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A Texas Secession Quilt?
This Lone Star quilt was recently offered in an online auction, advertised as:"Sumner County, Tennessee Civil War era quilt in the 'Lone Star' pattern, made by Mary Jane Harris Pond in 1861 to...
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Yankee Diary Block 2: Susan B.'s Star
Block 2 Susan B.'s Star by Barbara BrackmanFrom Carrie's Diary: December 20, 1855."Susan B. Anthony is in town and spoke in Bemis Hall this afternoon. She made a special request that all the seminary...
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Quilts Buried with the Silver 1
Whig's Defeat or Missouri Beauty.The Arizona Quilt Project recorded this quilt's family names and story.It was kept in a tree during Civil War battles to keep marauding soldiers fromstealing it.Quilt...
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Way West: Blazing a Trail
Way West: Blazing a Trail by Barbara SchafferBarbara has finished her Westering Womne sampler!She used traditional fabrics with the nontraditional set.See more photos...
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Quilts Buried with the Silver 2 North & South
Cut-out-chintz block quilt in the Collection of the Charleston Museum.Attached to the quilt is a note reading:"Got wet and stained the night of Sherman's...
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Yankee Diary: Susan B Anthony's Star
Denniele's Block #2with a ghostly Susan BMarch 8 is International Women's Day so we're celebrating todaywith Block #2 from the Yankee Diary Quilt, Susan B.'s Star.In the 1870s Susan B. Anthony was...
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A Trio of Eagle Borders
I tend to think of appliqued eagles as a symbol more popular before the Civil War than during.But this trio of border eagles indicates that an eagle border might be perfect fora Civil War reproduction...
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Cornelia Calhoun's Quilt
John C. Calhoun's South Carolina home Fort Hill, which is part of Clemson University, has shown several quilts over the years. Calhoun was the major spokesman for secessionists and pro-slavery...
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Westering Women Finishes in Red
Joanne at Thread Head is FINISHED quilting her Westering Women sampler.She used the traditional set with what looks to be 2-1/2" finished sashing (she says 2"----5" border)and found the perfect red...
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Working For the Fair
Pennsylvania Women showing a large flag at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts,1861Lloyd Ostendorf CollectionNational ArchivesBelow is an unsigned poem that appears to be unique to this particular...
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Yankee Diary Block 3: Double Ties
Yankee Diary Block 3: Double Tiesby Denniele BohannonDetail of an album quilt made to celebrate Mary Fields Fisk's marriage in 1865.Collection of the Ontario County Historical Society, Canandaigua.From...
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Disunion Quilt
Annie Darden in North Carolina left a diary but no quilt.March 19 [1861]"I have finished all the squares for my quilt. I think I shall call it a DISUNION QUILT as it will be made different from any I...
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Resources for Pieced BOM's & Quiltalongs
Westering Women by Mark LauerMark just finished his sampler, which he pieced and bordered with prints from my Alice's Scrapbag repro collection from a year or two ago.Nice collaboration, me and Mark...
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Quilt Honoring Jeff Davis
In 1915 the town of Red Bluff, in northern California, celebrated April 10th as the "Anniversary of Lee's Surrender" the end of the Civil War.Old soldiers, civic-minded women and school children marked...
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March Finishes for Westering Women
Pink Deenster has finished setting her bright blocks (she also did a low-contrast set.)She made up her own clever set that alternates blocks on point with blocks on the straight. Basic geometry means...
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The Generals' Wives' Quilt
National Quilt,Collection of the Ohio Historical Society1888For decades after the Civil War, the Union Veterans' group The Grand Army of the Republic held annual national "Encampments," huge reunions...
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Block 3 Finishes: Double Ties
Daisyusanh's finished her 5 versions of Block 3,the Double Tie. We can see where she's goingwith some great period calicoes.Jeannie at Spiral has a patriotic color scheme in mind.As does Vrooman's...
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34 Stars in a Flag
Patriotic QuiltEstimated date 1861 - 1863This Civil-War-era quilt is hard to appreciate from a photograph but it is certainly notable. Documented by the New Jersey quilt project, it is estimated to...
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Yankee Diary Block 4: Right Makes Might
Yankee Diary Block 4: Right Makes Mightby Danielle Bohannon.A 15" finished flag.From Carrie's diary, February 28, 1860."Grandfather asked me to read Abraham Lincoln's speech aloud which he delivered in...
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Civil War Album Style
1861, Esther Griffin for her daughter MaryIt's time to think about next year's Block of the Month with a Civil War theme. I think it should be pieced as I wanted the piecers to have their year without...
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