The Broken Band block is a lesser known block. Barbara Brackenbridge mentions only one place where this block has been published and that is the Farm News in 1920. No other history on this block is available – perhaps you can assist? We have provided you with a cutting diagram using rotary cutting. The numbers […]
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Buying from Fat Quarter Shop
As you know we recently became affiliated to the Fat Quarter Shop. It means that we can include links to products that we like or recommend. We will also show items that you could use for a project when we write about products and projects. Living in South Africa poses some challenges to online shopping […]
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Eccentric Star
The Eccentric Star block has a simpler version that is better known than the one presented here. This particular version first appeared in Jonathan Holstein’s book “The Pieced Quilt: an American Design Tradition”. According to Celia Eddy, this particular block shows “folk art ingenuity” as it doesn’t appear in any other sources of the eccentric […]
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