17 comments

  • Marta

    I agree that the fabric looks like a silk or satin… maybe too shiny for taffeta.. but exquisite for sure! She was really a character! … and sooo talented in so many areas. Now I want to see all of those back issues of McCalls…!

  • Cheri

    This artist was certainly a bold character for her time!
    The quilt depicted in the painting is very modern for its day, I simply cannot image doing all the cutting and sewing, so many pieces all by hand!

  • Maggie Drafts

    ps…..and all these many years, I have called my father’s little black paper picture a simple “silhouette” cutting!!!! Imagine how I can impress my friends who come to visit, by calling that simple little piece of art a SCHERENSCHITTE!”

  • Maggie A Drafts

    Lori, if I was not waylaid by bronchitis, I would blame you, again, for being behind on my granddaughter’s quilt–for Christmas not less. I had to read about ALL her exploits and then some!!!
    Looks like “she” is making a quilt of satin-or silk, yikes for quilting methods back then!
    (And, Lord knows that I don’t have an extra penny to my name, but I did feel obligated to “donate” to keep Wikipedia keeping on—thanks to Lori Kennedy!
    And now, I will use Wikipedia to look up the word:scherenschitte!!!!

  • Marli Consolin

    Lori, estou tentando aperfeiçoar o meu quilting, porém não tenho possibilidade de fazer cursos. Descobri seus tutoriais hoje, e amei todos. Muito obrigada por compartilhar. O mundo precisa de mais pessoas como você.

  • Karen

    I really enjoyed reading about the artist, a very liberated woman for her time.

  • Maureen B. in B.C.

    And isn’t she beautifully turned out for sewing!! I usually look like the creature from the black lagoon, in my sweats, with my finger-in-a-light-socket hairdo, hiding in the basement, wielding my rotary cutter with a wild eye 😜

  • Glenda

    I’m struck by the modern design and colors of the quilt!

  • Rosemaryflower

    I love this modern work of art. My oh my how times have changed.

  • Jenny Matthews

    I too had a Betsy Mcall doll. My sister 8 years younger than me didn’t play with dolls, but she loved to give mine away. Alas my Betsy Mcall was part of her sharing with someone else.

  • Margaret

    When I was a little girl, 68 years ago, my mother subscribed to McCall’s magazine. I would look forward to every issue, because there was always a paper doll named Betsy McCall included in the magazine. I would carefully cut out the paper doll and all her clothes and accessories, play with them, and keep them in a shoe box. McCall’s eventually made an actual doll named Betsy McCall, way before Barbie made her appearance. I still have my Betsy McCall doll.

    • Marta

      My sister and I did the exact same….wow !

    • Granny G

      Yes! I remember them too! They were so cute. I had the first Barbie doll when it came out but my sister got the Betsy McCall. Wish I still had that Barbie (and her clothes, and the original Barbie House, etc., sigh!) I even remember seeing it in the neighborhood 5 & 10 cent store. It had a price tag of $2.98 back then. I had to mop floors or wash the car at least 12 times to earn that much money! Luckily Santa Claus intervened.

    • Rosemaryflower

      YES! I loved dolls and cut out dolls so much.

      • Margaret

        I grew up loving paper crafts, specifically Scherenschnitte.

  • Donna Belisle

    What hits me in the eyeballs is the price of the magazine, wayyyy back then…

    • Maureen B. in B.C.

      I dint know if I would have noticed the price if you hadn’t pointed it out, that’s how dazzled I was with the quilting fabrics she’s sewing. The fabrics probably weren’t much more expensive than that either, BUT … NO ROTARY CUTTERS!!!!!

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