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2. Adeline Harris Sears - Wikipedia

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   Harris Sears's most famous work is a signature quilt.Begun in 1856 when she was seventeen and finished around 1867, the quilt includes the autographs on top of the blocks of many known celebrities and politicians of the day including the writers Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Dickens, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Julia Ward Howe, Harriet Beecher Stowe ...

3. Signature quilt - Wikipedia

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   Quilt, Tumbling Blocks with Signatures pattern, containing 350 signatures by Adeline Harris Sears A signature quilt is a quilt that has multiple names signed, stamped, or embroidered on it. [ 1 ] While examples exist prior to 1800, the tradition was popularized in the 19th century often as a means of fundraising or given as keepsakes to people ...

4. Longarm quilting - Wikipedia

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   Longarm quilting is the process by which a longarm sewing machine is used to sew together a quilt top, quilt batting and quilt backing into a finished quilt.. A complete longarming system typically consists of a sewing machine head, a frame, a table with a layer of plastic (under which is placed a pantograph), and several rollers on which the fabric layers and batting are attached.

5. Freedom Quilting Bee - Wikipedia

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   The Freedom Quilting Bee was a quilting cooperative with members located throughout the Black Belt of Alabama. [1] Black women created the cooperative in 1966 to generate income for their families. In December 1965 the Episcopal priest Francis X. Walter was in Wilcox county Alabama, when a quilt on a clothesline outside a small home caught his eye.

6. Sears Modern Homes - Wikipedia

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   Cover of 1922 Sears Modern Homes catalog. Sears Modern Homes were houses sold primarily through mail order catalog by Sears, Roebuck and Co., an American retailer.. From 1908 to 1942, Sears sold more than 70,000 of these houses in North America, by the company's count. [1]

7. Singer Model 27 and 127 - Wikipedia

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   The button is located on the improved shuttle frame, Singer part number 54507, which can be retrofitted onto older model 27 and 28 machines. The bobbin winder is mounted high on the pedestal, where a small rubber tire occupying its pulley makes contact with the motor belt.