Star of LeMoyne
Pictures by Rebecca Davis
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Rows of eight-pointed stars in brick red, brown, blue and pink fill this patchwork quilt that Rebecca Davis stitched around 1846. The LeMoyne Star is thought to take its name from the Le Moyne brothers, who founded New Orleans, and here it becomes a warm, handmade field of stars for a birthday. For someone who loves things made by hand.
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From American patchwork quilts / STAR OF LEMOYNE / Star of LeMoyne quilt by Rebecca Davis, about 1846 / The eight-pointed LeMoyne Star is thought to take its name from the Le Moyne brothers, who founded New Orleans. Rebecca Davis made this quilt of stars about 1846.
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