A stitch in time: Colorado museum honors history, art of quilting

GOLDEN • Scotti McCarthy encourages you to take a closer look.

Look at this quilt, among the dozens on display here at the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum. Look at the shapes and colors. Look at the shapes and colors within shapes and colors ー blues and greens, reds and pinks, octagons and hexagons, flowers and stars and more all carefully arranged by one careful hand.

Look at these neatly curving lines forming clamshells, 624 of them here bordering this quilt. The same hand stitched 752 octagons on another quilt hanging nearby. And on that quilt there, 1,572 half-square triangles were crafted…

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