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A Prairie Journey: Small Quilts That Celebrate the Pioneer Spirit
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- Martingale
- Pubblicato:
- Jul 2, 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781604689563
- Formato:
- Libro
Descrizione
Enjoy 13 petite quilts with ties to the past, each inspired by yesterday's traditional blocks and today's reproduction fabrics. Best-selling author Kathleen Tracy whisks you back to an era when the classic quilt blocks of today were just making their debut.
Stitch projects such as Wagon Wheels, Crossing the Prairie, and Aunt Sarah's Scrap Baskets, or make a signature quilt featuring blocks autographed by your family members. You'll find vintage photos and the words of pioneer women from the mid-nineteenth century sprinkled throughout.
Informazioni sul libro
A Prairie Journey: Small Quilts That Celebrate the Pioneer Spirit
Descrizione
Enjoy 13 petite quilts with ties to the past, each inspired by yesterday's traditional blocks and today's reproduction fabrics. Best-selling author Kathleen Tracy whisks you back to an era when the classic quilt blocks of today were just making their debut.
Stitch projects such as Wagon Wheels, Crossing the Prairie, and Aunt Sarah's Scrap Baskets, or make a signature quilt featuring blocks autographed by your family members. You'll find vintage photos and the words of pioneer women from the mid-nineteenth century sprinkled throughout.
- Editore:
- Martingale
- Pubblicato:
- Jul 2, 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781604689563
- Formato:
- Libro
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A Prairie Journey - Kathleen Tracy
Introduction
It’s often been said that women of the past pieced their lives into their quilts. For many quilters today, reproduction fabrics and the quilts we make from them convey the essence of life lived in another era. The quilts in A Prairie Journey tell the stories of the pioneering women who helped settle the western territories during the mid-nineteenth century in America, a time of tremendous expansion in the country’s history. It was a time of dramatic growth in quilting as well; more quilts were made during this period than ever before, due in part to the rapidly expanding textile industry, the wide availability of inexpensive fabric, and the invention of the treadle sewing machine.
There was also an immense need to make quilts in preparation for the westward journey. Hopeful at the promise of new opportunities and financial success, families sold off their property, parted with heirlooms and keepsakes, and packed up whatever belongings would fit in a wagon. Life on the trail was primitive, lacking in familiar comforts of home, and the trip took months. When they arrived at their destinations, women’s energies focused on survival and taking care of the family homestead under the harshest conditions. It was hardly the contented, idealized life set out in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books.
Frontier life presented more than enough challenges for these pioneer women, and we have to wonder how they were able to engage their creativity in making quilts with all the hardships and demands that this new life placed upon them. Scarcity of fabric and the harsh realities of frontier living motivated quilters to create something that was beautiful and useful. Quilting may have been what provided these pioneer women with not only material comfort but also opportunities to feed their souls.
Many of the quilts made during this period are amazing works of art. Spending precious leisure moments sewing together pieces for a quilt must have been a welcome respite from the enormous stress these women experienced daily. The patterns these quilters created have stood the test of time, becoming firmly established in American quilting traditions. Quilters today acknowledge and appreciate the work of these women, celebrate it for the inspiration it has offered us, and use it as guidance for contemporary creative expression.
I find immense pleasure and satisfaction in making quilts with ties to the past; it’s a way of stitching the past into the present. The quilts in this book were created using 1800s-era reproduction fabrics and reflect, in small scale, some of the trends that were popular at the time. Along with stories of the women’s lives, these quilts reflect some of the traditions that have inspired me on my own quilting journey.
Many of these little quilts were hand quilted using simple designs, and if you have the time and inclination, I recommend hand quilting for the simple, antique look it imparts to a small quilt. Of course, the quilts can all be adapted to your own style or color scheme if you choose, since the traditional blocks I’ve used in making them have already stood the test of time and hopefully will endure many more years.
Antique quilts have their own unique personalities. By studying them, discovering what it is that draws you to particular quilts, and learning about the lives of the women who made them, you will begin to develop your own style of quilting. Whether your quilting journey has just begun or you’ve been on it for some time, I hope you’ll find inspiration in the quilts I’ve designed to honor the rich quilting traditions of the past and the quilters who inspired us.
~ Kathy ~
Wagon Wheels
April 2, 1852
Leaving home, home friends and home associates in Old Tazewell, we are this evening snugly quartered in the open prairie 15 miles from Peoria. . . . Have had but little difficulty in our journey so far; crossed the Illinois river . . . with but little difficulty and in a word have had no trouble at all except what has been occasioned by bidding farewell forever to those with whom most of us have associated all of our lives; and to me it was a great trial to leave the home of my childhood. . . .
~ Journal of a trip to Oregon, Abigail Jane Scott; from Covered Wagon Women
Materials
Yardage is based on 42"-wide fabric.
½ yard total of assorted black prints for block backgrounds
72 squares, 3 x 3
, of assorted light, medium, and dark reproduction prints for spokes
9 squares, 2½ x 2½
, of assorted medium and
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