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  2. Jinny Beyer - Wikipedia

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    Geraldine Elizabeth Kahle Beyer (born July 27, 1941) is an American quilt designer, quilter, author, teacher and lecturer.Considered by the quilting industry and the publishing media to be of the first designers to form a fabric collection suited to the needs of quilters, she began her career in India after she had run out of yarn.

  3. Crazy quilting - Wikipedia

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    Similar aesthetics began to show up in crazy quilts, including unique patterns, and stitching that resembled spider webs and fans. [ 2 ] Crazy quilting rapidly became a national fashion amongst urban, upper-class women, who used the wide variety of fabrics that the newly industrialized 19th century textile industry offered to piece together ...

  4. Patchwork - Wikipedia

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    Patchwork blocks are pieced squares [11] made up of colored shapes that repeat specific shapes to create patterns within the square or block of, say, light and dark or contrasting colors . The blocks can all repeat the same pattern, or blocks can have several different patterns. The patchwork blocks are typically around 8–10 in 2 (52–65 cm ...

  5. Seminole patchwork - Wikipedia

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    Seminole patchwork, referred to by Seminole and Miccosukee women as Taweekaache (design in the Mikasuki language), [1] is a patchwork style made from piecing colorful strips of fabric in horizontal bands. [2] Seminole patchwork garments are often trimmed with a rickrack border.

  6. Quilts of the Underground Railroad - Wikipedia

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    In Stitched from the Soul (1990), Gladys-Marie Fry asserted that quilts were used to communicate safe houses and other information about the Underground Railroad, which was a network through the United States and into Canada of "conductors", meeting places, and safe houses for the passage of African Americans out of slavery.

  7. Frye Art Museum - Wikipedia

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    The Frye Art Museum was built in Seattle's First Hill neighborhood and opened to the public in 1952 as a free art museum. [4] The Fryes' historic collection consisted of representational art works, with a tendency toward "the dark, the dramatic, and the psychological" rather than "the genteel".

  8. Bindle - Wikipedia

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    The bindle is colloquially known as the blanket stick, particularly within the Northeastern hobo community. A hobo who carried a bindle was known as a bindlestiff. According to James Blish in his novel A Life for the Stars, a bindlestiff was specifically a hobo who had stolen another hobo's bindle, from the colloquium stiff, as in steal.

  9. Soleil Moon Frye - Wikipedia

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    Soleil Moon Frye (/ s oʊ ˈ l eɪ /; born August 6, 1976 [1]) is an American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter. She began her career as a child actress at the age of two. When she was seven, Frye won the role of Penelope "Punky" Brewster in the NBC sitcom Punky Brewster. The series debuted in September 1984 and earned consistently ...