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Encyclopedia Pieced Patterns Give Away
Painting by Edouard Manet with commercial additionI have an extra Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilts Patterns to Give Away!Scroll down to see the contest rules.But you might want to take time to look at...
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Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns: Winner
Winslow Homer, altered to shameless advertising.The winner of the new edition is Regina in Germany. I picked a random time and a random name with an email address and it was her.Thanks for all the...
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Flora Delanica #3 Christmas Rose
Flora Delanica #3Hellebore (Helleborus Niger) Christmas Rose by Becky BrownA wintry bloom is probably a good choice to represent Mary's first husband,and there is something about the name...
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An Admirable Woman
A simple Irish Chain with a tale.Stitched by the woman on the right here, Cynthia Frances Hawkins Spearman(1851-1953). She is pictured with her sister Mary and between them they have only two...
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An Eagle May Be Trying to Tell Us Something
Eagle from a sampler quilt dated 1851Pook & Pook auctionFans of patriotic quilts are quite familiar with this eagle design, which appears in quilts from about 1840 through the early twentieth...
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End of the Year Giving-Quilt Research Collection
Ellen Wallace Sharples miniature painting on ivoryTime to think about end-of-the-year giving.And here is where I just sent my money:You might want to support the Quilt Research Center at theUniversity...
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Whole Top Quilt Patterns in the New Encyclopedia
Star of France, collection of the American Museum of Folk ArtIf you had the old editions of my Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns you could findthe name of this quilt pattern designed by Hubert...
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A 1682 Quilt In Alabama #1: The Oldest American Quilt?
"Oldest known quilt in the Western World"Textile history is not a case of oldest, first, only, etc.Let sportscasters spout competitive statistics.Checking "facts" like "the oldest American-made quilt"...
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A 1682 Quilt in Alabama #2: New England to Alabama
In yesterday's post we looked at this quilt purported to be from 1682, associated with Sarah Kemble Knight, a 17th-century Boston woman famous for her journal. There's more to intrigue the skeptical...
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A 1682 Quilt in Alabama #3: A Break in the Chain of Sarahs?
Yesterday we looked at the chain of women named Sarah who inherited this New England wholecloth quilt, said to be from 1682 (A date about a century too early.)Similar quilt dated 1808 attributed to...
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A 1682 Quilt in Alabama #4: Who was Sarah Kemble Knight?
The oldest quilt in America?The fragment of the quilt in question is 16-1/2" tall, showing what was probably a floral medallion center framed by a vine and next a field of clamshell quilting. We've...
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An 1682 Quilt in Alabama #5: The Persistence of Memory
The last 4 posts have examined the tale of America's oldest quilt, featured in the book Alabama Quilts where it is dated 1682. Facts do not substantiate that claim. Links to the previous four...
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Parnel Grumley's Peony & Prairie Flower Quilt
Quilt dated 1847 by Parnel R. Grumley Pierce (1820-1898)95" x 92" Shelburne MuseumThe Shelburne Museum owns a quilt in a familiar design. We might call it Carolina Lily or Cleveland Tulips but the...
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Flora Delanica #4: Spanish Iris
Flora Delanica #4 Spanish Iris(Iris Xiphium) by Becky BrownSpanish iris, unlike most plants we call iris, grow from bulbs rather than rhizomes, blooming in single blessedness, the perfect flower to...
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Alcott Portraits and an Almost Forgotten Artist
Looking for pictures of Abigail May Alcott, Little Women's Marmee for this year's block of the month on the Civil War Quilts blog I have come across this drawing several times. This version tells us...
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Happy Day!
A Visual Celebration of a Long-Awaited Day!Freeman's AuctionDavid Wheatcroft AntiquesBinney Collection New England Quilt MuseumElliot & Grace Snyder AntiquesFenimore MuseumFreeman's AuctionLaura...
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In Praise of Volunteer Cataloguers: Rebecca Scattergood Savery
Quilt by Rebecca Scattergood Savery (1770-1855), PhiladelphiaCollection of the Philadelphia Museum of ArtStitching one of these Sunburst quilts might be considered alifetime achievement but Rebecca...
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QuiltMania & Moi
#141 January-February 2021I have an article in the latest issue of QuiltManiaabout madder cotton prints.Carol Veillon has given the French/English magazine a "brand-new look!" and it's full of great...
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Droopy Grapes---Baltimore to Tennessee?
Applique quilt in a vase and floral patternattributed to Frances Woodbury Bennett Jared (1833-1883),Putnam County, TennesseeFrom Quilts of Tennessee and the Quilt...
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News on Encyclopdia & BlockBase+
I hear trucks came by the Electric Quilt warehouse last weekand unloaded the second printing of the third edition of myEncyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns.So the books are back in...
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