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'PATCHWORK' produced the following results:
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[ 426AW ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Repeat Block
Owner: Alyce Wright - Country/Place Created: USA - Date: 1921 - 1940
Story of Quilt: "Alyce Bush, a lone quilter, would spend many hours alone on her front porch as her husband was a security night watchman and slept during part of the day. Quilts were the main form of bed covering used in the family.
When I went..." |
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[ 428MS ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Repeat Block, Log Cabin, Pieced Random
Owner: Margaret Sheridan - Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW - Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "Kathleen Mary Sheridan was thrilled to win the quilt in a CWA fund raising raffle and it was used in each of her homes until she went into a unit. Kathleen's daughter-in-law Margaret saved it from going to St. Vincent's (a charity..." |
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[ 429HH ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Random, Crazy
Owner: Helen Hancock - Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA QLD - Date: 1881 - 1900
Story of Quilt: "Marion Fairlie came to Australia from England in 1862 as a baby. Her parents came to explore the possibility of growing cotton for their muslin factory in Glasgow, Scotland. This was prompted by the failure of the American cotton..." |
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[ 430DW ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Mosaic, Diamond
Owner: Darling Whitehouse - Country/Place Created: ENGLAND - Date: 1851 - 1880
Story of Quilt: "The quilt was made by a lady at Queen Victoria's residence. She was a Wellesley and when she married a Whitehouse attached Wellesley to her surname. We are lucky to still have the quilt - Stuart's house was flattened during the..." |
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[ 431TM ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Random, Typically Australian, Re-used clothing or blanket
Owner: The Townsville Museum - Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA QLD - Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "The maker, Martha Jane Marlton (born Duff) was born in Scotland in 1904. Her parents came from Glasgow where her father was a tailor and when they came to Australia they settled in Warwick on the Darling Downs where Mr. Duff became a..." |
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[ 432AS ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Random, Crazy
Owner: Amanda Smith - Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA SA - Date: 1901 - 1920
Story of Quilt: "My grandmother would tell me about her mother (my great grandmother) making quilts on her treadle machine. She had 14 children (my GGM) and used sewing as an escape and necessity of life.
[Amanda Smith 15.3.98] |
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[ 433AS ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Random, Crazy
Owner: Amanda Smith - Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA SA - Date: 1901 - 1920
Story of Quilt: "My memories of this quilt were when I was sick at my grandmother's house (she lived around the corner from my house) it would be on my bed, an old fashioned old bed with curved top and base with a feather mattress."
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[ 434BB ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Mosaic, Tumbling Block
Owner: Mary Elizabeth (Beth) Burnett - Country/Place Created: ENGLAND - Date: 1901 - 1920
Story of Quilt: "This quilt was used as a fund raising project 'count the number of boxes' for the Red Cross in the 1914-18 war. It is thought this took place at Heledon near Toowoomba Queensland." |
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[ 435NTQ ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Mosaic, Typically Australian, Tailors' samples
Owner: National Trust of Australia (QLD) - Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA - Date: Unknown
Story of Quilt: "The quilt was saturated by the 1998 January flood. The person who found the quilt cried a little. It was folded and soaked. It was put into a garbage bag and frozen until the more pressing conservation work was dealt with. It was..." |
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[ 436PCS ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Mosaic, Hexagon
Owner: Port Curtis Historical Society Inc.. - Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA QLD - Date: 1941 - 1970
Quilt History: "The quilt was made by Mrs. Dorothy Boyd and donated to the Calliope River Historical Village in 1982. It is used as a quilt on a colonial bed." |
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