Quilter's Muse Virtual Museum               

 

Quilter's Muse Publications
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Original Design by Patricia Cummings, a Crazy Quilt style quilt

Quilter's Muse Publications is a diverse website, as well as a registered business in the state of New Hampshire. Patricia Cummings is a professional writer, and James Cummings is a photographer. From Sweetheart Pillows to Aghani Needlework and Textiles from Uzbekistan, you heard it here, first, plus much more!

Features include, but are not limited to:

Directions for Making a Civil War Quilt Reproduction by Machine

Victorian Era Crazy Quilts, Outline Stitch Embroidery: Redwork, Greenwork, Bluework, etc.

Antique Textiles and their Mysteries and International Quilts and Textiles

Photos of Baltimore Album Quilts and their History

An analysis of the Underground Railroad's "secret quilt code" theory, presented in one audio recording and a number of written files.

Book and Show Reviews

Quilt and Needlework Galleries

Songs in English, Irish, Spanish, German, and Hebrew

Photos from Readers, and Letters to the Editor

Poetry:  traditional, mine, and reader poems

Family recipes illustrated with line drawings for Outline Stitch Embroidery from circa 1890.

The left side bar and the site navigation tools below will help you to navigate this extensive website.

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Reader Query

A reader would like to know more about this Egyptian piece that she has owned for fifty years. Write to:  pat@quiltersmuse.com

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IMPORTANT FILE

See our newly-enhanced article, "Saving Old Quilt Designs," that explains more about the Ellen Webster e-book on CD which would make a wonderful holiday gift for any quilter or historian. It is currently available exclusively from us.

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LATEST PUBLISHED ARTICLE IN THE QUILTER

"The Lobster Claw Quilt: A Family Mystery," is in print! This, our 67th  published article for The Quilter magazine, appears in the January 2010 issue, available in November 2009. Our 68th and 69th articles already have been accepted, so you will continue to see the work of Patricia and James Cummings in the magazine next year!

The quilter who made the "Lobster Claw" quilt and her baby in 1911.

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Original design  by Patricia Cummings, previously published in The Quilter.

VIEW THE FULL LIST OF ARTICLES THAT PATRICIA HAS WRITTEN FOR THE QUILTER MAGAZINE.

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Getting Around This Huge Site

SITE NAVIGATION

WORD Search   or   SITE MAP Function

The Site Map provides a list of all of the many articles here.

Otherwise, click on any of the categories in the left side bar to choose from many articles to read.

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Autumn in New Hampshire, photo by James Cummings

Quilter's Muse Blog

written by Patricia Cummings

See:  http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/ for writings on diverse and sundry topics, press releases, photos of antique textiles, announcements of new books, textile discoveries, and quilt shows and exhibits, commentaries and more.

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Award

Gayle Pritchard has bestowed the Renee Award on Quilter's Muse website and blog. Please visit her blogsite for details, as well as the names of others whom she has chosen for this honor:  http://gaylepritchard.blogspot.com/

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VINTAGE COOKERY BLOG

Jim Cummings writes about New England cooking and textiles in his new Cooking Blog. Frequently, he includes line drawings that are related to cooking, from antique sources in our collection of ephemera.

Example of a shared textile: a 1930s potholder from the Lewis Collection, which is a wide-ranging assortment of textiles from the 19th and 20th centuries.

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ITEMS FOR SALE:

e-books on CD, and Outline Stitch embroidery patterns

Please visit our Products Available page.

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Quilt block designed by Patricia Cummings, using her hand-painted fabrics and loosely-based on an old postcard of Mt. Fuji.
 

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Guide to Buying a Quilt Online

a volunteer article written for eBay by Patricia Cummings

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From former Quilter's Home magazine's editor, Mark Lipinski, in the June/July 2009 issue, page 19:

www.quiltersmuse.com

Quilt historian Patricia Cummings' Website is billed as a virtual museum. Filled with tons of articles on quilt history, free patterns and helpful information you never knew you needed until you came across it, you can surf this site for hours and never be bored.

Thanks, Mark!

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James Cummings snapped this photo of a magnificent Black and Yellow Garden Spider: Argiope aurantia. This spider is an Orb spider and is harmless to humans. The female is quite large!

We must be a bit "Victorian" in that we consider spiders to be "good luck" and rarely destroy one - unless it happens to be black and hairy! Victorian women even embroidered spiders onto Crazy Quilts!

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Copyright 2002-2009. Quilter's Muse Publications, Concord, New Hampshire. We have been licensed in New Hampshire since 2002. All photos and information on this website are copyrighted and not to be used without written permission. Thank you.

For any questions, except any that are related to appraisals, not our area of interest, please write to:  pat@quiltersmuse.com

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