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2. Joseph Hedley - Wikipedia

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   An 1826 postcard showing an illustration of "Joe the Quilter's" Cottage, Homers house. [1] Joseph Hedley (also known as Joe the Quilter, 1749 or 1750 – 3 January 1826) was a Quilter from Northumberland. During his life, he was renowned for his quality of craftsmanship, with his work being exported as far as America.

3. Marie Webster - Wikipedia

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   Marie Daugherty Webster (July 19, 1859 – August 29, 1956) was a quilt designer, quilt producer, and businesswoman, as well as a lecturer and author of Quilts, Their Story, and How to Make Them (1915), the first American book about the history of quilting, reprinted many times since.

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. Eleanor Burns - Wikipedia

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   Burns first started stitching on her Aunt Edna's feed sacks. Her first book, Make a Quilt in a Day: Log Cabin Pattern, was self-published in 1978.The book has been credited with starting a quilt-making revolution as people learned Burns's style of stitching a quilt.

6. Mensie Lee Pettway - Wikipedia

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   More free-form and improvisational, her patterns began as "Nine Patch" quilts, but morphed during the process into, what the artist deemed, "This and That" patchwork. She described her method: "I may start off looking like planning a "Nine Patch," but then I take this, take that, take patches, blocks, strips, and seeing where I am going, laying ...

7. They made one-of-a-kind quilts that captured the public's ...

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   Over the past two decades, Gee’s Bend quilts have captured the public’s imagination with their kaleidoscopic colors and their daring geometric patterns. The groundbreaking art practice was ...