Charm Quilt Zoom Program

Charm Quilt ZOOM Program

Sign Ups are open

Charm Quilts 1870-2020

Collection of Dawn Cook Ronningen

Sponsored By The Minnesota Quilt Project/Minnesota Quilters

A portion of the proceeds go to The American Quilt Study Group

Thursday, 7pm Central Time - March 2 - ZOOM - Will NOT be recorded Non-members $10

Use this link:  https://mnquilt.org/meetings.html  Scroll Down to the March Meeting to Sign up

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Saturday, 10am Central Time, March 4 - In Person Recovery Church

(Not recommended for Zoom/Hybrid Tech Attendance)

$10 for guests

Saturday Afternoon March 4

In the Saturday afternoon workshop, “Charm Quilts - a Library of Fabrics”, Dawn will lead a study of the fabrics found in her charm quilts. Registration will be required.

 Fee of $45 for MQ members and $55 for non-members.  

Photographs will not be allowed - Bring a pencil and paper.

A supply list will be provided with workshop enrollment.

Hope to see you there!

Happy Stitching,

Dawn

 

New Book Sewing Rolls Needle Rolls and Huswifs - Now Shipping

Front Cover

We are so excited to announce our new book is now shipping!

Hot off the presses - it arrived 12 hours before I stepped on a plane for a symposium.

The copies I was able to carry sold in seconds.

Since I've been home - I'm filling wholesale and retail orders.

My support team is helping Saturday - just had to provide dinner!

It's going to be a fun day.

The book is 235 pages

Filled with history, vivid high resolution photography

detailed descriptions from a diverse collection dating back to the 18th century

Sample Interior Page - Gorgeous Antiques

Examples include basic to rare one of a kind - not just from the USA

Table of Contents

Examples date from c.1780-c.1900

Index - for help looking up topics

Back Cover - sturdy packaging for mailing

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This book will not be sold through distributors or Amazon.

We chose to print with a local union shop.

(Union Certified - Livable Wage) 

We are selling wholesale to small businesses in the USA.

Inquires Welcome!

International Postage is available - Private message or email us.

Please be patient - International Orders take time to complete customs forms.

Link to our Etsy Shop:  HERE

There is a short video in the listing where I flip through the pages to give you an idea of the interior.

Please let me know if you have any questions!

Regards,

Dawn

Catherine’s Pin Cushion

 This is Catherine’s pin cushion from c.1855.  

Her quilt, Catherine’s Garden is one of many quilts we’ve patterned and reproduced. Whenever I buy a quilt I try to gather as much as I can about the original maker - it’s special to have Catherine’s pin cushion.  My Catherine’s Garden reproduction quilt was chosen as the International Quilt Festival 2022 Signature quilt.  Quite wonderful! The pattern includes all of the hand quilting lines from the original.  I used them in my reproduction.  

To celebrate, we have reduced the price of our digital pattern for our Noah and Matilda quilt.

Link To Listing

We also made a single file digital pattern for a smaller version of Catherine’s Garden - called Catherine’s Flowers.

Link To Listing

Finished quilt hand stitched by Shona in Colorado

If you are going to Houston, please stop by the exhibit and say hello!  At 1:00 Saturday and Sunday we will do an exhibit talk with some of the the other makers! Hope to see you there.

Happy Stitching! 

Dawn

Mary Witherwax Swap

 

My friend Deb told me about a swap she and her stitching friends are doing. 

Of course, we love that they chose Mary Witherwax blocks!

Her group has existed for years, bonded in friendship and love.   

They’ve moved all over the country and still retreat together when they can.

They all do hand appliqué and don’t have too many ‘rules’ for the swap.

Having a history of many group projects they know what they like.

Their ground fabrics will all be scrappy shirtings - each member making duplicates of the same blocks.

In the end - they will each have a quilt - and more memories stitched in every block.

Deb has promised some progress photos - watch this space! 

Link to digital pattern or book: HERE

Karen (Log Cabin Quilter) made her Mary Witherwax in French General fabrics.

It is in our exhibit this fall in Houston, “Antique Appliqué Revisited”

Happy Stitching,

Dawn

What An Honor

 What an HONOR!

Friday was a wild day - the kind that takes your breath away!

I had an email from International Quilt Festival.

I quickly opened it hoping all was well with the quilts for my exhibit.

The quilts were all been shipped to Houston from all over the US & Canada in June.

It was an email advising me my Catherine's Garden quilt was chosen 

as the 2022 Signature Quilt!

Wow!

We exchanged contracts and it was announced in a matter of a few hours!

Did I say Wow?

I wasn't even aware that was a possibility - I've learned much about the process.

This is the antique quilt from our collection:

Chrome Yellow Ground Fabric

If you are going to Houston please stop and say hello!

I will be at the exhibit at 1pm Saturday - for sure for an exhibit talk.

I will be there others times as well - we can also setup a time to meet.

All of the quilts are precious - so much history and so many stories to tell!

Stay tuned to learn why my husband calls the antique Catherine - His

One of several stories.

Pattern Page: HERE 

We also did a BOM program with the flower blocks HERE.

Past blog posts about Catherine: HERE

Happy Stitching,

Dawn