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Temperance Quilts 1: T Blocks
Does the T stand for Temperance?I recently read a paper: CRUSADING QUILTS: SOCIAL REFORM AND THE WOMAN’S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION by Amanda Lensch.  You can find Amanda's graduate paper here for the...
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Wild Oats, Fruitlands, Walden and Wayside: Document Prints.
Vintage silhouette of a woman and her work.The Sew Simple Quilt Shoppe in Ozark, Missouri, is offering a class in this kaleidoscope designmade with my Old Cambridge Pike...
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Charm Quilts and Odd Fellows
A charm quilt from 1870-1900, a single diamondshape. The goal was no two pieces alike.Third Time's A Charm28" x 36"405 PiecesI just finished binding this hand pieced, hand quiltedcharm quilt. There are...
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Kaw Valley Quilt Guild Show 2016
Sedona Star by Shari Novak Johnson.Quilted by Kelly Cline.Shari's quilt grabs your eye as you walk in the door.She made it in a block of the month workshop.The design is by Sarah Vedeler.Marmalade, an...
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William Morris Precuts and Civil War Parallels
Civil War ParallelsThe town of Stow-on-the-Wold in the British Cotswolds made a Civil War quilt for Appomattox, Virginia last year."The pioneering patchwork is a surprise present from Stow-on-the-Wold...
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Quilts on the Kansas Frontier
Quilt dated 1876 by Drusilla Showalter Cole,Mound Ridge, Kansas. Kansas Quilt Project.The Missouri/Oklahoma/Kansas/Arkansas quilt study group (MOKA) is meeting in Leavenworth this weekend April 1 and...
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May Morris Conference
May Morris, a triple portrait by Dante Gabriel RossettiOh! to be in England when the Pound is Worth $1.43and there is a May Morris Conference onMay 13 & 14, 2016 at the William Morris...
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Alice's Scrapbag: My Pocket
Cotton Print PocketCollection: Metropolitan Museum of ArtPatchwork pockets were an everyday accessory two hundred years ago.These bags were a good place for girls to practice their stitching.Stars were...
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Temperance Quilts 2: Sons of Temperance Star
I posted about T quilts and how little we can find out about what those T's stand for. We assume it is Temperance. But is there any evidence that the T or any particular pattern symbolizes the...
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Crib Quilt/Doll Quilt Old Cambridge Pike
I recently saw this lovely doll quilt in an online auction.It's perfect to remake in JellyRoll strips of myOld Cambridge Pike line for Moda.The fabrics look to be about 1860-1880s in the original,the...
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Tessellations: Hexagons 1 Random shading, stripes & waves
Just hexagons, no shading patternBlockBase #160aIn trying to find a quilt for every pattern BlockBase I got fixated in the hexagons. There are so many things you can do with them. We will begin with...
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A Heavenly Vision From North Carolina
Emily Maxwell and her Heavenly Vision Quiltabout 1955I found this charming quilt and its story at the North Carolina Museum of History.Heavenly Vision made by Emily Margaret Eller Maxwell (1867-1957)...
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Potted Plants with Reverse Applique
I saw this odd plant in a pot patternfrom the Connecticut project on the Quilt Index.It's in the collection of the Darien Historical Society.I'm assuming the white leaf is reverse appliqued,a hole cut...
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Morris Hexathon Introduction
Next week we start the six-month quiltalong, a Morris Hexathon (May to October, 2016 ) on this blog. The posts will appear every Saturday for 26 weeks beginning May 7, 2016.We'll make various hexies as...
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Tessellations: Hexagons 2 Rings of Rosettes
I'm on a fool's errand - categorizing hexagons. But it keeps me entertained.The basic way to repeat a hexagon is in the form of a rosette of 7 hexagons,1 ring around the center Here it is in my...
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Morris Hexathon 1: Westminster
Hexathon #1: Westminster Starby Becky BrownMorris Earthly Paradise prints.Our first hexie is a six-pointed star inspired by the tilework floor at Westminster Abbey, a London Landmark for a thousand...
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Xenia's Zinnia
Xenia at Legacy Quilts has this mid-19th-century Maryland quilt in her inventoryand we've been discussing the pattern.She says it's a clamshell variationand I didn't see it that way till she mentioned...
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Morris Hexathon---Sharing Images
Westminster by RCCheryl We're off to a great start on our Morris Hexathon, 26 posts in hexagonal geometries.Suzie K.Post pictures of your finished blocks on our Flickr...
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Morris Hexathon 2: Crystal Palace
Block # 2Crystal PalaceA hexagon of 6 triangles.Crystal Palace by Becky BrownSix identical triangles fussy cutThe print is Compton from Morris Earthly ParadiseThis week's hexagonal block Crystal Palace...
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An Eagle Quilt by Charlotte Angus
Watercolor of a sampler quilt by Charlotte Angusfor the WPA and the Index of American Design, 1940I collected a few eagle block pictures for my Facebookpage this week,images related to this quilt in...
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