A special surprise from my daughter this week was a trip to the Little Rock, Arkansas Historic Art Museum's storage building. There the museum attendants unrolled some beautiful quilts from the mid 1800's. I thought I would share some of my observations. The quilts were wrapped in tissue paper over a pole three quilts on each… Continue reading Historic Quilts
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Quilt Beginnings
The first quilter I knew was my grandmother. She and my grandfather had lake cottages in Northern Wisconsin. The antique brass and wooden beds were covered with my grandmother's quilts. I spent every summer there swimming and fishing in the lake, warming by a fire, eating my grandmother's wonderful German food, and snuggling down… Continue reading Quilt Beginnings
