Leading expert on antique quilts makes a featured guest appearance on the Martha Stewart Living show.

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LONGMONT -- The cream-colored quilt covered in colorful lilies was so beloved that the family folded it into a wooden box and buried it in their backyard to spare it from falling into enemy hands. The Pope family, whose land turned into a battleground, buried their family quilt in the ground for safekeeping before they fled. Longmont resident Jeananne Wright bought the quilt at a Denver antique show in January 1996. Out of a collection of more than 600 quilts dating from 1811 through the present day, that's saying something. Occasionally, a small duck pinfeather wrestles free and pokes through the quilt top. While it was buried -- no one knows for sure how long it was before the family returned to dig it up -- rain seeped through the box and caused the colors to run, leaving behind coffee-colored stains. On March 6, 1862, Union forces marched into Pea Ridge, Ark.

Source: Daily Camera

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Antique jewelry, furniture, dolls, quilts and more are flying off the shelves at the Suffolk Art League’s Antiques Show and Sale this weekend. “We’ve had a really big day,” said Norma Barbosa, owner of Norma’s Attic. “We’ve had a great crowd today,” said Linda Bunch, executive director of the art league. Nearly 40 mid-Atlantic antiques and collectibles dealers are packed into the gymnasium at King’s Fork Middle School, ready to sell to customers. Dealers were already reporting having a great weekend halfway through the day on Saturday. The show is the only big fundraiser of the year for the art league, which uses the money for its school, educational and community programs. “People are buying,” she said, adding that she already had done better on Saturday morning than during the entire show last year.

Source: Suffolk News-Herald

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  We're hoping to catch up with my friend, Sheri, in Kentucky and while there we'll go to Paducah (lots of antique and quilt shops). We'll go and see the original of my hexagon star quilt project at Scotchtown in Virgina. more quilts. I've been feeling a bit flat lately without work to focus on so this has given me something to look forward to.   I like to have routine in my life and it has been difficult without it.   With preparing to put our house on the market there is lots...   And, finally, a week in Pennsylvania to see how the Amish live, learn about the history, and. I don't feel needed....

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and it will be time for another room to fix up. You see we have a very old, never been updated house in which we really only have updated one room entirely. With starting the business (the antique store) we focused all of our savings to getting that started. ) I am so boxed in with our woodwork - I love the off-whites/tans you showed - but noticed that I like the white trim that they have. We have been living here for almost 24 years and have changed almost nothing (except my son's room twice. All of the other rooms are filled with prims, but we would really like to redo the walls, ceiling and floors for each. and as they say one room at a time. well I for one do not want to makes changes for awhile again. Unfortunately, changing out the trim and extensive woodwork here isn't feasible. So, I'm not much help in your decision-making - not seeing the whole "space," I guess I would opt for the tan palette vs. the green. Good luck to you. Good luck my friend....

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