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Dark Ground Chintzes #5: Earliest Dates
 International Quilt Study Center & Museum #2008.040.0083We’ve looked at an array of high-contrast dark and light ground quilts from about 1785 to1820, among the earliest of American styles....
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Bourbon/Harrison County Fan Quilt 1893
Art collector Bert Hemphill gave this remarkable quilt to the Smithsonian's Museum of American Art in 1987. It's even more remarkable when you look at it closely, which you can do in the online photo...
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Southern Quilts: Beulah Ketchie's Family Quilts
Is this not the perfect Southern quilt?We are doing a little virtual collecting here. I found a 2014 auction at "the old homeplace of the late H. Lee & Beulah Ketchie" between Mocksville &...
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Past Perfect: Barb Adams
Nosegay for MotherDesigned by Barb Adamsfor Blackbird DesignsThis month's Past Perfect featured artist is Barb Adams of Blackbird Designs,here in a watercolor with her partner Alma Adams.It's hard to...
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Queen Victoria's Quilts: Lost in Translation
Queen Victoria, watercolor, 1838 Alfred Edward Chalon Collection of the National Galleries of Scotland, EdinburghThis first portrait of the new Queen includes her workbag and needlework in her...
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Unionville, Missouri Name Quilt
A friend found this old top in his late wife's stuff and asked me to look at it. Dorothy must have bought it in an antique store as she was quite a collector of wonderful things.It was once a tied...
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Antique Quilt Exhibits: Winter Through Spring, 2019
Pack up the kids and take in a show of antique quilts. Here's a list through the spring of 2019.Alabama, BirminghamBirmingham Museum of Art. The Original Makers: Folk Art from the Cargo Collection, an...
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Stars in Her Crown: Victoria's Royal Children---Ten Week Quilt Along
Stars in Her Crown: Victoria's Royal Children Ten Week Quilt AlongOne of my favorite things about deep, dark winter is watching Masterpiece in bed on Sunday nights (while the other TV has football)....
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Kansas City Star Quilts Sampler Book Give Away
C&T Publishing has a new book this month. The Kansas City Star Quilts SamplerDebbie Rodgers designed the sampler with over 60 blocks, stitched by staff. The 264-page book includes rotary cutting...
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Kansas City Star Quilts Giveaway Winners
The Kansas City Star Quilts SamplerWINNERS:I picked the first and the last entry and I'll send a book to Nann and RandyD.Thanks to the other 168 commenters.Here's information about the book for...
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Lucinda Ward Honstain's Civil War # 1
Another messy celebrity divorce!Quilt dated 1867You may be familiar with Lucinda Ward Honstain's pictorial quilt in the collection of the International Quilt Study Center and Museum thanks to Ardis...
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Lucinda Ward Honstain's Civil War # 2
Detail of the central block in Lucinda Honstain's pictorial quiltCollection of the International Quilt Study Center & MuseumWhen Lt. Colonel John B. Honstain came home from the Civil War to his...
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Lucinda Honstain's Civil War #3
Block from quilt by Lucinda Ward Honstain in the collectionof the International Quilt Study Center & MuseumTwo men and two bottles. Perhaps drinking homegrown wine?The public fights in the Honstain...
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Lucinda Honstain's Civil War #4
I've changed my mind after looking at these top two pictures. This bearded man with a middle aged paunch may indeed be a portrait of Lucinda Ward Honstain's husband John Baptiste Honstain in her 1867...
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Crazy Wheel of Fortune
Classic Forties Quilt Scraps of bright colors, lots of white for a neutral,Pattern with secondary designs.I found it at C&T's webpage advertising the newbook The Kansas City Star Quilts...
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Quilt Research Collection at the University of Nebraska
Newspaper pattern from 1889Fragile scrapbook of newsprint quilt patterns. Newsprint is among the most ephemeral of paper products, designed to deteriorate.We quilt historians have long been aware of...
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Maggie and Emma: A True Story
In 1860 Maria Jane McIntosh published a new bookA Year with Maggie & Emma: A True StoryMaria Jane McIntosh (1803-1878)McIntosh was a novelist, born in Georgia, living in New York. The book,...
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Past Perfect: Irene Blanck
Tribute to Lucy Kemper by Irene Blanck, detailIrene with her Quiltmania book Focus on AppliqueDecember's Past Perfect quiltmaker is Irene Blanck, another Australian interpreting our shared patchwork...
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The Noah's Ark Quilt
In 1906 Jean Thompson, writing in the women's magazine The Delineator, took an easy journalistic path and hung her story about quilts on the cliche of a "lost art" with her memories of a quilting...
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Arabic Lattice: An Exercise in Tessellation
Arabic LatticeThe editors who designed the Kansas City Star Quilts Sampler picked someof the more interesting block printed in the newspaper.Arabic Lattice is down in the bottom row on the left.Read...
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