Tag: quilting
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Quaker Quilting Qualms
Quilting has been on my mind lately. A friend recently kindly offered to create a table runner from my late husband’s shirts. I gamely suggested I might be the one to hand quilt it. But after my experience with the 1914 Double Irish Chain family quilt that has just appeared, I may have to change…
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I Bought A Hoop Today: A Poem
A perfect $3 circle, itsends joined by a shinybrass screw, thehoney-colored hoopcalled me from the thriftstore shelf to jointhe other women who’vestuck a needle in andout, through fabricscarefully selectedand scraps savedto adorn orjoin with colorfulthreads in elegantchains and stitches orruler-straight lines.Someday, I, too, canuse this perfect hoop,a tool to help mepiece together theabandoned fabrics ofmy…
