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Show Quilts in Missouri & Kentucky
  Embroidered center of a pieced silk quilt byHarriet Fry Hockaday (1831-1902),Clinton County, Missouri78"x 70"Collection of the National Museum of American ArtSmithsonian InstitutionHarriet knew this...
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Early Sawtooth Stars: Pieced & Appliqued
 Star quilt with block embroidered"R ???? Porter... (Perhaps it says Her Own Work)Done in the Year 1777"American Museum in BritainAmericans have been making patchwork quilts since the days of our break...
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Ladies' Legacy Fabric Collection
 I have a new/old fabric collection coming out in March. The prints in Ladies' Legacy are drawn from a quilt stitched around 1865.I was thrilled to find this antique quilt, a rare Civil War survivor, a...
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Flora Delanica #5: Sunflower
Flora Delanica #5: Sunflower (Helianthus Annuus) by Becky BrownThe common sunflowers are native to the Americas.Mary Delany's work reflects her lifelong interest in natural history. Collecting...
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1881 #1: Style & Dated Quilts
 I picked a rather arbitrary year in the late 19th century to examine quilt styleand consider economic factors behind the look.A look at 34 quilts date inscribed 1881 over the next few...
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1881 #2: National Fads
 Log Cabin dated May 15th 1881by Catherine Bush Gwin (?-1914) Iowa.Collection of the Eastern Washington State Historical SocietyYesterday's post looked at regional styles in quilts dated 1881.Other new...
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1881 #3: Cotton & Economics
1881 Sarah Henshaw Putnam (1800-1894) General Artemas Ward House Museum at HarvardInscribed: "This quilt was made by Mrs. Sarah H. Putnam of Shrewsbury Mass January 1881 for her nieces Elizabeth Ward...
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George Washington's Birthday
Today: Washington's 289th birthday: One of my favorite holidays as cherry pies are often included in the festivities.Washington's 200th birthday was in 1932---a national celebration of the president...
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New BlockBase+
 Over at the CivilWarQuilts blog we are doing a block of the monthcalled Hands All Around: Alcotts at War. Here's the pattern for Block...
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Rosina Valette's Quilt Block
 An elaborate cut-out chintz block about 9 inches square in an album quilt inscribed 1843.See the whole quilt in Stella Rubin's shop:156...
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Arnold Savage, an Old Friend
 Arnold Hegy Savage (1926-2020)I didn't realize until this week that we'd lost our old friend Arnold Savage just around Christmas time last year. We'd been writing each other for decades (he was an...
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Wishing Star in BlockBase+
 Top last quarter 20th centuryOnline auction Practicing using my new BlockBase+ program I thought I'd see what I could find about this pattern.Here it is on a page of Eight Pointed Stars: Other Stars...
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Lucy Loch Hallman's Sewing Box
A few years ago I bought a package of quilt-related ephemera, the papersand quilt pieces and patterns of Lucy Ann Loch Hallman.In the manner of girls Lucy Ann wrote her name in several places."Lucy ann...
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Flora Delanica #6: Purple Raspberry
Flora Delanica #6Â Purple Flowering Raspberry by Becky Brown.Flora Delanica #6Â Purple Flowering Raspberry (Rubrus Odoratus)A flowering berry can remind us of the late bloom in Mary's happiness after...
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Southern Twins
 I love coming across a pair of twin quilts as it can lead to many questions about how pattern was passed around (and occasionally some answers.)We're looking at a pair of quilts so similar I had the...
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Quilt Index Entertainment
 "Sarah Stilwell1863"A date-inscribed quiltThe Quilt Index, which contains hundreds of thousands of photos of quilts new and old, has a new interface. I've been learning to use it and thought I'd show...
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Virtual Booth Spring 2021
 Virtual Quilt Market takes place this week starting today.I've been working on my virtual booth.https://www.quilts.com/quilt-market/virtual-quilt-market/My virtual booths were pretty lonesome in...
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Unpublished Regional Patterns in the Encyclopedia
 Pennsylvania name quilt inscribed by James Mack, 1854.Pook & Pook Auction.Here's one of the patterns I added to the new Encyclopedia of Pieced Patterns and BlockBase+A nine-patch with a square in...
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Log-A-Rhythm Jelly Roll Quilt
Great quilt top from an online auction, maybe1930-1960It's a version of what they call Half-A-Log in Gees Bend,Alabama.A Half a Log about 1900But this one has an extra square in the intersectionsand...
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New York Style: Corner Links
 Over at my CivilWarQuilts blog we are starting anew appliqued Block of the Month. Free patterns last Wednesdayof the month for the next 11 months for an applique quilt typical of NewYork album...
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