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Love Your Homemade Quilt? Thank Capitalism.

A patchwork quilt covering a bed in a country B&B or hanging on a museum wall evokes nostalgia for simpler times. Using simple shapes—triangles, squares, trapezoids, octagons—and the clever ...
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I keep seeing patchwork quilts everywhere. Here’s how I’d style them so they feel cool

Patchwork quilts are everywhere right now. You see them in home stores, on bedding displays, and across Instagram feeds that lean heavily into nostalgia. I get why people love them. They feel ...
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Quilters all over the country are making patchwork quilts for our troops in Afghanistan

South Australian quilter Chris Poulton stumbled across a website for "Aussie hero quilts" while searching online for a quilt pattern of the Australian flag in April. The group makes patchwork quilts ...
The Irish Times

Hands on Traditional skills and where to learn them

What is it?In patchwork you stitch together pieces of fabric of various shapes and sizes. In quilting you then put this layer of patchwork together with a layer of wadding and a backing fabric. Some ...