
Here's the story as told by the owner:
Thanks so much for restoring this quilt. It was made for my grandfather
around 1962-63 after he suffered three consecutive heart attacks. Two
women who worked in his accounting practice made the quilt, so it is
precious to me.
What made the repair fun for me were the fabrics.
The fabric with the most disintegration was probably silk, given the nature of the damage. But the rest are probably rayons. (I didn't do ...
read moreI am fascinated by this quilt. It was brought to me for minor repairs by the granddaughter of the quiltmaker. (Thanks to her for the photo above.) Not only are the design and fabrics really interesting, but the stories about the woman who chose them are great, too.
First, the design. I don't remember ever seeing a quilt like this, with it's plain, all-white center panel with a frame and the deep appliquéd drop around the sides of the bed. Have any of you seen such a quilt?
My mind wants to place it in the 1960s and ...
read moreHi, everyone! I'm announcing a new video on my YouTube channel. It's a bit of a tour of my quilting studio and fabric stash.
You'll see fabrics, new art quilts, and loads of doo-dads.
Click here to access the video.
Please come visit!
(You can also find my channel and see the whole video collection, and my interview on the Just Wanna Quilt podcast, by searching in YouTube for my name - Ann Wasserman.)
I went to a church rummage sale recently and bought two ziploc bags of rick rack, bias tape, and seam tape for $2 per bag.
I sorted the all-cotton from the synthetic.
Remember when stretchy lace seam binding/hem tape came out? And iron-on hem tape? (Fusibles have come a long way since the late 1960's.)
These are Coats & Clark.
Several generations of Wright's. Did you ever send in three labels and .10 to get "a generous package of trimmings suitable for doll's clothes"?
Winsome Lady is brand I ... read more
Quilting
I have been very bad about blogging. I was surprised to see it has been almost 3 months. Time is slipping away.
I went to our local Bernina dealer, Hinkletown Sewing to get a new foot for my machine. I saw this bag behind the counter and asked if I could have one. How cool is this!? I love how the handle for the bag is the handle for the machine.
I did a swap this spring with During Quiet Time with her book, Petals and Stems. The idea was to make a top and bottom but don't sew ...
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