craftybear

Marsye was so excited about the Sunbonnet Sue Quilt! Sue said it was easy to make since Marsye was there to help her out. Sue had challenged all of the quilters in the community to learn to quilt.

Marsye and Sue are now giving quilting lessons!

craftybear

Marsye built a small house and shop close to Sue so they could start teaching quilting lessons and explain to others about the history of quilting.

craftybear

Marsye is so proud of her new little house and look she has a big sign in front of the house and quilt shop to advertise quilting.

craftybear

Marsye and Sue built this quilting museum.

craftybear

Marsye and Sue are so proud of the quilt shop. Sue's husband Magic Ripper and the guys from the saloon built them this quilt shop and made the cool signs for the front yard.

craftybear

Marsye has been teaching the ladies and gentlemen at the quilt shop. She is teaching them all about the history of quilts.

Please click on this link to read all of the cool stories and history!

The link talks about the timeline of quilt history by dates.


http://www.womenfolk.com/historyofquilts/articles.htm

craftybear

Marsye is trying to decide what quilt blocks to start teaching her students. Do you have any ideas? If so please post the link here for some beginner quilting links.

craftybear

Pinwheel block from 1795

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art3057.asp

craftybear

Timeline of Quilting History

This is a very interesting article giving dates along with names of quilt blocks, lots of history.

http://www.reddawn.net/quilt/timeline.htm

craftybear

Marsye and Sue are getting ready to go watch the fireworks. I bet every time they see them will think of a quilt idea to make.