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Sunbonnet Sue in Modern Times
The New NormalDesperate times call for desperate measuresand I am resorting to the tried and true ridicule of Sunbonnet Sueto make you laugh.The old daysInternational Quilt Museum CollectionSocial...
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Past Perfect: Kaari Meng at French General
This month's Past Perfect quilt designer isKaari Meng of French GeneralPetite Point is a pattern for a hexagonal pineapple.Kaari's store French General located between Glendale and Los Angelesis open...
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My New Book Divided Hearts
Divided Hearts: A Civil War Friendship QuiltOr should I say Our New Book as this is a group project.Meliss Henderson SwensonStudy in Cheddar#2A couple of years ago we stitched a Block of the Month...
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Quilts in the Dutch Fork
The New Jersey quilt project came across this quilt far from its original home.Estimated date 1875-1900The New Jerseyite who brought it in for documentation had inherited a group of quilts from an...
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Fifties Style for Love of Quilting
Album quilt top dated 1953, TexasI have a short article in the new issue of Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting magazine comparing quilt style in the past to quilt style "Then & Now." To celebrate...
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Late to the Applique Party
Quilt in traditional rose design called Democrat Rose or Rose of Sharon.Made by Mary Odom, Bernice, LouisianaThe pattern is a classic going back to the 1840s. How old is the quilt? Dating these late...
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Past Perfect: Carter Houck
This month's Past Perfect post focuses on Carter Houck, who recently passed away in Virginia aftera long career writing about quilts and needlework.Carter Mason Greene Houck Holt (1924-2020)I don't...
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Chimney Sweep Quilts Over 36 Years
1882This block is often called Chimney Sweep because that's what Ruth Finley called it in her very influential 1929 book. Another name is Album as the blocks often featured names and occasionally...
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Virtual Booth Quilt Market 2020
Quilt Market's been cancelled of course.Since I have a virtual booth I've set up at the Pittsburgh conventioncenter anyway, but it's a lonely spot.I may be the only person with a virtual booth.Thanks...
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Josie Covington & Her Quilt In Context
Sampler of patterns attributed to Josie Covington (1876-1909) Triune, Williamson County, Tennessee. 80" x 81"This remarkable quilt has been published several times over the last fifty years. It's in...
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Shopping Nostalgia
Most of us miss shopping.We could get nostalgic...And go back 350 years. I've been reading a book that discuses the origins of western shopping culture: Joan DeJean's How Paris Became Paris: The...
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Divided Hearts Quilt Book Giveaway
I have a copy of my new book to give away to a selected commenter. Cindy Brouillard's version of Antebellum Album, the BOM inthe book Divided HeartsHere are the rules:Rules1. Post a comment here before...
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Divided Hearts Book Giveaway
The Divided Hearts book winner:Cindy MacMillanWho like many of you is going out to eat the minute she can.
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Mary Miller Taylor Quilt #1
Attributed to Mary Elizabeth Clayton Miller Taylor by her descendant Donor Julia Taylor Scholz. 99" x 94"MESDA CollectionMuseum of Early Southern Decorative ArtsTree of Life chintz applique quilt with...
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Mary Miller Taylor Quilt #2
Tree of Life quilt attributed to Mary Elizabeth Clayton Miller Taylor103" x 104", Telfair Museum, Savannah, GeorgiaInscribed in cross-stitch embroidery at the base of the tree"William TaylorFrom...
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Mary Miller Taylor Quilt #3 For Cornelia
Quilt attributed to Mary C. Miller Taylor, 1824107" x 102"International Quilt Museum...
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Mary Miller Taylor Quilt #4 1832
Quilt attributed to Mary Clayton Miller Clark, 1832.MESDA CollectionMuseum of Early Southern Decorative Artshttps://mesda.org/item/collections/quilt/1533/Inscribed in cross-stitch in the center“A.C....
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Mary Miller Taylor Quilts #5: Marrying into a Family of Pirates?
Quilts for Alexander and his two boysMary Miller Taylor had two children who survived infancy, Alexander born in 1800 and Elizabeth Ann born in 1802. Quilts with Alexander's name and those of his sons...
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Sarah Miller's Quilt & How to Make A Tree of Life Chintz Quilt
Quilt with name Sarah F.C.H. Miller and date 1830,Charleston, South Carolina, Shelburne Museum Collection109 x 125"A chintz applique with the hollyhock bush in the center, flanked by a pair of...
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Past Perfect: Dawn Heese
This month's Past Perfect quilt designer inspiring traditional quiltmaking is Dawn Heese.She has a new book from the French publisherQuiltManiaFlowering Folk...
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