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Patchwork Quilts Patterns in Quilts
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What is Patchwork? Patchwork is pieces of fabric cut into different shapes and sewn together into patterns. During the first 100 hundred years of our country, many women, girls, and even a few men and boys- sewed patchwork.
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Why is it important? No one could afford to waste good fabrics. In that time women wove all their fabrics at home. Even when machines and factories began to produce fabric, it was expensive and difficult to get.
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What would people use? People could use the tiny scraps left over from the dresses and shirts they had sewn. They could re-use fabric, cut into small pieces, from outgrown or worn-out clothing. All of these were sewn together by hand. Usually did this with friends. These would be made into warm quilts.
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Ideas for designs and names of patchwork patterns Tools they used Toys children played with Some came from plants, animals, or stars After a special event, an important person, or a story in the Bible No two patchworks are alike They can tell use how people lived when our country was still young and growing
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Theme Names AnvilPostage Stamp Buggy WheelQueen Charlotte’s Crown Churn DashRocky Road to Kansas Does and DartsStorm at Sea Eight Hands RoundTobacco Leaves Flying GeeseUnderground Railroad Grandmother’s FanVariable Star HoneycombWindmill Indian hatchetX Jacob’s LadderYankee Puzzle Kite’s TailZigzag Log Cabin**There are thousands more Maple Leaf Necktie Old Tippecanoe
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