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2. List of North American pieced quilt patterns - Wikipedia

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   Tumbling Blocks pattern, assembled in the 1870s (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum) Patchwork quilts are made with patterns, many of which are common designs in North America. Anvil [1] Basket [1] Bear Paw [1] Brick Work [2] Churn Dash [1] Corn and Beans [1] Dogwood and Sunflower [1] Double Wedding Ring [1] Dove in the Window [1] Dresden ...

3. Quilting - Wikipedia

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   Quilts tops were designed and pieced by one woman using scraps of hand-dyed cotton. This cotton often comes from old dresses or shawls. Once pieced, the quilt top is placed on a reed mat with the other layers and sewn together using thick, colored thread in straight parallel lines by members of the designer's family and community. [11]

4. Mensie Lee Pettway - Wikipedia

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   She could cut three or four patterns in one day, and often helped other women sew the patterns to keep up with demands. Her grandmother, Hannah Wilcox, would top and quilt the patterns. She worked at the Bee during its entire existence. Even after Mensie Lee returned home from the Bee at the end of the day, she would work on her own quilts.

5. Quilt - Wikipedia

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   Ralli quilts have a few layers of worn fabric or cotton fibers between the top and bottom layers. The layers are held together by thick colored thread stitched in straight lines. The women sit on the ground and do not use a quilting frame. Another kind of ralli quilt is the sami ralli, used by the samis and jogis. This type of ralli quilt is ...

6. Patchwork quilt - Wikipedia

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   A patchwork quilt is a quilt in which the top layer may consist of pieces of fabric sewn together to form a design. [1] Originally, this was to make full use of leftover scraps of fabric, but now fabric is often bought specially for a specific design. Fabrics are now often sold in quarter meters (or quarter yards in the United States).

7. Patchwork - Wikipedia

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   To keep the batting from shifting, a patchwork or pieced quilt is often quilted by hand or machine using a running stitch in order to outline the individual shapes that make up the pieced top, or the quilting stitches may be random or highly ordered overall patterns that contrast with the patchwork composition.