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Label for Westering Women
Brenda reminded me that I hadn't made a label for your Westering Women quilts. So here it is.The black box is about 3" x 4-1/2".I used an image from a cowboy-themed feedsack with a wagon drawn by...
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A Quilt for General Grant from Herkimer, New York
Eagle quilt, late 1860s.Civil War Commemorative.The eagle in the center of this quilt holds a banner with the words:"Free and unfettered our Eagle shall soar. The reign of oppression forever is...
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Pat's Westering Women
Pat Styring sent a photo of her finished Westering Women sampler.She added some free-form floral applique---Broderie Perse---to the blocks.And stitched the name of each block in the sashing.She...
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Anti-Slavery Boycotts: Sugar
Quaker Elizabeth Coleman Heyrick (1769-1831) of LeicesterIn 1824 Englishwoman Elizabeth Coleman Heyrick published a pamphlet titled Immediate Not Gradual Abolition, promoting the idea that slavery...
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Right Makes Might: Block 4
JeanneTime to look at finished flags, the April, 2017block for Yankee Diary.TerryThe print, a repro of a late 19th-c flag printDaniceDaisyusanhKristiMay is a long month (good thing). Next pattern in...
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Free Labor Fabrics & A Few Quaker Quilts
Detail of a silk patchwork quilt by Quaker Rachel Goodwin Woodnut,Salem, New Jersey, 1827-1828Collection of the Winterthur Museum.In 1832 poet Elizabeth Margaret Chandler wrote about a quilting party...
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Union Baskets
Basket with a Union FlagThis extraordinary block is from a quilt in thecollection of the Indiana State Museumby Martha McFeely FryAccording to family records when the quilt was donated, Martha McFeely...
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Yankee Diary 5: A Union Basket
Block 5 Union Basketby Barbara Brackman11" finished basket in a 15" finished blockMy top is at the quilter's.Lori Kukuk should be done soon.In spring, 1861, Carrie's town was in a patriotic fervor as...
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Dixie Rose
Block from a North Carolina quiltThe North Carolina Quilt Project discovered several unusual patterns, including this applique design, which local tradition called the Dixie Rose.Quilt by an unknown...
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Digital Train Wreck
My digital pattern business has been a virtual train wreck this past few weeks.At least for patterns 5-8 of Yankee Diary.And it's all my fault. I went on vacation.First I tried to get everything...
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Antislavery Fair Crib Quilt by Mary Lincoln Cabot
Quilt by Mary Hersey Lincoln Cabot (1817-1897), about 184035-1/2" squareThe Hingham Massachusetts Historical Society has in itscollection this anti-slavery crib quilt in excellent condition.It's pieced...
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Thistle Quilters' Westering Women
The Thistle Quilt Guild in Nova Scotia, Canada, just had their quilt show. This display is all Westering Women samplers.Sheila's modelSheila, the program director, organized the guild's...
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Quilts Buried With the Silver #3
Quilt in the collection of the Ohio Historical Society.#H5607This is not an Ohio quilt. At first glance the cut-out chintz appliquelooks to be a Southern quilt. The caption confirms that regional...
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Flags & Baskets & Flags
Danice has finished Block #5The Union BasketAnd Vrooman's Quilts is on her way.A few more flags from mid-19th-century albums.Fitting a flag into a square, nicely done inMary Nevius Potter's album at...
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Potholder Quilt: Any Holder but a Slave Holder
"Good Bye Dixie"A few years ago a California blogger wrote a post about a family hand-me-down: A crazy quilt from Beloit (Wisconsin?)It's a typical crazy quilt from about 1880-1900, butshe thought the...
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Yankee Diary 6: Heart and Hand
Block # 6Heart & Handby Becky BrownFrom Carrie's diary, August, 1863."Canandaigua sent Dr. W. Fitch Cheney to Gettysburg with supplies for the sick and wounded and he took seven assistants with...
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Speer Family Quilt
Quilt attributed to Mary Elizabeth Speer Neff.Arizona Project & the Quilt Index.Nearly 30 years ago the Arizona Quilt Project documented a red and green quilt from the Speer family of Lawrence,...
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More Flags For Inspiration
Yale Engine Company Quilt, SmithsonianIt's the Fourth of July, the annual celebration of Independence from our colonial masters.This one from the at the SmithsonianIn designing the Yankee Diary quilt I...
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Stolen Coverlet from Stonewall Jackson's House
"This piece of coverlet belonged to Col. E.W. Penny taken out of Stonewall Jacksons house after the U.S. Civil War xx in 1865."The tags says E.W. Penny, 1142 High Street, Topeka KansasFrom an online...
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Heart & Hand Blocks: Keeping Up with Yankee Diary
Block 6 from Yankee DiaryI got my Yankee Diary quilt back from machinequilter Lori Kukuk. Stars & bubbles.I wanted whimsy and I got it.I found some other finished blocks for...
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