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Indigo Resistance: Peer Review
Indigo Resist Print, a vining arborescent with a six-lobed floralin a whole-cloth bedcover from an online auction.When and where similar indigo prints were manufactured is a topic of conversation...
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1925: Quilts A Century Ago
2025 hasn't been my favorite year but I have lots of quilt ideas and new fabrics to keep me planning and occasionally sewing. A hundred years ago in 1925 fewer ideas were floating. Here's a look at...
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Unusual Cheater Cloth
Over at the 6 Know-It-Alls Facebook group Ileana showed us these blocks that look to be about 1900.An apple and an angel that look to be cut out of other blocks.Poor angel's head has faded. The wing...
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Lynn Hulse, May Morris and Broderie Perse
A New Book for William Morris fans:May Morris: The Essence and Soul of Beautiful Embroideryby Lynn Hulse from England’s Ashmolean...
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Early American Patchwork: Considering a 250th Anniversary Quilt
Collection of the Winterthur MuseumPatchwork quilt with embroidery signed Rachel Mackey and dated 1787Over at the 6KIAs Facebook group we looked at quilts attributed to the first 25 years of American...
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250th Anniversary Quilt Pattern: Democracy's Empire
OK. So let's say you are pretty optimistic that we will still have a democracy to celebrate on next July's 250th anniversary of the American democratic experiment. You might want to make a quilt. You...
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Prolific Pattern Publications
My BlockBase+ digital program from ElectricQuilt will draw over 4,200 pieced patterns for you, any size.But it has other features of use to the quilt pattern fan.Statistics!Search by Source: Aunt...
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"Sew, Sue Me!" Finished
Sew, Sue Me!At a time when Americans define themselves by their hats, who represents us better than the classic quilted “Sunbonnet” couple, faceless under their oversized headgear? Sunbonnet Sue and...
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Mysterious Visuals in Indigo Whole Cloth Quilts
Both the Winterthur & the International Quilt Museums own quilted whole cloth* bedcovers with large center panels of the same...
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Tariff Updates After Three Months
"Yikes!" Tariffs on imported items have been in place for over three months. Peter Eavis of the New York Times reported on effects on December 1st, e.g., a woman who bought a coat from the Netherlands...
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Early American Quilts: Knickerbocker Style for St. Nicholas's Day
Pennsylvania State MuseumAmerican patchwork quilt thought to be about 1800, attributed to a woman in the Robinson/Wells/Drum...
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Knickerbocker Puzzle: Early American Style
Thinking about stitching a period-authentic quilt from 250 years ago for the 2026 anniversary of the Declaration of Independence? I've posted one pattern for a style typical in the years 1780 to 1810...
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Caracos Around the World
Fries Museum, NetherlandsCaraco This post is about a fashion that is ready for revival: The Caraco. Caraco seems to be a French word for a tight fitting jacket. In the Netherlands they are called...
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Seasonal Sparkle in William Morris Prints
Seasonal SparklePattern below for a 90-inch square quiltusing William Morris reproduction printsRed & green are the traditional seasonal colors for the end-of-the-year celebrations. The colors...
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Caraco Jackets: Fashioning a Hypothesis
ModeMuze, Amsterdamhttps://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2025/12/caracos-around-world.htmlSee a recent post featuring these 18th-century chintz garments known by several...
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Block-Style Quilts 250 Years Ago
Charlotte Merritt Roe (1774-1836) was born in Rye, New York in Westchester County but made this Nine-Patch child's quilt after she moved west to Virgil in Cortland County in 1797.The crib quilt was...
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A Patchwork Caraco
I've been spending time costume scrolling---good for the mental health in stressful times. It's like shopping but no buyers' remorse. And I came across this caraco in the Nordish Museum (Nordiska...
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American Quilt Style: Democracy Blooms
National Museum of American HistorySmithsonian InstitutionQuilt date-inscribed 1795 M Campbell. Detail. The dark brown is reverse applique withthe light overlay cut to reveal the print...
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Quilt Journeys: State Blocks for EQ
https://electricquilt.com/online-shop/quilt-journeys/For the U.S.A.'s 250th Anniversary this year I've been considering quilts to celebrate with several posts here on what kind of patchwork would be...
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Sewing Insurrection
Wistar Family Quilt, blocks inscribed1842-1843IQSC collection #2005.059.0001https://www.internationalquiltmuseum.org/about/quilt-month/album-0Needlework has long been a medium for dissent.Quilt...
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Early American Patchwork: Orange Peel Blocks?
D.A.R. MuseumCenter of an early quilt possibly made before 1800This medallion with a basket center came up when I was searching for accurate quiltsmade in the last quarter of the 18th century to...
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Whose Orange Peel? Material Culture
"LaFayette Orange Peel"Rhode Island Project & the Quilt IndexSigned Amanda Dodge (Rose) About 1875, Block Island This repeat block pattern is one of the earliest of American fashions in quilt...
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Alternatives to Doom Scrolling
Tough Times Call for Corny SolutionsI am spending way too much time "Doom-Scrolling" as they call it. And so are you. Free minutes are taken up looking at terrible news. For the sake of our mood and...
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Quilt Journeys: Bird Borders
Quilt JourneysState Birds in a Scalloped Borderin Morris Muse fabricsDuring this Anniversary Year of the Declaration of IndependenceI am thinking a border of state birds combining the appliqued...
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Fence Rail Polka Practice
Fence Rail PolkaIt's a good thing I have Electric Quilt to draw patterns and barely enough discipline to spend an hour a day on graphics programs, combining EQ8 with Photoshop because Malcolm Gladwell...
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