LIFE, HEALTH & HAPPINESS FOR NORTH WHIDBEY’S 50-PLUS CROWD VOLUME 4 • ISSUE 3 • SEPTEMBER 2016
Important Things To Remember FREE MOTION QUILTING CLASS Monday, September 19 9 AM - NOON FREE
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AMERICA’S QUILTING HISTORY
America’s Quilt Revival: 1960s & 1970s By: Womenfolk.com
The 60s and 70s hardly seem like they should qualify as ‘history’. But as we are swept into the 21st century the years from 1960 to 1980 have become a significant period of our history. World War II was over and the Cold War had set in. The Vietnam War divided Americans and the Civil Rights Movement was making great strides.
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The world changed yet much remained the same. People were still embracing handmade crafts from macramé to quilting.
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Beginning of the 1960s
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In the April, 1961 edition of “Women’s Day” magazine we find a preview of what was to come. Rose Wilder Lane, daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder of “Little House on the Prairie” fame, wrote an article titled “Patchwork”.
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work” included patterns for patchwork clothing as well as quilts. The cover displays a young woman in a lovely natural setting wearing patchwork clothing we assume she has made herself. Then Came the Quilt Exhibit at the Whitney Museum
Jonathan Holstein and Gail van der Hoof began collecting quilts at the end of the 1960s. Instead of looking only for fine
The article pictured beautiful quilts from museums along with several individual blocks. These pictures surely inspired many women to try their hand at quilting. The patterns and instructions could be easily ordered through the magazine making the project very accessible. Soon the Back to Nature Movement Encouraged Old Style Craftsmanship Just a few years later the back-to-nature movement inspired people to explore crafts from earlier times in history including patchwork. Hippies and communes may have led the way in this movement but others were influenced to try their hand at crafts. A 1970 pattern book titled “Modern Patch-
museum quality quilts they chose quilts they found to be of the “greatest visual interest and impact”. In 1971 they were able to display the most fascinating of their quilts at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. QUILTING continued on page 8