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Washington Whirlwind #12: Windblown Square
 Washington Whirlwind #12 by Jeanne Arnieri. Windblown Square recalls the Lincoln family's life after the White House years.Heritage AuctionThomas "Tad" Lincoln at about 14 in 1867Mary Todd Lincoln...
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Civil War Fundraiser from Newlin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania
"Liberty1862"https://mycchc.catalogaccess.com/objects/13873Museum cataloging notes: "According to old card, 'Made by women of Newlin Township in 1864 and chanced off at Fair for sick in field hospitals...
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Harriet Newell Trefethen Skillings's Civil War
  Name quilt organized as a fundraiser on Peaks Island, Mainein 1875, ten years after the Civil...
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The Herrick Sewing Circle---An Abolition Quilt
 Chester County History Center CollectionFeathered star block in the center of a crib quilt stitchedby the Herrick Sewing Circle of Lancaster County,...
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Petticoat Press #1: Olivia's Chronicle for Emily Edson Briggs
 Petticoat Press: Block # 1 Olivia's Chronicle by Jeanne ArnieriOur 2025 pieced Block of the Month is Petticoat Press. This celebrationof women journalists reporting on the Civil War will include afree...
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Art Student Mary Hallock Foote's Civil War
 Sampler quilt inscribed "School of Design Engraving Class Cooper Union"I loaned this quilt made at the Cooper Union school in New York, probably during the last year or two of the Civil War, to the...
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Rebecca Stoner Rosen's Civil War
Flying Geese Quilt attributed to Rebecca Jane Stoner Rosen (1838-1921)79" x 94"Quilts of VirginiaWhen the Civil War began 23-year-old Rebecca Rosen had been married to David Harrison Rosen for about 6...
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2025's Applique Block of the Month Starts in March
 Our 2025 Applique Block of the Month series begins here on the last Wednesday of March. Models are made----well, some models are started; some tops are DONE. Many years I base the series on a woman's...
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Susan Cutter Wyman's Civil War
 Collection of the St. Louis Art Museumhttps://www.slam.org/collection/objects/37239/Silk star quilt attributed to Susan Cutter WymanSusan Frances Cutter Wyman (1789-1864)Susan Cutter Wyman was in her...
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Petticoat Press #2: Sarah's Favorite for Fanny Fern
 2 Sarah's Favorite for Fanny Fern by Denniele BohannonSarah Payson Willis Eldredge Farrington Parton (1811-1872)Drawn from a commercial cabinet card dated 1864.Sarah's Favorite remembers "Fanny Fern"...
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Lizzie Lisle Marries a Civil War Veteran
 Collection of the National Museum of American HistoryQuilt attributed to Lizzie Lisle (1836-1913), donated byLizzie's grand-niece Lois Marmon Flannery (1900-1986) with another (see below.)Lizzie Lisle...
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Marilla Riser Wise's Civil War Quilt?
Sampler applique quilt that descended in the Wyse familyof Columbia, South Carolina with a family tale related to the Civil War, a gift for soldier Allen M. Wyse. Mary Boozer (1906-2005) who brought...
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Bathsheba Phillips Crane's Civil War
In my files of silk quilts I have one attributed to Bathsheba Howard Crane. Notes say it's in the Vermont Historical Society but I don't see it in their catalog.An image search was of no help either.In...
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Petticoat Press # 3 Pathfinder for Jane Cannon Swisshelm
 Petticoat Press # 3: Pathfinder for Jane Cannon Swisshelm by Elsie RidgleyMinnesota Historical SocietyJane Grey Cannon Swisshelm (1815-1884)Jane was born in western Pennsylvania into a family of...
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Mary Gaddy Inman's Civil War Quilt?
 The North Carolina project recorded this quilt forty years ago. A great-granddaughter who'd inherited it attributed itto Mary Gaddy Inman of Robeson...
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Liberty's Birds #1: Bluebird
 Liberty's Birds #1: Bluebirdby Denniele BohannonThis year's applique Block-of-the-Month series features the diary of Sara T.D. Robinson written her first year in Kansas where she and her husband came...
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Eliza Trigg Brents's Civil War
 Kentucky Historical SocietyAttributed to Susan Mary Cheatham Smith Montgomery (1846-1910)Silk quilt pieced over paper templates in a hexagon designwith added embroidery on the borders. Kentucky had a...
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Petticoat Press: #4: Starry Path for Miriam Folline Leslie
Petticoat Press: #4 Starry Path for Miriam Folline Leslie by Becky BrownMiriam Folline [Follin] Squier Leslie (1836–1914)Above: many but not all her names: Miriam Florence Follin Peacock Squier Leslie...
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Pathfinder: Block #3
 RobertaProgress in the Petticoat Press BOM.On Wednesdays at this blog I often post a biography of a woman who lived through the Civil War but I've decided something in the posting schedule has to go...
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Liberty's Birds #2: Justice's Wreath
 Liberty's Birds #2: Justice's Wreath by Elsie RidgleySara Robinson arrived in Lawrence, Kansas Territory in April, 1855, a committed antislavery activist. She and husband Charles Robinson decided to...
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Eunice Tincher Dorey's Civil War
Rocky Mountain Road, circa 1880–1910 Attributed to Mrs. William H. Dorey, Kentucky, Eunice Tincher Dorey (1843–1912)Gift of Mrs. A. J. Anderson...
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Petticoat Press #5: Twin Sisters for the Footes
 Petticoat Press #5: Twin Sisters for the Footes byDenniele BohannonKatherine Foote Coe (1840-1923) and Harriet Foote Hawley (1831-1886)The Footes---not twins--- but a close pair in a family of ten who...
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Liberty's Birds #3: Cardinal
 Liberty's Birds #3: Cardinal by Denniele BohannonCardinals live year round in Kansas. We usually see them in pairs; males a flash of red, females less brilliant. Sara Lawrence Robinson may have...
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Petticoat Press# 6: Old Maid's Ramble For Kate Field
Petticoat Press# 6: Old Maid's Ramble For Kate Field byJeanne Arnieri"Old Maid" was an insult when single women were considered a threat to domestic order.Women of marriageable age were urged to...
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Petticoat Press BOM: Links to the Free Patterns
Civil War reporting was man’s domain but we find bylines from several female journalists who we recall in the Petticoat Press Block of the Month for 2025. The 12 monthly blocks are based on an "X" seam...
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