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Small Pieces
Mini Morrisby Ronna RobertsonWe recently had our guild quilt show where we make 100 mini's to auction off for charity. Deb who was in charge packaged up some strips from my Morris Apprentice collection...
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Museum Quilt Shows: Antique Quilts Summer 2013
Time to get that bike in gear to see the summer quilt shows.Here's a list of museum exhibits featuring antique quilts for summer, 2013.California, San JoseSan Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles....
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Civil War Jubilee: A Shadowy Sprig
The document fabric for this reproduction print in my summer collection Civil War Jubileeis from an old sawtooth star full of madder-style reds and browns, a few stripes and paisleys,The center square...
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Prussian Blue Old & New
Blues Romanceby Jeanne Zyck and Georgann EglinskiJeanne and Georgann don't even know each other but they have collaborated on this quilt.Jeanne had some strips of my Metropolitan Fair lineof...
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Twins Separated at Birth
Oriental Poppy Quiltby an unknown maker---Sold at auction a few years ago.When I saw this quilt online I thought---a quilt by Rose Kretsinger of Emporia, Kansas. She made a twin quilt that is in the...
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What We Are Working On: Morris Modernized
Bird & TulipReproduction printC.F.A. Voysey is one extremely influential pattern designer you may not know.Voysey (1857-1941) "Never look at an ugly thing twice. It is fatally easy to get...
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Drunk Tank Pink
Double pink prints were popular fabric in 19th century quilts particularly towards the end of the century.I saw an interesting piece on CBS's Sunday Morning recentlyabout how color influences mood.We...
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Fancy Borders: A Dating Clue
Mid-19th centuryquilt from an online auction. I've been doing posts about borders and how the changes in style can help in dating antique quilts. What seems to be important in dating is the...
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Paisley in Civil War Jubilee
Here's the paisley in my latest reproduction collectionCivil War JubileeThis pack of Layer Cake precuts 10" square gives you an idea of the scale.You can fussy cut borders and blocksHere's the original...
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Run-On Borders
I've been thinking about border style and how it can be used as a weak clue to help date antique quilts.In this post I talked about what we call the Spacer Border and how it was popular at the end of...
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How I Use BlockBase: Redrawing Old Blocks
I have kept this photo of some fairly sad blocks from an online auction for a while. They look to be from the 1930-1950 era.It's an interesting block, if badly made, and I thought it might make a good...
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Juneteenth---Jubilee
Emancipation Celebration, GeorgiaLibrary of CongressJuneteenth celebrationJune 19th is celebrated in Texas as the anniversary of Emancipation---Not the day that Lincoln issued the Proclamation, which...
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Artichokes on the Internet
Star Quiltby Esther at Threads on the FloorWhile trolling for projects made with my Morris reproductions I found this one by Esther at Threads on the Floor. On her blog she showed this star quilt she...
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Posing with Patchwork
Posing with Patchwork: Quilts in Photographs, 1855-1955 is one of the current exhibits at the International Quilt Study Center and Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska. The show features the collection of Janet...
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Fabric Retailing: The Peddler's Wagon
Broom peddler, New YorkWhen we consider how 19th-century quilters obtained their fabricswe tend to forget the peddler.Peddlers served urban and rural customers.In the city a retailer could...
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Civil War Jubilee Free Pattern
Civil War JubileeModa Project76" x 88"Find the free pattern from Moda here:http://www.unitednotions.com/fp_civil-war-jubilee.pdfThe quilt design above was a collaboration between me, the fabric...
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Five Pointed Stars on the Fourth
A pair of five-pointed star blocks from Baltimore samplers.Above from a quilt in the collectionof Colonial Williamsburg...And this one from the collection of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts.Both are...
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Modernism Reproduction Prints
Ever wish you could run off to Paris in the 1920s?It is not too late.Your time machine will arrive soonin the form of my new reproduction collection:Modernism from Moda.Each piece recalls the teens and...
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Not Fade Away: Sharing Quilt Stories in the Digital Age
Not Fade Away: Sharing Quilt Stories in the Digital Age is a one-day conference about documenting, preserving and sharing the stories of quilts and their makers. The event, sponsored by the Quilt...
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Borders and Asymmetry
I did a post about run-on borders that make for an asymmetrical composition, often with some real graphic appeal. In the star above, time and fugitive dyes have added to the asymmetry. Those dark brown...
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