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The Denver Center Theater Company produced the world premiere of Quilters in 1982. [1] The musical then was produced at the Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, California, in December 1983; [2] the Pittsburgh Public Theater from December 16, 1983 to January 30, 1984; [3] and for 7 weeks at the Kennedy Center, Washington, DC, running from August 4, 1984 to September 1984. [4]
Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting is a magazine and television program focusing on the art and technique of piecing and quilting quilts. The show was hosted by Liz Porter (Katie Porter’s mother) and Marianne Fons. Both have retired and occasionally make guest appearances on the show.
"Cold Irons Bound" is a Grammy Award-winning song written by Bob Dylan, recorded in January 1997 and released on September 30, 1997 as the eighth track on his album Time Out of Mind. The song was produced by Daniel Lanois .
A 1979 quilt by Lucy Mingo of Gee's Bend, Alabama. It includes a nine-patch center block surrounded by pieced strips. The quilts of Gee's Bend are quilts created by a group of women and their ancestors who live or have lived in the isolated African-American hamlet of Gee's Bend, Alabama along the Alabama River.
Longarm quilting is the process by which a longarm sewing machine is used to sew together a quilt top, quilt batting and quilt backing into a finished quilt.. A complete longarming system typically consists of a sewing machine head, a frame, a table with a layer of plastic (under which is placed a pantograph), and several rollers on which the fabric layers and batting are attached.
The iron is the small appliance used to remove wrinkles from fabric. It is also known as a clothes iron, steam iron, flat iron, smoothing iron or iron box. On 15 February 1858 W. Vandenburg and J. Harvey patented an ironing table that facilitated pressing sleeves and pant legs. [6]
Corded quilting was popular for dresses, petticoats, and waistcoats as well as curtains and bedcoverings. [2] Originating in the fine whole-cloth quilt tradition of Provence in southern France, [ 4 ] corded quilting differs from the related trapunto quilting in which loose wadding or batting rather than cord is inserted to create raised designs.
The International Honor Quilt (also known as the International Quilting Bee) is a collective feminist art project initiated in 1980 by Judy Chicago as a companion piece to The Dinner Party. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The piece is a collection of 539 two-foot-long quilted triangles that honor women from around the world. [ 3 ]