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	<title>quiltersmuse.com Blog &#187; Quilt History</title>
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		<title>Do Amish Quilts have a Welsh Connection?</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/11/25/do-amish-quilts-have-a-welsh-connection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2001, when I participated in a quilt history study course at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, I heard the first mention of Amish Quilts having a possible link to the Welsh quilting tradition. It was a matter of time before someone decided to undertake a study and that someone is the renowned quilt scholar, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Light Shed on Dublin, NH Sanitary Commission Quilt</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not only people moved from the east to west in the United States during the nineteenth century, but quilts made that journey, too. An important historic quilt associated with the American Civil War was found in a thrift store in California and given to (the late) Jan Coor-Pender Dodge, a resident of that state. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quilts: A Discussion</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/10/20/quilts-a-discussion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why Quilts &#8220;Matter&#8221;: A Quilt Discussion by Patricia L. Cummings This particular quilt which I named &#8220;Die Gedanken Sind Frei&#8221; is composed of reproduction blocks based on various antique quilts in my collection or traditional quilt blocks I have made to illustrate designs for published (printed magazine) articles when originals were not available. I started [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Betty and Barney Story of Alien Abduction&#8230; and a Related Quilt Block</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/09/19/the-betty-and-barney-story-of-alien-abduction-and-a-related-quilt-block/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 01:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[50th anniversary of Betty and Barney Hill alien abducti]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On September 19, 1961, fifty years ago, Betty and Barney Hills, newlyweds, were returning from Niagara Falls and were passing through the White Mountains of New Hampshire. They later reported that they had been abducted by aliens just south of the Old Man of the Mountains location. Reportedly taken aboard a space craft, they were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Log Cabin Quilts with Black Centers</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/08/18/log-cabin-quilts-with-black-centers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day, I was approached by someone, after my talk about Civil War quilts, who stated that she believed that Log Cabin quilts with black centers were made by slaves as part of the signaling methods that were used to guide slaves to freedom. She had, after all, written a paper about this topic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disconcerting Revelation: Museum&#8217;s Continuance of the Underground Railroad Quilts Myth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 01:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a good thing we were back at home tonight when Jim casually mentioned seeing a sign at a museum about an upcoming talk about the Underground Railroad and its Quilts, no doubt another totally bogus re-visitation of the myth that has been floating around for a few years but is becoming deeply embedded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quilt History: Why is it Important?</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/07/12/quilt-history-why-is-it-important/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quilt History: Why Is It Important? by Patricia L. Cummings ©2010 Before we ask, “Why is Quilt History important?,” perhaps we should first ask, &#8220;Why is History important?” Daniel Webster, a noted statesman from New Hampshire, (and no relation to Ellen Webster), once said: “It is wise for us to refer to the history of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Multiplication of Mistakes by Repetition / Case in Point: The Book &#8220;Hidden in Plain View&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/06/14/the-multiplication-of-mistakes-by-repetition-case-in-point-the-book-hidden-in-plain-view/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eager to accept the unbelievable tale that quilt blocks were used as the means of communication between escaping slaves on the Underground Railroad, members of the American public who think that anything in print is totally &#8220;the Bible&#8221; (particularly when it is written by a professor), have been duped into making so-called &#8220;Underground Railroad&#8221; quilts. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quilt Historians: Dispelling Myths, One at a Time</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/05/23/quilt-historians-dispelling-myths-one-at-a-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 22:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many thanks to Judy Anne Breneman for her latest blog post: http://www.womenfolk.com/baby_quilts/scottie.htm that dispels the myth of all early twentieth Scottie Dogs quilts being inspired by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt&#8217;s dog, &#8220;Fala.&#8221; Information about quilts has been passed by word of mouth, forever, or so it seems, and a whole bit of folk mythology has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crazy Quilts: Some Photos and a Poem</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/02/19/crazy-quilts-some-photos-and-a-poem/</link>
		<comments>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/02/19/crazy-quilts-some-photos-and-a-poem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 22:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This crazy quilt measures 60&#8243; x 69&#8243; and has two embroidered dates: 1889 and 1929. Whenever we see dates on a crazy quilt, we cannot be sure of their meaning to the person who made the quilt. Sometimes dates recall a birth date, death date, an anniversary or a special event. Before I share close-up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Guicciardini Quilt: Conservation of the Deeds of Tristan</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/01/20/the-guicciardini-quilt-conservation-of-the-deeds-of-tristan/</link>
		<comments>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/01/20/the-guicciardini-quilt-conservation-of-the-deeds-of-tristan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This photo provided by Kathryn Berenson is a close-up view of the Guicciardini quilt, companion to a quilt at the V&#038;A in London and one in a private collection. A note from Kathryn Berenson of Paris: I write in reference to a new English-language title, The Guicciardini Quilt: Conservation of the Deeds of Tristan, released [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quilt Index</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/01/16/quilt-index/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 13:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The University of Michigan offers online photos and descriptions of quilts via a program known as the Quilt Index: http://www.quiltindex.org Not too long ago, I participated in their Signature Quilt Pilot Project that sought to document Signature Quilts from across the country. The quilt I collected in the north country of New Hampshire has thirty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A &#8220;Wonky&#8221; Coverlet for Baby</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2010/10/31/a-wonky-coverlet-for-baby/</link>
		<comments>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2010/10/31/a-wonky-coverlet-for-baby/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 20:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, while perusing the goods of a New Hampshire antiques shop, I discovered a coverlet that was too cool to leave on a shelf. My criteria for selection is that it was in a pile of textiles, apparently made by the same person, I did not already have a item with this design, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cora Garner and Her Quilts</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2010/10/15/cora-garner-and-her-quilts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 00:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cora Garner, known by all as simply &#8220;Aunt Cora,&#8221; lived on a farm in Arkansas with her brother, Hampton. They raised white and sweet potatoes and cotton, at least some of which was processed right on the farm for use in making some of her many quilts. Cora lived to be 100 years old and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Readers Inquire about Quilt Pattern Names</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2010/10/07/reader-inquiries-about-quilt-pattern-names/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 03:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I received two inquiries about the names of certain quilts. I briefly looked for the names and did not find them. Keep in mind that not all quilts enjoyed published names. and for those that were published&#8230; there were thousands of names, and often the same configuration would have a number of different names. [...]]]></description>
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