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  2. Loretta Pettway - Wikipedia

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    Loretta Pettway (born 1942) is an American artist and quilt maker of the Gee's Bend Collective from Boykin, Alabama. Her quilts are known for their bold and improvisational style. [1] In 2006 her quilts "Roman Stripes" variation [2] and Medallion [3] appeared on two US Postal service stamps as part of a series commemorating Gee's bend quilters. [4]

  3. Henrietta Pettway - Wikipedia

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    The classic Gee's Bend improvisational method of quilting pre-dates Henrietta's practice and is very evident in her surviving quilts. Her most common pattern was a center medallion "Log Cabin" style, locally referred to as a "Hog Pen Pole" in which a center focal point is surrounded by concentric squares or patterns.

  4. Gwen Marston - Wikipedia

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    Gwen Marston née Gwendolyn Joy Miller (October 2, 1936 - April 19, 2019) was an American quilter, quilt teacher, lecturer, and author who championed a style of quilting she called liberated quiltmaking. She encouraged modern quilt makers to break away from using commercial quilt patterns and to learn to design their own unique pieces of art.

  5. History of quilting - Wikipedia

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    Example of a medallion quilt with applique. Elizabeth Welsh. Medallion Quilt, c. 1830. Cotton. Brooklyn Museum. Medallion quilts are made around a center. The center was sometimes a solid piece of large-scale fabric like a toile or a Tree of Life, an appliqued motif or a large pieced star or other pieced pattern. The central area was surrounded ...

  6. Log Cabin (quilt block) - Wikipedia

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    Names were not standard, but 20th-century quilt pattern books chose names for blocks while acknowledging they could be known by other names. [5] One popular pattern was the Log Cabin. [ 6 ] Log Cabin quilts were mentioned in print as early as 1863, with archival examples dating back to 1874.

  7. Loretta Pettway Bennett - Wikipedia

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    Bennett completed about 25 quilts between 2003 and 2006. Bennett usually designs her patterns on paper first, then colors them with crayons. She then pieces the patterns into quilts using old garments she collects from family and friends or scavenges at thrift shops, upholding the Gee Bend's concept of creative reuse. [10]

  8. Jinny Beyer - Wikipedia

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    Geraldine Elizabeth Kahle Beyer (born July 27, 1941) is an American quilt designer, quilter, author, teacher and lecturer.Considered by the quilting industry and the publishing media to be of the first designers to form a fabric collection suited to the needs of quilters, she began her career in India after she had run out of yarn.

  9. Flora Moore - Wikipedia

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    In fact, seeing the quilts hanging in Witherspoon's yard, an early gathering place for quilters before the Freedom Quilting Bee collective started, was what inspired Moore to learn to quilt as a teenager. [6] She began quilting under the instruction of Witherspoon and her aunt Ma Willie Abrams. Despite their mentorship, Moore still describes ...

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