The ladies' hand book of fancy and ornamental work ... (1859)
Hartley, Florence · Philadelphia : G. G. Evans · leaf 196
splayed in theblending of the colors. There is, in this State, an institution for the reforma-tion of girls who have been imprisoned for some crime ; they are taught to sewneatly, and each one is allowed to exercise her taste and ingenuity in the manu-facture of a patch work quilt, which she is… … PATTERN FOR PATCHWORK. In an economical point of view there is great saving in patchwork quilts, ifthey are made from pieces of cloth already in the house, which are useless foranything else; but if, as we once knew a lady to do, you buy the finest, highestpriced French chintz to cut up into inch…
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