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May Apple or Compass Flower
A new applique project for May.It's a combination of piecing and applique.Collector Mary Barton found a top fragment. When shedonated it to the Iowa Historical Society she called it Double...
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A Lacy Leafy Chintz Stripe
Massachusetts quilt in the collection of Old Sturbridge VillageThe pieced and appliqued cactus blossom is one of my favorite patchwork patterns. You see it very early in the rage for red and green...
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Chintz Panels New & Old
Medallion Reproduction quilt by Georgann EglinskiI'm packing for a week long retreat with 9 friends. We are bringing some chintz panels to make a group medallion that we may auction off for AQSG in the...
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Summer Vacation Destination: Winterset Iowa
Victoria Findlay Wolfe has a retrospective exhibit until July 29th, 2018 at the Iowa Quilt Museum.A couple of weeks ago Deb Rowden & I drove to Winterset, Iowa for a Saturday event covering the...
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Index of American Design and Fabric
I have been looking through the amazing watercolors done during the Great Depression by artists hired by the WPA for the Index of American Design. I knew they'd painted quilts...and many folk arts.In...
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Spring Quilt Market 2018---Virtual Floating Booth
Well, we forgot to sign up for a booth rental for Quilt Market in Portland but I had an idea. No where in the Quilt Market rules do I see a prohibition on parade floats. So here's the plan for a...
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Hannah Nicholson Grave Quilts
I've been looking for quilts with a bouquet of chintz focusing on a white dahlia and found two albums that are quite a bit alike.They share the print and many other characteristics.I love to find twin...
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Sue Narratives
Put a human being in a quilt block and you get a story.Although what the story is I cannot always say.Perhaps I read too much into it....Seeing this one about a series of bad dates.Sack over the head...
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Lancaster County's Unusual Samplers
Fanny Shenk Bucher Snyder's diamond sampler quiltThis pink extravaganza has the inked initials H.W. and the date 1860 on the front and on the back F.S.B in embroidery. Inked block near the centerThe...
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Feather and Tulip Cross: An Abundance of Examples
Small quilt shown in Classic Crib Quilts and How to Make Them by Thomas. K. Woodard & Blanche GreensteinI indexed the pattern in my Encyclopedia of Appliquewith the 4+4 patterns. #19.35Tulip...
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Pheasant & Palm Chintz #1
Strip set quilt from a Bonham's auctionThe Pheasant and Palm Tree print was one of the the most popular prints with American quilters in the first half of the 19th-century.Palm tree above a single...
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Pheasant & Palm Chintz #2: Half & Whole Chintzes
In the Winterthur Museum catalog Printed Textiles, Linda Eaton describes these popular prints as variations on the style of Exotic Islands. "The arrangement of patterns into 'islands,' often...
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Pheasant & Palm Chintz #3: The Swainsons & Bannister Hall
If you go to the Cooper-Hewitt museum's website this familiar piece will pop up.Here's what it says:"Textile (England), 1815; Manufactured by Bannister Hall Printworks ; cotton;..."(This may be an 11th...
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Pheasant & Palm Chintz # 4: Dating the Quilts
Star of Bethlehem or Mathematical Star with cut-out chintz corners.Picture from an online auction.The Broderie Perse applique here is cut from the Pheasant & Palm chintz.Can the print help us date...
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Jeffie Beaver Smith's Prize Winning Quilts
Traditional Southern pattern in 20th-century fabrics.Here's a classic Southern quilt with a lot of information aboutthe maker and the time it was made.The online quilt dealer Buckboard Quilts has...
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Amelia Lauck's Hewson Quilt?
Detail of stuffed work in an Amelia Lauck quilt.We know quite a bit about Amelia Lauck whohas five quilts in two museums."Made By Amelia Lauck inthe 62 Year of herAge April 15th1823"The Daughters of...
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The Repro Fabric Business in 1952
In 1952 Life Magazine did an article on reproduction prints, which had apparently become the fashion for decorating.Spaghetti straps on the cover.They showed several prints for furnishings with the...
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Peggy Westerfield: Textile Collector
Set of triangular blocks in the collection of Colonial Williamsburg.Here's the online catalog information.Printed Cotton Appliqued Document, ca. 1830Twenty-seven [pieces] that were never used. They...
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Southern Quilts
Unnamed pattern from the Kentucky project and the Quilt Index.As a person who has spent entirely too much time indexing quilt patterns, determined to find the published source for every one of them, I...
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