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American Quilt Trail

Posted June 12th, 2009 by kath_red

I love this grass roots quilt-barn movement, it began in 2001 and has spread to 16 states and 900 barns across America – it is a celebration of quilting heritage and historic barns & architecture.
Each barn has a quilt square painted on it – find out more here. Links: Kentucky quilt trail : Appalachian quilt trail : background to quilt barn story.

Quilt barn at historic Yancey Tavern on Hwy. 126, Sullivan County [image from here]

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How to Knit a Sanquhar Glove

Posted April 21st, 2009 by kath_red

tata-tatao-to pattern

dances with wools says ” The distinctive two-coloured patterned knitting which is widely known as ‘Sanquhar knitting’ … Today, there are about a dozen known, named, traditional patterns with as many variations of cuff patterns. Some of these have interesting historical anecdotes as to their origins” … the dedicated knitters at the Japanese website tata-tatao-to have developed a pattern based upon the research they completed on an original glove”