Category: scraps
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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…
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One on one art lessons-Finishing the Mermaid Doll
This doll had a crazy start. My great niece liked to play with old Barbies from the time she was a baby and she loved the Little Mermaid so I made a tail that would fit over the Barbie Legs. I came across this tail the other day and needing a refresher course in doll making, I thought, I…
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Bookmaking with old paintings and fabric scraps
MARCIA MCDADE MCMANN 