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DAR Seminar Papers 2: More Mind Reading
Star quilt from 1840-1860 with background cut from a Gothic printsold at Skinner auction 15 years ago.A Gothic building in a landscape it seems.Furnishing print with a Gothic window1840-1860Trying to...
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DAR Seminar Papers 3: Facts
From the Nadal Baltimore albumNMAH, Smithsonian CollectionThe symposium topic at the DAR Museum in November was Culture & Technology in American Quilts so Lynne Z. Bassett also talked about...
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DAR Seminar Papers 4: 1850s Immigration Crisis
My talk at the DAR Museum symposium in November wasStar Spangl'd Patriotic Quilts of the 1850sI'd noticed a group of patriotic eagle quilts dated 1853 and wonderedabout the inspiration? What wars,...
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Mrs Trollope & the Quilting Frolic
Frances Milton Trollope (1780-1863)by friend August HervieauFrances Trollope visited the young United States from England in 1827 and left us an acerbic account of a "Quilting Frolic," a fictional...
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Feature for Love of Quilting Magazine
I'm planning to do a regular article every other month in 2020 for the Love of Quilting magazine. The first one is out in their January 2020 issue, available now.The topic is Then & Now--- for...
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Comfort Magazine Patterns
Augusta, Maine in the early twentieth century was a publishing phenomenon.Augusta in 1907Maine's capital city had, according to magazine historian Frank Luther Mott, "the doubtful glory of being the...
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Comfort Magazine #2: Patterns
Quilt by unknown maker, Thomas County Kansas Historical SocietyUntil very recently I'd have guessed the date on this quilt to be about 1880-1900. The Turkey red, the beautiful feather quilting---so...
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Everyday Luxury at the Smithsonian
Crazy Quilt, Aimee Elkington Shepherd Hodge (1865-1946)The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is displaying silk quilts through January, 2020 in an exhibit “Everyday Luxury: Silk Quilts...
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Nancy Rutherford Fisher's Marvelous Quilt
Remarkable quilt on display at the Smithsonian's National Museumof American History for a few more weeks."Oct 1st 1891Presented toMrs. S.J. VernonByHer MotherAged 76 years"The exhibit is in a case on...
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Past Perfect: Debra Wagner
Rail Through the Rockies, Debra Wagner,  1991This month's Past Perfect quiltmaker isDebra Wagner who won many prizes and wroteseveral books in the 1990s.Her specialty 25 years ago was...
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2020 Centennial---Susan B Anthony House
100th Anniversary of New York and US Women's Suffrageby Patricia FootePatricia entered her block in the 2020 Quilt Project:Stitching Together Women's Suffrage......the Susan B. Anthony House Museum's...
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Grandmother's Choice: 2020 Suffrage Centennial
2020 is the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing women the right to vote. We will be celebrating all year.Several years ago I designed a weekly Quilt...
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Antique Quilt Shows Through Spring 2020
Cabin Fever? How about a road tripto see an exhibit of antique quilts.Here's a list through Spring 2020Nora Ezell, Star Puzzle, 2001Alabama, MontgomeryMontgomery Museum of Fine Arts. Pieces and...
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Sisterhood of Scraps Quilt Book Give Away
I've got a new book to give away! Lissa Alexanderhas a book out this month Sisterhood Of Scrapsand I helped.I own this great old quilt from about 1920The Orange ZigzagI made a mini with stripes like...
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The winner is the last person to comment yesterdaykatelyinmtSend your street address and email to me at MaterialCult@gmail.com
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Pattern Blocks
Group of quilt blocks from about 1900Mid-20th centuryMost of these are from online auctionsAnyone who collects old quilts is familiar with these groups of assorted blocks and parts, different shapes...
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Daredevils Finishes
Dorry EmmerShe followed the pattern!Many readers survived last fall's Daredevils experience and have a great little quilt to show (if I do say so myself).Robin Revelle GreggQuilted and boundRobin never...
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Alice Brooks, Darn Her
Me and the people at Electric Quilt have been working on re-issuing my Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns and the digital version BlockBase in new editions later this year so I've recently been...
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Ubiquitous Chintzes: A Spanish Moss
Connie pointed out this chintz quilt for sale on Etsy,advertised as from the 1830s.There's certainly nothing in there that looks later than 1840and some of those prints look 1820 or so.The background...
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Eveline Foland--No Longer a Mystery Woman
Memory Bouquet, pattern by Eveline Foland,Quilt by Bozena Vilhemina ClarkeMuseum at Michigan State Universityhttp://www.quiltindex.org/fulldisplay.php?kid=1E-3D-5FI called Eveline Foland the Mystery...
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