Category: Hand work
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Making a Seamless Tile
This group of pictures represents two originals of the subject I used as an inspiration for this design. The third picture is a digital image where I did the flowing white line drawing that is the basis for the seamless tile. The third drawing was done in layers the background layer is the original pastel…
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Marcia McDade McMann at the Orange County Library
Paintings and Drawings on display 132 W Margaret Lane Hillsborough NC August -October The Exhibition includes my most recent watercolors and a sampling of oil pastels from the past. There are two example of soft pastel and monotype which represent what I am currently working on. Over the years I have worked with the silkscreen,…
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Monkey Wrench 2019-2020 Designing as I go
Machine pieced Monkey Wrench Pattern using triangles and squares to form the 10″ Squares. This quilt was started in May 2019 and finished in August 2020. A friend from quilting mentioned that she wanted to do a monkey wrench quilt but all she had was directions for a twelve inch block. Thinking about it I…
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Quilts Speak at NC Museum of History
Highlights from our day at the Quilt In with the Cedar Grove Quilters
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A New String Quilt 2018
Finished on June 24th in 2019 The Blue and Yellow color scheme is a favorite of mine these days. After an inventory purging and reorganization of my quilting scrapes I am ready to start. I have come up with a pattern and I think I can pull it off with Four different string blocks. I am…
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Rag Dolls–Alpaca Hair and the Bath Town Dolls
I was inspired to make dolls for a while. Two converging experience caused this. I was helping my great aunt finish a quilting project that had been laying around for a longtime. It was important to let her complete as much on her own. I was just a guiding force. While she would work I…
MARCIA MCDADE MCMANN 