Finding a green fabric similar to the vintage cotton used for the oak leaves wasn't difficult, but the reel and crescent fabric containing turkey red was elusive. In the end, museum Staff chose a bright pink on pink fabric for those shapes.
Members of Empire Quilters Make Quilt for Dyckman Farmhouse Museum
By Janet Wickell, About.com
Working as a Group & Selecting Fabrics
Members of Empire Quilters at work on the Oak Leaf & Reel quilt project, Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, October 21, 2007.
© Hamlin Rose Digital
The quilters decided to connect their applique quilt blocks using the quilt as you go method, where each completed block is sandwiched with batting and backing, and then individually quilted, before blocks are joined together.
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