Santa Fe Quilting

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Cool off with these beautiful teals or plan your Halloween decor with these cute fabrics.

120976 Turquoise Skinny Stripe Batik
124785 Woodblock Scratches Teal Malibu
126150 Green & Blue Green Wavy Stripe, Tonal

124305 White Wandering Ghosts on Orange, Halloween Ghost
124310 Orange White Daisies with Spider Webs on Black
124714 Stitched Skulls & Bones on Black Creepin' It Real

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We restocked the Derse Squares and the Wabi Sabi in 42-inch fabric.

119159 Derse Wabi Sabi Multi Circles

118232 Derse Curiosity Digital Multi Grid Images from Treasure Hunt

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Another version of Tilda Fat Quarters

127078 Something Blue FQ Bundle 20 fabrics, Blenders

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Tilda lovers will enjoy these fat quarter bundles or the 2.5-inch rolls.

127072 Fabric Roll Something Blue
We received several new batiks that should be fun. Lots of different personalities among them.

127073 Something Blue FQ Bundle 10 fabrics, Light

127076 Something Blue FQ Bundle 12 fabrics, Blenders

127077 Something Blue FQ Bundle 10 fabrics, Blenders

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Best of Santa Fe Results

For the first time ever, we took first place in the Craft Shop division in the Shopping section. Thanks to all of you who took the time to nominate us and then vote for us. We appreciate your time and effort. We also appreciate you as customers. You make our job fun and enjoyable every day.

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Tonie Dunham took Jerri Bryson’s class and expanded the Cascading Colors quilt to a king size. It looks great.

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Folk Art https://quiltindex.org/results/?collection=DAR for Quilts at the Daughters of the American Revolution Museum.

click on the cite to see the quilts.

Donor states that her Aunt Bessie's mother made the quilt in 1915, in Iowa, after seeing a picture in a magazine. She designed and pieced the blocks herself and added the date in blocks at the bottom of the quilt. The calico came from Aunt Bessie's brother's store in Cameron, Missouri in 1915.

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folkartmuseum.org takes you to the website for the American Folk Art Museum with several quilts on display at this time. https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/arts/2023/05/17/american-folk-art-museum-in-manhattan-has-new-exhibition-full-of-quilts #:~:text=ARTS,-American

The exhibition showcases a range of quilts.

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Fig. 1 Baltimore Album quilt DAR 87.68, from the collection of The Daughters of the American Revolution Museum.

The Mexican American War (1846-1848) added Texas and the New Mexico Territory. This established the Rio Grande River as the border river and included land all the way to the Pacific Ocean. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended this war with a payment of $15 million to Mexico. California was ceded to the US as well after the war. So far, we haven’t found a quilt commemorating this. Cameras in black and white were spreading in the mid-1800s. By the Centennial cameras were more common.

The development of the States and the settling of territories along with fights with Native Americans for land and rights left us with a shortage of pictures of quilts from that era. Quilts in the West were primarily functional and were often worn out.

1812 - 1814 "Pinwheel" Quilt | National Museum of American History

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The Whig party was created in 1833-34 by two Republicans, Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams. It lasted until 1856. They were anti President Jackson and the Democratic Party. They opposed autocratic rule. The Whig Rose quilt is located at the International Quilt Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska. It was created between 1895 and 1910.


In 1844 Polk used Fifty-Four Forty or Fight as a Campaign slogan. This was to secure the Oregon Territory for the United States. Quilters rose to the occasion and created a block. Before the war was over Andrew Jackson made a name for himself at the Battle of New Orleans which led to his political rise to the presidency.

54-40 or Fight wedding quilt - Quiltingboard Forums Combination of Wedding ring and 54 40 or fight block.