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The Art of Quilting by Jennifer Beckstrand

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A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, one of my favorite paintings, hangs in the Chicago Institute of Art. When I laid eyes on the original painting for the first time, I was stunned. Pictures do not do it justice. The painter, George Seurat, a Pointillism master, used thousands of tiny dots […]

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The Humble Nine-Patch By Adina Senft

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Amish girls learn to sew when they are very young—even two- and three-year-olds can help Mamm by picking up scraps and keeping the sewing area tidy. In a few years they will be able to thread a needle and learn their stitches by sewing squares of fabric together—though it takes some practice to attain the […]