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Deborah Harding
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female |
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The United States |
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Crafts & Hobbies
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about this author
Deborah Harding, author of America's Glorious Quilts and former Crafts and Needlework editor at Family Circle, began her exploration of redwork as a means to satisfy her curiosity about a redwork quilt she purchased at a flea market. As she began to explore the quilt's origins, Deborah discovered nursery rhyme motifs of "Mary, Mary Quite Contrary" and "Who Killed Cock Robin?" within the stitching, along with Beatrix Potter characters including Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddleduck, and Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail. She called the quilt "Mary, Mary Quite Contrary" because of its imagery. Deborah's subsequent collection of textiles and research materials on redwork culminated in the publication of Red & White: American Redwork Quilts and Patterns
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