Biscuit Quilt

I always enjoy magazine articles that show 1st quilts and last most recent quilts made by quilt designers. They started out like most of us who started quilting in the 1980's with a sampler or log cabin quilt. This is my very first quilt made from polyester double knits and biscuits, it was a 4-H project from the 70's. (photos taken last fall) The biscuits were 4 1/2 or 5 inch squares sewn together and turned I can't remember if a 1/4 inch or 1/2 inch seam was used then they were stuffed with a nylon sock or the leg from panty hose. The opening was stitched shut then after a hundred or so biscuits were made, they were sewn into strips using invisible nylon thread with the serpentine stitch on the sewing machine. Then the long strips of biscuits were sewn together into one very heavy quilt. Scroll down to Tuesdays post to match the biscuit to the outfit. No garment was destroyed in the making of this quilt all the biscuits were sewn from the scraps. However the garments are long since gone.--Ann--

Books and fashion

March came in like a polar bear here on the prairie with record cold temps it can't last too many more weeks.
Latest reading list and a fashion show circa 1972

1. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson  for book club
2. Christmas Letter by Debbie Macomber 
3. The Old Christmas Magic by Linda Raedisch                      Daughter and I went to Saving Mr Banks back in December which prompted me to read:
4. Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers
5. Mary Poppins She Wrote by Valerie Lawson   P.L. Travers had a lot of issues to deal with and had very definite ideas about how the story line and movie should be  made. The book Mary Poppins is a series of short adventures not a story with a beginning, middle and end. The movie follows some of the adventures very closely and others not so much. The Disney creation will always be my favorite.
6. The Dressmaker by Kate Alcott  This is a Titanic story and we all know how that ends but do we? The main characters are a dress designer, her husband and secretary, who were all real people and survived. The story is told through the secretary who is trying to escape her station in life as a servant in England. She is an accomplished seamstress and wants to be a dress designer. What luck to meet the designer on the wharf and agree to be her maid on the journey.   There are conflicts of loyalty, romance, the vote for women, betrayal, the hookless fastener, shorter skirts and Margaret Brown, then there were Senate Hearings in the US and Britain.                                                       A fun book to read.                                                      In that vein a peek at this seamstress of a lifetime ago.  All polyester double knits and short skirts! They were fun to wear and easy care. I could make a dress with a little over a yard of fabric!!--Ann--