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This issue patterns for fabulous Christmas and wintertime quilts, plus a new reproduction quilt, Civil War Homefront, designed by quilt historian Barbara Brackman. Part 1 of QN's 2010 mystery quilt, Delta Dawn, appears in this issue, as well as part 1 of Barbara Baume's Pistachio Ice Cream with Berry Sauce, a pretty appliqued bed quilt of you'll finish just in time for spring. Suzanne Arney's article about the International Quilt Study Center's recent exhibit of antique chintz quilts, many of them from the Sara Dillow collection, presents a history of the distinctive cloth and the many quilts made from it in the early nineteenth century, while "A Slice of Life" introduces readers to a new type of group quilt that's catching on with guilds all over the country. Recent research by scholar Kyra Hicks about the quilts of former slave Harriet Powers sheds new light on the quiltmaker's life and times, and a selection of Denver artist Dawn Williams Boyd's pictorial quilts tell the story of the African American experience in the U.S. during the twentieth century. How-to features include a quick machine-binding technique as well as Joy-Lily's no-mess gradient-dyeing technique.
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