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2. Crazy quilting - Wikipedia

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   Similar aesthetics began to show up in crazy quilts, including unique patterns, and stitching that resembled spider webs and fans. [ 2 ] Crazy quilting rapidly became a national fashion amongst urban, upper-class women, who used the wide variety of fabrics that the newly industrialized 19th century textile industry offered to piece together ...

3. Longarm quilting - Wikipedia

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   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.

4. Rope-burning puzzle - Wikipedia

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   The fusible numbers are defined as the amounts of time that can be measured in this way. As well as being of recreational interest, these puzzles are sometimes posed at job interviews as a test of candidates' problem-solving ability, [ 1 ] and have been suggested as an activity for middle school mathematics students.

5. Quilting - Wikipedia

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   Many types of quilting exist today. The two most widely used are hand-quilting and machine quilting. Hand quilting is the process of using a needle and thread to sew a running stitch by hand across the entire area to be quilted. This binds the layers together.

6. Patchwork quilt - Wikipedia

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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]

7. Appliqué - Wikipedia

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   Appliqué is used extensively in quilting. "Dresden Plate" and "Sunbonnet Sue" are two examples of traditional American quilt blocks that are constructed with both patchwork and appliqué. Baltimore album quilts, Broderie perse, Hawaiian quilts, Amish quilts, Egyptian Khayamiya and the ralli quilts of India and Pakistan also use appliqué.

8. Fusible link - Wikipedia

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   A mechanical fusible link is a device consisting of two strips of metal soldered together with a fusible alloy that is designed to melt at a specific temperature, thus allowing the two pieces to separate. Mechanical fusible links are utilized as the triggering device in fire sprinkler systems and mechanical automatic door release mechanisms ...

9. Jennifer Chiaverini - Wikipedia

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   The Runaway Quilt (2002) The Quilter's Legacy (2003) The Master Quilter (2004) The Sugar Camp Quilt (2005) The Christmas Quilt (2005) Circle of Quilters (2006) The Quilter's Homecoming (2007) The New Year's Quilt (2007) The Winding Ways Quilt (2008) The Quilter's Kitchen (2008) The Lost Quilter (2009) A Quilter's Holiday (2009) The Aloha Quilt ...