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Some notes on the Sisterhood Quilts: since early 1995 I have been part of a special group of friends called the Sisterhood of the Purple. We are all quiltmakers, we are scattered all over the country, but we are connected by an occasional reunion and a round-robin letter which has been circulating the entire time. This letter is quite a wonderful document, which tells what real quiltmakers' lives are like in the 20th (and now 21st!!) century.
Over the years we have made blocks for each other, and I have put the quilt tops together. The two quilts shown here are the last two quilts in this series!
64" x 64"
Designed and assembled by Margaret J. Miller
To be quilted by Wanda J. Rains,
Bainbridge Island, WA
Collection of Carole Liebzeit, Wilson, WY
Carole gets the prize for having to wait the longest to receive her Sisterhood quilt — and most patiently, too, I might add! Carole is known for her love of bright, pure color, so the preponderance of "crayon colors" in this quilt is a reflection of that. We all start with certain fabrics; for Carole, we were given only the black and white prints you see in the quilt! The border was an experiment in using an asymmetric element to create not such a linear border, but an area of denser design around the more open feeling of the center of the quilt, which resulted from the use of the black and white prints in the blocks.
64" x 64"
Completed September 2002
Designed, assembled, and
Machine quilted by Margaret J. Miller
Collection of Phyllis McFarland, Spokane, WA
This was such a pleasing collection of blocks; some larger, some smaller, some square, some rectangular! In the inner orange "star" outline surrounding the center five blocks, I was trying out two sets of two different oranges to see which would work best to create this shape — and I ended up using all four of them!
What makes this quilt sparkle is the use of the variegated fabric that encloses the center shape, strengthened by the narrow band of black stripe surrounding it.
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