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Civil War Reunion-Northern Lily BOM 82"x 82"
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Barbara Brackman
College life inspired Barbara Brackman to
8187 13* stitch her first quilt.
“Everyone in my dorm had incredible quilts on
their beds and I had a striped bedspread,” she
remembers. “I asked the girls where they got them
and they all said their grandmothers made them.”
So Barbara asked her grandmother to teach her to
quilt. Trouble was, her grandmother knew nothing
about sewing and couldn’t provide much advice
as Barbara cut crooked triangles from olive green
and navy polyester knits. “It was just awful,”’ she
remembers with a laugh. “But I have to thank my
grandmother for trying.”
Today, Barbara is known for her expertise on quilt
history, her patterns, and for the reproduction fab-
rics she’s designed since 1998 for Moda. Including
those she designed with Terry Clothier Thompson.
Much of her inspiration comes from the old fabrics
she collects.
“I’m a bit of a hoarder, but the socially acceptable
kind,” she says. “ I love to file and know where
every piece of fabric is.”
In addition, the fabrics she designs reflect her vo-
racious reading habits. “I pick a historical period
and learn all I can about it,” she says. “I’m espe-
cially interested in how women of that time lived
and thought.”
Though they didn’t sew much, the women from
Barbara’s own past definitely influenced her. “My
mother was one of ten girls and I thought she and
my aunts were the essence of glamour,” she says.
“It was from them I got my love of fabric.” 6
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BarbaraBrackman
February Delivery
8185 19 8182 19 Skus: 37 Prints
Content: 100% Cotton

 Asst. 8180-15 15 Yards of Each

 Asst. 8180-10 10 Yards of Each
 Asst. 8180-10H 10 Yards of 19 skus
 8180AB Bundle: 37 Skus 18” x 22”
 8180F8 Bundle: 37 Skus 9” x 22”
 8180JR Jellyroll
(40) 2½" x 45" Strips – Pk 4
 8180LC Layer Cake
(42) 10" x 10" Squares – Pk 4
 8180PP (42) 5" x 5" Squares – Pk 12
*JR’s, LC’s & PP’s include 2 each of 8180-13, 14 & 16.

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