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Margaret Younglove Calvert's Unusual Quilt
Tumbling Blocks, attributed to Margaret Younglove Calvert, 72" x 77", estimated date:1850-1879Cotton, wool, silk & mohair, Item number KM 4031 Kentucky Library & Museum Western Kentucky...
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Campaign Fabric: Biden-Harris
I've been making myself Presidential campaign fabricfor the last couple of elections. Designed some Hillary Clinton & Barack Obamaprints, which were great souvenirs of the glorious and the...
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Interpretations of Mary Granville Delaney's work focus too much on the age at which she began her paper collages as if she woke up one morning at the age of 72 and a vision started pasting up geraniums...
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Then & Now: 1900
One of my favorite tops from about 1900.The published name is King Solomon's Temple.Stitched about 1900 I'd guess by the fabric, pattern & style.I have an article in the September/October 2020...
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Pillar Prints---Digression into Indigo Resists
Terry Terrell and I are working on an online discussion of Pillar Print chintzes for members of the American Quilt Study Group next Monday August 29th. We aren't really experts as such on that...
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Happy Centennial!
100 years ago the 19th amendment to the American constitution guaranteeing women the right to vote was officially certified. Celebrate the anniversary month by printing this image onto pre-treated...
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String Quilts: Regionalism
String Quilt by Mary Dean of Franklin County, North CarolinaNorth Carolina project & the Quilt Index.Those of us who look at a lot of quilts would agree that string quilts are Southern...
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Mysterious Quilt: Southern?
Quilt made in the mid 1960s according to makerOver at the QuiltHistorySouth Facebook group we've been looking closely at Southern quilts, focusing on style, technique and pattern characteristics that...
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Lucy Hatch Whitfield's Unusual Quilt
Quilt attributed to Lucy Hatch Whitfield (1805-1873)Â Mississippi Department of Archives & HistoryThere are not many one-of-a-kind quilts but this one in the collection of the Mississippi Department...
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Peto's May Basket Kit
Floral Basket, New England, c. 1870Â (Betty Sterling, photograph courtesy Mr. & Mrs Leonard Balish.)Leonard Balish was an antique dealer in Englefield, New JerseyBasket sampler pictured in Robert...
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Cretonne Quilt Backs
Embroidered wool quilt with large-scale floral cotton backThe other day somebody asked: How old is this quilt?I said:"Looks like a very common solution for a backing in the 1880-1930 era, a large scale...
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Flora Delanica Quilt: Botanical Block of the Month
I don't know about your place but it's been a little dull around here at the old B.O.M. Ranch this year so we've been thinking up an applique project to keep us entertained. We'll begin sharing the 12...
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Fabric & Sets for Flora Delanica Quilt BOM 2020-21
12 applique blocks drawn from cut-paper collages created in the late-18th century by Mary Granville Delany We're beginning a Block of the Month based on Mrs Delany's florals on October 15th. Here's...
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Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns Back in Print
Announcing: A new and improved version of my Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns.The third edition.The second edition was published in 1993 andhas been out of print for years.(You ought to see how...
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Reproduction Chintzes 2020
Anne's English Scrapbox by Di FordFans of reproduction prints are celebrating the current crop of early repros. Several collections echoing pre-1850 chintzes (and rainbow stripes as above) are now...
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No Quilt Market This Fall: Virtual Everything
 No virtual booth this October because the annual Houston Quilt Market has, of course, been canceled.The old George Brown convention center will be empty.Quilts, Inc. has, however, scheduled a virtual...
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Kansas City Star Quilt Patterns: A List
 Kansas City Star quilt patternsI was looking through my first book for the Kansas City Star from 2001 (back when they did quilt books) and remembered the editors ended it with a list of patterns...
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Betsey Haring's Quilt
                        Quilt by Elizabeth Bogert Haring known as Betsey (1811--1890) Dated 1869Collection of the Bergen County History MuseumAnonymously donated in 1948 Betsey Haring's unusual...
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Green Calicoes in the Early 20th Century
Quilt dated 1903, ShirkGreen calicoes are among the hardest prints to date in antique quilts.They were classic "bread & butters," the fabric that sold year after yearand paid the bills.The S.H....
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Cover Blocks: New Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns
Sara Seuberling at Electric Quilt designedthe new 400+ page Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns.She's been sending me updates on design for months. I just realized where the images on the cover came...
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