Sunday, March 14, 2010

Rose Kretsinger Links

Oriental Poppy by Barbara Brackman and Pamela Mayfield

Download a pattern for the block and border applique by clicking here:

Links to Rose Kretsinger's work and the quilts of Emporia


Rose is a member of the Quilters Hall of Fame. See their biography page.
http://www.quiltershalloffame.net/index_files/Page994.html

Her quilts are at the Spencer Museum of Art. http://www.spencerart.ku.edu/collection/
Search at top right for Kretsinger and you will see art by her mother, her daughter and Rose.
See a page devoted to Rose Kretsinger's quilts
http://luna.ku.edu:8180/luna/servlet/view/all/who/Kretsinger,+Rose+Frances+Good

Related quilts on view on the KS State Historical Society's Cool Things page.
http://www.kshs.org/cool2/coolquit.htm

http://www.kshs.org/cool2/coolquil.htm

PBS did a video about quilts mentioning Emporia's quilters
http://www.pbs.org/americaquilts/century/time/emporia.html

Quilts inspired by Rose Kretsinger and the Garden Quilt

See Iowa quiltmaker Thuy Nguyen's quilts copied from and inspired by the Kretsinger quilts.
http://thuy.tripod.com/Appliqued_Quilts.html

Pattern books
Jennifer Chiaverini, Return to Elm Creek.
http://elmcreek.net/index.php/main/book-detail/return-to-elm-creek-more-quilt-projects-inspired-by-the-elm-creek-quilts-no/

Margaret Docherty, Birds n Roses

A version of the Antique Rose in McCall's Quilts
http://www.mccallsquilting.com/articles/Antique_Rose
http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2009/12/rose-kretsinger-pattern.html

Iris Wreath in Barbara Brackman's Making History: Quilts & Fabric from 1890-1970

Emporia Rose, a set of 8 patterns from Sunflower Pattern Co-operative. Out of print.


Iris Wreath by Ilyse Moore


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