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stuffed animals, sweet little heart shaped pillows and calico wall decorations that can be made from the quilting remnants to coordinate a colonial bedroom.
Quilts made to order or bought from the floor at the store range from $150 for twin bed size to $300 and up for extra long king size. Baby crib quilts and throw pillows are in the neighborhood of $20.
Already known around the nation for their Rappahannock quilts, Nan said she expects an increased demand after she and husband Jim issue their mail order catalogue. Even without it, her handiwork travels far. The last quilt she made went to Alexandria; the one before is in Florida.
Meanwhile, at Thorn Ridge Farm, 87-year-old Lucy Thornhill was making a crocheted canopy and spread for a big old four poster bed one of her friends had bought. “I’ve done the worst part. I've made more than two hundred of these,” she said showing an ecru colored square in the "one o'clock" pattern. She needed to crochet together 272 and the canopy would be complete. Then she could start on the spread.
Four finished quilt'tops also awaited her attention. They were spoken for, she said, a couple of them for as long as four years. And so she would sell them for fouryear-old prices—$50 if the customer had furnished the cloth, around $125 for the rest.
Soon she would be dragging the old quilting frame out to the porch—it belonged to her husband’s mother a hundred years ago. Once she got everything set up, she could finish a quilt in a couple of weeks.
“Your fingers get raw. You can’t do it every day,” she explained. And so she would alternate with all the other projects she had going.
She sells bonnets and the most delicate knot stitched snowflakes to hang on Christmas trees ($1 for the big ones, 75c for the small ones.) She also recently sold a super-sized crocheted lace tablecloth to a Charlottesville woman for $150. She leafed through her dogeared book of customers’ addresses and phone numbers. Three more had ordered quilts and offered to pay in advance. “I told them they
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