Oh! To Be in Cairo in 1880
Detail of a quilt that political textile collectorJulie Powell donated to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.Oh to be in Cairo. Cairo, Illinois that is...(Pronounced Karo)When Stuart's Dry Goods had the...
View ArticlePast Perfect: Quilts de Légend
Somerset by Marie Francoise GregoireInspired by a quilt in the Victoria & Albert Museum.This month's Past Perfect post features a group: the French organization Quilts de Légend which as far as I...
View ArticleQuilt Market St Louis: Our Virtual Booth
Our Virtual BoothSunflower Pattern Co-operativeSpring Quilt Market is in St. Louis this week: May 19-21, 2017.We are bringing everybody.Me, Karla, Pam, Deb, Jean, Shaunaand Dottie the Dachshund.The...
View ArticleQueen Victoria Coronation Prints
Queen Victoria Coronation Commemorative Print1838Cut out and appliqued to a quilt block.Collection International Quilt Study Center & Museum #...
View ArticleMary Elizabeth Jones Orgain's 1818 Sunflower Quilt
Quilt signed and dated 1818 Sterling and Mary OrgainTexas quilt project & the Quilt Index.Made by Mary Elizabeth Jones Orgain (1801-1878) This quilt in the collection of the Briscoe Center...
View ArticleApplique in Strips
Strip applique quilt from the Kentucky Projectand the Quilt Index.http://www.quiltindex.org/fulldisplay.php?kid=1A-39-78McCord Down Under by Barbara BrackmanAbout 45" wide.I've been working on my strip...
View ArticleMosaics in Spain
Barcelona is a city of mosaics.Over 20 years ago my sister and I went to Barcelona to look at Antoni Gaudi's mosaics. What a charming city---kind of sleepy then. Very art nouveau, a great place to live...
View ArticleWhig Rose or Democrat Rose?
Traditional Whig Rose designMost quilt fans know more about the long-gone Whig party than the average 21st-century American, mainly because the name Whig has persisted in the names for several...
View ArticleTriangles in a Field of Patchwork: A Clue to Regionalism?
This medallion quilt is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Not much is known about it, but we can make some...
View ArticleThe Cargo Collections
Lureca OutlandCollection: IQSCMHelen and Robert Cargo collected Southern folk arts for about forty years, including hundreds of Alabama quilts. In the 1980s and '90s Robert operated the Robert Cargo...
View ArticlePast Perfect: Lori Smith
Floral Delight by Lori Smith82" x 101"This month's Past Perfect post is about Lori Smith whose Minnesota pattern company is named From My Heart to Your Hands.Floral Delight seems to have been inspired...
View ArticleMorris Hexathon Label and Paper Patterns
The blogger at SewLittleToSayhas finished her Morris Hexathon quilt from last year.On the design wallShe used the classic palette of colorcomplements red and green, but toned down and lightened...
View ArticleTwo Early Star Quilts
Quilt embroidered "H Warner 1807"Thompson collectionWe don't have many surviving quilts with dates before 1820 inscribed upon them. Lori Lee Triplett saw this Pennsylvania family quilt at a workshop...
View ArticleTobacco Cloth?
Top in the Whig's Defeat design, Turkey red and a fugitive blue. About 1900.What did people call these inexpensive solid cottons with a low thread count?Maybe tobacco cloth?Late winter in 1907 was time...
View ArticleColorful Birds & Album Quilts
Bird and squirrel on an album quilt about 1850from dealers Woodard & Greenstein This photo was the frontispiece in the 1981 Quilt Engagement Calendar. They knew little about their album except that...
View ArticlePast Perfect: Edyta Sitar
Sticks & StonesDesigned by Edyta Sitar for Laundry Basket QuiltsJuly's Past Perfect quilter is Edyta Sitar whose pattern company Laundry Basket Quilts offers a wide range of designs inspired by the...
View ArticleMy New Quilt: Appliqued Sunshine
I recently bought this appliqued quilt on eBay.It is certainly energetic if not conventionally beautiful.First of all it's datedJan 1931 in Turkey red thread.The applique designs all askew are quite...
View ArticleQuilts at the 1885 Cotton States Exposition
Harriet Powers's Bible Quilt"Quilt Exhibit, Interior of Negro Building, Atlanta Exposition," 1895Stereograph by B W. Kilburn, published 1896The vintage photo features Harriet Powers's Bible Quilt, now...
View ArticleThe Archie Butt Quilt Contest 1911
In 1911 Major Archibald Butt and Albert Howellconducted a great Georgia quilt contest.The President (left) & Archie Butt strolling in Washington about 1910.Butt, Georgia born, was aide-de-camp to...
View ArticleAntique Quilt Exhibits: Summer Through Fall 2017
Antique Quilt Exhibits: Summer Through Fall 2017From Flying Down to RioBuy yourself a seat inside the plane and take a trip to see these shows and conferences.California, PasadenaHuntington Library....
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