White Work – There are various terms for this technique, but in general, “white work” encompasses it quite well.  This involves quilting solid pieces of white fabric, without any patchwork or applique.  It may be one solid piece to fit your bed.  Or you might use large squares that you sew together with backing and filling/padding.
The machine or hand quilting creates the design on the white background.  These were popular in days ago and sometimes were given as wedding gifts.  Thus I’ve heard them referred to as bridal or wedding quilts, too.

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Mixed Media – This is a fairly new term in the quilting world and has become associated with the art quilts and wall hangings that so popular nowadays.  Here you mix your media or ingredients so that you use more than fabric.  Quilters combine fabric with paper, wood, metal and fibers to create standing art, wall hangings, altered books, clothing and more.  It opens the way for very creative art work.
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Quilting Bee - A gathering generally of women and girls to sew a quilt together.  Most often, they stretched the quilt on a frame, then each person helped stitch together the top, filling and backing of a quilt with tiny stitches. 
These were social times in pioneer days, often the main occasions ladies got together.  In addition to quilting the bed covering, they might stitch pieces together, produce a “round robin” project, sew a friendship quilt or create some other fabric artistry. 
My grandfather, in his memoir,  wrote about his mother, my great grandmother, attending quilting bees at her neighbors’ homes.  I recall helping my grandmother, aunt …read more

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Our word this week is Applique.  This is a technique or type of quilting whereby you stitch one piece of fabric onto another.  One definition says it’s a piece of fabric cut out and stitched ornamentally to another.
Traditionally, the appliqued pieces made a specific design.  They might be flowers, leaves, birds, animals, houses, geometrics and more.  Usually you turned the edges, of the piece to be stitched, under about 1/4 inch and stitched by hand or machine with decorative stitches.
Nowadays, some appliqued pieces are stitched onto another without turning under so the raw edges ravel to give an interestiing effect.
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