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Past Perfect: Shopping for Civil War Repros
When I used to travel and teach about making reproduction quilts my favorite classroom site was in a quilt shop. I could drag out bolts of fabric to show people the perfect prints to copy a certain...
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Abigail Hopper Gibbons: Civil War Nurse
May 20, 1864Hospital yard at Fredricksburg, VirginiaThe photograph above, an iconic image of the Civil War, shows weary patients and nurse resting outside a field hospital. Photographer James Gardner...
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Past Perfect Pinterest Pages: Reproduction Prints
A Pinterest page of purplesBelow are a few of the many Pinterest Pages I've assembled about different historic quilt color and print styles. Once you've found one of them you can click on the picture...
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Abolitionist Quilt at the Chester County Historical Society
Pennsylvania's Chester County Historical Society owns a baby quilt by the Herrick Sewing Circle of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The central feathered star block is inked with a poem that indicates...
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Civil War Sampler Finishes
BJM followed Becky's set.This blog started in 2011 with a few blocksinspired by the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.That grew to 50 blocks, andseven more years.SundayBee designed her own set.Here...
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Knit Yourself a Sontag
If you're looking for an authentic Civil War craft project to fill those evening hours in re-enactment camp after you've done the dishes you can knit yourself a small triangular shawl or a sontag.Also...
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Westering Women 10: Rocky Mountain Chain
Westering Women 10: Rocky Mountain Chain by Becky BrownBecky's story that guided her choice of fabrics:"Camping at Fort Laramie: a chance to supplement supplies and refresh ourselves mentally and...
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Quilts for William Lloyd Garrison
"Hannah S. P. Cotton [Whitney]...was one of the constructors of the remarkable patch-work quilt, sent by the Anti Slavery women of Boylston to Mrs. Chapman's great Fair of more than a half century ago...
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Repeating the Westering Women Blocks
Westering Women: Chimney Rock, 72" x 72"Rod's Chimney RockVesuviusMama added more seams----no Y seams.Block 8 wasn't easy to make but if you made 25....And alternated light and dark shading...
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Spared and Shared: Sewing and Cricket Coverings
Sewing, ironing, cleaning and other women's workAbout 1910Letter from Mary Ann (Arnold) Stevens to Olivia (Arnold) HitchcockWestminster West [Vermont]August 31, 1846"I suppose if you were here, you...
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2017 Block of the Month: Yankee Diary
Next year this blog will feature a free Block of the Month pattern called Yankee Diary. Each month in 2017 you'll get a pieced or applique pattern for a Civil War reproduction sampler inspired by...
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Disaster at the AntiSlavery Fair & a Quilt for Abby Kelley Foster
Women staffing the tables at the 1864 Metropolitan Fair in ManhattanThe ladies of West Winfield, New York, put on an antislavery fair in 1846 (I'm assuming it was in the fair season around Christmas)...
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Sage Bud---Coordinating the Blocks
Joanne's Sage BudI've been collecting photos of your Sagebud block (#9 in Westering Women)MaminounidColvinKiwiStar2tiaJJan added more seams to avoid Y-seams.getting the same block if not the same...
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A Union Quilt: Definitions & Descriptions
"Union" on a quilt about 1860http://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2015/03/a-new-jersey-union-quilt.htmlIn 1863 nurse Adeline M. Walker thanked the ladies of Portland, Maine, for their "Union Quilt"...
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Sets for Westering Women
Jeanne's been setting her Westering Women blocks monthly as she makes them.She's using the official set with 3" finished sashing.Instructions...
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Quaker Community and a Kidnapped Family
Photoshopped collage of Mary Payne's quilt block about1850 and her portrait about 1890Quilts are significant in their link to the past. They engage families with their own history. They also draw an...
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Westering Women 11: Bear's Paw
Block #11 Bear’s Paw by Becky BrownThis month's block for our Westering Women sampler is a version of the traditional Bear’s Paw, chosen to remember trail landmarks Soda Springs and the Bear River.The...
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Fredericksburg's Confederate Cemetery
Over Thanksgiving we visited the Confederate Cemetery in Fredericksburg, Virginia.The color pictures are mine; the black & whites from the Library of Congress.3,500 graves mark the burial places of...
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Fabric for Yankee Diary
Susan B Rogers quilt, 1867, Smithsonian Institution collectionSusan's quilt is one of the samplers that provided inspiration for our 2017 Block of the Month Yankee Diary. It begins Wednesday, January...
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Pennsylvania Anti Slavery Fair, December, 1847
Mid-19th-century silk hexagon quiltCorrespondent "C." from Chester County, Pennsylvania, wrote an account of the twelfth annual Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Fair in 1847, held "as usual, on the 4th, 5th,...
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