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46 Nov. 16, 1975 Phila. Daily News ir j. if 030 Your Home Bon Toss Souvenirs; uili 'Em I 2. -It i itsmsmiim win New England bird quilt, 19tb century By PEG HARRIS If in the next year your home seems to be filling up with 13-star Flags, Betsy-Ross-House dish towels and Valley Forge pennants, what will you do with them? One idea comes from 100 years ago, when Centennial Fever was spreading across the land.

People of that day knew how to commemorate an event: they made a quilt. And so there survives a Centennial Quilt made of 20 American Flags stitched together And another, done in green and pink with Pennsylvania German hearts and tulips, says "Centennial" and "1876 Another 19th-century quilt also made use of souvenirs: stitched together were 20 handkerchiefs showing scenes of Nantucket, Mass. Such commemorative quilts have been only a patch, however, in the long history of quilt-making in this country. THAT HISTORY-at least the part of it that begins in New England in the late 1600s is told in a big new book, "Quilts in America," by Patsy and Myron Orlofsky (McGraw-Hill, The book's 350 pages are generously illustrated with more than 100 color plates and more than 200 black-and-white pictures. The Orlofskys, a friendly couple from upstate New York, were in town the other day to talk about their book.

They have spent seven years researching it, and three years writing it. Orlofsky recently gave up a law practice in White Plains to devote full time to studying, writing and lecturing about quilts. The couple got interested in quilts about 10 years ago when they saw a friend's collection. They started out buying quilts that were "cozy," able," or of graphic interest, but they have developed an interest in the textiles themselves. THEY HAVE about 300 quilts now, and have paid between $10 and $75 for most of them.

They recently bought an 18th-century quilt for about $40. But they don't worry about the condition of the quilt. "If it's in tatters, that's OK with us," Orlofsky says. Patsy Orlofsky enjoys hunting down fabrics from the last two centuries, and repairing the quilts. She'd rather do that than make one of her own, she said.

She speaks wistfully of the "thousands of bolts of calico" that women of 100 years ago had to choose from. THE AUTHORS cite several reasons why interest in quilts has surged in recent years. First, quilt-making fits in with the "back to basics" philosophy that has become popular along with the ecology movement. Hand-crafted things The Orlofskys Mom Played Matchmaker For Spain's New Queen caster and York counties are good hunting ground, he says. The Orlofskys admire the bold colors of Pennsylania German and Amish quilts.

Their own prize quilt, which they bought in a flea market for about $60, features the work of John Hewson, a Philadelphia-area calico printer during the time of the Revolution. Only 12 Hewson pieces are known, including a quilt at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and one at the Winter -thur Museum near Wilmington, Del. Hewson printed calico squares characteristically a basket of flowers specifically for use as the center of a quilt. There are many beautiful quilts of all types pictured in the Orlofskys' book, but perhaps the most touching is a New York bridal quilt from Civil War times. A girl stands holding a cherry branch.

Beside her, where another figure is obviously supposed to be, is a floral decoration. "A boy with a jaunty hat was planned there," the authors say, "but he was killed in the war." have been more valued lately. Second, Orlofksy says, "You can't deny the startling relationship between modern art and the quilt of geometric patterns" The similarity is coincidental, they feel. The woman having to piece her quilt with many little scraps was forced to use geometric shapes squares, triangles, circles. Modern artists have used those shapes purely from choice.

Both painter and quilt-maker were artists, however, the couple feels. People realize that a quilt as well as a painting can show a sense of color, harmony and imaginative design. Some people hang quilts on the wall. A third reason for the new attention to quilts is the interest in women's lives. "What were the sisters doing in the 19th century?" is how Orlofsky puts it.

EVEN IF you're a beginner in quilt collecting, you're not too lae, Orlofsky says. Quilt prices are still moderate, but high enough that "better quilts are coming out of attics now." The antique dealers and flea markets of Lan Photography bv Joseph McGuinn and Bella Sophia: to manner born Carlos were later at the Switzerland home of her grandmother, ex-Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain, when he grasped her hand by the wrist with the grip of a man who can shatter three planks with a karate chop and said: "We will get married, eh?" They were married in 1962. Queen Sophia looks younger than her 37 years She has light brown hair and a notably direct gaze. She devotes herself mainly to the raising of the couple's three blond children. Princess Elena is 12, Princess Christina is 10 and Felipe, the heir to the throne, is 7.

1 -J MADRID (UPI) They will miss her in the shops of Serrano Street, the pretty lady with the tiny tip-tilted nose and ready smile who always paid for everything in cash. She won't be shopping on her own much any more now that she's Queen Sophia of Spain. The wife of the new King Juan Carlos I made a memorable impression on the millions who watched her husband inaugurated Saturday. Tense and nervous as he assumed the throne and all the troubles the nation may face, the king looked to his wife and the look that plainly showed her pride in him came right back. SHE WAS PART of his strength that day, smiling, head erect, a queen to the manner born, as might have been expected from the daughter of King Paul and Queen Frederika of Greece.

Marriages are made in heaven but Frederika always liked to help along the process In 1961 she heard that Don Juan Carlos was showing interest in Princess Maria Gabriella, daughter of ex-King Humberto of Italy. Frederika promptly invited Juan Carlos to join a cruise. Her daughter, Sophia, was 23, as was Juan Carlos. She had been a nurse and an archaeology writer and Frederika thought they would have a lot in common. Romance budded on the liner Agamemnon and burst into flower under the orange moon of the Island of Corfu.

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Sleeping Pair, Auto Collide in Bedroom BEAVERTON, Ore. (UPI) -Frances Lucille Kauffman, 57, whose bed was involved in a traffic accident yesterday, was hospitalized with cuts and bruises. Mrs. Kaufman and her husband had retired to their queen-sized, metal-framed bed about 15 minutes before the sportscar, driven by Joseph Leonard French, 21, made a turn at a corner, skidded over two neighbors' lawns and careened through reinforced concrete fencing into their bedroom. 1 jr.