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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
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt is a 1989 American documentary film that tells the story of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. [2] Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, with a musical score written and performed by Bobby McFerrin, the film focuses on several people who are represented by panels in the Quilt, combining personal reminiscences with archive footage of the subjects, along with ...
Georgia Bonesteel is a quilting judge, author and host of the show. She has been the president of the International Quilt Association, which is involved in the history and art of quilting worldwide. [6] Bonesteel is credited with having invented lap quilting while teaching a class at Blue Ridge Community College in North Carolina. [2]
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Mrs. Bill Stagg of Pie Town, New Mexico, with her embroidered patchwork quilt that displays all 48 (at the time) United States state flowers and birds, October 1940 Patchwork quilt: 1992 Kentucky State Winner. A patchwork quilt is a quilt in which the top layer may consist of pieces of fabric sewn together to form a design. [1]
In 2010, the world-renowned Victoria and Albert Museum put on a comprehensive display of quilts from 1700 to 2010, [41] while in 2009, the American Folk Art Museum in New York put on an exhibition of the work of kaleidoscope quilt maker Paula Nadelstern, marking the first time that museum has ever offered a solo show to a contemporary quilt artist.
Whole-cloth quilt, 18th century, Netherlands.Textile made in India. In Europe, quilting appears to have been introduced by Crusaders in the 12th century (Colby 1971) in the form of the aketon or gambeson, a quilted garment worn under armour which later developed into the doublet, which remained an essential part of fashionable men's clothing for 300 years until the early 1600s.
Sew Fast Sew Easy: All You Need to Know When You Start to Sew. New York: St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 0-312-26909-9. Reader's Digest (1976). Complete Guide to Sewing. The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. ISBN 0-89577-026-1. Picken, Mary Brooks (1957). The Fashion Dictionary. Funk and Wagnalls. Singer: The New Sewing Essentials. Creative ...