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Illinois Star Variations
 A mysterious pattern from an online auction a while ago.Yellow-green and probable Turkey red.19th Century?The block should be somewhere in here among the Maltese Crossdesigns in BlockBase. These have...
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Bets Ramsey is 100 Years Old
 And aren't we lucky.Want to know more about Bets???Check out the Quilt Index:Either page links to the other page as well as Bets's own quilts and her writing in Uncoverings and Quilters' Journal.Her...
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Boxes of Cotton Scraps
Gloria Nixon's CollectionBox of factory cutaways sold by Sears, Roebuck & Companyto promote their 1933 Chicago World's Fair quilt contest.Over at the QuiltHistorySouth Facebook page we've been...
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Applique Block of the Month: Phoebe's Favorite---Dogtooth Applique
 We've been working on an appliqued Block-of-the-Month for the Material Culture blog here, a sampler of nine patterns using the old-fashioned "dogtooth" applique design. Tobacco Leaf or Pineapple block...
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The Most Popular Patterns
 Women in Colby, Kansas with a log cabin quilt, about 1900Quilt fads come and go. The fashion for Log Cabin quilts was one of the big crazes once a national quilt style developed after the Civil...
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Soldier's Shield: An Unpublished Name
Patty is making this quilt and posted a question at the AmericanQuilt Study Group members' Facebook group."I have never heard of the pattern referred to anything except Dresden Plate and was wondering...
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Phoebe's Favorite: Dogtooth Applique #1
 Phoebe's Favorite #1: Sunflower by Becky BrownThe first of an appliqued Block of the Month series here on my Material Culture blog.Look for a free pattern on the first day of each month through March,...
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Give Away: Interlaced in Morris Meadow from Louanna Mary
Interlaced = Broken Stone or East & WestYour quilt shop should have some of my new Morris Meadow prints in stock. We are happy to say the collection sold well to retailers. And we have lots of...
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Eliza Hoskins Farris: Her Name in the Newspaper
 Collection of the Kentucky Historical SocietyCrazy quilt by Elizabeth Chaney Vass Hoskins Farris (1822-1912)https://kyhistory.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/E44C4D70-6A97-49B2-85FC-612780314716Eliza...
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Odd Pattern: Pasadena Pie n Burger
Silk quilt now on exhibit in the show Community Stitches: Quilt Designs & Stories at the Pasadena Museum of History, co-curated by Leah Zieber and Arlene Stevens. It's an unusual pattern....Not in...
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Morris Meadow Projects: Ideas & a Little Photoshopping
 I sent Jane & William Morris a quilt made from my newestMorris Meadow fabrics and they emailed this picture of it hangingin the dining room. (This Photoshopping is why I never get any sewing...
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Political Patterns: Harrison vs Van Buren
 Cotton yardage printed for the 1840 campaign of Whig candidate William Henry HarrisonLibrary of CongressThat 1840 presidential campaign is acknowledged as the beginning of the trend for political...
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Mystery Pattern: Spiderwoman?
 The North Carolina quilt project recorded thisquilt attributed to 1959 and Maggie Hewitt of ChesapeakeCounty, Virginia.https://quiltindex.org//view/?type=fullrec&kid=21-17-465It's a well-balanced...
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Phoebe's Favorite: Dogtooth Applique #2
 Phoebe's Favorite #2 Bouquet by Becky BrownComfort magazine, a widely read woman's periodical in the early20th century, published a design for "Bouquet." My 1-inch sketch gives you an idea ofthe...
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An 1827 Ladies' Fair
American women's fundraising fairs for charity seem to have begun inthe 1820s and followed a certain format until the present time.Washington author Margaret Bayard Smith described an early event in a...
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Morris Meadow Design Contest Winner
Photoshopping me in Janey Morris's hair and clothing froma Rosetti portrait of her in our Spencer Museum. Sorry, Dante, Janey & Willie.I was the judge but I roped a mythical William Morris intothe...
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Morris Meadow/EQ Design Challenge 2
 AnitaYesterday's post showed the overall winner I chose in the EQ Design Challenge with my current fabric collection for...
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Magic Quilts
 What were those Maine girls up to?Letter from an 11-year-old to the Maine FarmerTecumseh, Nebraska, 1883Dorcas Society quilting at the Kate Douglas Wiggin House in Hollis, MaineSearching through old...
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String Quilt Pie
 Eight Pie-shaped PiecesFrom an online auctionAn unpublished pattern, popular in the South in the first half of the 20th century.Attributed to Eula Phillips of Alabama, found by the North Carolina...
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Mildred Beene Lee: Alabama Quiltmaker
 Good to find a body of quilts attributed to one quiltmaker.Here are five early-20th-century quilts attributed to Mildred Beene Lee (1847-1939.) Millie lived a long life, about half of it in Tennessee...
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