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Alice's Scrapbag: Grandmother's Pelisse
Above a print from my Moda collection Alice's Scrapbag.The copy and the original document print (top right) from Alice Browne's quilt.The print appears in Alice's quiltin one of the four-patches she...
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Six Eagle Quilts
Eagle Quilt (Number 1)Metropolitan Museum of ArtGift of Mrs. Jacob KaplanPossibly Made in New England#1974.32http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/13899A Pair of TwinsQuilt...
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Eagles and Their Source?
Eagle applique by Helen Gilchrist Ferris (1831-1912)Illinois State Museum Collection.http://www.museum.state.il.us/muslink/art/htmls/ks_gilchrist.htmlIn the last post I showed this quilt and five...
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Lidian from Old Cambridge Pike
Each of the prints in my latest Moda reproduction fabric collectionrecalls a person or place along the Old Cambridge Pikethat ran through literary New England.The largest floral is named Lidian.The...
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Antique Quilt Exhibits: Winter, Spring 2016
Grab your valise and a trolley to see some antique quilt shows this winter and into spring.Detail of Wheels QuiltCollection of the Quilt MuseumCalifornia, San JoseSan Jose Museum of Quilts &...
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Quilts For Sale: Models and Samples
Voysey Improv by Linda Frost, 201536 x 42We are selling some of the models for my books and fabric linesin my Etsy shop.https://www.etsy.com/shop/BarbaraBrackmanShopDottie for Scale(No not for...
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Odd Log Cabin: A Free Quilt Pattern for JellyRolls
Vintage Log Cabin quilt in the Courthouse Steps variationwith darks and lights opposite each other.From the prints I'd guess this quilt was pieced about 1880-1900.Same time, similar pattern, different...
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Alice's Scrapbag: Papa's Kerchief
I noticed on Etsy that Cheryl at Willow Ridge Quilts is offering a 49" square quilt pieced from Alice's Scrapbag.In my imaginary scrapbag, the family clothing cottons from which Alice Browne madeher...
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Grandmother's Choice-Lura's Choice
Vicki's finished her second Grandmother's Choice sampler.Lura's Choice by Vicki Welsh, 201669 x 92"You may recall the Block of the Week we did in...
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Tessellations 8 ---What won't work
Perhaps like me, you have learned the hard waythat an 8-sided shape won't tessellate.Octagons need other pieces to cover the surface.Above a traditional quilt pattern with octagons plus...
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Two Dots - Two Moons
I can't find a published pattern for this oldquilt, which looks to be from the 1930-1960 era.I've been putting dot quilts on my Facebook page for Georgann'sbirthday week this week. She is fond of...
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Orchard House-Alcott Quilts and Document Prints
If you visit Orchard House, the home of the Alcotts in Concord, Massachusetts, you maycome across one of Abba May Alcott's quilts in the bedrooms.Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House isa popular...
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Rocky Mountain Quilts at the Fair
A Rocky Mountain quilt?Quilt by Nan Holland from the Quilts of Tennessee projectand the Quilt IndexOrangeburg SC News November 9, 1872Several quilts were shown at the South Carolina state fair in 1872....
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A Bride's Quilt for Jane Burden
A Bride's Quilt for Jane Burden by Jude Liebmannand members of the Kilmore Quiltersin AustraliaQuilted by Rhonda CoatesI was intrigued by the name as I have been reading a lot aboutJane Burden and her...
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Fat Quarter Question
Old Cambridge Pike21st-Century Marketing---Fat Quarter PacksPaula Nadelstern asks:By any chance, do you remember when the fat quarter was invented? Asking for my memories is always a trip to a vague...
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A New England Quilt from along the Old Cambridge Pike
From the exhibit Behind Closed Doors: Asleep in New England at the Concord Museum in 2014The star at this show in Massachusetts a few years ago was an album quilt in warm brownsand brilliant...
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Spencer Museum Quilts: The Heaviest Quilt in the Collection
Martha A. Haggard, White Cloud, Kansas.Carpenter's wheel pattern, estimated date 1895-1897.Collection of the Spencer Museum of ArtGift of Mr. and Mrs. Clark LangworthyI am giving a talk for my guild...
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Tessellations 9: Curved Shapes
Charm quilt top about 1880-1900I've been posting about tessellating shapes that one could use in a charm quilt for several months.This installment: Curves.Above is BlockBase #181a,an old design,...
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Purple Period Patchwork
How come nobody makes purple quilts anymore?All these vintage quilts are bout 1870-1900It's not a lack of purple period prints.Above a few leaning to purple from my Old Cambridge Pike collection for...
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Happy Birthday, William Morris
Birthday Cake by Barbara Brackman and Bobbi Finley, 200944" x 44"Designer, poet and political activist William Morris was born 182 years ago tomorrow.Morris by his good friend Edward Burne-JonesEvery...
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