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Color-Blend Applique Designs: page 56. Jane Townswick's books, Artful Applique, Artful Album Quilts, and Color-Blend Applique, are available at your local quilt shop or contact Martingale & Co., 20205 144th Ave. NE, Woodinville, WA 98072; 800-426-3126; info@martingale-pub.com; website www2.martingale-pub.com. Jane teaches and can be contacted at 8041 Cross Creek Circle, Breinigsville, PA 18031; 610-530-8877; jtown@enter.net.
The size #10 and #11 straw needles recommended by Jane can be ordered from A Very Special Collection, P. O. Box 2243, Yorktown, VA 23692; phone/fax 757-867-7711; website www.averyspecialcollection.com.
Definitely Do-able Design Walls: page 34. Linda Hungerford gives special thanks to Quilters' Unlimited Digest of Northern Virginia, Yahoo's Quilt Designers online discussion group, Kaffee-Klatsch online discussion group, and The Home Depot in West Des Moines, Iowa, for their help with this article.
To find the resources mentioned:
Visit www.BlockButler.com, email blockbutler@blockbutler.com or phone 425-644-4242 to locate a quilt store that sells Block Butler, or to place an order.
Creative Grid is a 2-inch blue-gridded fabric, 54/56-inches wide and 100-percent cotton. It's distributed by Maywood Studio. Ask for it at your local quilt shop.
The Quilter's Husband Pinup and Design Wall is available at www.quiltershusband.com, or phone 888-248-3484.
Dizzy to Distraction: page 60. Contact Kathy Russler at 9006 Meadowknoll Cir., Dallas, TX 75243; russler@aol.com.
The block is Twirling Ribbon by Linda Causee, from her book 101 Log Cabin Blocks, reprinted with permission of the publisher, American School of Needlework, Inc. Phone 800-882-6643 to order, using product number 4181. ASN books are available at quilt shops and book stores nationwide.
Material Pleasures: page 69. Barbara Brackman is working on a book about antique fabric and reproductions to be released by C&T Publishing in 2004. Her fabric designs are available from local quilt shops or online from companies such as www.reproductionfabrics.com or www.hancocks-paducah.com.
AntiqueFabric.com supplied some of the fabric swatches shown in the article. Contact Flinda Terteling at 888-339-8989; fax 208-229-1507; or email info@antiquefabric.com.
A Medal for Her Services to Quilting: page 27. The Quilters Hall of Fame in Marion, Indiana, will be publishing a book about Hall of Fame honorees (including Amy) in July 2004. Information on obtaining the book will be posted on its website www.quiltershalloffame.org at that time. Proceeds from the book sales will benefit the QHOF.
Signed copies of Dorothy Osler's book North Country Quilts: Legend and Living Tradition (2000) are available from the author. The price is $30.00 plus $6.00 shipping ($10 air mail). To purchase, contact Dorothy by email at do@osler.demon.co.uk.
Dorothy's 1996 book of motifs, Quilting Design Sourcebook, is available at quilt shops or from the publisher, Martingale & Co., 800-426-3126; www2.martingale-pub.com.
Meetin' Place: page 38. Wendy Butler Berns lectures and teaches nationwide. Color, free-motion quilting, and embellishing are a few of the topics covered in her workshops. Contact Wendy at 920-648-7576; email wbbquilter@aol.com.
George D. Butler would be happy to answer questions about the study of entomology, collecting insects with grandkids, or catching the quilting bug at age 80. He can be reached in Arizona at 480-592-9393.
Photo Finish: page 98. Quilting designs for The Blue Birds are from books by Shirley Thompson. It's Not a Quilt Until It's Quilted (Powell Publications, 1984) is out of print, but may be available through your public library or quilt guild library. Old-Time Quilting Designs (Powell Publications, 1988) is available by calling Golden Threads at 888-477-7718; email info@goldenthreads.com; website www.goldenthreads.com.
Quiltmaker's Workshop: page 40. Marty Frolli teaches classes in quiltmaking for Santa Barbara City College in California. She co-authored A Joy Forever, Marie Webster's Quilt Patterns (1992) and Marie Webster's Garden of Quilts (2001), both published by Practical Patchwork.
Readers' Quilt Show: page 50. Sandra Hoefner was the subject of The Meetin' Place in QNM issue 344, and instructions for her piped applique technique are in the Quiltmaker's Workshop in issue 339. See more of her quilts in issues 317, 332, and 337.
Kim Ritter invites readers to visit her website at www.kimritter.com; email kim@kimritter.com.
Contact Robin Haller at 778 May Apple Lane, Carbondale, IL 62903; phone 618-549-5111.
Charlotte Patera's quilts are for sale. Please see her website at http://charlottepatera.com.
Reconciliation: page 42. Laureen Neilly can be reached at 1219 Third Ave., San Francisco, CA 94122; LJJJSF@msn.com.
A Star Among Fuchsias: page 53. Contact Letitia Chung at 524 Gellert Dr., San Francisco, CA 94132; letitiachung@yahoo.com.
The pattern for folded fuchsias is from Kumiko Sudo's book Fabled Flowers, available from McGraw-Hill Company, 800-722-4726. Kumiko's newest book, Folded Flowers, is available from Breckling Press, 800-951-7836.
Textile Treasures: page 62. Cooperstown is located in central New York state, 70 miles west of Albany. The Fenimore Art Museum is on Lake Road, Route 80, one mile north of the Village of Cooperstown. Phone 888-547-1450 toll-free or visit www.nysha.org for more information.
The exhibit Uncommon Quilts: Textile Treasures of the Fenimore Art Museum will be on display January 23-31, 2004, at the International Great Quilt Festival in Tokyo, Japan. See What's New and News in the January/February 2004 issue of QNM for more about the exhibit and the Festival.
Unconventional Quilts: page 44. Robert Shaw is a curator and art historian who has written several books about quilts and American folk arts, including The Art Quilt (Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., 1997). He also offers appraisals and consulting services to collectors, artists, and institutions. His website is www.roberteshaw.com.
The website for The Alliance for American Quilts' Quilters' S.O.S.-Save Our Stories project, where interviews can be accessed, is www.centerforthequilt.org/qsos/qsos_interviews.php.
What's New and News: page 8. In the article Quilters Show Their Hearts for Valentine's Day we mention Carol Doak. Carol is a paper-foundation-piecing expert and has been a frequent contributor to QNM. Her two-part series, Foundations First, appeared in the January/February and March 2002 issues (QNM 339 and 340). In 2003, her four-part series Piecing on Paper was the Easy Lesson in the April, May, June, and July/August issues (QNM 351-354). To see Carol's teaching schedule, books, and pattern information, visit her website http://quilt.com/cdoak or email her at qcarol@aol.com.
Wintergarden: page 48. More of Nancy Rink's quilts and patterns can be seen on her website www.nrquiltpatterns.com, or email her at orink@bak.rr.com.
Check our archive of past Extra Credit pages for more quilt-related links and resources.
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