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Recipe Index - Quilter's Muse

As a bonus to our needlework friends, I am putting illustrations from various vintage sources amongst the recipes. These illustrations will be most useful for outline stitch embroidery or in what is known as redwork quilts, and in crazy quilts. If you click here, you will go to a tutorial in one of our online redwork books about resizing and printing images for your own use. Use the back button on your browser to return to this section.

Keep in mind that these images were copied mostly from old catalogs and thus, some of the lines are faded or may have disappeared. Some splotches of ink may have been introduced from the ancient printing process, most of which I have removed. As always, you, as the creative needleworker, should use your own artistic judgement to redraw lines, add or elimate certain elements to achieve an effect which pleases you. While this can be done on the computer it is much simpler to do so with a drawing tool just before transferring the design to fabric. The same goes true if you enlarge the design and get jagged pixillated edges as a result. While it is possible to smooth out the drawing with a drawing program, the results I have seen with this are mechanical looking and the charm of the vintage drawings are lost.

Design for redwork embroidery

Molasses Raisin Cookies

Chicken Salad in Melon (for two)- from "Joyce at the Jersey Shore"

Bea Cummings' Tuna Roll-ups

Christmas Fruit Stollen

Grandmother Grace's Best Apple Pie

Jim's Slow Cooker Pot Roast

Tourtiere-French Canadian Pork Pie with a little serving of history

Wicked Good Beef Stew

Southwest Turkey and Squash Enchilada Casserole

Red Lentil and Chicken Soup: Jim's version of Esau's Potage

Jim's Chicken Pot Pie

Portuguese Potato and Sausage Stew

Jim's Stewed Tomatoes

Crock pot Indian pudding with maple sugar and apples

 

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