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Date Created2010
DescriptionI made this quilt for my niece, a dancer, to commemorate her graduation from high school. I used pieces from all her dance costumes dating back to when she was first learning to dance as a toddler. I...
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Date Created2000
DescriptionWhen I was a young teenager, my father found these squares when he cleaned out my grandfather's apartment after my grandfather had passed away. A few of them had been pieced together so I was able to...
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Date Created1994-1996
DescriptionI had made several quilts by the time I made this one, however, I had used a sewing machine and strip piecing techniques. I wanted to learn how to make one purely by hand. I enrolled in a class at the...
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Date Created1999
DescriptionI saw this design in a hotel on a weekend visiting the Amish country. I sketched the pattern on a napkin during breakfast thinking it would be a fun design to hand quilt.
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DescriptionA gift to my mother, Helen Ortoleva Rachiele Mitchell