The following article was written in March 1934 by the Home Demonstration Agents in Hackensack, New Jersey. It contains instructions on making a quilt in under 500 words, quite a challenge in composition.
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read moreThe following article was written in March 1934 by the Home Demonstration Agents in Hackensack, New Jersey. It contains instructions on making a quilt in under 500 words, quite a challenge in composition.
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read moreThis is the story of the quilt that features in the header above.
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read moreHurray for a New Year and a New Focus for the blog. It's 2024, and the plan is to turn the calendar back ninety years to 1934.
Why 1934? Because there is so much material to explore and collect with hundreds of patchwork patterns printed daily in the newspapers and quilt competitions across the country (including Australia.)
So let's get started! The first block for the new year is ....