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Quilt Wrecks---It Can Happen to Anyone
Sometimes you finish the block but decidenot to use it.One could rip and re-sew...But then again. It may be easier to just toss it aside.You'd hope you'd notice that things seem out of place before you...
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Framed Hexagon Sets
Quilters' Guild Collection at York UKSee all their mosaic patchwork here:http://www.quiltmuseum.org.uk/collections/mosaic-patchwork/all/1700-2016/Time to get those Morris Hexagons set together.That's...
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Tessellating Patterns: Links
Three-sided shapes will tessellate.Last year I blogged about tessellating designs for quilts---pattern that fills the surface with just one shape.Six-sided shapes will tessellateI also made some...
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Double Four Patches in Morris Earthly Paradise
Double Four PatchMid-19th-century.The pattern is BlockBase #1103.I figured out a free pattern for this period quilt.The repeat is hard to see in the quilt above but it's simple.Here it isdrawn up in...
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Irish Chain Plus Chintz Border
Triple Irish Chain with an appliqued vine border.1840-1890Quilt styles change. Perhaps the biggest reason for change is interest in novel fabrics. In the 1840s calicoes seemed to grab every quilters'...
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Baltimore Blues: Winter Migration
Winter Migration by Sharon Denney Parcel.Pattern in McCall's Quilting magazine (Nov/Dec 2016 issue)Sharon Denney Parcel made a lovely winter quilt from my latest reproduction fabric line called...
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Indiana Quilt Project: Applique
By Hannah TieboutThe slides from the Indiana Quilt Project are online at the Quilt Index."The Indiana Quilt Registry Project, Inc. (IQRP) was formed in 1986. The files are now at the Indiana State...
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Morris Hexagon: Rings of Hexies
Barbara S's hexagons on the design wall. She has a plan.Plan in EQ7See the pattern here:http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2016/04/morris-hexathon-introduction.htmlThese concentric rings of hexagons...
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Lovely Lane in Baltimore Blues
Mid-19th-century fashion demanded stripes.In dresses...and quilts.A mid-19th-century quilt in the bear paw pattern from the Quilt Index and the Iowa ProjectIt would look good in my new Baltimore Blues...
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Oh Susannah!
Oh, Susannah! by Barbara Brackman, 200349" SquareI was inspired to get this quilt of mine out of the closet the other day because there is a new fabric line coming that celebrates one of "Our Favorite...
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Patricia Campbell's Quilts & Fabric
Patricia B. Campbell Jacobean ArborAmerican Quilters Society has been traveling a show of Pat Campbell's quiltsin their Quilt Week Exhibits. I saw it in DesMoines last fall.Pat died in 2013. She had...
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What Can Go Wrong?
Iceberg!More things that can go wrong....Nice save here though.Collection of the Shelburne Museum Some of these quilt wrecks were made in the days whenquilts stayed on the bed.So let's hope whoever...
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Bragging: McCord in Mexico
Georgann Eglinksi started this quilt out with an appliqued block, "Classical Urn" from the book Our Favorite Quiltmakers: Susan McCord.She put it on the wall at the weekly gathering of the SewWhatevers...
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Baltimore Blues: Monument
The paisley stripe from Baltimore Blues is named Monument.Every mid-19th-century reproduction line needs a paisley print.The print comes in three colorways:River Green, Sassafras Brown and Harbor...
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Mountain Mist's Princess Feather
Grace McCance Snyder, dated 1953This Princess Feather variation was Grace Snyder's last quilt. She used a Mountain Mist design called Princess Feather. It's identifiable by the sashing pieced of...
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Happy New Year!
2016 was a tough year all around. Not particularly great in the quilt business.Sit down. Here's a selective recap of the year.FebruaryThe Kansas City Star closed its book division including the...
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More About the Quilt Bizz
Dorothy ParkerReply to your comments on yesterday's post about my retiring. I'm glad you'll miss me but I'll still be writing and posting.First of all that was NOT my 2017 Challenge to go on a fabric...
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Kentucky Historical Society Quilt Collection
Quilt by Margaret V. Harpole GallowayCollection of the Kentucky Historical SocietyMid-19th-Centuryhttp://kyhistory.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/1A8FC197-36A1-44DD-B3E0-935725281341The Kentucky...
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Your 2017 Applique Quilt To Do List
Was one of your New Year's Resolution to start a new reproduction applique quilt?I am not one of those whose resolution list includes:Finish QuiltsMine says:Start QuiltsHere are some ideas:Patterns,...
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More Mysterious Triplets or Quadruplets
A couple of years ago Cindy Brick posted a pictureof this antique quilt asking for a name.Are those leaves or a cornucopia rotating around thecentral point?It looks vaguely familiar I says to...
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