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TIDBITS® LOOKS AT QUILTSby Rick Dandes

American quilt making has a history as rich and di-verse as the country itself. Utilizing skills and de-signs brought over by the earliest settlers from Eu-rope, quilting began in Colonial America and is still popular today. Tidbits weaves a picture this week of this much celebrated art form.

• A woman’s daily life in Colonial America was difficult to say the least. Women had to do the spinning, sew-ing, food preservation, cooking and cleaning while caring for an often-large family. So, who had time for quilting? Well, some women did, mainly those who could afford household help. These women were left with time for decorative needlework. • Most quilting in Colonial times was done from May through November, when days were longer, and there was more sunlight. Quilting was rarely done by firelight, as the light was too dim for any fine stitch-ing. • By about 1840 the textile industry had grown to the point that fabric was easily available to most fami-lies. Only then did quilting become a common way for women to express their creativity.• One of the first quilting styles brought to America by immigrants was that of the elegant whole-cloth quilt. The beauty of these solid white or colored quilts comes from elaborate, closely quilted designs that bring texture and shadows to the quilt.

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• Believe it or not, Jackson Browne’s first name is Clyde (Jackson is his middle name). He was born in Heidelberg, Germany, on October 9, 1948, to American parents. His father worked for an Ameri-can Army newspaper. The family later returned to Los Angeles, California. • Browne’s first publishing contract was with a small company named Nina Music. His compositions were immediately picked up by other performers, such as Joan Baez, Tom Rush, the Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, the Byrds and Steve Noonan. After mov-ing to Greenwich Village, New York, Browne was briefly in Tim Buckley’s back-up band. In 1967, Brown was romantically linked to Nico of the clas-sic rock band, Velvet Underground.• In 1971, Browne signed with David Geffin’s Asy-lum Records. His first self-named album, “Jackson Browne” (1972), included the piano-driven “Doctor My Eyes,” a hit song. “Rock Me on the Water” from the same album also gained considerable radio air-play, while “Jamaica Say You Will” and “Song for Adam” helped establish Browne’s growing reputa-tion.• Browne’s songwriting ability was even more appar-ent in his album, “The Pretender.” It was released during 1976, after the death of his first wife, Phyl-lis Major. The album features a mixture of styles, ranging from the Mariachi-inspired “Linda Paloma” to the country-driven “Your Bright Baby Blues” to the downbeat “Sleep’s Dark and Silent Gate.”• Jackson Browne began recording “Running on Empty” in 1977. It was spectacularly successful and was fated to become his biggest commercial success. Unlike most live albums at the time, this one used all new material and combined live con-cert performances with recordings made on buses, in hotel rooms and even back stage. • “Running on Empty” contains many of Browne’s most popular songs to this day; songs like the ti-tle track, “The Road,” “Rosie” and “The Load-Out/Stay,” Browne’s send-off to his concert audiences and roadies.• In 2003, three of Browne’s albums — “For Every-man,” “Late for the Sky” and “The Pretender” — were selected by Rolling Stone magazine for its list of the 500 best albums of all time.• In 2004, Browne was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Bruce Springsteen gave the induction speech, commenting to Browne that al-though the Eagles were inducted first, “You wrote the songs they wished they had written.” He also received in 2004 an honorary Doctorate of Music from Occidental College in Los Angeles for, “a re-markable musical career that has successfully com-bined an intensely personal artistry with a broader vision of social justice.”• Browne’s studio album “Time The Conqueror” was released September 23, 2008, on Inside Record-ings. It was his first studio album with new songs in six years, all written by Browne, save three song co-written with several of his longtime band mem-bers.

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TOP TEN VIDEO, DVD of October 16, 2010Top 10 Video Rentals1. Robin Hood (PG-13) Russell Crowe2. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (PG-13) Jake Gyllenhaal3. Killers (PG-13) Ashton Kutcher4. Letters to Juliet (PG) Amanda Seyfried5. Just Wright (PG) Queen Latifah6. Date Night (PG-13) Steve Carell7. Solitary Man (R) Michael Douglas8. The Experiment (R) Adrien Brody9. Marmaduke (PG) Owen Wilson10. The Back-Up Plan (PG-13) Jennifer Lopez

Top 9 DVD Sales1. Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue (G) (Buena Vista)2. Robin Hood (PG-13) (Universal)3. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (PG-13) (Buena Vista)4. Letters to Juliet (PG) (Summit)5. Barbie: A Fashion Fairytale (NR) (Universal)6. How I Met Your Mother: The Complete Season 5: The Suited Up Edition (NR) (20th Century Fox)7. Spartacus: Blood and Sand: The Complete First Season (M) (Anchor Bay)8. Modern Family: The Complete First Season (NR) (20th Century Fox)9. Castle: The Complete Second Season (NR) (Buena Vista)

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“Toy Story 3” (G) -- Hands-down, one of the top three films of the year, and Disney is pulling out the stops with its home-video releases. There’s a four-disc (two DVD, two Blu-Ray) combo that is packed to the rafters with special features that include tons of behind-the-scenes featurettes and games. Also being released this week is a massive 10-disc boxed set of the entire “Toy Story” trilogy packaged in a cute little toy box.

“The Bridge on the River Kwai” (PG) -- Alec Guinness gives a bravura performance in David Lean’s epic 1957 tale of a British colonel lead-ing his fellow prisoners of war to build a bridge for their Japanese captors during World War II. This commemorative set includes a 35-page book with stories and photos from the produc-tion, lobby cards, a clip from “The Steve Allen Show” featuring Guinness and co-star William Holden, and archival audio of Holden narrating the premier of the film.

“The Sound of Music” (45th Anniversary Edition) (G) -- Like “The Wizard of Oz,” “The Sound of Music” is one of those timeless musicals that is discovered and embraced by every generation since its release. Like most anniversary releas-es, there are several different packages you can choose from depending on how many special features you want and whether you have Blu-Ray or just DVD. The biggest and best release is the $70 Limited Edition Collector’s set, which includes 2 Blu-Ray and 1 DVD, a CD of the soundtrack, a 100-page “My Favorite Things” scrapbook, a reproduction of the 1965 souvenir program and a limited edition music box.

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QUILTS (continued):• What’s the truth about quilting bees? As usual, the truth has been romanticized. Old books and stories tell of neighbors all being invited to a “quilt-ing.” The women would quilt all day, perhaps taking turns around the frame while others cooked up the grand meal that would be served to the men folk that evening. Then it was a time for singing, danc-ing and courting among young people. • Although quilting bees did occur, it is hard to get the facts beyond the idealized image. Fiction writ-ten in the mid-19th century puts such parties as early as 1800, but it is more likely they began to occur later in the century. • Many a “quilting” session included only women helping a friend or neighbor finish a quilt. Such a gathering would be a great way for women to get together to socialize. Women could share fam-ily news, exchange recipes, give child-rearing tips and in general, support each other. It has been said that next to church going, quilting bees were the primary contact for women. • In isolated regions, pioneer women coming to-gether to quilt helped them overcome the loneli-ness that so many of them experienced. • Many quilters found inspiration from the one book that almost every 19th century family had it its pos-session, the Bible. There are many block patterns that have their roots in Biblical stories and themes – “Balm of Gilead” and “King Solomon’s Temple” to name a few. But one of the most popular was the “Rose of Sharon,” which used the colors red, green and white, and was frequently used on quilts given as gifts to brides.• The most essential piece of equipment for hand quilting was the quilting frame, which consisted of four pieces of wood. Two strips long enough to hold the shortest width of a quilt would have heavy cloth attached along the length. The ends of the quilt would be basted or pinned to this cloth. The other two pieces of wood would hold the first two apart so that the ends of the quilt could be rolled up, leaving a tight section for the quilters to do their stitching. When one section was completed, the quilt could be rolled again, making a new section available for quilting.• Some quilts, called sampler quilts, contained many different patterns. But sometimes, women quickly stitched a quilt block together, not for future use in a sampler, but as a way to remember a pat-tern they’d seen on another quilt.

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• Some quilt patterns could be found in magazines as early as 1835, but they became more common by the mid-19th century. Magazines like “Godey’s Lady’s Book” tried to influence quilting styles of the day, encouraging women to try the more refined English patchwork and to use silk. It didn’t work. The majority of American women kept using the designs that they were accustomed to.• By 1890, catalogs offered quilt patterns. If a woman ordered her fabrics from Sears or Wards, she could choose a pattern from 800 designs and buy it for just 10 cents. “Diagrams of a Quilt, Sofa and Pincushion Patterns,” published by Ladies Art, also offered patterns for sale.• There are legends that claim that during the Civil War, quilting was used to help slaves escape through the Underground Railroad. A Log Cabin quilt hanging in a window with a black center for the chimney hole indicated a safe place. While they are intriguing, there is not much evidence to support these stories.• At the turn of the century, the Victorian Crazy Quilt became popular. Crazy quilts utilized mul-tiple kinds of fabrics and stitching styles to create odd shapes that were pieced together. • In the 19th and early 20th centuries some quilters made use of an interesting material: cigar ribbons. Smoking cigars was a popular activity with many men at this time. To market themselves, many to-bacco companies wrapped silk ribbons with their name sewn on them around bundles of their ci-gars. Women began collecting the colorful silk rib-bons, and as a way to show off their collection, often sewed them into quilts.• In the mid-1920s, the colors of fabrics changed, so quilts changed. Many women stuck to the tradi-tional designs, but executed them in the new pas-tel colors. New floral designs became popular as well. One quilting method used during the Great De-pression was called “string quilting,” a technique where strips of cloth of varying widths were sewn together. This frugal method allowed women to use every scrap of fabric and waste almost noth-ing.• While the mid-20th century saw a decline in quilt making, in the 1960s, quilt making underwent a renaissance of sorts. Interest grew, and by the 1970s, the number of individual quilters and quilt-ing guilds was on the rise. Today, new tools and methods are keeping quilting popular and making it easier than ever before.

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