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The Great Comet---1 Applique Shape
 Quilt from the mid 19th-centuryPieced with no published nameAn album, perhaps associated with a wedding.I'm always looking for applique projects to hand sew at various meetingsand groups. Here's a...
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Phoebe's Favorite #3: Mexicali Rose
 Phoebe's Favorite #3: Mexicali Rose by Becky BrownThird in our series of nine dogtooth-style appliques, posted on the firstday of each month here.Mexicali Rose by Jeanne ArnieriBecky & Jeanne are...
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Straight & Narrow: Drunkard's Path Variation
 Scrolling through eBay I came across this mid-20th century quilt.Nice quilting but the pieced design seems to be a hot mess, aswe might say.What is going on? Curves and straight lines, squares and...
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Great Find: "The Peony & Lily Quilt"
 A quilt recently up for auction.With inscribed information on date, maker, place and what is most remarkable: Pattern names."The Peony & LilyL. Maria DunbarWest HamiltonMadison CoNYMay 1, 1851"The...
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National Sew a Jelly Roll Day: Twists & Turns
 16th-c. stitcher is an anonymous Italian painted by Bartolmeo Veneto.Everybody is sewing Moda Jelly Rolls todayShops are teaching classes and organizing Sew Alongs all day today.See if your shop has a...
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Sylvia Queen and the Garden of Eden Quilt
 We are not often lucky enough to find a link between a quilt in a museum collection today and a newspaper article describing it 160 years ago, but here we have a quilt reliably attributed to Sylvia...
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Sylvia Queen's Second Quilt
 Yesterday we looked at Sylvia Queen's Garden of Eden quilt in the Johnson County Museum in Overland Park, Kansas and a reference to that quilt at an Ohio fair in 1860.Barbara Brackman's MATERIAL...
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Who is Sylvia?
 Johnson County MuseumDetail of Sylvia Queen's Garden of Eden quiltSylvia Queen is credited with creating an unusual floral appliquequilt. She also seems to have created herself.See posts about her...
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More Garden of Eden Quilts
 We've been posting about Sylvia Queen and her Garden of Eden...
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Another Ohio Garden of Eden Quilt
 Sylvia's grapesAnd one more connection for a last post this week.See previous blogposts about Sylvia Queen's quilts and other Garden of Eden...
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Lucky Star
 If one were looking for an exercise in pattern complexity, one might consider Lucky Star from the Laura Wheeler syndicated newspaper column in the 1930s.Syndicated to many newspapers in July,...
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Ebony Suite :::: Best of Morris
 William Morris and I have a new collection of his designs for Moda.We've been following the trends.Ebony Suite:The Best of Morris"Best" means our favorites.We're having a Give-Away this week. I'll...
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Phoebe's Favorite #4: Floral Vase
 Floral Vase by Denniele Bohannon...The flora inspired by a quilt from the 1840-1870 years when imported Turkey red prints were the thing for patchwork. Flowers are sewn dogtooth style, points slashed...
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Nelle Peters Architect/Quilt Designer
 Ebay picture a few years agoCindy recently found this quilt and had a question about the pattern.The earliest publication is the September, 1930 pattern in the Kansas City Star,when Eveline Foland was...
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Quilts at Boston's Mechanical Association Fairs
 Is that a quilt hanging in the balcony during the 1878 Fair put on by the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association?The new United States of America established Mechanic Associations to promote...
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Mystery Pattern: Carousel
 I cannot believe this great design is NOT in my Encyclopedia ofPieced Quilt Patterns---or BlockBase, the digitized version.Five years ago Lori Nicholas Frank posted a circa 1950 example on Quilts...
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Late Medallion Quilt from Marie R. Suhr
 This medallion attributed to Marie Rucksdaeschel Suhr (1875-1968) of Staplehurst, Seward County, Nebraska, thought to date from the mid 1890s is an intriguing example of a style formatnot in much...
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Phoebe's Favorite: Links to Dogtooth Applique Patterns
Blocks 1-4 by Jeanne ArnieriThe Block of the Month at Material Culture lately is Pheobe's Favorite: Dogtooth Applique.Here are links to posts with free patterns for this traditional appliquetechnique...
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Mary Ball Washington's Blue & White Quilt
 Metropolitan Museum CollectionMid-18th century, IndiaAbove, the type of blue and white print one might see in an early-18th century quilt owned by a wealthy American colonist. I have no photos of...
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Phoebe's Favorite Dogtooth Applique #5: Tobacco Leaf
Phoebe's Favorite Dogtooth Applique #5:Tobacco Leaf by Becky BrownSoutherners had favorite patterns and this dogtooth appliqued pineapple or tobacco leaf was quite popular in the late 19th and early...
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