Sentences with phrase «of old quilt»

I don't think I would have talked you out of that old quilt... having kids means using blankets for more than just blankets!

My favorite is one made from a garage sale find of old quilt blocks.

Then I layered on a piece of an old quilt that I bought on eBay to act as a runner.

Not exact matches

Folded stacked quilts and old, wide windowsills full of clay pots of blooming geraniums reaching for spring sun, and fireplaces full of a choir of wavering, dripping candles, and white duvets turned back and always waiting.

There are things I need like my quilt, cowy (a stuffed cow that plays «old macdonald had a farm» who I've had since I was a baby), a couple of special mugs, my tea collection and music.

Many of the quilts displayed were more than 100 years old and were still vibrant and richly beautiful.

i love the look of all these quilts and it's amazing to think they are so old yet still in such good condition.

Along six blocks of Old Town Front Street, hundreds of handmade quilts made with thousands of yards of patch - worked fabric hang from banisters and along storefronts.

As if a preview of Temecula Valley Wine Country vineyards» leaves vivid and vibrant change from green to gold to red later in the Autumnfest season, the Old Town Temecula Outdoor Quilt Show displays strikingly colorful, grand country charm.

He had a long, happy, purposeful life and we were so grateful that he just expired of old age in a nest of quilts in our living - room surrounded by his two - legged and four - legged family, with no pain or fear.

Your challenge just gave me the idea to take that pile of old out of style clothes and use them to make quilted shopping bags for my family.

I love some of the old «American» quilts and would love to learn how to quilt properly.

Visitors can learn how the fashions in quilts changed through a display of handmade reproduction quilts, «Piecing It All Together: A Timeline of New England's Early Quilts» and they can visit with ladies gathered for an old - fashioned «Country Quilting Party.&quilts changed through a display of handmade reproduction quilts, «Piecing It All Together: A Timeline of New England's Early Quilts» and they can visit with ladies gathered for an old - fashioned «Country Quilting Party.&quilts, «Piecing It All Together: A Timeline of New England's Early Quilts» and they can visit with ladies gathered for an old - fashioned «Country Quilting Party.&Quilts» and they can visit with ladies gathered for an old - fashioned «Country Quilting Party.»

A bag of old clothes can be used for sewing... make a quilt or rag rug or a patchwork purse.

Try one of these baby quilt patterns the next time you want to make a quilt for a baby, toddler or older child.

All the newer quilts that I've made are in active use — they're a bit more able to handle the wear and tear of daily kid use than the old vintage treasures.

I don't think I moved that slow on it, but to a four year old - who asked a couple of times a day, «is my quilt done yet?»

All the pieces of the quilts are vintage materials - I even became insistent about the thread being old and «found».

Kantha embroidery, like Sashiko, employes small straight stitches to quilt together layers of old saris.

Old Navy has tons of fun options to choose from... I am especially loving their quilted puffer style coats for a couple of reasons.

Chests of drawers, tea cups, jewelry, quilts, old - fashioned wall clocks and loads of other antiques are displayed for sale.

I did find a «crazy quilt» skirt that was made up of remnants of silk from old gowns all stitched together in a falling log pattern.

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Kim, there is noting like the softness of an old cotton quilt.

Doesn't that pattern remind you of an old Irish Chain quilt?

That was part of the charm of old vintage quilts.

I don't have a real farmhouse table outside so I just spread an old tattered quilt on top of what I have to give it that rustic appeal.

I folded and laid this old family quilt over it and it immediately feels re-covered for free and in a matter of minutes.

uu While visiting her grandmother's house, where she plans to finish a school project and decide whether to marry her boyfriend, a student gets caught up in the reminiscences of older women who gather to work on a quilt with «Where Love Resides» as its theme.

When my daughter was 10 years old, she left the comfort of her elementary school for the unfamiliar territory of the middle / high school building — a crazy quilt of pieces from the 1910s, 1930s, 1960s and 1970s.

The AlcantaraTM applied to the rear compartment and seat facings is quilted and in the Supersports marks the return of the much smaller «diamond» upholstery pattern from Bentleys of old.

But then it would be storming, lightning sizzling the tops of the trees, and she'd run round the house, cheerful, making us hot cocoa and frying up pancakes and warming us with old quilts.

Tip: Good inexpensive sources of materials include thrift store comforters, crib bumpers (great source for cheap poly fill), flannel sheets, quilts, baby and receiving blankets, old pajama bottoms, table cloths, or bathrobes.

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It's old parchment walls and vivid Ilima quilt combine to make the Ilima Room one of the inn's most beautiful.

If talking about quilting instantly conjures up images of old retired women gossiping in a circle over their needlepoint, it's time for you to check out artist

If talking about quilting instantly conjures up images of old retired women gossiping in a circle over their needlepoint, it's time for you to check out artist Sandra Lauterbach and expand your mind.

Gee's Bend quilt lovers young and old, near and far, newly converted and veteran, take note: the Souls Grown Deep Foundation has given 15 of those abstract wonders — by key figures like Mary Lee Bendolph, Delia Bennett, and Annie E. Pettway — to the Philadelphia Museum of Art as part of a gift of 24 pieces that also includes works by Thornton Dial, Lonnie Holley, and Bessie Harvey.

Other artists have sought to renew the formalist mantra of painting as object, either by painting on three - dimensional household objects or by working with the similarities between painting and plain old fabric design, as in clothing or folk quilting.

In The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters, Sherri Lynn Wood presents a flexible approach to quilting that breaks free of old paradigms.

Every example here seems to simultaneously accept a dictate of order (a quilt does have to cover the bed and warm its inhabitants) and to invent a new graphic logic: less glib, more authentic, more dependable than the old rote geometries.

The permanent collection includes superb furniture and paintings from Vermont, one of the oldest «Stars and Stripes» in existence — the famous Bennington Flag, with its arch of 13 stars encircling the number «76» — the renowned 1863 Jane Stickle Quilt featuring an astounding 5602 pieces, and a 1924 Martin Wasp Touring Car, the only automobile manufactured in Vermont.

The floor work and the fifth quilt allegorically posit, for the artist, the age - old quandary of the relationship between an individual and the collective whole - the attempt to find one's own direction while working within an existing system.

In her video, the 34 - year - old Parisian artist presents footage of these artifacts — and of herself rummaging through the archives — in windows that pop up on the screen (as on a computer desktop) while a voiceover raps out a crazy quilt of creation myths over a drumbeat.

Across the Indian sub-continent, «kantha» describes decorative quilting - often given on wedding days or in celebration of the birth of a child - and typically made from the material of old saris or dhotis.

Abigail Kokai in Residence: October 31 — December 16, 2011 Opening: Thursday December 15, 2011 Exhibition continues through January 6, 2012 Learning Labs: Colorado I Have a Dream Foundation Working with a group of 11 - and 12 - year - old girls from Colorado I Have A Dream Foundation, Abigail Kokaiguided students to construct personal quilts documenting their own lives.

«As Far Away as a Minute»: L.A. artist Glenn Kaino has created a depiction of a wormhole — a short - cut in the space - time continuum — using quilted - together bits of old sandpaper.

Another one is made of recycled old sweaters with mis - matched patterns stitched together like a patchwork quilt.

In short, a picture of the hearsay rule with its exceptions would resemble an old - fashioned crazy quilt made of patches cut from a group of paintings by cubists, futurists and surrealists.

North Vancouver, British Columbia About Blog We are a community of quilters young and old, new and experienced, located in North Vancouver, BC, whose purpose is to promote the growth and appreciation of quilting, bring ideas and learning experiences to its members, and provide a community service.