Free pattern day! Red and White Quilts (part two)

Red-and-white quilts are classic favorites, and there are dozens of FREE patterns to enjoy! Note: This post has been updated. To view and download these patterns, CLICK HERE for the updated post. (For Part 1 of red-and-white quilts, click here.)

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Free pattern day! Red and white quilts (part 1)

Today we're featuring free patterns for sparkling Red and White quilts!  (For Part 2 of this series, CLICK HERE.) NOTE:  This post has been UPDATED.  Please visit the newest Free Pattern Day for Red & White Quilts (CLICK HERE)!

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Free pattern day ! Denim quilts

Here are some wonderful FREE patterns for denim quilts, pillows and bags !   For even more inspiration, see our previous posts on quilts made from recycled blue jeans (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4 and part 5).  NOTE: This post has been UPDATED.  For the latest patterns go to our Free Pattern Day for Denim quilts (CLICK HERE!) 

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Faux cathedral windows from denim jeans

Three weeks ago we wrote our first post about Jeans Therapy (quilts from recycled denim). Today we are finishing the series with a wonderful circle/square quilt by Lori Poyer.  This is a clever quilt-as-you-go technique that is perfect for turning old jeans into quilts! The circle/square design is also called circular patchwork, folded cottage windows, mock cathedral windows and cheater cathedral windows*.  The fun lies in the selection and arrangement of fabrics for the 'windows'. 

Denim circle/square quilt by Lori Poyer at Poyer's Page

Lori Poyer achieved just the right balance of light and dark fabrics, and we love the bright red accents which include bandannas, plaids and stripes (click on the photos to see the detail). Lori says: "This was a quilt that I created from a woman’s old jeans (and believe me it took a whole lotta jeans!) and pieces of shirts from her, her husband and her baby daughter. It fit a queen/king size bed. It was a lot of work, but I had fun doing it." She incorporated jeans pockets, embroidered bits and other embellishments in the quilt:

To make a faux cathedral windows quilt you first cut circles out of the denim and mark out a square within each circle. When you stitch two pieces together on the marked lines, the rounded edges of the circles become flaps. Insert a scrap of fabric in the 'window' (batting is optional), fold the flaps over the scraps, and stitch down the raw edges of the flaps, stitching through all the layers. In a post by Doreen Baros at equilters you can see a circle jeans quilt in progress (below). See the squares that are marked within the circles, and the way the pieces are sewn right sides together ?

To mark out the circles you can use a coffee can lid as Doreen Baros has done or a circle template as in the tutorial at Puppets and Props or an Olfa cutter as in the tutorial at A Passionate Quilter.  To see two more denim quilts made with faux windows, check out the denim-and-fleece quilt at Burdastyle and the Care Bears denim quilt at Heritage Scraps.  Finally, here is a how-to video by Penny Halgren (9 min) who uses a quarter-circle template:

Image credits:  The images of Lori Poyer's quilt are shown with her generous permission. In addition to quilting, Lori provides web design services; for more information visit Poyer's page.
*In mock cathedral windows and cheater cathedral windows, two fabric circles are sewn right sides together and then turned right-side-out in order to avoid raw edges. In denim cathedral windows the edges are left raw, then stitched down with a zig zag stitch or straight stitch.

Pacific International Quilt Festival Part 3

Time for Part 3 of the Pacific International Quilt Festival !  All the quilts we saw were absolutely gorgeous. Let us know which ones are your favorites. We really enjoy reading your comments !

Croton Chorus, 36 x36 by Dee Goodrich, Fort Bragg, California

Dee describes her lovely creation by saying,  " I have a 2005 calendar from Hawaii with the most beautiful quilts. "Croton Chorus" is my favorite, designed by Dianna Grundhauser. I made my own paper piecing patterns and used embroidery floss in the bobbin to create veins, so I had to work off the backside of each leaf."  The careful selection of vivid bali fabrics in vibrant jewel tones, along with superb piecing and quilting is most impressive in this stunning work.

Super Star, 77 x 77, by Marilyn Badger, St. George, Utah

Blue ribbon winner for Best Machine Workmanship, Marilyn states, "This is an original design based on a paper-pieced Mariner's Star block from Claudia Myers' book "A Passion For Piecing."  Stars were interlocked and appliqued onto a pieced background. Smaller stars are pieced and appliqued at the corners. There are a total of 84 stars, including the quilted ones.  It is pieced using cottons and silks and quilted with 100 weight silk, silk sparkle, and polyester thread. The couching was done with Razzle-Dazzle. "

Close-Up of Super Star, by Marilyn Badger

Click on the photo above to "blow it up", and you will see the exquisite machine quilting in the background points of each star and in the circular border of each star. This quilting work displays a flawless focus on accuracy and artistry; the entire quilt is truly a show-stopper.  

Travels, 57 x 70", by Marlene King, Australia, at The Fabric Palette

Purple ribbon Viewers' Choice winner and Red Ribbon 2nd Place winner in the Innovative Quilts category, Marlene writes, "I decided to make a quilt using photos of my world travels. It took me a long while to come up with a format that wasn't boring. Finally, the idea of a film strip seemed the way to go."   Marlene's quilt is hand and machine appliqued, with precise, finely detailed landscape art scenes.  

Towards Infinity, 80.7 x 48.8", by Sally Scott, South Africa

Blue ribbon winner for Best Use of Color in an Innovative Quilt, the artist Sally Scott writes, "This work is about love, wholeness, unity, and peace. It refers to the infinite depths that lie within us and the infinite possibilities that lie without. "  It is made of hand-dyed string and cotton cloth, plus commercially dyed denim, corduroy, and beads. In each of the tiny squares in the center of the quilt, there is a beaded circle. Dozens of different colors and shapes of beads were used to decorate this work.

Fine Striped Tunics, 52 x 49.5", by Miriam Aronowitch,  Israel

Machine pieced and machine quilted with sparkling gold quilting thread, this quilt has both a rustic,  homespun and a glittering, elegant touch.  Miriam says, "This work describes the Spring appearance in Nature, as it was described by the 12th century famous Jewish Spanish poet, Rabbi Moshe Iben Ezra. He describes the fields as fine striped tunics.... Indeed, the fields are part of my work in the tunic and around the stripes. The blooming is a collage made partly from flowers drawn by me on cloth...and paper. 

Kona Color Waves ,60 x 58, by Angela Obeso, Santa Clara, California



Here is a striking contemporary design  that juxtaposes both pure, clear brights and toned, muted neutrals. Angela says, "This quilt is the result of the Modern Quilt Guild's Robert Kaufman Kona Solids Challenge. This is my first design and my first solid  [colors] only quilt. It is so different from the first traditional quilt that I made ten years ago."

Quilt Show Road Trip Part 2

Here's some more very lovely work from the Pacific International Quilt Festival, held October 13-16, 2011, in Santa Clara, California. Throughout this series, please feel free to leave us a comment and let us know which quilts are your favorites !

Celtic Cranes, 90 x 80, by Lesley Davies, United Kingdom

 
First place winner for "Best Use of Color in the Category of Traditional Quilts",  Celtic Cranes was so popular with the quilt fans that we couldn't get near enough to get a close-up.  It's a luxuriant, richly colored depiction of elegant cranes, bending towards the ground, their long necks curved around their legs. Quilter Lesley Davies used cyan blue and its true complementary color, yellow-orange, to create a show-stopper. It is machine appliqued and machine quilted.

Lesley notes, "I  have always loved Celtic design and have studied ancient illustrated books to search for inspiration for my quilts. The colours I have used are a favorite combination, and I wanted to use silks and gauzes to introduce different texture qualities with the cotton fabric."

Fruit and Feathers, 84 x 84", by Marie O'Kelley,  Seattle, Washington

Blue ribbon winner for "Best Hand Workmanship", Marie writes,  "Over time, I have stumbled into working in a series, one quilt's leftovers inspiring the next creation. An accumulation of green and purple scraps was just the size for appliqued leaves. .......Also on the table were the leftovers from a diamond-pieced background, perfect for a dogtooth border. Time has given me scraps, and they have been my inspiration."

Close-up of Fruit and Flowers by Marie O'Kelley

Marie adds, "The vines and banquets of berries attracted a few birds, (included in this center medallion as well as the inside border),  their plumage likewise shaded in purples and greens." 

We love all things purple, and this charming quilt, with its immaculate hand applique, really caught our eyes !

Desert Life,  36 x 48" by Hilda Koning-Bastiaan,  Danville, California

Speaking of birds, here is another beautiful quilt with a roadrunner as the focal point.  Hilda notes, "In the winter, I spend time in the desert. On my daily walks, I see....roadrunners, cactis, and succulents, my favorites. I used a pattern by Susan Cranshaw to put them in this quilt." 

Close-up of Desert Life, by Hilda Koning-Bastiaan

Hilda's landscape quilt is constructed of horizontal strips of fabric, with a different quilting pattern on each strip, which makes for very distinctive contrasts.  On top of that are appliqued the roadrunner succulents, and cacti whose flowers are attached, but not sewn down,  which gives a great three-dimensional look to this work. 

Grass Trees, 50 x 75, by Gloria Loughman , Victoria, Australia

Gloria Loughman is the author of Luminous Landscapes : Quilted Visions in Paint and Threads. She curated an exhibit within the quilt show titled "A Slice of Oz",  in which she showcases this quilt of hers above and several of her students' quilts.  Gloria notes that the quilts made by her and her students "reflect the colors, of the landscape and vegetation on this vast continent......a land of great contrasts."  The glowing gold and orange grass growing out of the trees is all done by machine quilting, or "thread painting" in which the quilting thread is used to construct actual objects that are part of the landscape. "Grass Trees" is a beautiful and very lifelike tribute to the scenic wonders of Gloria's home country.

Quilt Show Road Trip !

Welcome to the Pacific International Quilt Festival in California, the biggest quilt show on the west coast of the U.S.A.

This quilt show also includes a traveling exhibit of the winners of the World Quilt Show, held last August in New Hampshire, U.SA.  Join us for a look at some of the finest quilts on earth !

Please note:  We strictly obey all rules regarding photography in quilt shows. We take photos only where they are permitted, and we always provide attribution for each work. 

Mighty Departures, 88.6 x 68.9, by Sadako Negishi, Japan

Since we have recently featured a series of article on quilts made from recycled fabrics, we were especially captivated by this lovely work.  It is made from pieces of recycled materials donated to the quilter. She writes, "Japan suffered from an unexpected natural disaster ( the earthquake and tsunami of March 2011). We all need to quickly rise up and face the disaster. I place my hope in the Whooper Swans, flapping their wings in the splashing water. This expresses dreams, hopes, and courage."

Close-up of Mighty Departures by Sadako Negishi

Sadako used only recycled materials such as cotton-silk, pure silk, braids, beads, and netting.  Here you can see how she fashioned the white tulle netting into rounded blossoms and pleated triangular shapes, and appliqued it onto the top of the quilt. Underneath the tulle on the background, she has attached hundreds of white pearl beads.  For her magnificent work, Sadako won the blue ribbon first place award for "Best of Country", meaning that it was judged the best out of all quilts entered from Japan.

Once Loros de Panama,  72 x65, by Carol L. Smith, California

The Spanish name of this quilt translates to "Eleven Parrots of Panama." ( We believe that the quilter is referring to two additional parrots in the border fabric designed by Ellen Edith).   Carol says, "Imagine yourself in a garden in Panama. Through the windows in the garden wall, you can see brightly colored parrots enjoying the flowers and sunshine."  This quilter has used a unique setting of traditional attic windows blocks to showcase the very tropical-looking  parrots. Carol's work is machine-pieced, and machine quilted by herself.

Close-up of Once Loros de Panama by Carol L. Smith

 Molas are brightly colored, embroidered, and reverse- appliqued geometric designs made famous by the talented Kuna tribe, indigenous to Panama.  The molas used in this quilt  were made by unknown artists and purchased in Panama.  Traditionally, molas have used geometric non-objective designs, but in recent times, molas have incorporated objects of nature, such as animals, birds, flowers, and trees. 

Chevron Global AIDS Memorial Quilt 2009 by various unlisted artists

This 2009 album quilt is one of eleven AIDS quilts produced by the employees of Chevron, a large energy company, with offices around the world.  Employees from many different countries constructed these blocks in honor of their friends or loved ones who were lost to AIDS or HIV. On  this somber but very touching quilt, the description  reads, " Empowering individuals and communities to respond to HIV/ A.I.D.S.is a critical and fundamental part of respecting their human rights."  The blocks here come from Africa, Mexico,South American, Kazakhstan, and Southeast Asia.  Volunteers from Chevron's corporate headquarters in San Ramon, California, have carefully stitched the blocks together and constructed the red ribbon border.

Close-up of Chevron Global AIDS Memorial Quilt 2009

At the bottom of this beautiful appliqued block with trapunto elephants in silver fabric with gold accents,  you can see the names of those honored here.  As noted in the description, "The guardian elephants from Asia represent royalty, power, wisdom, and longevity. In eastern religious art, the elephant often represents Ganesha, the great Hindu god, which is celebrated in festivals yearly."

Modern quilting at The Silly Boodilly

Victoria Gertenbach hails from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, probably the most famous area in the nation for traditional patchwork quilting.  However, Victoria utilizes her fabulous skills to design and construct quilts with a very contemporary focus, as you will see below.

Reconstruction 1 by Victoria Gertenbach at The Silly Boodilly

Victoria originally set out to make a quilt solely from recycled denim, when she realized that the twill weave fabric was so stretched out of shape that it puckered severely when she tried to quilt it.  Rather than give up ( which we might be tempted to do !) she turned this quilting challenge into the greatest strength of this work. 

Victoria made the ingenious decision to add beautiful orange-red applique Japanese fabric patches to the areas where the denim fabric was most distorted. She carried through this  motif by enhancing the quilt with long straight rows of orange-red stitching which create beautiful vertical and horizontal lines. She also used the Japanese fabric for the binding, which adds a very eye-catching and lively energy to the utilitarian and vintage look of the denim.

Reversible patched pojagi table runner at The Silly Boodilly

Pojagi stitching, as explained by Victoria, is a Korean art of sewing seam construction which produces beautiful flat reinforced seams that add to the visual appeal of  works, especially with  bulky denims or delicate thin silks or voiles. After stitching, the edges of the  seam allowances are carefully turned underneath themselves, then stitched down again.  As you can see above, this technique, expertly rendered by Victoria in this reverse patched table runner, creates a clean, crisp, geometric effect. We love the restful, serene, monochromatic colors here, so evocative of the ocean and sky.   

Mini scrap quilt at The Silly Boodilly

Victoria's creative and highly unique work is for sale at her Etsy Shop, the link to which is shown on The Silly Boodilly sidebar.  Here, she has designed and constructed a quilt in beautiful cool hues of grape and cyan blue, contrasted with warm hues of  gold, brown, and burnt orange. Victoria refers to this very artistic piece as a "scrap" quilt, but to our eyes, it is so perfectly designed and thought out, that there is nothing "scrappy" about it.  One of Victoria's many strengths is that even though she sometimes works with recycled fabric and small pieces of leftovers, her work always contains thoroughly unified motifs, with careful and exacting arrangement of colors and patterns. 

Stained glass quilts from denim jeans

Alicia Wells, who blogs at Lucy's Quilts,  is one of those resourceful people we admire in quilting.  She has come up with a clever approach that makes it easier to construct beautiful quilts from old denim blue jeans. She says, "I make my quilts out of old jeans because I love the variations in the fabric as it fades and the pockets are great.  I have made probably about one hundred quilts using this pattern..... I think it probably could be considered an addiction but I don't think they have rehab for this addiction!" (Update on 1-14-16: the stained glass denim quilt pattern is now available at Lucy's Quilts on Etsy.)

Alicia ("Not Lucy") explains how it all started: "I blame my problem on my sister. She got me started when we made graduation quilts for our 2001 high school grads. I was hooked right away."

For her denim quilts, Alicia modified a pattern: "It originated as a Kaffe Fassett pattern pictured on the front of his Glorious Patchwork book. All of the pieces are sewn together using 1" black strips. When doing it with denim it makes it much easier since you are never sewing two pieces of denim directly together." She has used several bolts of 60" black Kona cotton for her stained glass quilts,  in addition to green, pink, orange, and other colors.

In generous quilterly fashion, Alicia has made dozens of quilts for charity:  "I have given about 40 to foster kids in our county for their high school graduation, several have been baby quilts, 2 went with the youth from our church to Mexico to give to the two families they helped build homes for, and on and on and on."

Image credits and links: Images are shown with the kind permission of Alicia Wells. About herself and her quilts, she says: "My evening job is quilting. We are empty nesters living on a little 'farm' across the sound from Seattle. I am a mother of three and grandmother of two."  For her original posts about denim/stained glass quilts, see denim quilts,  I don't think there is a patch for this and more denim/stained glass quilts.

Memory quilts from clothing

Alix Joyal is a quilt artist based in New Hampshire who specializes in making memory quilts for the families or friends of loved ones who have passed away. She uses the loved one's clothing in very unique and creative ways to make a lasting treasure.

Recycled Denim Quilt (memory quilt) by Alix Joyal at Mamaka Mills

Here is a quilt that Alix Joyal made for a family who lost their young son, Eugene, in a tragic accident. Alix used his jeans,  t-shirts, button-up shirts, and basketball shorts to create this contemporary, striking design. By juxtaposing the light and dark denims, Alix has created a glowing effect, as if the quilt is illuminated from behind.

Alix chose a seven inch maroon border, which beautifully complements the chambrays and muted indigos of the quilt body. As a special touch, she even added Eugene's signature, copied from his passport, in the lower right corner (see her original blog post for details).

Recycled men's shirt quilt by Alix Joyal at Mamaka Mills

Alix made this fabulous quilt in a modified log cabin design from mens recycled shirts. Notice how Alix's thoughtful color choice of orange serves as a perfect complement to the light blues and really sets off the brown earth tones. She notes that some of these blocks still have the button holes or tags still on them, which greatly adds to the visual interest.  It's for sale now at Mamaka Mills' Etsy site.

Custom Military Quilt, Army-Navy-Marines, by Alix Joyal at Mamaka Mills

Alix Joyal designs and produces very original, innovative, and meaningful memory quilts for service men and women and for their spouses and families. Here is an example of a military quilt that was constructed using parts of  military uniforms, fatigues, and camouflage gear. We really like this contemporary design which symbolizes such beauty, symmetry, strength, and resilience.

Alix also can also incorporate military medals and ribbons into her unique designs. Her heirloom-quality quilts are custom designed to reflect the personality and life of the loved one whose life is being remembered.  For more examples, see her galleries of  memory quilts and military memory quilts.

Image credits:  Images are shown with the generous permission of Alix Joyal. For more examples of her work, visit her website at Mamaka Mills and the Mamaka Mills blog. She graduated from The Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC with a BS in Textile Development and Marketing, and she has been quilting for 20+ years.

From bits and pieces: the art quilts of Gerald E. Roy

Over the years of collecting for the famed Pilgrim/Roy Collection, Gerald Roy put aside interesting pieces of antique cloth, along with favorite worn clothing. From these bits and pieces he has created a striking collection of original art quilts. Each piece is a study in color, texture and shape: essentially, an abstract work of art in textiles. He says: "I refer to them as Paintings in Cloth because my decisions for selecting, shaping, and placing my pieces are similar to the choices made when painting".  His quilts will be exhibited in a gallery show of Quilts by Men (opening October 26; there will be transportation available from the Quilt Festival in Houston).

Pockets and Parts, 38 x 48”, by Gerald E. Roy at Pilgrim/Roy Antiques and Interiors

 "Pockets and Parts" incorporates pieces of blue jeans, including whole pockets, bringing to mind the intact jeans as they would have been before deconstruction. Regarding the challenges in constructing quilts from such materials, Gerald Roy says:  "Using bits and pieces of cloth, cut from things that already exist, forces one to use unfamiliar shapes, sizes and arrangements. The thickness of the variety of materials requires different and sometimes very creative methods of joining these materials." 

Quilt by Gerald Roy:  Blue Jeans, Antique Ticking, Old Upholstery Material

There is no doubt that this quilt is made with used blue jeans.  Certain areas - such the knees of the jeans - are nearly white from wear, providing interesting focal points. Gerald Roy incorporated whole pieces of the jeans legs, piecing the curves into the straight lines of the other blocks. 

Quilt by Gerald Roy:  Antique Ticking, 1910 Yardage, Wool, Antique Linen Homespun, Blue Jeans

We love this bold, graphic quilt which 'reads' mostly black and white; three relatively small pieces of blue denim provide the color contrast.  The care in the design can be seen everywhere: notice that a few of the plaid rectangles are set askew, disrupting the orderly arrangement of the other lines.

Many more of Gerald Roy's original works can be viewed at his online galleries. And do you know about the Pilgrim/Roy Invitational Challenge, named for Gerald E. Roy and the late Paul D. Pilgrim? You can see the 2011 quilts, and the traveling exhibit schedule, at the National Quilt Museum online.

Image credits:  Images are shown with the generous permission of Gerald Roy.  He is a quilt collector, appraiser, designer and artist (for a complete bio, visit the Pilgrim/Roy website).  The Pilgrim/Roy collection is composed of 2,500 quilts for sale and show and quilt-related objects.

Reuse, reclaim, recycle: Jeans Therapy

Those of you who have been following us for a while know that we adore quilts made from reclaimed clothing.  Recently we saw an extraordinary wall quilt with denim fringe and a Jeans label. The quilt, called "Jeans Therapy",  won a blue ribbon at the Pacific West Quilt Show.  This beautiful piece was made with a Folded Log Cabin technique.  Have you heard of this method of log cabin construction? We love the dimensional look of the layered 'logs' !

Jeans Therapy, 25.5 x 36", by Sarah Kaufman, author of Folded Log Cabin Quilts (C&T Publishing)

Folded Log Cabin quilting is a unique process of  "log stacking" onto a foundation, resulting in handsome and weighty art pieces. Sarah Kaufman explained her inspiration for the name, Jeans Therapy: "Sometimes I name a quilt first, but usually it comes to me upon completion of a piece. This quilt has a 'blue jeans' feel about it, with the denim fringe. I love words (I am a crossword puzzle addict). I saw a fun twist with the term 'Gene Therapy'........ and VOILA!"

'Jeans Therapy' is actually made from cottons in many blue hues, a shirting chambray, and a few cherished indigos from Japan. The fringe is from a denim dress which Sarah found at a Goodwill thrift store. The primary quilt stitch which she used on the sashing is a utility stitch called Crows Footing, with #8 Perle cotton thread. This design is called “Love Thy Neighbor” in the book Folded Log Cabin Quilts (C&T Publishing). A chapter in the book gives full instructions for this log cabin variation, where each block plays off its ‘neighbor’.

Shirts, by Sarah Kaufman, author of Folded Log Cabin Quilts

With its many narrow rows of shirt stripes, these blocks appear to vibrate with energy.  Sarah Kaufman says:  "'Shirts' was made in 1999, the year my husband and I moved from Washington State to Hawaii. I cut up all of the long sleeve, button-down shirts we no longer needed. The buttons were recycled to the center squares, to aid in ‘quilting the sandwich’. Shirt labels, too, were saved and inserted in the pleats. The backing for this piece was made from pieced sleeve sections. Thread was the only purchase for this quilt!" 

East Meets Western, 28-1/2 x 43", by Sarah Kaufman, author of Folded Log Cabin Quilts

The dazzling “East Meets Western”, made in 2007, features lightweight denim and shirting chambray from reclaimed garments.  With the narrow ¼’’ strips, after folding, a 7’’ quilt block takes approximately 1/3 yard of fabric… a very good reason to incorporate suitable-weight fabrics from recycled clothing: lightweight denim, shirting and other cottons.  Because of the weight of the layers of fabric in the blocks, batting is not needed for these quilts (we like that idea !) 

Folded Log Cabin Quilts, available at Amazon.com

Image credits and links:  Images are shown with the generous permission of Sarah Kaufman of Bend, Oregon - formerly from Shaw Island, Washington and Haleiwa Hawaii.  Sarah is passionate about Folded Log Cabin quilting and has had winning entries in many quilt shows.  Since returning to Oregon in 2005, The Stitchin' Post has been the primary venue for her classes.  You can see more examples of Folded Log Cabin Quilts, and an interview with Sarah Kaufman, at the C&T Publishing blog.

Free pattern day ! Dresden Plate Quilts

The Dresden Plate quilt block was named after the ornately decorated tableware of Dresden, Germany. Some fantastic Dresden Plate variations and settings can be found in our free pattern archive.  NOTE:  This post has been UPDATED.  For the Free Pattern Day for Dresden Plate Quilts, CLICK HERE!

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