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	<title>Q is for Quilter</title>
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	<description>A small blog about Martha&#039;s quilting hobby.</description>
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		<title>Favorite Paint Book &#8212; Little Girls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is one of my very favorite vintage paint/coloring books &#8212; I love the subject and the style of the drawings by Mary Alice Stoddard.  The best pictures are of boys and girls doing everyday activities &#8212; like quilting!  Because there are 20 girls and 20 boys, you could make two darling little [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://qisforquilter.com/2010/03/favorite-paint-book-little-girls/</link>
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		<title>Cog Wheels Block &#8212; Hand Piecing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some quilters like to make their templates the finished size so they can mark the sewing line on their quilt pieces.  I don&#8217;t do this &#8212; after adding a scant 1/4&#8243; around each template, I draw the cutting line on the fabric and then just eyeball the seam allowance when stitching the pieces together.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://qisforquilter.com/2010/03/cog-wheels-block-hand-piecing/</link>
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		<title>Ladies Art Quilt Company Pattern #41 &#8211; Cog Wheels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This quilt pattern is the first of four requested by Ann Champion.  Since I still can&#8217;t sit for very long, I drafted this on a board while lying on the couch.  I&#8217;ll tell you what &#8212; it&#8217;s sort of tricky to use a compass when you&#8217;re lying down.  I left some of the extra [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://qisforquilter.com/2010/03/ladies-art-quilt-company-pattern-41-cog-wheels/</link>
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		<title>Vintage Fabric Gallery &#8211; 1930s Blues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thank you for your concern about my stupid injury.  I am moving around a little better now, but still can&#8217;t sit or stand for very long.  I did manage to get up and take a few photos today for the vintage fabric gallery.  Although the size of my scraps varies wildly, I decided to take [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://qisforquilter.com/2010/03/vintage-fabric-gallery-1930s-blues/</link>
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		<title>Ladies Art Company Quilt Pattern Book &#8211; 1922</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday night I slipped and fell down our hardwood stairs.  Nothing is broken, but I am kind of a mess and pretty much stuck in bed &#8212; for a few days, anyway.  This seemed like a good opportunity to clean up and share this wonderful Ladies Art Quilt Pattern Book which I had scanned earlier.
I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://qisforquilter.com/2010/02/ladies-art-company-quilt-pattern-book-1922/</link>
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		<title>A to Z by Peter Mabie &#8211; 1929</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is one of the best alphabet books I&#8217;ve ever seen &#8212; a 1929 Art Deco ABC book by the fabulous Peter Mabie.  I don&#8217;t own this one (it&#8217;s prohibitively expensive), but over the past year I have slowly managed to find photos of the inside pages on library and auction sites.  Because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://qisforquilter.com/2010/02/a-to-z-by-peter-mabie-1929/</link>
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		<title>Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a large mail order transfer dated 1938 from Laura Wheeler Designs (#2266).  My copy is in pretty bad shape, with some mouse chews and stains in addition to the usual yellowing.  Probably mothers don&#8217;t teach this poem to their children anymore because of the whole dying in their sleep thing. Of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://qisforquilter.com/2010/02/now-i-lay-me-down-to-sleep/</link>
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		<title>Antique Jacob&#8217;s Ladder Quilt Top</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is my latest quilt top purchase.  My plan (as usual) was to take this apart to make antique doll quilts, but now that I&#8217;ve had a chance to look at it in person, I am almost tempted to remake it in it&#8217;s current form.  There are many puckers (which really bother me), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://qisforquilter.com/2010/02/antique-jacobs-ladder-quilt-top/</link>
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		<title>Cross Variation Doll Quilt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This quilt top was really a drag to quilt. On a doll quilt, I try to get my quilting stitches as small as possible so they fit the scale of the piece, but it&#8217;s hard on a top with this many tiny seams.  The same thing happened when I originally quilted the Mariner&#8217;s Compass [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://qisforquilter.com/2010/02/cross-variation-doll-quilt/</link>
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		<title>Vintage Fabric Gallery &#8212; 1930s Greens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some photos of several of my vintage fabric pieces.  I have collected thousands of scraps, small pieces and swatches, and I&#8217;d like to document some of these patterns before they get sewn into quilts.  If you click on the thumbnails, the enlarged photo represents a rectangle about 2 1/2&#8243; x 1 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://qisforquilter.com/2010/02/vintage-fabric-gallery-1930s-greens/</link>
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		<title>Sawtooth Doll Quilt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Barbara&#8217;s doll quilt is finished.  One quick dip in a tea bath was just enough to tone down the bright white to match the border that I selected after I&#8217;d made all the blocks.  My quilts are always done this way &#8212; never completely planned at the beginning.  
The quilting is diagonal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://qisforquilter.com/2010/02/sawtooth-doll-quilt/</link>
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		<title>Sawtooth Doll Quilt Top</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I made this doll quilt for my friend, Barbara, at Oodles and Oodles.  Last month she sent me a box of cute vintage scraps which I assigned to several different quilt projects.  A little doll quilt seemed like a nice way to thank her, and I was just thinking about the colors [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://qisforquilter.com/2010/02/sawtooth-doll-quilt-top/</link>
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		<title>Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day!</title>
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		<link>http://qisforquilter.com/2010/02/happy-valentines-day-2/</link>
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		<title>Mariner&#8217;s Compass Doll Quilt Top</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a pattern from Mini Quilts From Traditional Designs, by Corcoran and Wilkinson.  The book is out of print, but used copies are available on Amazon.  I made this years ago when I first began using vintage fabric.  The brown and tan background fabrics are reproduction, and the compass circles are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://qisforquilter.com/2010/02/mariners-compass-doll-quilt-top/</link>
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		<title>Santa&#8217;s Follow-the-Colors Embroidered Quilt &#8211; Row 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The second row has been finished for several days, and I&#8217;m just getting around to taking photos.  I was able to cut a lot more squares for the sashing with some pretty vintage scraps sent to me by Barbara at Oodles and Oodles.  Thank you, Barbara!
A few of the original designs are going to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://qisforquilter.com/2010/02/santas-follow-the-colors-embroidered-quilt-row-2/</link>
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