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Fabulous Chintz Swag
  Neva Hart recently posted this chintz quilt on Facebook.Looks like an 1830-1860 medallion of cut-out-chintz motifs.The oval just about dead center is furniture panel. Merikay Waldvogelrecognized it...
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Square Roots
 A simple, yet effective design, this one from about 1820-1840from the New Jersey project.I've used variations on this pattern several times. Here's one from my bookMaking History done in William...
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Flora Delanica #11: Damask Rose
Flora Delanica, Block #11, Rosa damascena, Damask Rose by Becky Brown.The Damask Rose is for the Queen. Queen Charlotte (1744 - 1818)German princess Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenburg-Strelitz married the...
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My Crazy Dream
 Center of a Crazy Quilt by Mary M. Maynard Ricard (1838-1915)Haverhill, Massachusetts74" x 69"International Quilt MuseumIn the center a pavilion or pagoda---A fair, a resort or a fantasy home?A...
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Almira's Square in a Square
 A few weeks ago I posted a design for my repro collection Ladies' Legacy for Moda based on a square in a square block.From the Oregon project & the Quilt IndexAnd then I came across this quilt top...
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AQSG Quilt Study: Framed Center/Medallion Quilts
 Mini Me by Wendy Caton ReedWendy's interpretation of a quilt in her collection forthe 2021 American Quilt Study Group's Quilt Study.The Quilt Study show was a highlight of the AQSG Seminar last weekin...
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Early Dated Cut-Out Chintz Tree of Life Quilt?
Baltimore Museum of ArtAbout 109" square1982 Gift of William L. Reed, Lutherville, Maryland, in Memory of Barbara Garrett ReedThis quilt has been intriguing me for years.I first saw it in William S....
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Mariners' Compass #1: Names
 The Mulvane Art Center in Topeka, Kansas has this quilt in their collection, a rather common pattern but uncommon in that is signed and dated and includes the name of the pattern.Fourteen-year-old...
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Mariner's Compass #2: Patterns
  As noted in yesterday's post we see much variety in thecircular designs we call Mariner's Compass.About 1840About 1910The petals---the compass points--- can be relatively simpleor quite complex.Based...
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Mariner's Compass Quilts #3: Creating Style
 Blocks from a quilt associated with Sarah Morrellsome dated 1842-1843.Museum of American Folk ArtAlbum quilt associated with Quaker Ella Maria Deacon (1811-1894)Burlington County, New Jersey, Blocks...
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Schoolhouse History for AccuQuilt
 Pam & Erica do a live broadcast for AccuQuilt and they asked meto help them launch their new die for the cutting machines:Schoolhouse.Click here to see a link to the hour-long show on the...
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Flora Delanica #12: Canada Lily
Flora Delanica Block #12 Canada Lily or Tiger Lily(Lilium Canadense) by Becky Brown. Our twelfth and last block recalls Mary Delany's last years.Mary Granville Delany by John Opie 1782with added...
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Losing Linda Eaton
 The world of antique textiles lost a great scholar with the death ofLinda Eaton last month. Since 1991 she'd been at the Winterthur Museum, first as textileconservator and recently retired as textile...
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Hexagon Quilts: Miscellaneous Info
 Hexagons carefully cut from a stripe.Maybe 1870-1890British 1820–50. The Metropolitan Museum of ArtGift of Adele Pharo Azar, in memory of her late husband,Jemile Wehby...
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Morris Wildflowers Free Pattern
 I'm glad to say we have another William Morris reproduction collectioncoming out at Moda.Prints by the 19th-century English master designer WilliamMorris continue to be popular so we are gathering our...
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1893 Columbian Exhibition #1: Crazy Quilts
 Pillow dated 1893 by Mrs. A Sickafoose, Lyons, Iowafrom the Joyce Gross collection at the Dolph Briscoe Center, University of Texashttps://www.cah.utexas.edu/db/dmr/image_lg.php?variable=e_wqh_0100As...
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1893 Columbian Exposition: Quilts #2: A 16th-Century Quilt
 Crazy Quilt in the Illinois State Museum collection.http://story.illinoisstatemuseum.org/content/worlds-columbian-exposition-quiltFor Episode #6 of our Six Know-It-Alls: Six Quilts last August Merikay...
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1893 World's Columbian Exposition: #3 The Columbian Celebration Quilt
 Anna Lee Merritt, sketch for a tribute to needlework muralfor the Women's Building at the 1893 Fair (mural now lost.)Everything for the temporary exhibits was rather transitory.Looking through records...
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1893 World's Columbian Exposition #4: Martha Erskine Ricks's Coffee Tree Quilt
  Agricultural states indulged in a fashionfor constructing elaborate displays of corn and fruit for the 1893 Chicago Fair.Monumental sculpture of dried prunesWe have found, as noted in recent posts,...
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1893 Worlds Columbian Exposition #5 Columbian Wheel Quilts
  Quilt backing made from souvenir handkerchiefs from the 1893 World's Fair. The words "World's Columbian Exposition Chicago, 1893" are printed in a circle. When looking in old newspapers for...
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