QUILTS & FABRIC: PAST & PRESENT


Saturday, November 15, 2014

QuiltMania Comes to Visit

Last month I got a phone call from France. QuiltMania editor
Carol Veillon was on her way to the Houston quilt market.
 Could she drop by to interview me?

This Friday????

I corralled some willing friends (fans of the magazine) to help dress the set
at the new house.

We hung our Paducah prize-winning dog quilt.

Quilts everywhere...

After a flurry of activity things looked pretty good.

Carol was primarily interested in my antique quilt collection.


They photographed a few reproduction quilts.

Here is photographer Guy working with one of Roseanne's Smith's
star quilts.

Combination Log Cabin/Crazy about 1900
The new living room became a photography studio.
Is this not a fabulous quilt? I've got room to hang a lot of quilts now.

Zig-Zag quilt of 60 degree diamonds, about 1915.

I never get to see these so it was great to see them up.




Carol and I went through the quilt closet.
Deb and Linda hung quilts and Deb photographed.

Here's a mid-19th century ten-pointed star.

Pretty soon all was in gorgeous disarray


But we all had fun, including Dottie Barker.

We are planning the article for spring, 2015

See QuiltMania's English page here:

See more about the reproduction Birds in the Air quilt in the last photo here:

13 comments:

  1. I look forward to the article. What is the quilt behind you in the last photo? Just breath taking?

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  2. Patti I added a link to the post. It's a reproduction quilt I did.

    http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2014/08/backstitch-at-national-quilt-museum-in.html

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  3. I heard about this craziness! Quilts are ALL beautiful and I can't wait for the article. Should be good!!

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  4. Looks like great fun! Thank you for sharing the Quiltmania visit with us.

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  5. Congratulations on being featured in the magazine, I will have to get that issue.

    Debbie

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  6. What a fun day! So looking forward to the article and congrats on being in the magazine!!

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  7. Congratulations,that`s fabulous.Anyone of your quilt is just beautiful and looks you have fun!

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  8. I'm looking forward to readig this article in my next Quiltmania ... in French !!!124

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  9. I'm looking forward to readig this article in my next Quiltmania ... in French !!!124

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  10. Hi Barbara,
    I was happily surprised to see that you're the owner of the "Zig-Zag quilt with 60 degree diamonds". I've had a picture of that quilt, from somewhere, taped into a notebook for over 20 yrs, (pre Pinterest era) still with the best of intentions to make my own version some day. Love the simplicity, and the golden yellow...and the stripes....

    Congrats on the article in QuiltMania!
    Rebecca Rohrkaste

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