I had been wanting for my very own, a copy of Quiltmaker #41 from 1995 since I first saw the tessellating kitty quilt. There were pictures of the quilt elsewhere and dear friends had sent me copies of the pattern but I just had not been able to get my head wrapped around exactly how it went together. This week, I won on ebay a stack of quilt magazines including the #41. That magazine and the dozen or so others are from '91 to '95. The quilts in them are, for the most part, very old patterns beautifully done. I am rationing them so I can have a 'new' one every day when it's time to rest. The progress made in quiltmaking in just ten years is just so wonderful. There is, for example, an article on how to put wax paper over a magazine template and copy it using the pointed marker on the little metal 6" ruler. There's an editor puzzling over whether magazines should add seam allowances when publishing patterns and she was deeply concerned about the matter. This trip backwards 10 years is fun - and who would have ever thought that
10 years could be so 'old' ? Polly- posted
17 years ago