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	<title>quiltersmuse.com Blog &#187; Quilt Design</title>
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	<description>Musings about quilts and much more; website:  http://www.quiltersmuse.com</description>
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		<title>Request for Help in Identifying Quilt Pattern or Name</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/11/19/request-for-help-in-identifying-quilt-pattern-or-name/</link>
		<comments>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/11/19/request-for-help-in-identifying-quilt-pattern-or-name/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
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Unknown quilt block from photo dated 5/25/2004
Diane Fath writes: 
Hello Pat,
We are trying to figure out what quilt block pattern was used in the attached quilt.  My Mother made the quilt but has passed away in a car accident.
Can you please help me?  Any help you can give is much appreciated.   [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paper-Pieced Quilt for Autumn</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/10/31/paper-pieced-quilt-for-autumn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Country Roads Quilt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since purchasing the book, Paper Piecing the Seasons, by Stephen Seifert and Liz Schwartz, I have been a fan of their work. In April 2000, I began making a wall quilt that they call, &#8220;Country Roads Quilt.&#8221; I finished the quilt  and gave it to my niece in California for her birthday in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quilt Identification &#8211; A Reader Queries</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/10/09/quilt-identification-a-reader-queries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning&#8217;s e-mail brought a photo of a quilt. The writer, Scott McKee of Santa Ana, CA, says that the quilt is hand-pieced and asks what &#8220;pattern&#8221; it is. 

A finished quilt with various quilt pattern designs, some partial blocks. The overall design is &#8220;Sampler Quilt.&#8221;
I can tell you a few things about this quilt, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old Oak Leaf Block &#8211; &#8220;What is the Design&#8217;s Name?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/10/07/old-oak-leaf-block-what-is-the-designs-name/</link>
		<comments>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/10/07/old-oak-leaf-block-what-is-the-designs-name/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone from the Cleveland, Ohio area wrote a brief note to me on October 3, 2009 to ask if the block shown here might have been slave-made, or made by an African-American. Let me make some general comments about this quilt block. 

This old quilt block, from an unidentified maker, has an unusual pattern. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Civil War &#8220;Sanitary Commission&#8221; Quilts Reproduced by Donald Beld</title>
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		<comments>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/10/05/civil-war-sanitary-commission-quilts-reproduced-by-donald-beld/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Civil War]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The seven photos of Civil War reproduction quilts that are shared in this blog entry today represent quilts made by Donald Beld of California. They simulate actual &#8220;Sanitary Commission&#8221; quilts that were made in the North and sent to Union soldiers in the field. 
By the way, Don founded the &#8220;Home of the Brave&#8221; program [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intriguing Photos of Egyptian Textiles Sent by Reader</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/09/21/intriguing-photos-of-egyptian-textiles-sent-by-reader/</link>
		<comments>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/09/21/intriguing-photos-of-egyptian-textiles-sent-by-reader/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After reading my online file about Egyptian appliqué, a woman named &#8220;Margot&#8221; sent me 10 photos of her Egyptian textile collection, yesterday. She calls herself &#8220;an inadvertent collector of Egyptian appliqué&#8221; and found her pieces to collect, in Maine and online beginning in the 1980s.
Although she apologized for the &#8220;amateurish&#8221; look of her photos, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Article Traces Root Ideas About African-American Quilt Scholarship</title>
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		<comments>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/09/20/article-traces-root-ideas-about-african-american-quilt-scholarship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Within the last 20 years, I have run across a number of people who have tried to formulate a list of characteristics of African-American quilts. In one instant, a (white) woman with a quilt shop, instituted classes to teach others how to make an African-American quilt. The quilt would be brightly colored and asymmetrical. She&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beauty of One Soul Can Make A Difference</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/09/13/the-beauty-of-one-soul-can-make-a-difference/</link>
		<comments>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/09/13/the-beauty-of-one-soul-can-make-a-difference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ellen Emeline Hardy Webster]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, I wanted to show you two quilt blocks that were constructed, on paper, by a beautiful person. First, I will show you this person who was outwardly beautiful.

Ellen Webster, as a young person
Ellen Webster was someone who loved history and that included the history of her town and of her family. The following [...]]]></description>
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		<title>N.E. Quilt Museum Opens New Exhibit: &#8220;MASTER PIECES: Haberdashery Textiles in Antique Quilts&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/08/18/ne-quilt-museum-opens-new-exhibit-master-pieces-haberdashery-textiles-in-antique-quilts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW ENGLAND QUILT MUSEUM
Lowell, Massachusetts
For Immediate Release                                                 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reader Enjoys Mile-a-Minute Scrap Quilts</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/08/08/reader-enjoys-mile-a-minute-scrap-quilts/</link>
		<comments>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/08/08/reader-enjoys-mile-a-minute-scrap-quilts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 01:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carol Coski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlotte Croft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mile-a-Minute Scrap Quilt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charlotte Croft of Vermont wrote the following note after viewing some recent blog posts: 
Hi Pat,  I was just browsing in your blog, seeing the scrap quilt question. I decided to send this photo of the quilt I made for my niece Linda Rose who was married June 27th. I think I&#8217;m addicted to [...]]]></description>
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