21: How to Make a Swedish-American Quilt: Happy Birthday, Kirsten!

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Snitches get stitches, but in this episode, we will see that secret-keepers like Kirsten get full hand-sewn quilts. Book four brings us straight into Gemini season, and plot twists and literal twisters abound. As the family makes plans for both a new barn and a new baby, Kirsten struggles with intense FOMO when new chores demand her attention. While Kirsten believes that her cousins/friends are making a quilt for their beloved teacher, they are in fact stitching together a special surprise for her double digit day. If flower crowns, barn raisings, and mid-19th century birthday parties (hello George Washington) sound like a good time to you, grab a cozy quilt and settle in. And if that doesn't sell it, this episode also includes a discussion of early aughts prairie living, settlement house reality shows, and a connection between Kirsten and the Kardashians.

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0:00.0	Albert Einstein here, Chico and I, are out for walkies in the park.
0:04.3	My watch tells me we've walked exactly 3,04 steps, our personal best.
0:09.5	Our steps aren't the only thing we track.
0:11.5	Our smart meter display at home tells us how much energy we use daily,
0:15.4	weekly and monthly, which can help me make changes to save energy. And now my watch tells me,
0:20.8	it's time to head back for a gappa, right, Chico?
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0:30.0	Allison, I, you know, I'm someone who loves trivia, so you know, I'm always seeking out new trivia to share with you for kind of no reason.
0:38.0	And I came across, and you know, it's a piece of trivia, I'd love to just quiz you on.
0:42.5	Is that cool?
0:43.5	Yeah, I'm ready.
0:44.7	So as you know, and as we've covered on this show,
0:47.0	Julia Roberts was kind of foundational
0:49.1	in creating the Felicity movie.
0:51.6	But did you know that she was set to star in a movie set in
0:56.4	American history around the same time that she got involved with Felicity?
1:00.3	I didn't. Was it a Miss Merriman biopig nope oh um was it the carry nation story I would love to see that
1:08.8	oh my god I would love to see her swing an axe it sadly was not. Was it Francis Willard? I would love that for her but no. Am I am I in the right territory? No. That's so interesting. Okay I can think of a few other people that I would love to see like where's the Francis Perkins bio pick
1:27.7	Where's like another Eleanor rendition like am I kind of in the right? She's going to say Eleanor.
1:33.0	No?
1:34.0	No, sorry.
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