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Coxcomb with Birds
Years ago I was knocked out by this crib quilt ona visit to Colonial Williamsburg.Tulip Cross Crib Quilt 45-1/2" x 35-1/2"Member of the Richter Family, Ripley County, Indiana.Possibly Anna Richter in...
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Anorexic Applique
Nineteenth-century quilt from the Rosenberg Collectionat the University of AlbertaThe late Doreen Speckmann used to give a lecture in which she entertained us with photos of Anorexic Applique.I still...
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Uncle Leopold's First Wife
Leopold and CharlotteFrankly, Uncle Leopold, I was shocked by revelations in last week's episode of Victoria on PBS.Alex Jennings doing a pretty darn good job of looking likeAlbert's Uncle Leopold, the...
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Sunflowers & Chintz
From Stella Rubin's inventory.About 1820-1840When I dream about getting really good at piecing I dream I will make a quilt like this.Sunflowers of chintz.Setting shapes in the quilt above were cut from...
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Daniel Dobler's Album Quilt
At the Maryland Institute Fair in 1852 Daniel Dobler showed a quilt he'd been given by students when he left teaching in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania to return to Baltimore.Remarkably, his quilt...
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How Old is This Quilt? Win a Free Fat Quarter
A long time ago Margaret signed and dated this quilt giving us an opportunity to use it as a teaching tool for dating quilts. I have a new feature on the American Quilt Study Group's Facebook page....
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Uncommon Patience or Useless Work?
Throughout the history of American patchwork, some quilters have hoped to astound the audience---or at the least the local newspaper editor lookingfor a little filler. 27,656 pieces in 1828, Doyleston,...
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Past Perfect: Kathy Doughty
Gypsy Kisses by Kathy DoughtyFebruary's Past Perfect star is Kathy Doughty of Sydney, Australia. Here's what she says about the above quilt, her favorite of those she's made."It looks old and authentic...
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Hollyhocks & Cut-out Chintz
The Georgia Quilt Project documented this tree-of-life chintz quilt dated 1824 as oneof the earliest Georgia quilts they saw. It's by Mary Elizabeth Clayton Miller Taylor and in the collection of...
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Nine Blocks---Another Nine Block Pattern
Many years ago a family loaned me quilts for photographyincluding this applique sampler they thought made in Jacksonville, Illinois.I recognized the pattern as one pictured in Carrie Hall& Rose...
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Ten Quilts I Wish I'd Made
But I have to confess I didn't. They are mostlyfrom online auctionsThis necktie quilt is a signature quiltRussel Wright colorSome are cool.Sally Ingram Parkerfrom Cuesta Benberry's bookPiece of My...
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QuiltCon 2018 in Pasadena
Sandra Kay, Happy Dance won the prize at QuiltCon 2018 in Best Machine Quilting Frameless.My sister (the strawberry blonde on the left) lives near the Pasadena Convention Center where QuiltCon 2018...
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Eagle Quilts #1: 1853
Quilt signed C.A.C., 1853Collection of the National Museum of American ArtSmithsonian InstitutionI spent some time last year gathering pictures of quilts with dates inscribed on them and filing them on...
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Eagles Quilts #2: Quarrelsome Eagles
Quilt for Robert McDonald, 1855Old Hope AntiquesAs I noted yesterday I've been sorting my pictures of date-inscribed quilts and have made it through the 1850s. People made a lot of quilts in that...
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Eagle Qults #3: Presidential Politics
Quilt from the Christ collection, attributed to the 1850sAn eagle with no olive branches in the talons.(Olives might be growing below)I've been showing eagle quilts dated in the 1850s, a curious burst...
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Eagle Quilts #4: The American Party
Center of a quilt with 13 star blocks dated 1852Unknown SourceThis quilt is similar to an 1853 quilt I showed a few days ago,more examples of the abundance of eagle quilts in the 1850sThe eagle quilts...
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Eagles #5: Know Nothing Quilts
I've been looking at the popularity of the Know-Nothing or American party in the 1850s when so many eagle quilts were made. In May, 1854 they counted 50,000 members. Six months later they numbered a...
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Clara A. Stone: That's Not What I Meant!
BlockBase #3786First published as Wandering Jew in the 1906 Clara Stone catalog.Mary Margaret Watson, West Virginia.Family name for the pattern: Water Witch.Quilted in the 1940s.West Virginia project...
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Past Perfect: Jinny Beyer
Inner City by Jinny Beyer, 1980This month's featured Past Perfect quilter is Jinny Beyer who has been providing inspiration for quilters for over forty years.Inner City is my favorite Jinny Beyer...
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EPP Conventional Wisdom---Wrong?
Here's how WE stitch paper-pieced hexagons.You baste or glue the fabric edges over paper.Put the hexagons good sides together and stitch on the sides bybarely catching the fabric.But I've been...
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