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Dear Jane: The Two Hundred Twenty-Five Patterns from the 1863 Jane A. Stickle Quilt cover

Dear Jane: The Two Hundred Twenty-Five Patterns from the 1863 Jane A. Stickle Quilt

Brenda Manges Papadakis

Sampler & Block-of-the-Month Quilts

Papadakis traced and republished the 225 tiny, individually unique blocks from an 1863 antique quilt held in a Vermont museum, spawning a worldwide "Dear Jane" maker community, dedicated design software, and a 25th-anniversary reissue decades later. It's a genuine cult classic — a passionate, narrow following built entirely around reproducing one specific historical quilt, not a media-anointed bestseller. The single-most-recommended book among quilters who take on long-form sampler projects.

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