Episode 163: The Stitch Twerker Episode

Welcome to this archive episode of the Off-Kilter Quilt Podcast (Where a Straight Line’s a State of Mind). My name is Frances, and I’m your hostess.

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bigstarbindBig Star–almost done, but I still have some binding to sew on. Please note threads, tape showing where I need to repair some stitches, etc.

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This week’s links:

The 5 Most Wrong Things People Believe about Quilts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8XvD1rDvVM&feature=share

UNC-TV ran a piece on NC Folk, where I volunteer, Wednesday. It starts around 9:55 :

http://www.unctv.org/content/?hc_location=ufi

An interesting piece on altered quilts from Barbara Brackman’s blog:

http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2015/04/altered-quilts.html

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

This week’s Save our Story from the Quilt Alliance:

http://www.allianceforamericanquilts.org/qsos/interview.php?kid=14-31-317        

Episode 162: More Big Star

Welcome to this archive episode of the Off-Kilter Quilt Podcast (Where a Straight Line’s a State of Mind). My name is Frances, and I’m your hostess.

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Where I am in the quilting process … click on the pic for a better view:

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An interesting doctoral thesis about quilts on display, if you have a few hours (or days):

http://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2468&context=etd

This week’s Save Our Stories story from the Quilt Alliance:

http://www.allianceforamericanquilts.org/qsos/interview.php?kid=14-31-ECB

Barbara Brackman’s Civil War Quilts site–worth it for the photographs alone:

http://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/

Have a great week!

Episode 161: Big Star

Welcome to this archive episode of the Off-Kilter Quilt Podcast (Where a Straight Line’s a State of Mind). My name is Frances, and I’m your hostess.

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Some views of the Big Star quilt:

1. The border:

 

 

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2. Quilting-in-progress shot number 1:

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3. Q-i-P shot number 2:

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Below: The signature on the quilt Dawn inherited from her MIL:

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Random Cool Stuff:

Want to learn about Southern Culture? UNC’s preeminent scholar of Folklore, Bill Ferris, has a free online course via coursera. This link is to a section on quilting: https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-south/lecture/2Axuw/quilting

Tutorial on machine binding (back and front)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w_byQ8c-Ak

Quilt Alliances “Not Fade Away” conference that I’ll be attending in July: http://www.allianceforamericanquilts.org/support/NotFadeAway2015.php

Some very cool antique “modern” quilts: http://quiltaddictsanonymous.com/2015/03/national-quilt-museum-open-new-exhibits-featuring-modern-antique-nine-patch-quilts/

 

Books

Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe

Bettyville by George Hodgman