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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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TitleTo My Mother with Love

DescriptionA gift to my mother, Helen Ortoleva Rachiele Mitchell

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TitleWeekend in Lancaster

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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TitleAnimal Quilt

Date Created1990-1991

DescriptionThis quilt was made for me as a baby quilt. The animals are individually hand quilted. The quilter says, We were excited about your impending birth and wanted to do something special. Never did...

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TitleFirst Quilt

Date Created2014

DescriptionThis was my first attempt at a quilt. I'd collected pretty fabrics from Rock, Paper, Scissors in town and saw a sample in the store of the plus sign pattern. I thought that'd be easy to try. I used...

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TitleStrip Quilt

Date Created1950-1959

DescriptionA quilt made by my grandmother from shirts worn by my grandfather. This quilt was used on a twin bed until 2008.

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TitleBaby Quilt

Date Created2015

DescriptionI made this quilt for fun.

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TitleWhite House Vignette Card

Date Created1894

DescriptionLithograph print: image of White House South Portico and White House Lawn. Children at play on the lawn. Cleveland's signature is at bottom center. Reads: "Grover Cleveland Dec 29. 1894". Olive green...

Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)

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TitleThe Three Little Bears

Date Created1992

DescriptionMy great aunt made this for me as my first baby quilt. It's still to this day my favorite quilt and I still sleep with it every night.

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TitleHungarian girls in the White Owl Cigar Factory

Date Created1920-1940

DescriptionHungarian girls in the White Owl Cigar Factory, a corner of the huge plant where top brand cigars were rolled; located on the corner of Somerset St. and Harvey St., New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)