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Old 04-24-2008, 10:55 AM
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My kind of quilt; it’s quite admirably insane.

There's one quilt pictured in the book "America's Glorious Quilts" made by George W. Yarrall that it reminds me of. Not the quilt per se, but the sanity part. He worked on it from July 2 1933 - December 30 1935. It contains ten colors of percale, each square measuring 3/8 or 1/4-inch. Total pieces used were 66,153: 27,160 squares in the diagonal borders, 5,125 in the panels, 25,921 in the center and 7,920 on the outer edge. Yikes! Now don't you wish you had that kind of time on your hands?
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