Block from a North Carolina quilt
Quilt by an unknown maker, mid 19th-century.
Quilt date-inscribed 1855
made for Laura Brown McCallum, Robeson County, North Carolina
The only two versions of the design discovered so far are in these two North Carolina quilts, one
a sampler signature quilt, one a repeat block and both look to be sashed with cording.
A 1910 novel name "A Dixie Rose"
We don't know what Laura McCallum and her friends called the design. The term Dixie Rose is quite a Southern tradition, but seems to be found more towards the end of the 19th century and into the 20th as a given name for Southern babies, etc.
Grave of a woman born in 1924
When Terry Thompson and I started making Civil War commemorative quilts twenty years ago we were quite taken with the pattern and featured a couple of reproductions in our books.
Judy Davis made this one from a pattern I drew,
echoing the use of fuss-cut paisley cones for the leaves and border
in the quilt at the top of this page.
A simpler version by Ilyse Moore
from another of my patterns.
Terry did a block for her Southern Memorial Quilt.
And designed a variation for her
book Four Block Quilts
Most of these patterns are out of print and hard to find but the pictures may provide inspiration.
Print this out at 200% for a rough 16" pattern.
Here are links to the files at the North Carolina project on the Quilt Index.
Laura McCallum's Sampler:
The repeat block version was once attributed to Sarah Williams but in the book North Carolina Quilts the caption says unknown maker. (See the quilts in book plates 3-14, 5-1, 5-2.)
A post I did several years ago.
http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2011/08/northern-lilysouthern-rose-block-6.html
A post I did several years ago.
http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2011/08/northern-lilysouthern-rose-block-6.html