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		<title>The Mills &#8211; Additional Thoughts and Input on the Subject</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/09/22/the-mills-additional-thoughts-and-input-on-the-subject/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine yourself as a girl in the early 1800s. You would have household chores to do, and you might also work for the lady down the road, helping with the children, doing laundry or other household chores. Occupations for women were much more limited than today. In certain months of the year, you would be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Question from Reader re: Thread</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/09/18/question-from-reader-re-thread/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The question &#8211; &#8220;Can you tell me where to buy turkey red embroidery thread?&#8221;
At first, I was floored by this question because I wondered where the reader found the term and why she was asking me. Mystified, and short on time, when I read the one-line message, I wrote back, &#8220;Why do you want to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama&#8217;s Mother Collected Batiks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama and his sister, Maya, have inherited their mother&#8217;s collection of Batik fabrics that she bought while living in Indonesia. Ann Dunham was an anthropologist. She died of ovarian cancer in 1995, at the age of 52. 
Meanwhile, clothes were made for her using the beautiful Batik fabrics she collected. She had lived in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Explanation, Photos, and A Poem</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/07/17/an-explanation-photos-and-a-poem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the benefit on non-historians, I thought that I would take a moment to explain some terminology. When I say that my specialty and area of interest is the 19th century, I mean the 1800s. People always think that 19th century means 1900s, but the 1900s are actually the 20th century. Likewise, the 18th century [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toile</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2008/11/07/toile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recently discovered blog features some of my words from an article I wrote about toile and its origins. Included are some wonderful examples of toile fabric being used in all manner of home decoration in the blogger&#8217;s home. Although, at first, this blog ended up in my spam mail box, I am so glad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Idea for Cheater Cloth</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2008/05/23/new-idea-for-cheater-cloth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 17:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
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This photo of Mola cheater cloth was taken by Linda Lane Thornton in Colon (with an accent on the second &#8220;o&#8221;), Panama. She reports having enjoyed my article in The Quilter, about the topic of cheater cloth, in the March edition. We always love to receive updates from readers, and thought this one to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1870s Cheater Cloth</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2008/03/14/1870s-cheater-cloth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gleefully, I purchased a very small piece of 1870s cheater cloth, recently. It was stuffed into a too small plastic baggie, and it was full of wrinkles. Being that old, the cloth also felt very dessicated. I wanted to press out the wrinkles, but thought it might be helpful to add some plain water to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aprons of Bygone Times</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2008/03/12/aprons-of-bygone-times/</link>
		<comments>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2008/03/12/aprons-of-bygone-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Old aprons today catch our fancy. They speak of bygone times when it was a hardship to do laundry and when good dresses were kept clean for best. Of course, in those days, women did wear dresses, not pantsuits, jeans, or a blouses and slacks. The amount of time and effort put into making a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Date Marking on Repro Fabrics &#8211; A Trend I Like</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2008/01/30/date-marking-on-repro-fabrics-a-trend-i-like/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I was in the mood to buy some reproduction fabrics. I was specifically looking for fabrics that would have been made at about the time my home was built, in 1821.
I was absolutely delighted to see that on the selvages of fabric, manufacturers are now stating when the fabric was first made. The dates [...]]]></description>
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