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  2. Bettye Kimbrell - Wikipedia

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    Her grandmother taught her to quilt when she was 10 because she believed "idle hands are the devil's workshop". [5] They made string quilts—using scraps of square fabric for the top, feed and fertilizer sacks for the back, and cotton from their farm for the batting, with string ties every few inches to hold them together. [3]

  3. Hystercine Rankin - Wikipedia

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    Hystercine Rankin (September 11, 1929 - February 10, 2010) [1] [2] was an African-American quilter from Mississippi. Several of her quilts are held in the permanent collections of the American Folk Art Museum, [3] the Mississippi Museum of Art, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, [4] and the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles.

  4. Annie Mae Young - Wikipedia

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    Young attended school until the 7th grade. The school she and her siblings attended was eight miles away from their home and required them to walk arduously the entire way. Young began quilting at approximately age 13, when her father brought home scraps of fabric from Camden. Young married Lucius Young at age 16, and they had nine children.

  5. Jessie T. Pettway - Wikipedia

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    Jessie T. Pettway (1929–November 28, 2023) was an American artist associated with the Gee's Bend group of quilters. [1] [2]In 2006 her quilt Bars and string-pieced columns appeared on a US Postal service stamp as part of a series commemorating Gee's Bend quilters. [3]

  6. Eleanor Burns - Wikipedia

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    Eleanor Burns (born July 3, 1945, in Zelienople, Pennsylvania) is a master quilter [1] and former TV series host of Quilt in a Day, which aired in 1994 on PBS for six seasons. [ 2 ] Career

  7. 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.

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