Friendship Ala Moda
Party Like It's 1842!
We're making a friendship quilt here at Moda. You'll recognize the style---blocks in a sampler of patterns, each with the maker's signature. People call them album quilts or signature quilts too. They've been a format for social networking since the 1840s.
Here's the agenda for the Quilt Along.
1.) Quilt Patterns
You get a free pattern for a block from all the Moda designers (3 a day)Today it's me...
And Barb & Alma at Blackbird Designs...
And Basic Grey
They'll be posting sometime on February 18th.
Between now and March 4 you will get 28 different patterns for 9" blocks.
Here's the block we've designed for me.
It's a version of flying geese with a big spot for a signature or inscription.
I made it up in some grays and pinkish reds from my Morris Apprentice collection of reproduction William Morris Company prints. I fussy-cut a square out of the Eden print for the corners.
Eden in Thames Gray
Click here for the pattern:
Here's a better link:
http://www.unitednotions.com/qa-block-07.pdf
Try this one if the one above doesn't work.
https://workspaces.acrobat.com/app.html#d=Rev2WJXyZkFveMFuzJhCPw
Here's a better link:
http://www.unitednotions.com/qa-block-07.pdf
Try this one if the one above doesn't work.
https://workspaces.acrobat.com/app.html#d=Rev2WJXyZkFveMFuzJhCPw
It finishes to 9" square. The instructions will show you a clever way to make these strip-pieced geese.
Once you figure it out you may want to keep on making them.
You could make a whole quilt of Flying Geese...
But I digress.
2.) Free Stuff
My Give-Away is over. Cassie A won the fat quarter pack.
Detail of a friendship quilt with blocks dated 1839 to
Al & Merry Silber Collection
Michigan State University
3.) History
You also get a little history from meThe friendship quilt is a style of antique quilt that is easy to date because people often included a date as well as their signatures. The earliest friendship quilt I've found yet has blocks dated 1839, but there's only one with that date---the sawtooth block above.
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There are a couple of friendship quilts with blocks dated 1840; a few more in 1841. By 1842 the idea was a fad, a craze that continues to this day.
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Detail of a quilt for Sarah Flickwir
with blocks dated 1840-1846
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Detail of a quilt for Ella Maria Deacon
with blocks dated 1842
Art Institute of Chicago
There are a couple of friendship quilts with blocks dated 1840; a few more in 1841. By 1842 the idea was a fad, a craze that continues to this day.
Quilt for Sarah Morrell
Blocks dated 1842-1843
American Folk Art Museum
You may need a party hat.
4.) Networking
Here is the link to the Moda Cutting Table post with all the links:
http://modafabrics.blogspot.com/p/moda-friendship-quilt-along.html
We also have a Flickr group for you to add your quilt blocks to the gallery.
Click here:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/2119118@N25/
Check out this video which is a 49 minute presentation from the last Quilt Market. Many of the designers showed their quilt blocks there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeuJcsK2NB8
And see more of the antique friendship quilts I've posted by clicking on these links to the museum collections:
Tomorrow February 19th
Check out this video which is a 49 minute presentation from the last Quilt Market. Many of the designers showed their quilt blocks there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeuJcsK2NB8
And see more of the antique friendship quilts I've posted by clicking on these links to the museum collections:
Quilt from the Silber Collection at Michigan State University
http://www.quiltindex.org/fulldisplay.php?kid=1E-3D-1154
Sarah Flickwir quilt at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/53967.html?mulR=28
Ella Maria Deacon quilt at the Art Institute of Chicago
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/54071
Tomorrow February 19th
Check out these three bloggers:
Bonnie- Cotton Way http://cottonway.blogspot.com/
Brigitte- Zen Chic www.farbstoff-bridge.blogspot.com
Anne- Bunny Hill http://bunnyhillblog.com/Bonnie- Cotton Way http://cottonway.blogspot.com/
Brigitte- Zen Chic www.farbstoff-bridge.blogspot.com