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FASHIONABLE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CLOTHING: A Quilted Gown
This beautifully designed and executed gown most likely was worn at home, not at court or for state occasions, as one might expect.
by Deborah Pulliam

Make Kaffe Fassett’s Jockey’s Cap Baby Quilt
All of the quilts in Kaffe Fassett’s Museum Quilts(September 2005) were inspired by quilts in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
by Kaffe Fassett with Liza Prior Lucy

AN UNFINISHED QUILT TELLS ITS STORY
The purchase of a paper-pieced Tumbling Blocks quilt top at an antique fair led the author on a years-long quest for the identity of the quilter.
by Carol Williams Gebel

Appliqué and Machine-Quilt a Table Runner This table runner with its distinctive woodpeckers is adapted from Barkley’sBirds, one of five quilt projects in a new pattern book from Barbara Brackmanand Karla Menaugh’s Sunflower Pattern Co-operative.
by Karla Menaugh

INVESTIGATING AN ALBUM SIGNATURE QUILT
The author needs your help in researching the stories of the thirty women who signed her album signature quilt.
by Susan Wildemuth

On the Web: Make a Quilted Journal Cover
Susan Wildemuth shows you how to personalize your own journal cover.

MY LIFE IN FEATHER STITCHING
After decades of use, a quilt was discarded but only after the author had recorded the memories that it evoked.
by Barbara Anton

INSPIRATION FROM A MISSOURI DEUTSCHHEIM CRAZY QUILT
A crazy quilt made in Hermann, Missouri, in 1905 is the inspiration for the author’sown journey into crazy-quilting.
by Joyce Starr Johnson

On the Web: Make a Crazy-Quilt Block
Start your own crazy quilt using Kathleen Bennett’s instructions.

PAPER-TEMPLATE PIECING IN EARLY-NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA
Two examples of hexagonal paper-pieced patchwork quilts illustrate the intricacy of this still-popular technique.
by Aimee E. Newell

QUILTING MEMORIES
A treasured quilt made by the author and her mother illustrates the importance of creative family time.
by Maggie Gartner

THE QUILT THAT WALKED TO GOLDEN
In this excerpt from the book of the same title, we meet Mary JanePaulson Burgess as she is embarking on her journey from Ohio toColorado in 1864.
by Sandra Dallas with Nanette Simonds

A One-Room Country School in Appliqué, Embroidery, and Crochet: LAURA NEHRING’S SCHOOLYARD QUILT
The author’s grandmother re-created the one-room school she attended in rural Iowa in the early 1900s.
by Nancy Nehring

Make a Reverse-Appliqué Bag
Karin Messier’s colorful bag with a stylized lizard vividly introduces the technique of reverse appliqué.

MAIA’S MOTHER GOOSE QUILT
The author started making this quilt before her daughter was bornand finished it in time for Maia’s twenty-first birthday.
by Cheryl Reed

THE ANNIVERSARY QUILT
This patriotic twenty-fifth-wedding-anniversary quilt incorporates family photographs.
by Aimee E. Newell

REMEMBERING LORIE
Commemorating and honoring a life with a special quilt.
by Mary Polityka Bush

Make a Candlewick Quilt
Designer Janet Haigh shows how easy it is to create a classic white-on-white candlewick quilt using tufting, satin and stem stitches, and French knots.

CARING FOR MODERN QUILTS
Ensuring that today’s quilts will be enjoyed for generations to come.
by Andi Milam Reynolds

Knit a Quilted-Check Pattern Potholder
Nancy Bush searched her pattern library to find this quiltlike pattern for a kitchen necessity.

WEB PROJECTS

Crazy-Quilt Block

Quilted Journal Cover