The QuiltTownUSA Gallery
offers you a look at quilts from some of the premiere quilters in the USA.
It is a place where you can come whenever you are looking for some
inspiration. You will find beautiful and creative quilts always on display. Visit us again
and again; the exhibits are constantly changing. Stay as long as you like. Our doors never
close.
Currently on display are quilts from
Spectacular
String-Pieced Quilts: A Pattern Book. Enjoy the freedom of creating beautiful
quilts from accumulated bits and pieces of fabric! String-pieced quilts are spontaneous and
thrifty. Popular throughout the years, some of the most loved (and used!) quilts were made
from scraps that fell on the sewing room floor. There's no wrong way to piece a scrappy
quilt using the patterns presented in this book.
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Julia Gladys
Mitchell Lancaster pieced "1940's Quilt" (69" x 85")
prior to her untimely death in 1943. More than 50 years had elapsed when her son Johnny
Lancaster gave the top to Violette Harris Denney of Carrollton, Georgia. Violette backed
the top with feedsack fabrics from her own mother's stash and then hand quilted it. |
Linda Pool of
Vienna, Virginia, cleverly recut an anonymous quilter's blocks to create this
country-flavored "String Star" (41 1/2" x 52").
"It's a great way to use all kinds of scraps!" Linda notes.
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| "String-Pieced
Snowball" (49" x 89") is a stunning example of the old quilt tops
Patricia DePoyster of Claremont, New Hampshire, purchases and then completes. Make your
own version, using either modern fabrics or reproduction prints that closely match the
original quilt. |
When Lila Lee Jones of Drexel,
Missouri, purchased the 19th century blocks for "Eight Point Stars" (78"
square), they were set with more-recent blue stripe fabric squares and triangles. She and
her friends spent hours picking out the tiny machine stitches to remove the inappropriate
background fabric. Lila chose to replace the background with muslin that doesn't compete
with the antique fabrics of the stars. |
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Pat DePoyster of
Claremont, New Hampshire, makes a habit of rescuing antique quilt tops and turning them
into unique quilts. She finished this unusual diagonally-sashed "Diamond
Strings with Lattice" (77 1/2" x 79 1/2") with all-over machine
quilting. |
Virginia Jones of Taunton,
Massachusettes, found refuge in making this high-contrast, solid-color string quilt. She'd
spent long stretches of time piecing an overwhelmingly pastel quilt for a pink-loving
friend and needed a break! This quilt was her answer to "Too Much Pink" (46"
x 54")! |
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| Eleven-year old Alex Ford of Yuma,
Arizona, made "Alex's Crazy Vacation Quilt" (44 3/4" x
63") with scraps from his favorite aunt's fabric stash. He used school vacations
while in the sixth grade to complete the quilt. Constructed as a 4-H project, Alex's quilt
won 2 ribbons at his country fair. |
Margaret Gray of Ottawa, Kansas,
used plenty of her scraps in "String Scrap" (72 1/2" x 91
1/2"). Each block features a subtle gray print strip that runs through the center
providing continuity and the effect of diagonal sashing strips with blocks turned on
point. |
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| Patricia DePoyster of Claremont, New
Hampshire, thought the exuberant combination of florals, geometrics, stripes and solids in
"Scrap Happy" (71" x 81") precluded the need for a
border. Pat simply machine-quilted it with a large meandering design and bound it with an
unobtrusive print. |
When Kerry left home for Kansas
State University, his mother Elsie Campbell of
Dodge City, Kansas, decided he needed a quilt to keep him warm. She made "Kerry's
String Quilt" (56" x 83") with minimal effort, knowing that it
would have to survive picnics, football games, band trips and 4 years of dorm living. |
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| After cutting pieces for a Tumbler
charm quilt, Jean Roesler of Palisade, Colorado, had oodles of small wedge-shaped scraps
left over and she couldn't bear to throw them away. This string-pieced "Spools"
(79" x 84") was a great way to use them. |
Bright orange and red pinwheel
centers add a sparkling twist to these scrappy string-pieced blocks. Patricia DePoyster of
Claremont, New Hampshire, added the red and orange borders to bring an orderly finish to "Kaleidoscope"
(65" square). |
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