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Antique Quilt Exhibits: Summer & Fall 2018
Grab a friend and go to a show of antique quilts this summer and fall.California, PasadenaHuntington Library. Becoming America: Highlights from the Jonathan and Karin Fielding Collection. The...
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Past Perfect: Froncie Quinn
Bias Pomegranate reproduction quiltby Froncie QuinnFroncie and her Sarah Johnson reproJune's Past Perfect pick is Froncie Quinn who publishes reproduction quilt patterns through her Hoopla Pattern...
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Singular Fascination: One Piece Quilts
The International Quilt Study Center & Museum has several shows featuring antiques this summer. Jennifer Keltner has curated an exhibit of a small part of the collection---quilts with small pieces....
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Eagle in Mysterious Blue Dots
Eagle with reverse appliqueand rather unusual talons.This eagle of polka-dotted, navy blue print is in the corners of a four-block Princess Feather quilt in the International Quilt Study Center &...
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Gregg Museum at North Carolina State University
The Gregg Museum of Art & Design at North Carolina State Museum in Raleighhas over 200 pictures of quilts in their online catalog.Some favorites that look typically Southern.Wait a minute, this one...
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Chintz Panel Reproduction Quilt
A few months ago 10 friends got together for a week of sewing. We worked together on a chintz quilt. Here is Dottie Barker defiling it back home. Still has a repeat of the red border to go.We brought...
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Botanizing #1: Quilts & the Natural World
Cotton Boll or Anthemion, classical imagery in quilt designSee a post about Anthemia herehttp://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2017/08/cotton-boll-or-anthemion.htmlMid-19th century applique artists were...
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Botanizing #2: Floral Scrapbooks
SerratifoliaSerratifolia is a Clematis vineShenandoah Valley Quilt by Esther (Ester) Blair Shaw Matthews (1776-1866)Rockingham County, VirginiaEsther Matthews's 1858 quilt in the collection of the...
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Botanizing #3: "I love to look at nature pure"
Applique sampler from the Indiana Project & the Quilt Index. This quilt from the 1840-1865 period is the same one that Marie Webster pictured in her 1915 book Quilts:Their Story on page 79.Niether...
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Botanizing #4: Pressed Leaves
Last year on my Civil War Quilts blogone of the blocks was an autumn leaf.https://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2017/10/yankee-diary-10-leaves-of-autumn.htmlThe pattern is probably a sycamore leaf, drawn...
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Botanizing #5: Six Similar Samplers
"Wood Bine," the name embroidered or inked on a botanicalsampler in the collection of the Shelburne Museum.The plant looks like what we out here in Kansas call Bindweed,Convolvulus, an unwelcome guest...
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Oxford English Dictionary: Hobby Words
I received a note from Kate at the O.E.D.(I am totally knocked out to get an email from the O.E.D.)The O.E.D. (Oxford English Dictionary)is the world-wide standard for English word use.Kate says they...
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Contained Crazy Quilts
Contained Crazy Quilt from the Arizona project.Someone asked what a Contained Crazy Quilt was.I did a search on the Quilt Index site for the word "Contained"and found several interesting...
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A Passion for Exotic Flowers
Winterthur print featuring the ten-petaled passion flower.A different colorway from the Victoria & Albert, which identifies it from designer Samuel Matley, printed in...
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The Cabbage
Tailor with a head of cabbage, 1812Here's a strange word meaning that illustrates how symbolism becomes lost over time.We've been posting about jargon and slang and this cartoon illustrates how meaning...
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Rocky Road to Kansas
Rocky Road to KansasA few days ago I did a post on contained crazy quilts. This star with four points is one of the common designs we see in the middle of the country about 1900.So popular we put one...
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EPP Star Quilt Finished!
Earthly Paradise by Barbara Brackman, 2018I recently finished a small quilt I made usingEnglish Paper Piecing. It took over a year,mainly because I had a hard time figuring out the shapesI'd need to...
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Past Perfect: Jo Morton
Rachel's Reel by Jo MortonFew quiltmakers have had the influence that Jo Mortonhas over the past twenty or thirty years.Her take on traditional quilts...Whether it's applique or pieceworkhas created a...
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Primrose Path #1: A Chintz Stripe & A New Fabric Resource
Quilt in collection of Colonial WilliamsburgAn intriguing chintz stripe seen in several mid-19th-century quilts.Floral finish to a geometric Irish ChainFrom Stella Rubin's inventoryThe Victoria and...
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Primrose Path #2: Foral Motifs on Early Chintz
                     Border in a quilt at the International Quilt Study Center & Museum.I hope you clicked on the Auricula page yesterday to see Terry Terrell's and Deborah...
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