Quilt Revival: Updated Patterns from the `30s

by Nancy Mahoney

With the need to "use it up and make it do" during the Great Depression, quilting exploded in popularity. By the mid-1930s, over 400 newspapers printed block patterns on a regular basis. Author Nancy Mahoney was lucky enough to find scrapbooks filled with clippings of those patterns. She shares her favorites--along with simplified sewing techniques--in this rare collection.

Eleven scrappy quilt patterns include "Chinese Checkers," "Patriotic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564776433
• ISBN13: 9781564776433
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: That Patchwork Place
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.3" x 10.8"