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