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"My nephew recently handed me a very old primitive box with a sliding lid. He had cleaned out my sister's house after her death and found this box with a note inside from my grandmother: 'For Joyce'.
Inside were some completed and some unfinished quilt blocks which I remembered from age three in 1933. I had loved this project which my mother was working on for me. She died when I was six, and everything disappeared. Occasionally through my life I have wondered about that quilt and was blown away when I opened the box. Many of the paper patterns were there also, so I was able to identify her source. Unfortunately all my searching has not turned up the pattern. I would so love to find it."
Because she had some paper patterns she knew the source was the newspaper column in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in the fall of 1933 under the name Prudence Penny's Patchwork Zoo. Each pattern is signed Buren.
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Our book is way out of print, but it's inexpensive. See more here:
http://www.amazon.com/Creature-Comforts-Quilters-Animal-Alphabet/dp/0870694553
http://www.abebooks.com/9780870694554/Creature-Comforts-Quilters-Animal-Alphabet-0870694553/plp
What a coincidence...I bought this book last week. I came across it when looking for old baby patterns.....wanted to make something special and this seemed to have what I needed. I love the gingham penguins.
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