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Seven Sisters/Seven Stars 3---More Thoughts on Symbolism?
Quilt documented in the Quilts of Tennessee project.Photo from the Quilt IndexA unique setting arrangement of the Seven Stars designBy Sarah Jane MyersAnother example from Quilts of Tennessee with an...
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Quilted & Bound
Civil War Wavesby Carol Ann92 Stars!The stars are from last year's Time Warp series.A clever set.The waves are in the sashing.
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Minnie Sherman Fitch's Quilt
Grand Army Quilt by Minnie Sherman FitchAbout 1885-1910This is the last weekend to see the crazy quilt with a Civil War theme that is on display at the New York Historical Society.Threads of Women's...
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Westering Women 5: The Platte River
Westering Women Block 5: The Platte River by Becky BrownBecky says she tries to make a story each month with the fabric. "The center is the murky river water, surrounded by the dark muddy banks. . .the...
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Buying a Chariot Wheel Quilt
A chariot wheel?Estimated date 1840-1880Eliza Suggs was born after the Civil War to parents who had been slaves in North Carolina. In 1906 she published Shadows and Sunshine, a book about her family...
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More Finished Stars in a Time Warp
I have neglected to show Victoria Carroll's finished Stars in a Time Warpset with triangle blocks of madder shadesand bound with a stripeAnd Barbara at Cookie's CreeksTwo good illustrations of why you...
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St Louis Sanitary Fair quilt in Nebraska
Silk hexagon quilt in the collection of the Nebraska State Historical SocietySignatures in the white hexagons in the center are now mostly unreadable but one is U.S. Grant.The ink chemistry has...
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Sixty-three Stars
Danice at Homespun Hannah bloghttp://homespunhannahblog.blogspot.com/2016/04/stars-in-time-warp-quilt-top-completed.html'63 stars on point...54" x 63"And the PinkDeenster finished her Grandmother's...
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Jemima Cook's Secession Quilt
"Secession Quilt" by Jemima Ann Thewitts Williamson Cook (1808- ?). Fairfield County, South Carolina. 108" X 108"In my book Quilts of the Civil War I mention but do not show the above quilt. Showing a...
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Block 3 x 16
Block 3 from Westering WomenThe Sweet Gum Leaf is one of my favorites.You may recognize your block in this collageI did of pictures from our Flickr group.A grid of 4x4 would make a 48" quilt.Just...
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Amanda Spering's Irish Chain Quilt
In my paper files of Civil War quilts I have a picture from the magazine Traditional Quiltworks #82 in 2002.The caption:"The Civil War Quilt (100" Square) is an Irish Chain made in the colors of the...
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Wendy's Potholder Stars Headed for AQSG Auction
Stars in a Time Warp---6" Stars in period printsWendy at the Constant Quilter has been turning her starsinto potholder blocks,which means she is binding and finishing out each block as a unitand then...
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Graveyard Quilts for Mourning
Quilt by Elizabeth Roseberry Mitchell (1799-1857)Collection of the Kentucky Historical Society,Donated in 1959 by her granddaughter Nina Aura Mitchell Biggs (1866-1968), a local historian and...
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Westering Women 6: Hill and Hollow
Block 6 Hill and Hollow by Becky Brown"July 27, 1857. Traveled the distance of about two and a half miles over sand hills the most terrible I ever beheld. Encamped on the banks of the Platt river for...
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Marin City Negro History Club's Portrait Quilts
During the early 1950s women in Marin County, California celebrated African-American history by making a pair of large quilts portraying Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass.Harriet TubmanBen Irvin...
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Gladi Wins a Prize!
Gladi won a ribbon at the Vermont Quilt Festival last weekfor her Stars in a Time Warp quilt called Stella Nova.Judge Gerald Roy chose hers for Viewer's Choice.The hand quilting may have been the...
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Lincoln Memorial Quilt from the Massachusetts Project
"In Memory of Abraham Lincoln""President of the U. States""Assassinated at WashingtonApril 12th 1865"The Massachusetts project has included this photo of a Civil War memorial quilt at the Quilt...
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Meanwhile at Another Blog
4 Janet Perkins8 Jeanne at SpiralOver on my Material Culture blog we are making hexies....Barbara S at GravestonesAbove and BelowCheck the Morris Hexathon every Saturday for a free Block of the...
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Reunion Ribbon Quilts
You couldn't have a Civil War Reunion without souvenir ribbons. 113th Illinois Reunion in Palatine, IllinoisMany were saved in crazy quiltsThis spectacular example is from the collection of Dr. Roy...
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Vermont Quilt Festival Winners: More Reproduction Quilts
Marsha Malloy of Massachusettswon first prize for Best Use of Reproduction Fabricsat the June Vermont Quilt Festival.And Theresa Tiburzi of Maryland won the Founder's Awardfor her reproduction of the...
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