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Cooper Union Sanitary Commission Quilt #2: The Cooper Institute
"School of DesignEngraving ClassCooper Union"When I read the inscription on this sampler quilt I knew what it meant. I'd done a little research on quilts made in the Cooper Union building in New York...
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Cooper Union Sanitary Commission Quilt #3: Samuel Bridgham & The WCRA
My new quilt descended in the family of Samuel Willard Bridgham, according to the antique picker who found it in New England and sold it to Maryland dealer Stella Rubin.S.W. Bridgham (1813-1870)There...
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Antique Quilt Exhibits: Summer & Fall 2019
Most shows won't let you touch.Here's a list of shows worth visiting and meetings worth attending through fall 2019.Alabama, TuscumbiaBelle Mont Mansion, The annual quilt show at this museum: Antique...
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Gloria Vanderbilt's Patchwork Interior
Celebrity artist and designer Gloria Vanderbilt recently died at 95. Her greatest accomplishment may have been her estimable son journalist Anderson Cooper, but the second most memorable was her...
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Honstain Quilt in Context: #1: New York Style
A couple of months ago I gave a talk at the International Quilt Study Center and Museum about Lucinda Honstain's quilt. They have in their collection this sampler quilt dated 1867 that has the...
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Honstain Quilt in Context #2: A Doppelganger
Lucinda Ward Honstain quiltInternational Quilt Study Center & MuseumI was leafing through a 1975 Quilt Engagement Calendar, the first of a great series that published photos of antique quilts for a...
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Honstain Quilt in Context #3: Conclusions
We have two quilts, quite similar. We might characterize one as the simple quilt; one as the complex.The Honstain quilt, the more complex, has more details in the figures.Butterflies in the simple...
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BlockBase Sold Out
If you go to the Electric Quilt website you get this message:"BlockBase is out of stock until 2020. Please check back later."(After we totally revise it.)We're talking here about the program Electric...
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Masonic Quilts & the Hasson Sisters
Under the welcome sign:"A.E. & S. E. Hasson"Ann Eliza Hasson (1846-1919) and Sarah Eleanor Hasson (1848-1936) operated a millinery establishment on Main Street in Rogersville, Tennessee.One of the...
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Daredevils Quilt Along
Well, last winter when it was so cold we were all bored and looking for something new to sew. The results, now that it's so hot:A Daredevils Quilt AlongI was playing around in BlockBase and EQ8 with a...
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Annie Garner's Quilts
Quilt by Annie Caroline Teagarden Garner(1869-1950)The West Virginia project saw the best quilts. See Annie Garner at Quilt Index.http://www.quiltindex.org/fulldisplay.php?kid=50-8A-45Her diagonal...
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QuiltSpeak at the North Carolina Museum of History
Eula May Bagwell Jones, 1902-1903Wake County, North CarolinaNorth Carolina Museum of HistoryEula May's lone star quilt is one of the North Carolina quilts featured in the current exhibit at the North...
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Regional Pattern: Railroad Crossing
Here's a great Ohio invention:The Railroad Crossing quiltA small community of Amish quiltmakers who lived in Holmes County at the end of the 19thcentury started piecing their solid color scraps into...
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Hospital Sketches: Applique BOM Quilt
Janet Olmstead's Hospital Sketches 1-6Meanwhile over at one of my other blogs....Every year we do a free block-of-the-month quilt based on tradition over at the Civil War Quilts blog. This year it's...
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Daredevils Block #1: Amelia's Circle
Daredevils #1 Amelia's CircleScroll down to see the two-page pattern for a 15" finished block.The Daredevils Quilt Along starts here today.I asked Dorry Emmer (ColvinKiwi) to make some model blocks.I...
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Red & White Quilt in Various Colors
Classic medallion pattern, circa 1900There is a published source for the wide variety of these late 19th-century medallions.It's in Blockbase as #3985, called Sawtooth in the Rural New Yorker in...
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Daredevils Block #2: Bessie's Sunburst
Daredevils #2 Bessie's SunburstScroll down to see the two-page pattern for a 15" finished block.Becky Brown's block altered a bit.See below for Becky's real block.Dorry Emmer's block with some added...
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A Quilting Thread #1: Oral Histories
Photo from an online auctionA few weeks ago one of the social media quilt groups discussed the price of quilting over the years. Many remember their mothers and grandmothers quilting for pay and some...
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A Quilting Thread #2: Written Documents
Mississippi, 1939Library of Congress, Russell Lee photographAnother way to look at the history of quilting for pay is through written accounts, published and in manuscript form. Searches in the Library...
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A Quilting Thread #3: Secondary Sources
About 1915We can also look to published accounts about prices for quilting---secondary sources. In 1920 Emmett Leroy Shannon wrote a book on how to earn a little money on the side. Money for the Woman...
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