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This beautiful quilt was appliqued by Katurah Elisabeth Tooley in 1938. Unfortunately, the quilter is unknown. Red Birds (or The Garden) was inspired by Arsinoe Kelsey Bowen's 1857 quilt in Ruth Finley's Old Patchwork Quilts and the Women Who Made Them.
Prior to 1943, when a commercial pattern was published for the quilt in Women's Day, each quiltmaker had to come up with her own way to create it. Katurah's husband figured out a way to project the image and then Katurah traced it. She stayed true to Bowen's design, including bright cardinals surrounding the cabled swags, hence the name, Red Birds.
Red Birds 1 - 100 pieces non-rotating
Red Birds 2 - 100 pieces rotating
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