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Morris Manor with Attic Windows
 Attic WindowsMorris Manor my next William Morris reproduction line from Moda recallsKelmscott Manor, the family house along the Thames River.Attic Windows...From BlockBase+It's upside down if you are...
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Jane Austen's Wardrobe: Fashion Footnotes to her Letters
 The third in a trio of recent publications on historic dress is Jane Austen's Wardrobe with appeal for Austen fans who are fascinated by fashion and fabric---a niche audience. You, like me, might fit...
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Morris Manor Table Runner
 Several periodicals appealed to fans of the Arts & Crafts movement in the early 20th century. Often illustrated with striking cover art or small vignettes they are a good source for design...
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Zipper Pouch: Stash Sewing Supplies & Hope & Dreams
I've been Photoshopping---I'm a lot better at that than sewing.And I made some fabric: Harris President 2024 I uploaded it to Spoonflower.com where you can order a scrap, a fat quarter ora yard on...
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Charter Oak Pattern
Charter Oak Variation15" finishedTwo versions of the Charter Oak applique, from Marie Webster's 1915 book and Carrie Hall's 20 years later. The name Charter Oak does not hold the same significance for...
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1833 Ladies Fair in Boston
Australian ladies' fair late-19th-centuryAnna Quincy Waterston, when a young Bostonian, kept a diary for a year or so in the form of a letter to her traveling sister. She recorded an early ladies'...
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Star & Ring
 Several years ago this quilt in all-over pattern appeared in an online auction.BlockBase& my Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns show a lot of 5-pointed star designs but not this one, which...
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Appliqued 5-Pointed Stars
 From a Baltimore sampler in Julie Silber's inventoryOver the summer I've been organizing my files on 5-pointed stars. Easy to piece if you have a good pattern; hard to draw a good pattern, sez I.But...
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A Modern Nose-Gay
 Cindy had a question about the pattern in this rather art deco quilt.That Nile green solid certainly is a good clue to a post 1925 date.The pattern structure defined by the seams is rather unusual.And...
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1847 A Lost Album Quilt
 Mary Jane Ewing of Perryville (Maryland?) dated her quilt block 1847.She may have called the group project an "album quilt" as we find the term in use that year...Thanks to the forgetful Robert B....
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Jugate Portrait Bandanas = Quilts
 Garfield/Arthur political quilt with a jugate bandana as centerpiece,about 1880, once in Shelly Zegart's inventory.Attributed to Annie Ensminger Kready (1871-1956)/Louisa Ensminger (1850-1899),...
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Linsey Quilts 1: Identification
 Merikay Waldvogel CollectionOver at the 6KnowItAlls:ShowUsYourQuilts Facebook page we showed Linsey-Woolsey quilts in the month of August. Scroll down to see a link to the page and ask to be a member....
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Linsey Quilts 2: Regional?
Linsey quilt pieced of squares and rectangles oflinsey fabric, documented by the Arizona project---from a family with Kentucky rootsIn the last post we looked at patchwork quilts pieced of older...
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Wisconsin Eagles!
 "Mrs. P.G. HarringtonSugar Creek1856"The Wisconsin quilt project recorded this quilt with Maryette Eldred Perry's name in the center. In 1856 Maryette was about 40 years old, married since 1836 to...
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Morris Manor at Louanna Mary Designs
 Nobody can get enough William Morris reproprints---including us at Moda. We're working on a coupleof future lines for 2025. Morris Manor is now available forshops to order. We'll keep you posted here...
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The Repro Landscape
 Michelle Yeo---an oasisThe landscape for us fans of reproduction prints has been pretty austere lately but I see signs that it's no longer the Sahara out there---- More like a dry savanna with...
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Alamance Applique: A Regional Favorite
Southern quilt dealer Illiana Villazon posted pictures of a quilt top inan unusual pattern on our 6KnowItAlls:ShowUsYourQuilts Facebook page.https://www.facebook.com/groups/6knowitallsVery much like...
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Herbarium Finishes
 HerbariumDeanna Street's red and green traditional applique topDeanna's finished our applique block of the month for 2023from the free patterns over at my CivilWarQuilts blog.See a post on the...
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Kentucky's Earliest Quilts
 In 2011 I wrote an essay for the Quilt Index on our earliest quilts. A dozen years or so has passed since we identified these two quilts as early Kentucky quilts, made before 1830 or so. I thought I'd...
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Kentucky's Earliest Quilts #2: Missing Quilts
 Kentucky Historical SocietyQuilt attributed to Catherine Gaither (1785-?) of Nelson County, KentuckyKentucky museums own a few cut-out-chintz quilts like this one. The style tends to be attributed to...
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