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Posts Tagged quilting

Christmas in July

By Jean Brashear on July 18, 2019   /   Quilts & Needlework   /   Leave a comment
Christmas in July

I’ve been working on utilizing donations to the seniors handcrafts shop where I volunteer, in order to piecing Christmas throws and wall hangings for our group to quilt and then for the shop to sell. I didn’t get enough advance notice to be able to be part

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A Fun Idea for Vintage Linens!

By Jean Brashear on June 27, 2019   /   Quilts & Needlework   /   2 Comments
A Fun Idea for Vintage Linens!

Like many of you, I’m guessing, I have inherited a number of lace doilies and what were called dresser scarves (sort of table runners to put on top of a dresser.) I even have a set embroidered to go beneath a sugar bowl and cream pitcher. I’ve

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Thank you, My Unknown Quilter Friend

By Jean Brashear on May 2, 2019   /   Quilts & Needlework   /   4 Comments
Thank you, My Unknown Quilter Friend

As I look at this quilt I made, I wonder how you see it. Think about the long journey it’s had, the missing chapters of its life you and I will never know. I encountered the beginnings of it as small bits of fabric inside a small

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Repairing Antique Quilts

By Jean Brashear on February 28, 2019   /   Quilts & Needlework   /   5 Comments
Repairing Antique Quilts

I’ve done this for a few of my own inherited quilts and for a quilt or two I’ve rescued from the scrap heap, but this is the first time I’ve done it for anyone else (and only love for a friend would induce me!) This quilt had

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Repurposing Vintage Linens

By Jean Brashear on January 31, 2019   /   Quilts & Needlework   /   2 Comments
Repurposing Vintage Linens

I’m the happy steward of vintage linens handed down through my mother that belonged to my beloved grandmothers, and  a part of me is freaking out a little at disturbing them in the slightest. But the more pragmatic part of me knows that as long as they’re just

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