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Cut-Throat Competition in Kentucky #1
 Kentucky embroidered quiltYears ago when Merikay Waldvogel and I drove through Kentucky looking for information on the Kentucky winner of the 1933 World's Fair quilt prize we were struck by how the...
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Cut Throat Competition in Kentucky #2: Carrie Stagg
 Yesterday we looked at Kentuckian Lida Finnell Allin's wool embroidered quiltfeaturing plushwork swans in the center.Plushwork---wool yarns trimmed and fluffed---is not a common technique in...
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Cut-Throat Competition in Kentucky #3 More Embroiderers of Note
 Show quilt by Eliza Hoskins FarrisKentucky Historical Societyhttps://kyhistory.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/E44C4D70-6A97-49B2-85FC-612780314716We've been looking at some extraordinary embroidered...
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Cut-Throat Competition in Kentucky #4: Embroidery Teachers?
 Here's a masterpiece quilt from Julie Silber Quilts.She sold it awhile ago; found it in California.Silk template patchwork bordered with skilled floral embroidery.She has no information about the...
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New Addition-BlockBasePlus: Whirling Star
 We added dozens of new/old patterns to the new Encyclopediaof Pieced Quilt Patterns and the new BlockBase+Here's one.Someone counted and there are 4,264 pieced patterns you can print out any size you...
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Flora Delanica #7: Summer Lily
Flora Delanica #7: Summer Lily or Asphodel Lily byNancy Phillips in wool.Mary Delany was known for her needlework as well as her paper mosaics. A remarkable piece of textiles is her embroidered...
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Edward Bancroft: Dyes & Spies
 Metropolitan Museum of Art, About 1840Pansies (violas) printed in drab style usinga mordant printing method.Edward Bartholomew Bancroft (1744–1821) was a chemist who discovered a profitable natural...
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Two Unusual Applique Quilts & Some Letters
Quilt by Julia Hayden Marshall (1815-1885) & Frances Marshall McClurg (1837–1918),Greer, Knox County, Ohio, about 1860. Ohio Historical...
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Ethel M. McCunn and Embroidery in the 1920s
A cute if historically inaccurate drawing of two Colonialladies quilting in a booklet from Needlecraft Magazine.There is a little hint of a signature on the frame at the rightY Pit...One of the more...
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Sawtooth---BlockBase+ and Vintage Examples
 July 10, 18861886, Mrs. Reed whose recreation was "to piece bed-quilts" sent this pattern to the Prairie Farmer magazine suggesting an old fashioned color scheme of red or green on white.Kind of like...
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Pictorial Crazy Quilts in Cretonne
 Found in the New Hampshire project. Photo from the Quilt Index.Here's a distinctive quilt style that seems to be a New England regional idea. Quilts grow out of the fabric available and these...
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Chintz Stripes---A Wish List
 Quilt documented by the Kentucky projectattributed by the family to Johanna Davis of Charleston,South Carolina.https://quiltindex.org//view/?type=fullrec&kid=8-5-435Like many early 19th-century...
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Bertha Waldauer Marshall's Crazy Quilt
 Crazy Quilt (about 1886) attributed to Bertha Marshall, Tennessee State Museum, 2008.185. Gift of Alan Callner. A while ago I did a post on crazy quilts with theseplush work swans.Lida Finnell Allin's...
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Flora Delanica #8: Calendula
Flora Delanica #8: Marigold (Calendula Officinalis)Â by Becky BrownCalendulas, once called Pot Marigolds, are a Mediterranean native. This month we celebrate Mary Delany's "Hive" so the now common...
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Triangle Puzzle
 An interesting red, white and blue quiltfound in the Massachusetts project. 61" x 78"Family attributed it to Perry M Lenterman of Chicago and thought it might have been made in 1894. It's machine...
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1848 Quilt from Pennsylvania: Part 1
 My office On the wall a recent gift from friend Wendy Turnbull, moving it fromher home for orphan quilts to mine. One fourth of a large quilt.I am thrilled. It is not in good condition but what...
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1848 Quilt: Part 2
 We are looking at an 1848 Pennsylvania quilt that we at my sewing group The Sew Whatevers have been studying.https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2021/05/1848-quilt-from-pennsylvania-part-1.htmlOur...
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Frances Kendrick Massey: Trunk Full of Louisiana Quilts
Quilt attributed to Frances Kendrick Massey (1867-1952)Documented by the Louisiana Folklife Program in 1985.The family called this design Indian Wedding Ring, a name published in 1933 by syndicated...
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Housetops Quilts, Whole Top Designs
 Whole-top design, looks about 1890-1910.Most of us, so familiar with the work of the quilters in Gees Bend, Alabama,might call it a House Tops design. Another name is Pigpen.Bettie Bendolph Seltzer,...
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Housetops, Pigpen & Bird Traps
 In the last post we looked at Housetops or Pigpen log cabin variations as a whole top. The design of concentric squares is most often seen as a block. Above a four-block version from Western Kentucky...
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