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Primrose Path #3: Back to the Chintz Stripe
I was doing a post on this floral stripe chintz a few days ago when I digressed into the topic of identifying the Auricula primrose on the Floral Motifs on Early Chintz website.But I was supposed to be...
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A $5 Quilt
I recently purchased this quilt for $5. From all the madder paisleys and blue violets I am guessing it's from about 1870-1890.The pattern is one of my favorites, BlockBase #2056,which the Ladies Art...
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Poke Weed & Politics
There's little doubt what that large plant is.Poke WeedThe quilt was made by Elizabeth Currier Foster whose family called it Poke Stalk.From the Oregon Project and the Quilt...
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Outline Embroidery
I've been going through my files of embroidered designs. I don't know a thing about the sources but it's fun to look at them.I see I have more dogs than cats.These three from the same top.I was looking...
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Quilt Pictures: Tossing Out Some Basic Assumptions
Woman quilting in Woodville, California, 1942Photo by Russell Lee for the W.P.A. Farm Security Administration.During the Great Depression and into World War II the federal governmenthired photographers...
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Crazy Relatives
Crazy quilts are closely related to fan quilts.Both appeared in the 1880s, lavished with embroidery.Here are a few fantastic fans from America's golden age of silk bedcovers....with a few wool quilts...
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English Applique #1: A Distinctive Style
A few months ago at the Covered In Blue event at the International Quilt Study Center & Museum in Nebraska we spent some time examining this quilt.It's #2009.039.0002 from the James Collection.The...
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English Applique #2: Unconfined Applique in Prussian Blue
Quilt #1The last post discussed the techniques and style in this quiltwith a date of 1867 or 1869 and the name Mary ElizaTrowbridge or Crowbridge in the IQSCM collection.I have a small photo file of...
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English Applique #3: Unconfined Applique or Free-Form Applique
Quilt sold at Christies' AuctionsIn the last post I showed four similar bedcovers with what I've been calling Unconfined Applique. I have many photos in the files of patchwork in the same style....
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English Applique #4: Comments & More Thoughts
From a Christie's AuctionAll the comments have inspired me to do another post on the free-form/unconfined applique style to mention three points.Hexagon center with a border of Portuguese stripe...
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English Applique #5: Patterns
  Center from an English quilt advertised in the Clarion magazineby Woodard & Greenstein in 1987. 104" squareThis was also pictured in the 1989 Quilt Engagement CalendarAlthough this quilt made an...
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Laura Wheeler's Fan
The anonymous pattern designers at the Laura Wheeler/Alice Brooks syndicate inspired many quilters with theirGrandmother's Fan design.This one from eBay seller French Antiques.I posted pictures of some...
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Dahlia Bouquet Chintz: Another Ubiquitous Fabric
(1) Cut-out-chintz block attributed to the Boyle Sisters of Petersburg, [West] Virginia,who had a professional quiltmaking workshop there.Two of their quilts are in the collection of Colonial...
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Stuffed Work Quilting
Stuffed work!Mostly from online auctionsFrom the West Virginia project & the Quilt Indexhttp://www.quiltindex.org/fulldisplay.php?kid=50-8A-E81American Museum of Folk Art collectionAppraiser Sally...
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Past Perfect: Becky Goldsmith
Stars in the Garden by Becky Goldsmith of Piece O' CakeEvery month I highlight a quiltmaker who has contributed to our appreciation for antique quilt design by putting a personal stamp on reproduction...
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The Problem with Plaids #1
A pair of plaid shoes from France, Cora Ginsberg's archivesPlaids? No Problem.It's identifying the source of woven plaids that is a problem.Woven and printed plaids and stripes in a quilt from about...
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The Problem with Plaids #2
Quilt #1By Sarah Lucille Jones, Haughton, LouisianaLouisiana Project & the Quilt IndexYesterday I posted these quilts and swatches in a discussion of plaids. Looking at information about the maker...
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Vernacular Architecture
Lots of classic neighborhoods out there.Most of these from online auctionsTotally modern house---minimal.Row houses
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Oscar Crazy Quilts #1: The Correct Flowers
Detail of a crazy quilt by Lydia Pearl Finnell, Harrodsburg, KentuckyCollection of the Smithsonian InstitutionNote the three-dimensional Calla lily.Detail of a crazy quilt by Victorene Parsons...
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Oscar Crazy Quilts #2: Portraits
Quilt with a sunflower/daisy border and a portrait of Oscar Wilde.Collection of the International Quilt Study Center & Museum.This is a true "Oscar Quilt" depicting the long-haired lecturerin...
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