Even more quilts… (Shelburne Museum II)

But wait, there’s more… A simple block, in two colors (and a classic turkey-red and white combination at that) but you get such interesting patterns and secondary patterns. This was a trend at somepoint, competing to get as many tiny tiny patchwork squares into a quilt as you can. The one next to this had [...]

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Shelburne Museum aka more quilts!

It was a quilt-filled weekend in Vermont. I (and apparently alot of other, tote-bag carrying, fabric-buying, quilt-ooo!-ing women) headed to the Shelburne Museum after the quilt festival. (Fabulous museum by the way… 30 or 40 buildings stuffed with a mish-mash of fine art, craft, folk-art, historic furnishings and whatever else the founder had an eye [...]

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