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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherPine Mountain Books
ISBN-100615265359
ISBN-139780615265353
eBay Product ID (ePID)77521787
Product Key Features
Book TitleScraps of Life : Quilt Top pieced 1850-1860 Elizabeth Patton Crockett wife of Alamo Hero David Crockett
Publication Year2008
TopicQuilts & Quilting
LanguageEnglish
IllustratorYes, Browning, Tad
GenreCrafts & Hobbies
AuthorHelen Widener
FormatTrade Paperback
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceFamily
Photographed byBrowning, Tad
SynopsisPaperback full color, 93 pages#13; #13; A historical look at the life of Elizabeth Patton Crockett and a step by step guide to creating her family heirloom quilt.
Striking inside story of Elizabeth Patton Crocket and her famous husband. Alamo Hero David Crockett. More than learning how to make a Political Motivated quilt but in inside look at life during the late 1700s and 1860. Name of the quilt is "Postage Stamp Quilt on Point. All small pieces are 1 inch in diameter when sewn together. Origin of the Quilt was a 1847 bill that was passed putting the price of a postage stamp at Five cents. An Outrageous price at the time period as the only of communication with your family. The women of America protested by making things, like quilts with pieces of material the size of a postage stamp. As a result, the price of stamps was dropped to One Cent. The price stayed at 1 cent for many years.