More News From Arnold

Arnold is recovering from his heart attack last summer. He sent photos of a reception that a local quilt shop hosted in November to celebrate the Moda fabric collection named for him. Friends and neigbors came to say hi. This is his cousin Cheri who made him a miniature Christmas stocking from the selvages from the fabric line.

The shop is Angelics:

A Quilters Haven in Canton, Ohio

Many of you sent get-well notes after the heart attack. They were greatly appreciated. He sent well-wishers a handmade reply.

And I received a handmade Christmas card of antique prints.

Arnold's Attic came out last fall. It reproduces

 turn-of-the-20th-century prints from Arnold's stash in his attic.

Here he's sitting in front of a top made from the collection.

Here's a free pattern for this Ohio Star Puzzle.

 Click here to download a PDF.

http://www.siputflash.com/OhioStarPuzzle.pdf 

I found another quilt made from Arnold's Attic prints

 at the Etsy store called Pieces of Pine.

If you still have your Jelly Roll strips this strip quilt

 would be a good way to use them.

Arnold says he's doing well. His many friends are glad to hear it.

Read about the heart attack at this September post.
http://siputflash.blogspot.com/2010/09/news-of-arnold.html

The Search Box

Dachshunds seem to own more possessions than other dogs,

so they spend time searching for them. My dog Dot likes to get her stuff out about 3 a.m.

SEARCHING?
Over in the left hand column you will notice the SEARCH box. This allows you to search in this blog for a particular topic or person.

For example, if you type in indigo and click on search a box will appear at the top of the page with links to all my previous posts on the topic. You can click on each one to read more about indigo.

Indigo was one of the most durable of dyes for 19th-century quilters

It became cheaper and more available after 1890 or so

Arnold Savage sent me these photos of some turn-of-the-last century prints with a label.

People paid extra for indigo prints because it didn't fade or wash away.

I recently found these indigo swatches on sales sheets in an antique store

Another way to search for a topic is to use the Labels. Many of the posts are labeled with the topic or a person's name. See the words indigo and antique fabric and Arnold Savage at the bottom. Clicking on any one of those will show you all the posts with that label.

News of Arnold

I've been posting about my latest Moda collection Arnold's Attic, which is based on antique fabrics my penpal Arnold Savage has been sending me for years.

Pat Nickols wrote to say she'd talked to Arnold and he was, "So pleased with the way the fabric turned out. 'A good reproduction,' he said."
Yay! He's a tough audience.

When Arnold was younger he was a professional cello player in Chicago.

He was also an accomplished figure skater in his youth.

I found this label the other day in my big box of "Stuff from Arnold."

But she also said he'd recently had a heart attack. Pat sends Arnold's nephew's description of the attack:

"Arnold had quite a scare, suffering a heart attack and spending quite a bit of time in and out of the hospital. Happily, he has been home now for a few weeks and is doing quite well, given what he’s been through. Fortunately, Arnold’s handyman Nick has been living with him for a little more than a year, helping keep up the property and taking care of Arnold – which has been a blessing. Without Nick at the house when Arnold suffered his heart attack, I fear you would have received a much different message from me, as he was able to get Arnold quickly to the hospital. Arnold is still active in the local  historical society, and is as sharp as ever."

 So Yay! again. I'm so glad to hear he's doing well. I recently sent him copies of Quilters Newsletter and QuiltMania with ads for the fabric in them. He'll love that.

If you'd like to drop Arnold a note email me (BBrackman@sunflower.com) and I'll send you his address. He doesn't have email so snail mail will do nicely.

Here's more stuff from the box:  fragments of quilts, fabric and blocks. He wrote:

The significance of these pices is now lost...Aunt Mary could be my great-grandma....She knew how to doctor with herbs and was called 'Aunt Mary' by everyone out of respect."

Above is the document print for the Madonna print from Arnold's Attic. It's named for his mother Mary Madonna.

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"Madonna" in Avon Brown

Arnold's Attic from Moda

Arnold's Attic In Quilters Newsletter

Arnold's Attic Medallion

Kit Quilt from Moda

My new fabric collection for Moda, called Arnold's Attic, is featured in the August/September issue of Quilters Newsletter, published mid-July.

The magazine includes a pattern for a medallion kit quilt, a collaborative effort between Moda designer Susan Stiff and me. Moda is selling a kit for the medallion. Ask for it at your local quilt shop. The kit includes the magazine with the pattern.
Click here for more information:
http://www.quiltersnewsletter.com/articles/Arnold_s_Attic

The fabric collection Arnold's Attic celebrates everybody who saves things and especially my penpal Arnold Hegy Savage. Over the years he has sent me many gifts of fabric swatches with a note, "I found this in the attic." Arnold lives in an 1840 Ohio house that's been in his family for several generations. His mother, his aunt and his grandmothers were quilters and confirmed collectors.

Arnold Savage

Aunt Alice taught Arnold to sew in the early 1930s when he was confined to his bed with rheumatic fever. She started him out with nine-patches and he figures he must have made a thousand. His mother often found him asleep with a needle and a nine-patch in his hand.

Aunt Alice Hegy

Arnold's always looking for a place to put those nine patches leftover from his childhood. This is a pattern he's used to good effect. It reflects the traditional Ohio Star with a nine patch in the center.

The medallion quilt shows off the print we're calling Ohio Autumn, a splash of color from Aunt Alice's century-old fabric stash.
Click here to see more about the collection:
Arnold's Attic.

My Spring Fabric

I don't have a spring line of fabric.


This is because the spring line I've been working on looked so autumn-like that we at Moda decided it should come out in July or August, when it will be my fall line of fabric.

It's called Arnold's Attic

It has prints and wovens in blues, greens, oranges and browns.

(Dachshund for scale)

Roseanne Smith is making a Mariner's Compass out of the preview yardage

She's been working on color decisions.

We are crazy about the large leaf print.

Here's her final decision on color.

It's called Arnold's Attic because all the document prints (the originals) were gifts from my friend Arnold Savage. He has quite a stash of antique fabrics. These are all from the late 19th-century.

More about Arnold and more about Arnold's Attic later.