Undgerground Railroad Quilts from Quilt Guild Show 2009
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these are great pics, and so inspirational.
I haven't read much about URR quilts, just a little in my quilt mags...can you use any blocks you want, or are there specific ones, that make it a URR as opposed to just a plain sampler.
I know different blocks are supposed to have different meanings.
GCathie, are you night owling again? Don't you ever get any sleep? You stay so busy. Only shows I have been to, are right here on this board. Thanks for the trip, lol! :D
I haven't read much about URR quilts, just a little in my quilt mags...can you use any blocks you want, or are there specific ones, that make it a URR as opposed to just a plain sampler.
I know different blocks are supposed to have different meanings.
GCathie, are you night owling again? Don't you ever get any sleep? You stay so busy. Only shows I have been to, are right here on this board. Thanks for the trip, lol! :D
#15
Originally Posted by quiltncrazy
these are great pics, and so inspirational.
I haven't read much about URR quilts, just a little in my quilt mags...can you use any blocks you want, or are there specific ones, that make it a URR as opposed to just a plain sampler.
I know different blocks are supposed to have different meanings.
GCathie, are you night owling again? Don't you ever get any sleep? You stay so busy. Only shows I have been to, are right here on this board. Thanks for the trip, lol! :D
I haven't read much about URR quilts, just a little in my quilt mags...can you use any blocks you want, or are there specific ones, that make it a URR as opposed to just a plain sampler.
I know different blocks are supposed to have different meanings.
GCathie, are you night owling again? Don't you ever get any sleep? You stay so busy. Only shows I have been to, are right here on this board. Thanks for the trip, lol! :D
I believe that if you look at every block in the sampler quilts, you would know those blocks by another name ... so many blocks are like that.
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thanks, omak. I only have one book by Eleanor Burns, but everybody here, that mentions her, speaks in glowing terms.
One of these days, I am going to have to get that book out and do something with it.
Yes, it is sad, why we have the URR quilts, whether these stories are true or not.
I think it gives ppl comfort to think that there were 'angels' along the way.
Who are any of us, to judge color. Isn't that what God blessed all of us, quilters with, a love of? That would be downright silly. :wink:
One of these days, I am going to have to get that book out and do something with it.
Yes, it is sad, why we have the URR quilts, whether these stories are true or not.
I think it gives ppl comfort to think that there were 'angels' along the way.
Who are any of us, to judge color. Isn't that what God blessed all of us, quilters with, a love of? That would be downright silly. :wink:
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