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Barbara Brackman

Civil War Reunion-Northern Lily BOM 82"x 82"#SFP 8180BOM, #SFP 8180BOMG

8182 13* College life inspired Barbara Brackman to stitch her first quilt.

“Everyone in my dorm had incredible quilts on their beds and I had a striped bedspread,” she remembers. “I asked the girls where they got them and they all said their grandmothers made them.”

So Barbara asked her grandmother to teach her to quilt. Trouble was, her grandmother knew nothing about sewing and couldn’t provide much advice as Barbara cut crooked triangles from olive green and navy polyester knits. “It was just awful,”’ she remembers with a laugh. “But I have to thank my grandmother for trying.”

Today, Barbara is known for her expertise on quilt history, her patterns, and for the reproduction fab-rics she’s designed since 1998 for Moda. Including those she designed with Terry Clothier Thompson. Much of her inspiration comes from the old fabrics she collects.

“I’m a bit of a hoarder, but the socially acceptable kind,” she says. “ I love to file and know where every piece of fabric is.”

In addition, the fabrics she designs reflect her vo-racious reading habits. “I pick a historical period and learn all I can about it,” she says. “I’m espe-cially interested in how women of that time lived and thought.”

Though they didn’t sew much, the women from Barbara’s own past definitely influenced her. “My mother was one of ten girls and I thought she and my aunts were the essence of glamour,” she says. “It was from them I got my love of fabric.” 6

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