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Ruby’s Flower Basket Quilt
A Block-of-the-Month Program
Brought to you by McKim Studios |
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McKim Studios
has teamed up with Kansas City Star Quilts to bring you this very
special Block-of-the-Month-Program. Donna di Natale, quilt book author
and editor at Kansas City Star Quilts, is working directly on the
project. This program is the first of many new
offerings and events in the works to celebrate Ruby Short McKim’s “A
Century of Designs Worth Doing” in 2016. Her first pattern, Quaddy
Quiltie, was published in 1916 by The Kansas City Star.
The Original Flower Basket Quilt was
designed and published by Ruby Short McKim beginning in October of
1934. Carried in newspapers across the country, the series included 32
floral designs plus templates for the pieced basket and quilting
suggestions. Each week’s flower pattern included suggested colors for
appliqué with embroidered edges and details. The blocks were 12"
square, the finished quilt was
80" x 97" including two 3" borders. Now, 80 years later, this pattern
is offered again as a block-of-the month program exclusive to
independent quilt shops. So if you're an individual who wants to
participate…tell your local quilt shop to sign up!
Ruby’s Flower Basket Quilt patterns
have been remastered by Merrily McKim Tuohey, youngest granddaughter of
Ruby Short McKim and owner of McKim Studios. Kim
Conner of Maple Grove, Minn. has
updated the instructions for today’s quilters, offering instructions
for embroidered flowers with a pieced basket base in addition to Ruby’s
original instructions for appliqué. The use of crayons to color the
embroidered blocks offers an additional option.
The Flower Basket BOM Program contains the entire set of patterns,
detailed instructions, a brief history of Ruby Short McKim and the
original McKim Studios written by Ruby’s eldest granddaughter,
Christina Fullerton Jones (the McKim Family Historian ;o) and much much
more…
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Get Out Your Needle For A Flower Basket Quilt
There
may be more handsome quilts to come, but really, so far as we have seen
here is quite the loveliest one that has yet been designed!
Flowers beautifully planned to appliqué in all their natural colors,
quaint patchwork baskets, bits of embroidery for stems, stamens, leaf
veins, etc., all combine in achieving the charm of our new Flower
Basket Quilt.
It’s 32 blocks set together as shown, will have the stronger colored
flowers to the outer edges, circling in those of daintier hue to the
center. The four corner blocks are in red, while those adjacent shade
into henna, orange, apricot and tea rose tones, with blue, pink, orchid
and yellow flowers balanced through the center.
Each of the flower designs here shown in miniature will be published in
this series exact size to copy onto your materials. Definite
instructions as to tracing and applying the patterns, cutting patterns
for the strips and triangles and quilting designs for the whole will
all be included.
Save this diagram, and each pattern as published, for they are a free
gift then, but we will later have to charge 10 cents each for back
numbers.
Next week the cutting charts and one quilting pattern will be here so
you can go ahead with the foundation work, filling in the flowers as
they “bloom.”
Note: If you have any special inquires regarding this quilt or
quilt-making in general, just write Ruby Short McKim, Quilt Editor, in
charge of this paper, enclosing a self-addressed and stamped envelope,
and she will answer you personally without charge.
—Omaha World Herald • 1934
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The Blocks by Row:
Geranium, Hollyhock, Tea Rose, Honeysuckle
Columbine, Lilac, Tulip
Delphinium, Petunia, Cosmos, Virginia Blue Bell
Carnation, Trillium, Bleeding Heart |
Clematis, Marigold, Daffodil, Iris
Morning Glory, Peony, Sweet Pea
Pansy, Pyrethrum, Phlox, Crocus
Nasturtium, Canterbury Bell, Zinnia
Salvia, Tiger Lily, Caliopsis and Oriental Poppy |
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Sample of
Original Block Pattern |
Appliqué Sample Block
by Sue Nelson |
Embroidery Sample Block
by Morgan Ashley Yeats |
Embroidery Sample Block with Crayon
by Morgan Ashley Yeats |
If you’re an individual that wants to participate,
please contact your local quilt shop or one of the participating shops listed below.
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ONCE you’ve
found a quilt shop to work with, we have a very special offer for
you…Customized BOM Notebooks for you to keep track of and organize your
Flower Basket patterns, instructions and ‘chapterettes’ of Ruby Short
McKim's life story.
THIS sturdy
black leather notebook includes a lovely cover insert, as shown below,
with fabric pockets inside the front and back for tucking in incidental
information. The Title Page features a special story written by
Christina Fullerton Jones, eldest granddaughter of Ruby, not published
anywhere else. This page is customized just for you with your name,
address, sign up date, and the quilt shop you’re working with.
McKim Studios is hosting a Facebook Group “Ruby's Flower Basket” for ALL Flower Basket BOM customers to post photos, ask questions of each other, share ideas, etc.
Watch for our Flower Basket BOM Gallery Opening! Everyone will be able to send in photos of their
finished Flower Basket projects for us all to admire...we’re very
excited about this one ;o)
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• The Quilt Shops Listed Below are Offering the Flower Basket BOM Program •
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ALASKA
Quilt Creative
7130 Scalero
Anchorage, AK 99507
(907) 349-9301
e-Mail
ARKANSAS
The Rabbit's Lair
116 South First Street
Rogers, AR 72756
(479) 636-3385
e-Mail • Website
CALIFORNIA
Cozy Creative Center
756 Jamacha Road
El Cajon, CA 92019
(619) 670-0652
e-Mail • Website
*CANADA
My Sewing Room
148 - 8228 Macleod TR SE
Calgary, AB T2H2B8
(403) 252-3711
e-Mail • Website
COLORADO
The Creative Needle
6905 So Broadway #113
Littleton, CO 80122
(303) 794-7312
e-Mail • Website
ILLINOIS
A Touch of Amish
130 Applebee Street
Barrington, IL 60010
(847) 381-0900
e-Mail • Website
Village Stitchery
108 East Main Street
Oblong, IL 62449
(847) 381-0900
e-Mail • Website
INDIANA
The Quilters Hall of Fame
926 S. Washington Street
Marion, IN 46952-0681
(765) 664-9333
e-Mail • Website
KANSAS
Prairie Point Quilt Shop
11950 Shawnee Mission Pkwy.
Shawnee, KS 66216
(913) 268-3333
e-Mail • Website
Stitch and Chatter
513 Main
Stockton, KS 67669
(785) 415-2015
e-Mail • Website
ALABAMA
ARIZONA
CONNECTICUT
DELAWARE
FLORIDA
GEORGIA
HAWAII
IDAHO
IOWA
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MASSACHUSETTS
Cobblestone Quilts
10 Elm Street
Townsend, MA 01469
(978) 597-0091
e-Mail • Website
MICHIGAN
Attic Window Quilt Shop
5307 Alpine Avenue NW
Comstock Park, MI 49321
(616) 785-3357
e-Mail
Quilted Memories
9919 Business US 31
Montague, MI 49437
(231) 893-0096
e-Mail • Website
MINNESOTA
Four Seasons Quilts
9708 63rd Avenue North
Maple Grove, MN 55369
(763) 557-5899
e-Mail • Website
Reproduction Fabrics
105 E Fourth Street 205
Northfield, MN 55057
(507) 664-1447
e-Mail • Website
MISSOURI
Around the Frame Quilting
2301 Frederick Ave., #1
St. Joseph, MO 64506
(816) 273-5535
e-Mail • Website
Homestead Hearth
105 North Coal
Mexico, MO 65265
(573) 581-1966
e-Mail • Website
NEW JERSEY
Quilting Possibilities
918 Lacey Road
Forked River, NJ 08731
(609) 242-0033
e-Mail • Website
KENTUCKY
LOUISIANA
MAINE
MARYLAND
MISSISSIPPI
MONTANA
NEBRASKA
NEVADA
NEW HAMPSHIRE
NEW MEXICO
NORTH CAROLINA
NORTH DAKOTA
OHIO
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NEW YORK
Calico Gals
3906 New Court Avenue
Syracuse, NY 13206
(978) 597-0091
e-Mail • Website
OREGON
Grandma’s Attic
167 SW Court Street
Dallas, OR 97338
(503) 623-0451
e-Mail • Website
Marilynn’s Picket & Patchwork
Nyssa, OR 97913
Tater Patch Quilts
109 East Front Street
Merrill, OR 97633
(541) 798-5955
e-Mail • Website
TENNESSEE
Stitcher’s Garden
209 S. Royal Oaks Blvd. #223
Franklin, TN 37064
(615) 790-0603
e-Mail • Website
TEXAS
Blue Ribbon Quilt Shoppe
Wylie, TX 75098
It’s A Stitch
9574 FM 1960 Bypass
Humble, TX 77338
(281) 446-4999
e-Mail • Website
The Old Craft Store
1110 W Main
Carrollton, TX 75006
(972) 242-9111
e-Mail • Website
WASHINGTON
Quilted Strait
32280 Puget Way NE
Port Gamble, WA 98364
Toll free: 1-855-GOQUILT
e-Mail • Website
OKLAHOMA
PENNSYLVANIA
RHODE ISLAND
SOUTH CAROLINA
SOUTH DAKOTA
UTAH
VERMONT
VIRGINIA
WASHINGTON DC
WEST VIRGINIA
WISCONSIN
WYOMING
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