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Hannah Callender Samson: Her Diary & Her Friends
 A colonial coupleWe are revisiting the long-ago marriage of Samuel Sansom, Jr. and Hannah Callendar Sansom,a well-to-do Quaker couple who wed in 1762.We really cannot know much about the relationship...
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Phoebe's Favorite Dogtooth #8: Eagle
 Phoebe's Favorite Dogtooth #8: Eagle by Becky BrownA Garth Auction offering a classic four-block eagle donein Dogtooth technique and showing how blues could fadeabout 1900.A couple of the patterns in...
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Gwendoline Herbert Lathouse's Quilts
  Gwendoline Herbert Lathouse seems to have embraced American culture when she emigrated to the United States from Wales in the 1920s with her mother and husband William. Gwendoline Maud Jane Herbert...
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Elizabeth Baile Manahan's Quilt: Widely Copied
 Rather unusual block from an appliqued sampler quilt dated 1850 & 1851Smithsonian Institution Collection93" squarehttps://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/nmah_556365The quilt has been in the...
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Valentine Treat
 This cut-paper heart quilt was documented by the Arizona project in the 1980s.The Turkey red print indicates it was made before 1860 or so. Thedocumenters thought perhaps 1850-1875.The woman who...
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Nostalgia: Quiltings Are Not What They Used to Be
 F. Chapman, A Country Quilting BeeQuilting "Bees" or Quilting Parties, as they were called early in the 19th century, were a popular topic for nostalgia that mourned an imagined way of life, long lost...
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An Unusual Chintz
 We're looking forward to the spring opening (March 9th) of a quilt exhibit at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA.) Jenny Garwood and co-worker with the catalog.A familiar floral....I...
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Phoebe's Favorite Dogtooth #9: Cochise County
 Phoebe's Favorite Dogtooth #9: Cochise County by Elsie RidgleyCollection of the Arizona Historical SocietyAttributed to Cora Viola Howell Slaughter (1860-1941)and Edith Stowe (?-1938), Cochise County,...
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Ebony Suite Fat-Quarter Bundle Design Challenge
 Win a Fat Quarter Bundle of my new Ebony Suite fabric from EQ & Moda!EQ Design Challenge & Giveaway – Ebony SuiteSee this Electric Quilt post on a Design Challenge for March,...
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1875: A Lull
 I'm glad I wasn't trying to run a quilt business in 1875.There doesn't seem to have been much enthusiasmfor patchwork. I base this on the number of date-inscribed quiltsfrom that year. And the...
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1876: A Party
  In a post a few days ago we looked at quilts date-inscribed1875 and I concluded it was a dull lot.Cindy's Antique QuiltsEchoes of past styles with a trend to pink if any design trendswere...
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1876: New Fabric/New Ideas
 Centennial commemorative calico from L.L. Carroll's collection.One inspiration for quilt innovations during the Centennial year of 1876 was a good supply of novel cotton prints.Mills printed...
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Full Blown Tulip
 One of my favorite patterns, this one offered a few years ago byMolly at Fourth Corner Quilts.Los Angeles County Museum of ArtThey call it "Full Blown Tulip.Red and green calico blocks alternate with...
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Centennial Quilt from Vermont
 Boy waving a centennial flagA few years ago the Thomaston Auction house in Thomaston, Mainesold this pictorial quilt. Although in rough shape it was so unusual the pricewas $17,000.One would guess...
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Early Mills: Cabots & Lowells
  Self-portrait by Lydia Cabot Perry (1848-1933) "The Green Hat"American aristocracy or nouveau rich? The artist was a "Boston Brahmin,"her parents being Samuel Cabot III and Hannah Lowell...
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Eclipse Pattern: Sunshine & Shadow
 A Solar Eclipse on April 8th!We need a quilt pattern to remember the occasion.Washington Post mapPieced design finishing to 12"From BlockBase+I couldn't find Sunshine and Shadow in Nancy's Chicago...
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Ebony Suite: A Plethora of Patterns
https://shop.modafabrics.com/collection?group=Ebony%20SuiteCheck out the patterns featuring pre-cuts of my new Morris repro line called Ebony Suite. All neutrals and all drama!Patterns to purchase now:...
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Golden Dahlia x 16
 A formidable project!16 blocks each with 72 diamonds made of 2 triangles.Not in BlockBase+ or my Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns and I see why. The unknown maker adapted a larger design meant to...
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Centennial Prints in Charm, Odd Fellows and Beggars' Patchwork
 I've been organizing my Centennial print files over the spring and occasionally posting about the 1876 Anniversary of our Declaration of Independence. The big event was in Philadelphia, an exhibition...
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