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Ribbons and Ribbon Badges
Queen Victoria's birthday celebration souvenir on the right,a Union Army reunion on the left.Canadian ribbons?See more quilts with ribbons in last week's post.We call them ribbons but I realized that...
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Westering Women 7: Courthouse Rock
Westering Women 7: Courthouse Rockby Denniele BohannonMany passers-by described Courthouse Rock (on the left here) in their diaries. In 1853 Celinda Hines described it as “a massive pile of rocks on...
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Symbolism in Red Work Quilts
A redwork quilt with 98 small embroidered blocks.What's it all mean?Symbolism is so dependent on the context of culture and time.The back-end view of the rabbit is cute. Does it have any meaning...
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Stellar Performances
Kathy W sent a photo of her fantastic finish for Stars in a Time Warp.I count 52 8" stars."I loved following the time warp blog and each week went thru my stash to make stars. I didn't have to buy any...
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Rebecca Fuller Decker's Quilt at the Staten Island Historical Society
Here's an intriguing glimpse of a Civil War pictorial quiltin the Staten Island Historical Society/Historic Richmond Town collection in New York.The quilt is said to have been made in Illinois during...
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#Starsinatimewarp on Instagram
Some blocks I've found on Instagram#starsinatimewarpMolly on CynthiaNanto's blocksI can't really see the blocks but the poodle's happy.Patchwork_InspirationsPost here or...
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Van Fleet Flag Quilt
Flag Quilt by Emma Jane Bullock Van Fleet, 1867Yakima Valley MuseumThis Illinois quilt is in the collection of the Yakima Valley Museum in Washington.Alfred and Emma Van FleetFrom the Yakima Valley...
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Atheline Henry's Short Life
Carl Melton,Collection of Mountain Heritage CenterWestern Carolina UniversityIn the winter of 1861 as Southern states began seceding two young women in the North Carolina mountains were making quilts....
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tag: ThreadsofMemory
DeborahdawntWe have an Instagram tag for the Threads of Memory Civil War Sampler quilt we did in 2014. Post pictures...
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Autograph Quilt Godey's Lady's Book 1864: Adeline Harris Sears's Quilt
Celebrity Signature Quilt by Adeline Harris SearsSarah Josepha Hale signed the diamond in the lower center.In April, 1864, Sarah Hale, editor of Godey's Lady's Book, wrote about a correspondent who'd...
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Westering Women 8: Chimney Rock
Westering Women 8: Chimney Rock by Denniele BohannonWestering Women 8: Chimney Rock by Becky BrownBecky used some browns and blues from my fall line Baltimore Blues."The stripe was perfect to represent...
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A Curious Reference to an Uncle Tom's Cabin Quilt
In A History of Ontario County, New York, published in 1911, author Charles F. Milliken tells the story of the county fair held in 1852 in Bristol Center, where Miss Addia Fisher won a prize "for a cap...
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Barb's Fun with Stars
Barb at Fun with Barb is setting her Time Warp Starsin a medallion set.See it here: (More dots than stars, I think.)https://funwithbarbandmary.blogspot.com/2016/08/first-round-ding.html
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A Strip Quilt in the Civil War
Repro quilt by Georgann EglinksiSomeone asked if a strip quilt would be an appropriate Civil War reproduction quilt.Georgann's quilt is an interpretation of a strip quilt from the collection of the...
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Thread Peddler Club: Civil War Women's Sewing Circle
Jane at Stitch by Stitch posted this Instagramphoto of a Civil War Sampler she quiltedHere's a great club idea from the Thread Peddler Shop in southern Missouri. They are starting a "Civil War Women's...
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Cornelia Smith Henry's Quilts
Cornelia Catherine Smith Henry (1836-1917 )Her 1855 wedding photograph.A few weeks ago I did a post on Atheline Henry, an enslaved girl in Buncombe County, North Carolina. Her short life is recorded in...
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Y Seam Woes
Dolores UmbridgeI must remind you that I was a special education teacher for many years and having students complain that the lessons are too hard does very little to deter me in my lesson...
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Lucretia Coffin Mott's Quilt
Quilt attributed to Lucretia Coffin Mott (1793-1880).#1967.0016.001Collection of the Nantucket Historical AssociationLucretia Mott was born on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts and visited family there...
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Westering Women 9:Sage Bud for Fort Laramie
Westering Women Block 9: Sage Bud by Denniele BohannonThis month's block is Sage Bud of Wyoming, named for trail landmark Fort Laramie in what is now the state of Wyoming.A small city grew up around...
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Kissie and a Contraband Quilt
Silk Quilt passed on in the Gary familyCollection of the Anacostia Community Museum1991.0097.0001This embroidered silk nine-patch has an impressive family history.Kissie Owen (1856-1945) was born into...
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