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Making The Quilts We Didn't Inherit

Author: Kay Connors, Karen Earlywine
Pages: 96
Page size: 8.5" W X 11" H
Publisher: Martingale and Patchwork Place
Cover: Soft Cover
Item Code: 4R80615
Weight: 1.0 lb
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MSRP: $26.99

Introduction

You will find a variety of challenges in this book, but you can also find several quilts for the less-experienced quilter. Techniques range from simple construction and applique, to curved seams, to complex blocks with multiple set-in pieces. The confident beginner will enjoy the quilts that use more rotary cutting and straight-line piecing, while the advanced quilter will welcome the challenge of multiple techniques and intricate patterns.

About the Authors

Kay Connors was born in Texas, raised in New Mexico and she has had homes in Colorado, California, Washington, Alaska and Idaho, where she has lived since 1979. Hopelessly lost in the 1930s, she has been quilting since 1973, first to use up fabric and then to feed her passion. She is a contemporary quilter, but finds she can't pass up anything having to do with old quilts. She buys feed sacks, old quilt tops, quilts and every piece of reproduction '30s fabric she finds. Collecting old patterns and drafting her own from found quilts has allowed her to make quilts that she feels need to be in her home.

Making quilts both for competition and for her large family of four married children and nine grandchildren, she always has a list of projects waiting. She recently retired from office management and realized that she finally had time to do "that quilt book" she and her sister had often talked about writing.

In a 1998, Kay and her sister Karen bought a little house in the hill country of Texas as a quilting getaway. They renovated and decorated it will all things '30s from Depression glass and Fiesta ware to mission oak and quilts, quilts, quilts - most collected, but some newly made to finally quilted old tops. Only one quilt in the house was inherited.

Karen Earlywine was the youngest of four children in a post-World War II family in Texas. She was two years old when the family moved to New Mexico. Karen, her husband and their grown children still live in the southwestern part of the state. She has been teaching both in public schools and part time at the university level for more than 35 years.

Quilting became an important part of her life in 1977. Her first quilts 'interesting' because there was little information available on the subject and finding fabrics that were suited for quilts was a serious problem. She tried to solve that problem by opening a fabric/quilt shop with a friend. They had a great time but finally had to recognize that they were way ahead of the time starting such a shop in a small town.

Now the most important thing in Karen's life is her family. Four young grandchildren have new quilts as they go from cradles to cribs to beds. College graduations and other events in the lives of close friends and family are celebrated with gift of quilt.

Years of working on old homes and collecting antiques intensified the interest Karen has in reproduction fabrics and quilts of the past. She and her sister both share this passion and try to get away to their shared house in Texas to scour the area for fabric and antique treasures as often as possible. Fabric exchange is a frequent recreational activity.

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