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A Few Broken Stars
Here is a great idea but one not often seen. While there are many large Star-of-Bethlehem-style quilts with applique in the empty spots, here is a vintage Broken Star filled in with flora and...
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Modernism, Anachronisms & Jane Austen
 Anachronism: chronological inconsistencyAbove we have Jane Austen from about 1810 in a dress print from about 1910.I don't think she'd buy into this idea.Block 1 Bright Star for Jane Austenby Cookie's...
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Broken Star Variations
I found this variation on the large central star quilt at the Smithsonian website.It looks like the quilter had many of the parts for the standard Broken Star (BlockBase # 4007.5)as in the Amish...
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Emporia Quilts: Charlotte Jane Whitehill's Tomato Flower
Tomato Flower by Charlotte Jane Whitehill, Emporia, Kansashand quilter unknown, 1932, 84" x 86"Denver Art Museum Neusteter Textile Collection, Gift of Charlotte Jane Whitehill, 1955.66If it's mid-June...
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Ladies' Album: Inked Signatures
Maria Fulford signed her cut-out chintz album block with the date "Sep. 1845" and a Bible verse. It looks like she inked a series of tiny dots rather than strokes.My Ladies' Album reproduction fabric...
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Stars Simplified: BlockBase #3735
#3735bpieced of toile, chintz and linenI've been sorting my digital files of stars and found somepretty complicated patterns, which derive from this basicstar pieced of eight diamonds#3735 in...
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Glasgow: An Aesthetic Disaster
On May 23rd fire damaged an important landmark of the Scottish Arts & Crafts movement.Photo from 2008 by Mark Mulligan The Mackintosh building of the Glasgow School of Art burned at the end of the...
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Machine Applique for Emporia Rose
Detail of an unfinished applique top by Rose Good Kretsinger, hand-appliqued.Collection: Helen F. Spencer Museum of Art at the University of KansasEmporia's Rose Kretsinger and the other applique...
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Large Stars/Large Stripes
From an old Quilt Engagement CalendarIndependence Day is a good day for a post on Stars & Stripes.I sorted all my pictures of large stars and came up withthis subcategory....Stars with StripesMost...
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Denver Art Museum Exhibit
Indiana Wreath by Charlotte Jane Whitehill, 1930, Emporia, KansasCollection of the Denver Art MuseumThe Denver Art Museum is showing 20 of their quilts in First Glance - Second Look: Quilts from the...
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Early reproduction prints
Looking for a chintz border for a reproduction quilt? The Yenters at In the Beginninghave a new reproduction collection featuring this large stripewith a fancy machine ground.The line is called Circa...
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Too Many Y SEAMS???
Madison Star by Nan C.Jean StancliftFor the free block of the month I am doing in 2014 at my Civil War Quilts site I thought up new variations of stars. The star in a star above I named Madison Star...
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String Stars on a Large Scale
Tudor Family, Lexington, Kentucky, about 1900Towards the very end of the 19th century quilters began combininga new idea---string quilts--- with an old idea----Lone Stars.By Bertha Riddick from the...
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Ladies Album: Stencilled Signatures
Not all the inked signatures in Ladies' Album quilts are handwritten.Many are stamped (perhaps the one above) or inked with a stencilas in the two below.Note the breaks in the lines in the letters A...
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Shirting Document Print for Richmond Reds
Raleigh print in Shirting CreamMy new 19th-century reproduction Richmond Reds collection for Modais due for delivery mid-September, 2014which means the precuts like Jelly Rolls and Layer Cakes shouldbe...
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Star Pattern Without a Name
Or a number!It's a common pattern, a variation on the Lone Star or Star of Bethlehemwith what we tend to call "satellite stars" in the corners and edge triangles.Pennsylvania 1880-1910Quilt dated...
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Winnetka: Richmond Reds
Winnetka is #8305 The picture of Winnetka, Illinois, is from the Winnetka Historical Society.The basket weave print in my new Moda collection Richmond Reds is reproduced from a scrap of cotton printed...
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Emporia Quilts: Rose Kretsinger's Pennsylvania Beauty
Pennsylvania Beauty by Common Threads in WaxahatchieWe put this dynamic block in the center of our Emporia Rose applique quilt.And on the cover.Unfinished quilt top by Rose Good KretsingerCollection of...
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Postcards From Abroad
Roseanne and I recently went to England and France.Here we are at the Tate Modern eating lunch.I had several travel goals...one was to follow in Jane Austen'sfootsteps to Bath.Another was to see some...
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Richmond: Free Quilt Pattern for Richmond Reds
"Richmond," pieced in Richmond Redsby Becky BrownBecky, who used to live in Richmond, Virginia, wrote she couldn't resist making up the "Richmond" block in my new 19th-century reproduction line called...
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