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Flora Delanica #1 French Rose
Flora Delanica #1: French Rose, Rosa Gallica by Becky BrownWe begin our Block-of-the Month Flora Delanica with a red rose, the traditional symbol of England (French Rose?)Â Following Mary Granville...
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Seattle Quilt Show: 1927
Detail of an album sampler quilt with a scalloped edgeYou missed a good quilt show in Seattle. The Post-Intelligencerdecided to hold a contest for antique quilts in 1926 and 1,600 old quilts were...
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Colonial Rose: A Really Good Idea
An early 20th-century quiltFrom Cindy's AntiquesIt's not easy to come up with anything new in American applique designbut here is a pattern you do not see in the 19th century.What makes this different...
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Colleen's Grandmothers Choice
Colleen Yarnell of North Carolina brought her Grandmother's Choice sampler with her four years ago when she voted. It was so cold she was glad to have it to keep her warm in more ways than one. She...
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Political Quilt from 1932
 Political commentary in an earlier electionThe Johnson County Kansas Museum is showing this marvelous quilt from the early 1930s in an exhibit opening next week.The 1932 election was between Herbert...
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What'cha Doing Tomorrow Night?
 Nerves Frayed?Feeling gloomy?Maybe you need a new quilt project to start Tuesday.Optimists may recall this quote by Martin Luther King during the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s:"The arc of the...
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Cathedral Window "Quilts"
Cathedral Window from about 1970Franklin, Indiana Journal1965We can guess what Mrs. Stainbrook's Cathedral Window quilt looked like in 1965 as the pattern fad included unwritten rules.By 1981 the rules...
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Ladies Legacy: Civil War Fabric
 I've got a new fabric collection coming out in a few months.Am I thrilled?Moda's sales reps are showing Ladies' Legacy, a Civil-War reproductiongroup right now.The current Moda catalog shows the 40...
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Catherine Tompkins's Basket Quilt & Chintz
Looking through the Quilts of Virginia book I came across this medallion with a story.In the center the initials C T for Catherine Tompkins (?-1820), Virginia.Private Collection.Catherine lived in King...
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Flora Delanica #2 Rock Rose
Flora Delanica #2, the Rock Rose by Becky BrownBecky’sA rock rose thrives in a harsh, dry climate, perhaps a good flower to recall Mary Granville's childhood in a family down on their luck.Mary's Uncle...
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A Backwards Flag?
The Lanford Album QuiltCargo Collection, Birmingham Museum of ArtCirca 1900?Every time I post a picture of a patchwork flag I hear from those wondering if the maker ( block inscribed O.W.W.S. here) had...
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North Carolina Scrap Quilts
                        Quilt by Jimmie Queen Plott (1894-1990)Jimmie's quilt looks like factory cutaways with shapes used as they were found, some organized into diamonds. Fabrics: woven...
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Catch the Encyclopedia Discount
 You've only got a day or two to buy the Third Edition of my Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns at a 30% discount price of $41.97. After November 24 the discount expires and it will cost you...
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Starlight Guild's Suffrage Challenge
The Johnson County Arts & Heritage Center in the Kansas City area has two quilt exhibits up until January 23, 2021. One shows a dozen antiques from their collection and the other 36 blocks made by...
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Home for Orphan Quilts: Matron Says Orphans Must Go
  I've been funding a home for orphan quilts aroundhere for fifty years.Miss Hannigan, the orphanage's matron, portrayed here by Craig Revel Horwood in a productionof Annie, says they have to go.Summer...
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Bay Area Black History Quilts
Frederick Douglass Quilt, about 1950,Historical Quilting Club of Marin County, CaliforniaEmory University. Robert Woodruff LibraryIn 1968 California's East Bay Negro Historical Society interviewed...
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Alice Catlett Vance & Her Quilt
 Quilt dated 20 August 1879 with initials MAC in lower left corner hereAttributed to Mary Alice Catlett VanceDocumented by the North Carolina project & shown inNorth Carolina Quilts on page...
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Alice Catlett Vance: More Family Quilts
 Quilt associated with Mary Alice Catlett Vance (1863-1948)with her maiden initials MAC Age 16& date August 20 79, the year she married.Made in Anderson, South Carolina.Photo from the North...
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Quilt Exhibit Johnson County Museum
 Flying Geese quilt made by Louisa Ellin Milligan Rennickin Lexington, Kentucky, about 1860The Johnson County Museum in the Kansas City area has an exhibitof eleven quilts up until January 2021. Each...
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