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Three Ring Circus
 Tara Miller CollectionThe Double Wedding Ring has to be the most popular quilt made in the 20th century.Most often pieced of the new multi-colored floral dress prints with a pastel plain four-patch...
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Stacks of Rectangles: Plain & Fancy
 Joyce Gross CollectionDolph Briscoe Center for American HistoryQuilt attributed to Lucy Weeks Kendall (1858-1931), found in Oakland, California, where it was probably made sometime between 1880 and...
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Southern Spin: Extra Block For Fearless Piecers
 Rhoda Ann Marshall, Arizona Project & the Quilt IndexI posted this block on my Facebook page to announce the Southern Spin block-of-the-month pattern that will appear here the rest of the year on...
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Washington Centennial 1889
 Library of CongressMrs. H.H. Morey, perhaps in 1889, dated by the fabric hanging behind her.[This photo may be a little yellow]I had long thought this yardage featuring Presidents George Washington...
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Drunkard's Path Variations #1
 An odd setting for a pattern we'd probably call Drunkard's Path.Rectangles alternated with squares.Given the name Drunkard's Patchwork in the Ladies' Art Company catalog in the 1890s.Wilene Smith...
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Some Party!
 I got invited to a gala weekend in Lincoln, NebraskaTo Celebrate a 25th Anniversary.We remembered old friends who donated some wonderful quilts...The RosesThe Jameses&The DillowsDean put on his...
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Quilt Style 1922
I love living in the past. I know how things turn out.A century ago things were happening. James Joyce's Ulysses& T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland were published. Yankee Stadium & The Readers' Digest...
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Southern Spin: Block #3 Wheel of Fortune
Southern Spin #3Wheel of Fortune by Becky CollisWheel of Fortune by Becky BrownSixteen spokes.Print the pattern out on an 8-1/2" x 11 sheet. See the inch square for scale.It's BlockBase+ #3384 if you...
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Chintz of Shells/Swags
 Irish Chain quilt from the Rocky Mountain Quilt Shop.Perhaps 1840s.An interesting quilt in a transitional style.Taste in quilts was changing in the years1835-1845. Furniture-scale prints like the...
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Bridal Wreath Applique Quilt
 Quilt by Wanda Buell Ross Nebraska Quilt Project & the Quilt IndexA popular late-20th century design, a wreath with a central heart designand four hearts in the corners.Ruth Willett, Michigan...
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Hexagonal Blocks in Scrappy Prints
 An interesting scrappy quilt from the Pat L. Nichols collectionat the Mingei Museum. Probably dates to about 1900.Perfect for Charm packages made up of 5" squares.The blocks are hexagons....long...
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All Flags Flying
 John Sauls InventoryJune 14th is Flag Day, the anniversary of the adoption of the American flag as a symbol of the U.S.Top from a Kansas collectorYou may want to tell me that the flag is...
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Fool's Puzzle
 Fool's Puzzle Design, mid-20th century.BlockBase+ number 1466The fool may be the person who tries to classify these patterns,but for some of us, indexing provides no end of entertainment.I've spent...
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Theorem Paintings & Applique
 Quilt seen in the North Carolina project. We'd guess Baltimore1840-1860.It's always hard for us to imagine where quiltmakers 170 years ago got their patterns.Princess Louise, Queen Victoria's artist...
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Birding
 West Virginia ProjectEleanor Lough (1844-1924)Bryan Ruppert's Facebook pageCrib quilt from the New York projectD.A.R. MuseumJeffrey Evans AuctionStella Rubin's inventory
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Southern Spin: Block #4 Farmer's Fancy
 Southern Spin: Block #4 Farmer's Fancy by Denniele BohannonThe Virginia project found many examples of this complex designand were often told that the name was Farmer's Fancy....A vernacular name not...
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South Carolina Chintz Quilt
South Carolina quiltThe Six Know It Alls have a Facebook group 6KnowItAlls:ShowUsYourQuilts https://www.facebook.com/groups/6knowitallsDawn showed us this quilt which she saw on a visit to a friend's...
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Giveaway with Dubious "Prize"
 We recently held a contest at the quilt guild show.Guess how many triangles in this jar. Win the jar.Kathy & Betty counted the triangles in the jar.Roseanne won the jar. Being better at estimating...
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Hospital Sketches Show: New England Quilt Museum
 Hospital Sketches by Roseanne Smith, 2019-2022About three years ago New England Quilt Museum curator Pamela Weeks and I discussed hanging a 2020 show of recent applique quilts made from my Block of...
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Circle Saw Variation
 Glenna found this top in Edmond, OklahomaShe thinks the tan was once red and it doeslook like that very unstable Congo red introduced about 1880.She posted photos on our QuiltHistorySouth Facebook...
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