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September 20, 2023

Winterset, Iowa Quilt Museum Photo Heavy! from Humble Quilts

The Iowa Quilt Museum is in Winterset, Iowa. I think this was one of my favorite towns that we visited! The women at the museum were unbelievably friendly and in general everyone in town was pretty pleasant. (we also picked up a couple of cute pieces of clothing and Laurie bought an antique quilt!)

But for the special exhibit at the museum was HOUSES!

A celebration of house quilts! WOW! Each one unique and so wonderful!

We liked this one a lot made from antique quilt blocks.

It was so special to see Wendy's potholder style house quilt at ...

added by Lori 1 year, 1 month ago. under antique quilts , iowa quilt museum , quilt museum

February 5, 2021

String Tulip QAL Month 1 from Fret Not Yourself

"The world will still be imperfect, because men are imperfect.

Good men will still be killed by bad, or sometimes by other good men,

and there will still be pain and disease and famine, anger and hate.

But if you work and care and are watchful, then in the long run

the worse will never, ever, triumph over the better.

And the gifts put into some men...

shall light the dark corners of life for all the rest, in so brave a world."

~Susan Cooper in The Silver on the Trees

Quilting

Welcome to the first month of the String ...

added by Ann 3 years, 9 months ago. under #ahiqstringtulipqal , electricsocketshockblock , iowa quilt museum , string piecing , string quilt , string theory

February 2, 2021

Finally Adding Flowers from Fret Not Yourself

People overestimate what they can do in a single day and

underestimate what they can do in their whole lives.

~unknown but possibly Bill Gates

Quilting

With the vines and leaves finally sewn, it's time to sew the flowers. There have been several iterations as you can see by the "cut and paste" of the template under this border. After recopying the entire swag once, I wore out and simply cut the old flower out and taped a new version in. Why? Because the petals extended too far and ended at the edges of the border fabric.

The flower ...

added by Ann 3 years, 9 months ago. under applique border , applique leaves , iowa quilt museum , shadow star , string theory , vessel and vine applique border , vine border

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