Whole Cloth Quilt: OESD
Quilted Dimension 12380-01, 12380-02, 1238014 & Follow Your Heart FB534-48, FB535-48; oesd.com
Ernest was among a small group of men who
quilted in the twentieth century prior to 1970.
Special exhibits at the show will include quilts created by Plano-based quilt artist Richard Larson, hand pieced and hand
quilted works of art by Lois Stoltenberg of Newton, Kansas, and works by Mason County quilt artist, Debbie Geistweidt.
"I don't really consider my work to be quilts -- they are
quilted paintings.
Both Amish and Amish-like Welsh quilts are made of plain woolen fabric
quilted with fine, intricate stitching designs.
Dorothy's recent book, A
Quilted Bridge: The Amish Welsh Connection, has been of as much interest to Jen, dealing as it does with the historic relationship between these two very similar textiles on both sides of the pond.
Hawaiian quilts are usually
quilted with echo quilting, a technique where the stitches outline the appliqued design a finger-width apart.
By the end of the 18th Century
quilted clothing ceased to be fashionable and even the bed quilt went out of use in most parts of Britain during the 19th Century.
Brighter colors will dominate the more contemporary quilts fluttering outside, from organizer Midge Hoffmann's award-winning art quilts to small, stained-glass style
quilted wall hangings.
This
quilted piece (trimmed in geometric patterns, once used as signals for safe passage across the Underground Railroad) "shows the type of woman she may have been, behind the mirror of [the person] she pretended to be," explains Rico.
Bill DePiazza, vice president of sales and marketing for Perfect Fit, said his company looked into
quilted, down-filled products, but decided against making them.
Stories of quilts can be as comforting to children as
quilted bed coverings.
COUNTRYSIDE: Sue Robishaw ("Design your own insullating window quilts," Nov/Dec 2002) warns readers from using cotton batting in making window quilts because "the cotton batting clumped and shifted, leaving areas with no batting at all." As a professional quiltmaker who uses nothing but cotton batting, I must assume she used one of the old-fashioned cotton batts which require very close quilting, since modern, needle punched cotton batts may be
quilted or tied as much as 8" apart.
