Eleanor, you have been such an inspiration over the years and have taught me so much! I love the Double Irish Chain and you and Wendy made it look easy (almost!😉). I want to try it, but I'm hoping to find the tutorial in one of your publications before I do. Thank you for revolutionizing Quilting for me. My grandmother would "rise up and call you blessed" (Proverbs 31), as I do. Thank you SO much!
You all prolly dont care at all but does someone know a tool to log back into an Instagram account..? I stupidly forgot the login password. I would love any help you can give me.
@Kason Nikolas Thanks so much for your reply. I found the site thru google and I'm trying it out atm. Seems to take a while so I will reply here later with my results.
this series was from PBS in the 90's. Elinore lives in Cali and runs a studio out of her home. From what I can tell she is still teaching classes at the age of 75!
Being Irish living in Northern Ireland, this description of the Irish is kind of offensive. We did not raid bins for materials..... Eleanor makes us sound like a bunch of scavengers, Ireland, the home of irish linen was a pioneer in textiles not a bunch of bin raiding potato pickers
She's actually incorrect anyway... the earliest Irish chain quilts are from around 1814 America The history of quilting is correct. Impoverished people would buy second hand clothes to wear, then when they wore down it would be recut into smaller children's clothes and then whatever usable fabric was left was turned into whatever useful item was needed. Eventually the pieces get so small they would be pieced together in clever designs for quilts. They didn't know the origin of the Irish chain quilt until they examined all of the extant quilts and saw it was American. But by all accounts her history was accurate at the time. Quilting was only for poor people until the Victorian Era when rich housewives had a crazy quilt fad for a while, otherwise they heavily favored needlework. Needlework took too long for poor people to waste time on it in general As a quilter, recognizing the roots of patchwork in necessity and rummaging for scraps to have a quilt to keep warm for winter isn't singular to the Irish. The Irish are just the current topic. Everyone was horrifyingly poor in general before the mid 20th century.
Hi, part irish here... she did say the poor would gather scraps from the rich. True any culture. Past and present. Yes, textiles in Ireland are wonderful, deep history. They did make children work in the mills. The families were poor and beaten. The wealthy probably had scraps, but the house help probably asked if they could have scraps. People probably rummaged in factory trash as today. I got free fabric from a design studio. They were giving away the discounted sample books. The large swatches are 7x9" I got 4yrds Egyptian cotton at thrift shop for $11. Art quilt here I come.
Eleanor, you have been such an inspiration over the years and have taught me so much! I love the Double Irish Chain and you and Wendy made it look easy (almost!😉). I want to try it, but I'm hoping to find the tutorial in one of your publications before I do. Thank you for revolutionizing Quilting for me. My grandmother would "rise up and call you blessed" (Proverbs 31), as I do. Thank you SO much!
This video has been out 4 years but it’s new to me and I very much appreciated the information. Thanks!
Thanks for all the tips! Im going to have a go!
Loving the tutorials Eleanor. Wish you would do more 🌟
You all prolly dont care at all but does someone know a tool to log back into an Instagram account..?
I stupidly forgot the login password. I would love any help you can give me.
@Ulises Josiah instablaster ;)
@Kason Nikolas Thanks so much for your reply. I found the site thru google and I'm trying it out atm.
Seems to take a while so I will reply here later with my results.
@Kason Nikolas it did the trick and I actually got access to my account again. I am so happy!
Thank you so much you saved my ass !
@Ulises Josiah Happy to help =)
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Where is Eleonor? What hapend?
this series was from PBS in the 90's. Elinore lives in Cali and runs a studio out of her home. From what I can tell she is still teaching classes at the age of 75!
She is a treasure!
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Being Irish living in Northern Ireland, this description of the Irish is kind of offensive. We did not raid bins for materials..... Eleanor makes us sound like a bunch of scavengers, Ireland, the home of irish linen was a pioneer in textiles not a bunch of bin raiding potato pickers
She's actually incorrect anyway... the earliest Irish chain quilts are from around 1814 America
The history of quilting is correct. Impoverished people would buy second hand clothes to wear, then when they wore down it would be recut into smaller children's clothes and then whatever usable fabric was left was turned into whatever useful item was needed. Eventually the pieces get so small they would be pieced together in clever designs for quilts.
They didn't know the origin of the Irish chain quilt until they examined all of the extant quilts and saw it was American. But by all accounts her history was accurate at the time.
Quilting was only for poor people until the Victorian Era when rich housewives had a crazy quilt fad for a while, otherwise they heavily favored needlework. Needlework took too long for poor people to waste time on it in general
As a quilter, recognizing the roots of patchwork in necessity and rummaging for scraps to have a quilt to keep warm for winter isn't singular to the Irish. The Irish are just the current topic. Everyone was horrifyingly poor in general before the mid 20th century.
Hi, part irish here... she did say the poor would gather scraps from the rich. True any culture. Past and present.
Yes, textiles in Ireland are wonderful, deep history. They did make children work in the mills. The families were poor and beaten. The wealthy probably had scraps, but the house help probably asked if they could have scraps. People probably rummaged in factory trash as today.
I got free fabric from a design studio. They were giving away the discounted sample books. The large swatches are 7x9"
I got 4yrds Egyptian cotton at thrift shop for $11. Art quilt here I come.