Quilters Companion

Quilty Treasures

Seeing stars

The best teachers often use interesting and novel methods to help their students learn. In 1876, when Ellen Harding Baker was teaching astronomy, she employed a unique approach: she made a quilt.

Baker was born in Ohio in 1847. She married at the age of 20 and gave birth to seven children, before dying of tuberculosis in 1886. She was also an

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