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Sunday, December 13th, 2009

If you visit eBay and key in the term “cutter quilt,” you will find some interesting offerings. Today, I looked at just page 1 which included several books for “rotary cut quilts,” but that is not what we are talking about here. The term, “cutter quilt” refers to an old quilt that has been re-purposed: cut up to make Christmas stockings, ornaments, and even pieces of jewelry.

Let’s examine the reasons why a quilt might be given this designation of one to cut up. One seller provides four common justifications: 1) the quilt smells musty; 2) it has a lumpy batting; 3) it has “blown-out blocks” and 4) it is stained.

First of all, the “musty” smell could mean that the quilt has been exposed to less than ideal storage conditions and has some mold and/or mildew. Avoid buying anything that has that odor. You do not want to introduce mold/mildew into your home, nor expose yourself to it (as a health precaution).

Lumpy battings can be replaced easily, if the quilt is tied. In fact, if the quilt had been heavily-quilted, the batting would not have shifted to that degree, in the first place.

A good restorer can replace “blown-out blocks.” However, if every block in the quilt has damage (holes/rips) and fading due to cleaning agents and bleach, it truly becomes a hopeless situation fast.

Stains are another situation. They can be difficult or impossible for either the novice or the professional to remove, if they have set for a long time.

Some silk quilts are inherently self-destructing but I get a little nervous when I see folks cutting up Victorian crazy quilts which often have some very unique silk ribbons or features, including embroidery stitches. Silk crazy quilts are not good candidates for re-use in other projects. I have found that some dealers indiscriminately cut up old Crazy Quilts. I have a remnant of one that I wish I’d been able to view the whole piece as the piece I now own is fantastic!

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Friday, December 11th, 2009

Among the many other family traditions and gifts at Christmas, when I was a little kid, there is one recurring event that stands out in memory. Just like clockwork, every Christmas morning, there would be an envelopes on the tree, with the names of the children written on them. My older sister, two brothers and I came to know what would be inside the envelopes. My father would have gone to the bank and would have asked for brand new dollar bills. Each of us received one never-before-spent dollar.

Now, the kids of today would laugh at receiving just $1.00. After all, what does a dollar buy now? In part, and in retrospect, I feel that the gesture was to teach us a little about money … that if we saved that dollar, it could “grow.” You see, my father firmly believed in Credit Unions and his life’s work in that field involved teaching others how to manage their dollars and “save for a rainy day.”

Christmas tree - Concord, NH

Christmas tree in Concord, NH

Likewise, the New Year’s baby always brought shiny, new pennies for the New Year. Even then, there was not much one could buy with five or six pennies, yet, I always looked on the fireplace hearth and was happy to collect them. Hey, as a grown woman, I still stoop to pick up parking lot pennies! If the coin happens to be a dime, then I am wowed, and if it is a quarter, amazed!

From these small beginnings with handling money, you can understand why I find the billion dollar and trillion dollar amounts, that seem to keep rolling off everyone’s tongues, on the news, to be staggering. How many pennies are there in a trillion dollars? It has happened. I’ve lived beyond my ability to understand money, mathematically, in such huge amounts. I just know that everyone claims to need more money, and they all seem to look to America for their financial gains … for free … most astounding of all!

I treasure my Christmas memories. They reflect a time when life was not more simple but it seemed to be so. If there were any infidelities, they were wisely hidden, not flaunted in the media. People tended to mind their own business, yet, as good neighbors, we always were there to help with a hand up, not a hand out. Often, my mother would donate food to the needy.

The dollar in my Christmas envelope led structure to the holiday, as any predictable event could. It taught me that it is the thought that counts. It encouraged me to be a good stewardess of funds and not to squander them unnecessarily. My parents had lived through the Great Depression when a dime would buy a cup of coffee. Thirty years later, I was being handed ten times that amount, just for being me, and just because they loved me. I felt special.

If you have little kids, think about some special traditions that can become repeat events. A friend takes her granddaughter to see “The Nutcracker” ballet in Boston, each year. Some who like to draw or paint, create their own holiday cards. Some folks like to go ice fishing on New Year’s afternoon. I’m sure you will think of other possibilities. I hope you are enjoying this season. I am working on a very special and fun project that I hope to share with you early next week.

Until then, stay warm!

Patricia Cummings

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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

my dumb doll

The image you see here is of a doll I made some years ago when I was doing volunteer outreach work for a hospital. The doll was meant to give to children, along with a permanent marker so that the child could mark the spot on the doll where they were having pain in the same spot on their bodies. I’m glad I kept a prototype of this hairless doll. I needed a doll in a hurry for a gift.

You see, with great expectations, I had waltzed into JoAnn Fabric about a week and a half ago and had purchased 16 oz. of sportsweight yarn, as the crochet pattern indicated, and began making a dress for a 6-9 month old baby, my granddaughter. I finished it yesterday. Having put the horse before the cart, and being sure the dress would fit, you can imagine my consternation at being told last night that Hannah is already 16″ around and has a 6″ circumference of her upper arms. The dress is too small.

My next thought turned to putting the dress on a doll. So, you can see, this one comes in handy. I had not crocheted anything in years, and before that, had pretty much stayed with crocheted afghans, snowflakes, and once, a Nativity scene. I rather enjoy crocheting and especially love the look of crocheted edges on old pillowcases. There is a lot to be said for keeping these old needlearts alive. Along the same lines as measure twice, cut once, for quilting (or woodworking), I know now that I should have gotten the measurements of the baby ahead of time.

The good news is that the doll is resurrected to life again and will no longer be languishing in a closet. She has a pretty dress to wear. I might even add a ribbon trim to the front of the dress, to jazz it up a bit. Only the wasteful let things go to waste. Besides, I had fun crocheting and it has renewed an interest in a craft I left behind years ago.

That’s the latest chapter in the Cummings’ household. It’s snowing here like crazy! I love being snowbound!

Patricia Cummings
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

On a certain list of which I am a member, there has been a discussion ongoing for the last few days. This evening, I sent this letter that has not yet made it past the list administrator. The message bears repeating for those of you not on that list who would never see it anyhow.

I said,

The trouble with “e-books” is that the term means something different to everyone. Some people equate them with books read on a Kindle or some other, small and expensive machine with a small screen, in black and white.

To me, e-book (electronic book) means a full-length book with many large, color photos, that has been well-researched, and prints out on regular 8 1/2″ x 11″ typing paper. The consumer can print one page, or 125 pages, or 355 pages, etc.

The pages have been converted to a pdf document and that is why the computer that is used to “read” it, must have Adobe Reader software. Most all PCs have that already installed today, but if you have an ancient model, then it is simple enough for even the most computer-illiterate person to download the latest version of Adobe software.

I love e-book publishing. If I put a comma in the wrong place, or if someone I have interviewed requests a change in a quote, I can just go to the original document, make the change, and generate a brand new pdf from which to burn future discs. If the typo was in a print book, it would last forever, in all 10,000 copies, or whatever the run was.

I make sure, to the best of my knowledge, that everything I present in writing is 100% correct. I like to be my own “vetting” committee, and I would not like major changes to a work that I have toiled so hard to round up all the facts to present the total picture.

Since the mid-1980s, I have been quilting. Moreover, I have collected every quilt book I have ever come across. I don’t need another pattern. In fact, when I think about re-creating anyone else’s work these days, I think again and then put on my thinking cap to create a unique design of my own.

When one is a beginner, one emulates others. When one is advanced, he/she has the skills and freedom to make a quilt of his/her own. So, for me, the addition of quilt patterns and nauseating how-to instructions for quilting, in quilt books I might buy today, are a waste of paper and a waste of my time. If there was a pattern I truly felt I wanted to re-create, I’d draft it myself.

To make this message a little longer, I just heard from another person who has my new quilt care book that is greatly expanded. She loves the e-book format and the left side bar that has thumbnail views of all the pages.

She loves being able to click on chapter headings to go directly to the chapter, and she loves the word search function. She had read the print version from 2005 and said that with all the additional photos, graphics and content in the 2009 e-book, Straight Talk About Quilt Care II, it is the difference of night and day, according to her.

Books, traditionally, were considered to be 100 pages or more. Many of the “books” published today are so thin, they disappear on my bookshelves, never to see the light of day again. Without a “perfect binding” that carries a title, they are simply lost.

There are lots of reasons to like traditional books, and many reasons why I will never publish anything but e-books again. I can include all the information I want without being worried about somebody’s bottom line, financially. I can be my own “print on demand” publisher, and I can have control over my own work. For an independent Yankee, like me, those features are a draw. In fact, now that I’ve seen Paradise, I’d never go back to the ghetto.

Patricia Cummings, author of three unique e-books

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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

Fairbanks Museum

Being a New Hampshire-ite, I never heard much about St. Johnsbury, Vermont except that my Aunt Mabel Grace once taught music there, and that her sister, Virginia, and her mother (my grandmother), lived there at that time. My father and mother would visit, by all accounts, but that was before my time, as I was not here until the 1950s. When Jim suggested a trip to a museum I had never heard of before, I raised one eyebrow, wondering if it would be worth the trip. Today, we traveled up the road, past evergreens cloaked in white, and lifeless branches to which ice was clinging. In the historic area of St. Johnsbury, flanked by antique homes, is a remarkable museum that first opened its door in 1891.

A large brick building, crafted in Romanesque style, the museum was built in 1889, and occupies three levels. On the first level, glass cases hold examples of taxidermically-stuffed birds and wildlife. There are more than 3,800 birds. For the first time ever, I was able to see a Raven standing next to two Crows. I am amazed at how much larger a Raven is than the largest of Black Crows. As I viewed the many types of Owls, I wondered which ones had been chosen by those Victorian artists who added owls to so many of the designs for Redwork. Many species of Hummingbirds are represented, and I particularly liked the family of Opossums. The bull moose and the bison are both huge animals! Examples of various kinds of Bears, as well as many smaller animals have been collected. On the first level, right now, there is an exhibit of worldwide instruments.

If one climbs a narrow, winding stairwell, intriguing exhibits await. Victorian ephemera, dolls of all sizes, drawings, silk cocoons, an exhibit of Tapa cloth, old crochet hooks, including one created from bending the end of a square headed nail, and Native American items such as beaded boots and an Abenaki basket are on display. Case after case contains something different, including a Mummy! Some memorable and intriguing works were framed and mounted compositions composed of insect parts. One is called “Star” and features 5,280 insects. John Hampson made the piece about 1900. Believe it or not, there were others!

An exhibit of beautiful, framed, Nature photographs were set up, gallery style, with contact information for the artist. The pieces were for sale. A museum shop on the first floor offers mostly items that would appeal to children: stuffed animals, puzzles, and some Christmas ornaments. The museum, the vision of Franklin Fairbanks, is home to Vermont’s only public planetarium.

For anyone who loves birds, animals and the natural world, with some additional points of history included, this museum is a great place to pass a few hours. Since it was a long trip home, and the only restaurant we spotted was McDonald’s, we decided to take a little detour on the way home and visited the “Happy Hour Restaurant” in Wells River, Vermont. The food is dependably good, the service is friendly and the place is comfortable. After a pleasant meal, we headed back to I-93 for the trip south, feeling as though we’d enjoyed our vacation day.

The museum is gearing up for a special event on December 12 from 1-4 p.m. is located at 1302 Main St., St. Johnsbury, VT (802) 748-2372

Patricia Cummings

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Monday, December 7th, 2009

Andrea Boccelli has just created a Christmas music album. His voice is lovely and charming, with a slight Italian accent. He has appeared a number of times on public television, with his friend and promoter, David Foster, another terrific musician.

I know very little about Andrea, but I know enough to realize that he took a chance on himself and never let the fact of being blind hold him back. He goes wind sailing, and he has a son, according to what he shared in one interview. The scant information about his personal life is alright. His music speaks for itself.

Last night, he sang a number of songs that were nothing short of angelic-sounding. “The Lord’s Prayer” was one of them, and “Ave Maria” was another. He sang, “What Child Is This?,” a favorite Christmas classic. He is versatile in his choice of music, at once fervently religious, and then a romantic figure, singing with beautiful, young women.

I have been a fan for a long time. His voice is captivating. Here is a link to his latest album. From what I can tell, it’s lovely. Who could expect less?

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Sunday, December 6th, 2009

Circa 800 A.D., Celtic monks prepared handwritten and hand-illustrated manuscripts that feature the four Gospels, a fragment of Hebrew names, and the ‘Book of Columba’ in a work known as cheap cialis.com. Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland has these pages on permanent display. By the way, sells, cheap cialis.com, edited by Blanche Cirker (1982). Just do a subject search on this search page.

Wood block printing was one way in which books were printed before invented printing via a movable type method. About 1455, he printed 200 copies of the (Gutenberg) Bible.

In the nineteenth century, people were scandalized when the publication, “Godey’s Lady’s Book,” edited by New Hampshire born, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, was referred to simply as “The Book.”

Why, everyone knew that the words, “The Book” were reserved for the Holy Bible, a book that was held dear in homes across early New England, and the book in which family genealogies were often saved.

Little girls learned their numbers and letters by embroidering them on Girlhood Samplers. Often, the inscriptions mention God, or prove an awareness of their own mortal fate. One kind of curious notation is “Christ is my Nation.” The word “nation” doesn’t quite seem to fit, unless one thinks of Christianity as a “nation of believers.”

The Bible was both a common and a sacred book. All other books came second. I once knew a family of Quakers who owned a dairy farm. The children were not allowed to do anything else on Sunday, except read the Bible. Of course, there is more than one version of the Bible as well as other Scriptures that are never included in the main Bible.

Jump ahead to the twentieth century. There are books galore! Everyone, famous in life, or not, writes an autobiography or about his or her war experiences. Novels are written: some great; some lousy. History is rewritten to suit the political agenda of whomever is writing the book. Books are a tool of expression and any new book competes in the marketplace with all other books, whether terrific or sub-par.

In 1985, I wrote my first draft of a book I wanted to put together on the topic of quilt care. I manually typed it on a “state of the art” typewriter, using “correction tape” to undo typing errors. Twenty years later, I published the first book on the subject as a print book. Now, almost five years later, my book on quilt and textile care is offered as an e-book. How far I have come on my personal journey of learning, and how far technology has come, as well!

Now, in 2009, I can move entire paragraphs around with the push of a few keys. I can format photos, making them the size I want, removing scratches and dings, adjusting their colorations, and formatting an entire, large book into a new entity called an “e-book” or “electronic book.” I can independently create a book, do my own layout, and choose what will be said and presented. The freedom is exhilarating!

Amazon.com sells a product called a “Kindle,” as most of you know. That device is great for downloading print books without photos that are not very long. No one has yet invented a “Kindle” that can handle color photos, nor the lengthy kind of books I produce. My e-books are sold on disc because they simply would not work as “downloads.” I could compromise and shorten the text and make the photos smaller, but I don’t want to do that. I want to provide the best I can provide for the reader.

There are a lot of reasons to like e-books on discs.

1) Navigation through the document is a breeze.

2) Thumbnail pages appear along the left side bar so that you can easily scroll and click on a previous or future page.

3) Word search is easy with a global word search function.

4) The disc is easily stored.

5) Pages can be printed. I do not disable that feature. I ask that people print one copy for their own personal use. If someone wants to cheat and break the copyright law by illegally distributing my work, I figure that’s between them and their own conscience. I don’t write book for the thieves. I write books to share good information.

6) If I were to print the same quality of information in a print format, the upfront costs of printing would be staggering, and then, I’d have the pressure of selling them to try to recoup my investment.

7) For books that share information (non-fiction), e-books are grand. I love making them and feel that I offer a high-quality product at a reasonable cost.

Patricia Cummings
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Friday, December 4th, 2009

In the 1960s, when I was in high school, I had to walk to the “corner” to catch the bus that took tuition students to Manchester, about 13 miles south of the small town where I lived. Of course, the “corner” was located about a mile from our farm, and mini-shirts were “in.” For the sake of vanity, I froze my knees off, as a “slave to fashion” to quote the Clappett brothers. During my brisk morning walks, unless a neighbor stopped to give me a ride, I would walk past a farm that looked abandoned. There were sometimes chickens or guinea hens, or other animals in the road, causing the locals who commuted out of town to work to get a little bit put out in having to wait, and wade their way through all the creatures. I have told you all that as a backdrop to the real story.

The farm, for all intents, looked as though no one lived there, as it was so run down, especially the outer buildings like the hen coop. The outhouse was situated directly across the street from the house, a building all by itself, in the middle of nowhere, in front of another big field. As truth would have it, someone did live in the house. He was an ancient man named Ozra Dutton. The townspeople just called him “Ozzie.” This man was a legend in his time. You see, as part of his farming operation he raised steers. As near as I can tell, steers would be bulls except that they have had some vital parts removed. Most often, they are docile animals and they still have their horns.

One day, Ozra was out in the field, tending the steers, when one of them got a notion to charge him. Ripped his stomach open, side to side. Without missing a beat, Mr. Dutton went into the house and, as the story goes, he wrapped a towel around himself to hold his innards in. He hitched up his horse to a conveyance of some kind and gitty-upped all the way to the Exeter Hospital, that is at least 45 minutes away, today, by car.

The medical team sewed him up, and good as new, he drove himself home. Independent cuss, he was! He never was one to lie around moaning about much of anything. There was work to do! Ozzie passed on to the Big Ranch in the Sky when he was a mere child of (98?). His niece and her husband inherited the place, painting it, doing interior renovations, putting geraniums in the windows, and keeping geese and a goat named “Willy.” Bad-tempered animals seemed to be a trademark of the place. One of the geese bit my leg so hard, it left a bruise for a month. The goat head-butted my leg with such force, he also left a bruise.

I wish I had known more about the mysterious man who was hardly ever seen. He lived out his days, mostly alone, doing his farm chores and asking nothing more of life than to be left alone. There is a lot to be said for “independence,” and to me, Ozra Dutton exhibited that quality to the inth degree. Yes, a true Yankee, he was.

Patricia Cummings

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Friday, December 4th, 2009

invitation

Invitation to Christmas Fair

A few words in Spanish and in English by my friend, Gloria Tanquilevich:

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You will enjoy Gloria’s blog. She has been teaching other women in her area how to quilt, and is primarily self-taught. Argentina does not have a tradition of quiltmaking, and Gloria started out by using patterns for paper piecing that she gleaned from the Internet. She still loves paper piecing!

This announcement is offered as a public service by

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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Press Release

ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA and EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN -December 3, 2009- The Quilt Index () recently launched a major expansion and upgrade — increasing to nearly 50,000 quilt records and offering new tools for viewing and searching. The website is a partnership project of the Alliance for American Quilts, Michigan State University Museum, and MATRIX: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters and Social Sciences Online at Michigan State University.

The Quilt Index website now provides centralized access to nearly 50,000 records, including quilts from state or regional documentation projects, museum and private collections. Ten new projects have been added to the Quilt Index, made possible by a grant from the Preservation and Access Division of the National Endowment for the Humanities, in addition to support from the contributors themselves.

New contributors include: the Connecticut Quilt Search, the Hawaiian Quilt Research Project, the Louisiana Regional Folklife Program, Minnesota Quilt Project, New England Quilt Museum/MassQuilts, The Heritage Quilt Project of New Jersey at Rutgers University Libraries/ Special Collections and University Archives, the North Carolina Museum of History, the Rhode Island Quilt Documentation Project at the University of Rhode Island, the West Virginia Heritage Quilt Search, Inc., and the Wyoming Quilt Project, Inc.

The expanded Quilt Index website also features a new design and navigation, as well as zoom and comparison tools funded by an Institute for Museum and Library Services National Leadership Grant. The zoom tool allows users to move in close to a quilt’s surface and study stitching, embellishment and fabric texture. The compare feature allows users to select images and basic data for multiple quilts to display side by side, enabling easy evaluation (e.g. similar patterns from different collections, geographic locations or time periods).

IMLS funding along with a generous grant from the Salser Family Foundation made possible another compelling component of the expansion: the Signature Quilt Project (SQP), . The SQP provided an opportunity to pilot the public submission of privately-owned quilts.

The Quilt Index merges tradition with technology and springs from the work of a unique team of researchers and experts committed to making significant, quilt-related data widely accessible to both scholars and the general public.

Applications are now being accepted from institutions or quilt documentation projects to become Quilt Index contributors, with a deadline of March 31, 2010. Information and application materials can be found at:

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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

This blog entry began as a conversation over dinner about people and the way that they hoard material goods. We could not help but think of my (late) mother. She was obsessive-compulsive about what was “hers,” and worried about someone else having anything that belonged to her. She even took a permanent marker to mark her initials on her wooden hangers, the bottoms of plastic pails, and the handles of tools.

Anything that went into her house or barn stayed there. We recalled how she had purchased a tent. Eventually, it made its way out to the barn and when the task fell to my husband and I to liquidate everything on the property and to sell the farm, guess what? The tent was full of black mold and mildew and went to the landfill. Of course, we had to pay someone to haul it off, with about six large truckloads full of old magazines, egg cartons, used meat trays, broken toys, etc.

When mother had a sudden heart attack and landed in the hospital, never to return home, I found the quilt I had so lovingly-made for her, as well as two matching pillow shams, in a pile of dust bunnies on the floor of a bedroom. She always slept on the couch, and silly me, she had no need of a quilt. Funny how wooden hangers and such were more important to her than a handmade quilt from her daughter. And, so it goes. I don’t think there is a single quilt I have given to a family member that has not been totally wrecked, either through ignorance or indifference, perhaps one reason that I am offering the e-book, cheap cialis.com.

It is difficult to come across people who are so short-sighted that they do not want something that they perceive to be theirs to be used in any way. In so saying, I am thinking about a specific museum who has limited public access to a quilt of historic proportion because somehow, it might affect them adversely, or financially, in the future.

Now, mind you, many quilts are donated to museums by families who think that the quilt in their possession will be enjoyed, studied by scholars, and exhibited for the public. This quilt had been on display in recent months. I was told that the museum disallowed information about the quilt to a fellow researcher. This is not in the interest of good public relations, and if you think that professionals do not share information with each other, guess again.

I will not name the institution. I will just say that I just received a request for a donation (that I will not be honoring). They have lost credibility with me (and had) ever since a little situation in the 1990s, when a lie was perpetrated, just for the sake of duping the public into giving money. If I did not have that information on good authority, I would not believe it, nor be sharing this report of scurrilous, reprehensible and evil misbehavior. Shame!

Museums should be trustworthy. They cut their own throats when their representatives act poorly. I just hope that somebody, somehow, comes to their senses.

When museums alienate the quilters of today, they do so at a price of losing support. Quilters on a professional level are a tight-knit group and we support each other. No, alienating one of us is “not good.” Think about it. You know who you are.

Patricia Cummings

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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Textile design by Amin Kalaf

Textile design by Amin Kalaf, viewed at Plymouth State University’s Silver Center for the Arts

Jim and I were in Plymouth, NH today and stumbled upon two exhibits of interest at Plymouth State University: a faculty exhibit of art, including a quilt; and an exhibition that traces American textile history though time, and with the help of textile examples provided by Amin Kalaf. The exhibit began on October 7 and ends on December 5, 2009, so we just caught it in the nick of time.

One statement on a wall placard caught my attention. It is a quote from “Seven Lamps of Architecture” by John Ruskin (1849) in which he states that “forms not taken from nature are ugly and that nature has few straight lines.” Are we to surmise that Mr. Ruskin would think all contrived, geometric forms (like quilt blocks) to be “ugly?”

The exhibit includes a few key dates and explanations such as how a loom utilizes warp and weft threads, a mention of the Jacquard loom, when the flying shuttle was invented, as well as the spinning jenny, the first use of block printing in Europe, the first screen printing there, and the first rotary screen printing.

I only wish this exhibit were going to be offered for a longer time so that those of you, in the area, could visit. The textiles are very interesting and well worth viewing.

Patricia Cummings

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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Sherry Nugent sends the following e-mail. She is requesting quilts for the victims of the recent flood in Ireland.

Hello Quilter Friends,

Most all of you have heard about the flooding in Ireland. They say it is a flood occurrence that happens once in 800 years. The South and the West were first affected. Closely behind came the midland areas, such as, severely affected Athlone in Co. Roscommon. With more torrential storms this past weekend, the Dublin and Kildare counties are experiencing the same.

The number of homes affected in the beginning was tremendous: 500-600. News from County Cork put the displaced families at a staggering 18,000.
There will be a number of weeks before many residents will be able to adequately estimate the real damage to their home and belongs.

Irish Quilting (magazine) is asking you if you can help the Irish families displaced. We are donating quilts to bring warmth to these victims.
Can you sew a 13 1/2″ unfinished block? (a sample block pattern is included here!)
or
Can you donate a quilt?
or
Can you and your friends create a charity quilt (pattern included here!)?

If you said yes to any of these questions above, please contact us. Or, just sew and send! Be sure to include your name. We will be working with Saint Vincent De Paul and the Irish Red Cross to give back warmth to our flood victims.

Many of our quilting groups are breaking for Christmas. Maybe your group can meet with this need in mind?–several people creating 13″ blocks will have a quilt top in no time. Attached is a flyer asking for blocks (with block pattern) and charity quilts.

Forward all your blocks to the address below. If you know of charitable amounts of wadding and/or backing available, all is appreciated. So often we work for charities overseas, now there’s a clear need for warmth at home, so let’s help out!

If you have quilts ready to be donated, please email me at: “Sherry Nugent” <>, or call me and I will arrange the dropoff/collection point for charity.

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Sherry Nugent
Editor
+353 87 2698119

Irish Quilting
Berowra Djouce
Roundwood
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+353 1 281 2028
www.irishquilting.ie

Pat’s note: Since I do not know how to share the pdfs she sent, please contact her directly for more information.

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