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Stars in a Time Warp Tops
Stars in a Time Warp by KyleCenter medallionKyle's 72 stars with a French General border print and center block from Di Ford's Antique Wedding...
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Southern Relief Fair on a Quilt
Crazy quilt recently offered in an online auction.Among the embroidered patches are several ribbons,notably this souvenir of the Ladies Southern Relief Association Fairin Baltimore, April, 1866.The...
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Dixie Dairy Sampler from 2013
Dixie Diary by ColvinKiwi, 2014The Block of the Month a couple of years ago was Dixie Diary. Did I ever show you Dorry at ColvinKiwi's finished quilt? Â She emphasized the simple pieced blocks in a...
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Jones Plantation Quilts Liberty County, Georgia
Green and red hexagon quilt on display at the Midway Museumin Liberty County, Georgia. On the left another quilt (?)in front of a photo of Mary Jones Jones.Mary Jones Mallard recalled life in the main...
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Way West Set for Westering Women Block of the Month
Way West72 x 84"Here's an idea for an innovative set for the twelve blocks in  the Westering Women Block of the Month.I've called it Way West.The twelve pieced blocks are in the west.Arrows from the...
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Clamshell with a Peterson's Magazine border
Quilt made by Ellen Lucinda  Bennett Welch (1842-1918),  Connecticut, 1861.I found this quilt on the internet, shown years ago at a quilt show at the Senior Center in Ashford, Connecticut. The...
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Modern Day Soldiers' Aid Society
Snowball or Flagstones by the Country School QuiltersThe Country School Quilters in Montpelier, Virginia, have been making quilts for veterans from my Union Blues reproduction prints.This is NOT them...
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Quilts Civil War Pinterest Page
Quilt by the Woodstock, Illinois, Woman's Relief Corps (WRC)Collection of the McHenry County Museumhttp://www.mchenrycountyhistory.org/mchs-antique-quilt-collectionThis was probably a fundraising...
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Westering Women Block 3: Sweet Gum Leaf
Block 3 Sweet Gum Leaf by Becky BrownBecky's used prints from my Old Cambridge Pike line for Moda.This map of the trails was drawn about 1907 after most native tribes were moved elsewhere and states...
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Maggie Frentz's Flag Quilt
Lincoln Flag Commemorative Pieced Quiltmade by Margaret E. Frentz, 68" x 72",date inscribed 1876.Collection of the Indiana State MuseumThis extravaganza is called the Lincoln Flag because the field of...
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Block 2 as a Quilt
Indian TerritoryI Photoshopped all the Block 2 (Indian) posts from theFlickr page that were done in repro printsand sketched a quilt.A scrappy quilt.Every other block is rotated 90 degrees.8320-15Â I...
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Seven Stars 1
Silk Star Quilt in the collection of the Museum of the Confederacy/American Civil War Museum, a gift for Jefferson Davis, attributed to the "stormiest part" of the Civil War, according to his wife...
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Grandmother's Choice Samplers
Mike EllingsenGrandmother's ChoiceMike did a great job with the color. Several years ago we did a Grandmother's Choice BOW witha history of the women's rights movement.From the Rural New Yorker in...
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Seven Stars/Seven Sisters 2
Most of us today would call the block "Seven Sisters."We tend to believe in some Civil War symbolism, as in this caption from the International Quilt Study Center & Museum's website:"Folklore has...
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Quilt Guild Block of the Month Programs
First three Westering Women blocks by Barbara S.Sheila in Nova Scotia wrote the other day:"Would it be okay if our quilt guild used the Westering Women Block of the Month as our Guild BOM starting in...
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A Union Quilt at an Annapolis Hospital
Portland, Maine from the Robert N Dennis collection of stereographsIn late 1862 sixty women of Portland, Maine, organized the Young Ladies' R F Society "to aid the Ladies San. Com.tee [Sanitary...
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Westering Women: Block 4 Lone Elm
Westering Women Block 4Lone Elm by Becky Brownusing Old Cambridge Pike printsTrees were such a rarity beyond the United States border that they became guideposts on the trails. In the first days out...
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A Union Quilt = An Eagle Quilt?
Four Eagle Quilt by a member of the Swengel family,Union County, PennsylvaniaCollection of the State Museum of Pennsylvaniahttp://statemuseumpa.org/who-made-rare-union-county-quilt/Could the Union...
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Dixie Diary URLs
Dixie Dairy by American HomesteadTwelve blocks with applique.A couple of years ago we did the Dixie Diary sampler.I thought I'd collect the sites for all the patterns in one place,which is down at the...
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1864 Amherst Four Patch
Four Patch quilt top dated 1864 in ink"Three cheers for the Red white & blue"I had not noticed this four-patch in the collection of the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian. The...
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