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This image was scanned from the Dianna May Martin personal library collection
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- About the Author
- Prairie Women and Quilting
- Machine Applique Technique
- THE APPLIQUE BLOCKS:
- Bittersweet
- Dandelion
- Wood Sorrel
- Sweet William
- Wild Rose
- Wild Cucumber
- Missouri Primrose
- Wild Morning Glory
- Sunflower
- Indian Paintbrush
- Aster
- Johnny Jump-Up
- THE HEART OF THE MATTER:
- Setting the blocks
- The basket blocks
- Plain border
- Sawtooth border
- Applique vine border
- Quilting
- Binding
- Field of Flowers
- The Star Quilts Year by Year
- More to Read
- References
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Title: Prairie Flower: A Year on the Plains, New applique patterns in the Kansas City Star heritage
Author/Designer: Barbara Brackman
Format/Publication Date: TPB:2001
Publisher: Kansas City Star Books, Kansas City, MO
Language: English
Page Count: 120
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11" x 8 1/2"
ISBN: 0971292000
SUMMARY- You get twelve floral blocks and pictures of women and their children with snippets of story throughout. It's a charming nostalgic read - at least for me. I spent equal parts of my childhood in Colorado and Kansas, where my grandmother and great grandmother lived, and where my mother grew up in a small town called Anthony. So the flowers have special meaning for me, and these women could easily be ancestors of mine. I still remember my great grandmother's stories of her family coming West - she was born in 1901. The basket pattern is pieced, and all the flower blocks are applique. She gives you several different settings and some feathers for quilting.
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