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Antique Quilt Exhibits: Spring & Summer 2018
Road Trip!Quilt Shows featuring antique quilts.California, FolsomFolsom Historical Society. The Art of Piecemaking, Quilts from Carole Gebel's collection.Through April 22,...
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Oh Scrap! Blog Hop: EBook Giveaway
Don't worry, be scrappy.Lissa Alexander's new book Oh, Scrap! Fabulous Quilts That Make the Most of Your Stash is in the shops.I wrote a Preface, a short and scrappy history of the style.Lissa made the...
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Oh, Scrap! Blog Hop Continues
March 19. Hop over to Alison Dale's blog for today's Oh, Scrap! Giveaway of an eBook.https://alisonsexpressions.com/Surrounded by Lissa AlexanderI'll announce the winner of yesterday's giveaway here on...
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Evans Quilt Collection at MESDA
Simple basket block in a purple zig-zag or fence rail set.Beverley Evans CollectionBeverley & Jeff Evans showed some of their own collection of Shenandoah Valley quilts lastweekend at the Museum of...
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Carnival Time
A mid to late 20th century block.It's a wheel design with an octagon in the center.Not too hard to find in BlockBasewhere it's #3600Friendship Circle from the Laura Wheeler/Alice Brooks syndicated...
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My Oh, Scrap! Giveaway Winner
Today we announce the winners of the Oh, Scrap! eBook.I sent in Dianne's name and email. She should be hearing from Martingale soon.Here's a little more about the history of scrap quilt.I included this...
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Forty Years Ago This Month
A few weeks ago I wrote about Jinny Beyer as an inspiration for traditional quiltmakers over the past forty years. I looked up her ground-breaking quilt "Ray of Light" first published in Good...
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Farmer's Fancy & Pyrotechnics
When the Virginia project was documenting quilts this pattern often appearedon their photography wall.Locals call it Farmer's Delight or Farmer's Fancy.The center unitThe pattern...
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Covered in Blue: June Tour
What's Your Favorite Color?Blue.I'm looking forward to three days of the blues at the International Quilt Study Center & MuseumJune 14-16, 2018It should be just as much fun as the last up-close,...
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I Love a Fight
Block from about 1850Quilts feature pattern in both patchwork and the fabric. Most of us consider patchwork the main design element with the fabric in a supporting role. Quilt from about 1900But then...
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Kaw Valley Quilt Guild Show 2018
Our 2018 Spring Quilt Show was up this weekend.You will notice people wearing their winter coats.Not Spring here.It was sleeting on Sunday as we took the show down.But the quilts were colorful.Mary...
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Tottenville Sisters #1: Mary or Betsey?
Here's something I've been looking for for a while. It's a watercolorof a quilt now in the Smithsonian.Mary Berner painted this picture of a corner of the Totten quilt in the mid 1930s for the WPA's...
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Tottenville Sisters #2: A Second & Third Rising Sun
Quilt inscribed:Â "Mary Ann Dubois John Dubois October the 6 1835."Â Staten Island Historical Society Collection.The photo is from a 1938 magazine article by Florence Peto.In yesterday's post I...
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Tottenville Sisters # 3: The Sunflower/Sunburst Quilt
WPA Watercolor of a "Sunburst Quilt," painted in the 1930sby Charlotte Winter for the WPA's Index of American Design.I was excited to find this color photo of the painting at the National Gallery of...
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Tottenville Sisters #4: Dating the Quilts
How old are these Totten Family quilts? Florence Peto and family member Ella Butler recorded a chronology in the 1930s. According to that:The Smithsonian's with the initials BT was about...
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Thomas Allom: A Lancashire Cotton Mill in the 1830s
Women working at power looms in Lancashire about 1835from a watercolor by Thomas AllomThomas Allom (1804-1872)Thomas Allom was an architect and painter who visited a huge cotton millin Preston in...
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Solar System Quilt
Solar SystemE.H.BakerA.D. 1876Collection of the Smithsonian InstitutionIn 1866 Nathan Mills gave a lecture at a Quaker meeting house in Iowa. According to the church history, "The subject of his...
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Past Perfect: Judie Rothermel
April's Past Perfect featured quilt designer is Judie Rothermel.Judie has been designing reproduction fabrics since 1987.She's done many collections of Aunt Grace 1930s's repro prints.Tea LeavesAnd...
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Log Cabins-McCall's Quilting
I have an article in the May/June 2018 issue of McCall's Quilting---a 2-page history of the log cabin design.The magazine has several patterns for some graphic variations.See more about the issue...
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Diamonds: BFF
Deb Rowden's copy (left) of an antique quilt from my collectionThe orange zig-zag craze around here may be over but we are still thinking diamonds.Kathe Dougherty's copy of the antique quiltThe...
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