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Amelia's Aviary 2: Peacocks
Peacock chintzStuffed quilt attributed to Amelia Heiskell Lauck, Collection ofColonial Williamsburg # 2008.609.6.Circa...
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EQ8---Electric Quilt News
The newest version of Electric Quilt, EQ8 is now available. Ask for the quilt design software EQ8 at your local quilt shop or click here to see this new program at...
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Cochrane's Turkey Red
There was a time when one could not run a Presidential campaign without a red bandanna.Benjamin Harrison & Levi Morton ran on an "America First"platform in 1888 promising, according to this...
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Patience Smith: Sacred to Memory
Quilt dated 1852 with 123 names inked in the border.Western Pennsylvania Project and the Quilt Index.The quilt was made for Miss Patience Smith (1806-1874).In the oval is inked:"A precious memento...
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DWR 1: Oldest Double Wedding Ring
Velma, working with the continuing Oregon quilt project, sent this photo of a Double Wedding Ring top they recently documented. Looks like 1890-1900 [that should be 1890-1920]. It's the oldest Double...
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DWR 2: Wedding Ring/Pickle Dish
Double Wedding Ring, mid 20th centurySee yesterday's post on the earliest dated DWR quilt.https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2017/12/dwr-1-oldest-double-wedding-ring.htmlAnother Question:What is the...
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DWR 3: Source of the Design?
Double Wedding Ring1930-1950If you ask anybody that knows anything about quilt patterns the source of this very popular pattern they would tell you that it seems to be derived from the older Pickle...
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DWR 4: An Older Design Source?
Wedding RingI've been blogging about Wedding Rings & Pickle Dishes, whichseem to have popped up at the same time---late-19th-century in the South.Pickle Dish Mary Pinson, Texas. Arizona Project...
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Past Perfect: Martha Skelton
December's Past Perfect featured quiltmaker is Martha Skelton whowas Mississippi's Queen of traditional quilting.Sunburst by Martha Skelton, 1993In the 1990s and the oughts she entered many contests...
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Applique: At One With Nature
Isn't it amazing how applique artists of the 19th centuryadapted nature to their quilts?Using simple shapes they captured the natural world.In this one from the Herr's Antiques you can guessshe's...
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Quintuplets with a Scalloped Edge: New York Style
Sarah Ann Wilson Aug 1854, (QUILT #1)Collection of the Art Institute of ChicagoRestricted gift of Mrs. David W. Grainger,...
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The Yellow House
From an applique quilt in the collection ofthe New England Quilt Museum. In the last postI mentioned the yellow house seen in several New York samplers.Common vernacular house style before the Civil...
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Fireworks for New Year's Eve
Corrine Riley collectionSmithsonian InstitutionThere seems to have been a fashion for a Star of Bethlehemwith strip pieced backgrounds.From the Quilt Index and the Michigan ProjectFrom Laura Fisher's...
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Clara Stone---Pattern Designer
Martha Spark brought this quilt to a MOKA meeting.(Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas Study Group)Looks to be about 1880-1910 by the fading solid colors. Wonderwhat the tan once was. Red would have...
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Early Circular Pieced Designs
Online auctionFound in Richmond, VirginiaWhen you come across a quilt like this and want to estimate a date there are a few excellent clues,the most obvious being the fabrics. The white-ground chintz...
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American Textile History Museum Update
Quilt once in the collection of the American Textile History Museum.The American Textile History Museum, a Smithsonian affiliate, closed last year.2017 was spent transferring collections to other...
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Circular Reasoning
Detail of a quilt made by Zella Ingram in Dayton, Ohiofound by the West Virginia Project. Photo from the Quilt Index.Zella's quilt looks to be about 1910. The pattern isfascinating (to those of us...
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Past Perfect: Jan Patek
Liberty Garden by Jan PatekThis month's Past Perfect star is Jan Patek. ElizabethJan lives way out west in western Missouri near Kansas City on a small farm where the major livestock is a bulldog or...
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Washington On Horseback
Boston Museum Fine Arts1853, F. Schufeldhttp://www.mfa.org/collections/object/quilt-452625How many identical quilts survive featuring Washington on horseback?The one above was sold at Skinner's Auction...
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EPP @ AQSG
I was surprised to see how many of us at the American Quilt Study Group Seminar last fall in New Hampshire brought our paper piecing. During the three days of lectures many listeners pulled out their...
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