August Meeting 2008

Shelly's show and tell.

Close up of center block.

.....and the back.

Shelly's snow day quilt.

August Meeting 2008

Steve and Janet's show and tell.

It was worth all the ripping!!

Annette's black and white challenge. Nice feathers!

August Meeting 2008

Steve is demonstrating the Statler Stitcher.

Double Knit Quilt

What are you going to do with all of that vintage double knit fabric? You could make a leisure suit or you could make a quilt! I'm not quite sure what to do with this thing. Will there be a double knit category at the Des Moines Quilt Show this fall?

The Underground Railroad Quilt

This quilt was a start to finish quilt for Michelle and me. She pieced and bound it an I quilted it. The neighbor woman is a great admirer of quilts but she doesn't sew , so she has been a great customer of ours. She has a brother -in -law that is black and is interested in the Underground Railroad. She and some other family members commissioned us to make this for his birthday this summer. We had such fun doing it. Michelle got the patterns for the blocks from the book "Facts and Fabrications: Unraveling the History of Quilts and Slavery" by Barbara Brackman. I included the names of the blocks and descriptions from the book. Some of the blocks, as you can see, have different names than we know them by. I had a mistake in the block posts....."Birds in the Air" is a block to recall freedom.

Tim

Underground Railroad

"Jacob's Ladder"
A block to recall buying freedom.
"Slave Chain"
A block to recall the slave's clothing

"Triple Link Chain"
A block to recall family ties.

"Box Quilt"
A block to recall the abolitionist movement.

"Creole Puzzle"
A block to recall free blacks.