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Unlicensed Artists
 I know everybody is going around moping with a bucket over their heads...And looking askance at the world.But hey, kids, cheer up!There's always Sunbonnet Sue to amuse us.Prompted by Teddy Pruett who...
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Drunkard's Path Snowballing Along
 Drunkard's Path variation. Pattern popular after 1890.Lots of double pink a clue to about 1900.The pattern has many names. This scrappy block showsyou one classic version. The quarter circles with the...
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Feed Sack Prints? 1938
Library of CongressMan posing on the porch of his Topeka store, 1938In 1938 photographer John Vachon (1914-1975) came to Kansas to take pictures of farmers and their lives for the Farm Security...
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Southern Spin #5 Spinning Ball
Southern Spin #5Spinning Ball by Becky BrownBlockBase #3537It's definitely difficult piecing, getting 12 spokes with 12 seams to meet in the center.An early-20th-century Georgia top with 13 spokes.I...
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Elsie de Wolfe and Chintz
I have a new collection of William Morris reproduction prints coming out next year from Moda. Considering design ideas IÂ came across this file---which may or may not inspire you to buy a William Morris...
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String Stars & Variations
 "Lone Star" 82" x 80," 1890-1925By Ellen Smith Tooke Vanzant & Mattie Tooke Morris, Trigg County, KentuckyThe Kentucky Project recorded this large string star quilt by a mother/daughter...
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Ella Maria Deacon's Quilt & The Hicksite Quakers
 Art Institute of Chicago CollectionQuilt dated 1841-1842https://www.artic.edu/artists/81573/ella-maria-deaconIn 1841 a large group of related people in Burlington County, New Jersey and Philadelphia...
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Cotton Shortages in World War II & After
 "Farm girl leaning on wagon," near Morganza, Louisiana, Photo by Russell Lee, 1938, Library of CongressIf you look online for "feedsack dress" this photo comes up often but no where does the caption...
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Hospital Sketches/New England Quilt Museum
I organized a show of quilts for the New England Quilt Museum, up right now. Nancy Austin Swanwick took some great pictures so you geta look at the show.I chose quilts for their variety in color,...
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1881 Reference to a Japanese Quilt
 When did the crazy quilt fad begin? We quilt historians dither.But here is an early reference explaining the whole thing.Early, 1881Boston Globe, February 2, 1881"I am making the loveliest Japanese...
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AQSG Fundraiser: Repro Print Sale
 (Altered Solomon Butcher photo/Nebraska)Classic Problem:Too Much FabricPoor Solution: Yard SaleBetter Solution BelowBring your surplus reproduction fabric to the AQSG Seminar inSan Diego that begins...
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Southern Spin #6 Sunflower
 Southern Spin #6Sunflower, Becky BrownThe Sunflower with 9 points is from Carrie Hall's book---BlockBase # 3448.Carrie Hall, Kansas Sunflower blockHelen F. Spencer Museum of ArtBecky Collis, Southern...
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Quilts Dated 1944
 1944This Iowa friendship quilt is dated 1944---after the introduction of dress print commodity bags in the late 1930s so the prints as well as the solids and whites could all possibly be from...
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Cleopatra's Puzzle or King Tut's Crown
 Collection of the Indiana State Museum, attributed to Randolph County, IndianaDate guess: 1880-1940 as it's the popular red and whitecombination fashionable in those decadesAnother way to look at the...
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Southern Spin BOM: Links to Posts
 Blocks 1-6 Denniele Bohannon, quilted by Becky CollisWe are doing a nine-block series this year on this blog. Patterns for Southernwheel designs posted on the last day of the month.So far we are up to...
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Fans: Myth, Style and Dates
 Nothing makes a Quilt History Know-It-All more indignant than a myth repeated.See the Six Know It Alls discuss Quilt Myths in this episode:https://vimeo.com/ondemand/quiltmythsbustedAnd myths...
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Pearlie Caddell's Intriguing Quilt
 64" x 54"Here is a bad photo of a small quilt from an old eBay listing. I foundit while looking for Alabama quilts from Worthpoint, a website that collects oldauction photos.The seller knew something...
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Southern Spin #7 Brave Sunflower
 Brave Sunflower by Denniele BohannonLast month's Sunflower with 9 petals was just practice for this month's with 16.The block (#3480) was published several times in the Kansas City Star, once as A...
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Nancy Cabot/Loretta Leitner: A Short History
The gang at Accuquilt has invited me to give a short lectureon quilt history today about a new die for their cutting machines.Click here:events.accuquilt.com/aqlivestream100422/gs(October 4, 2022 Noon...
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Laurana Rowe North's Quilts
Quilt #1, a Star MedallionThe New York Historical Society owns two rather fancy quilts donated by Laurana Rowe North’s grandchildren in 1949. William Russell Bogert and his sister Helen Bogert Parmele...
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