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Feed the Hungry Quilt
Silk log cabin quilt in the collection of the Missouri History Museum.It's hard to see but letters stitched in sequins on the diagonal across the blocks read:"Feed the...
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Union Basket Blocks
Terry says she's sorry she ever thought aboutdoing a pieced "Union" for Block 5.But I'm glad she did. It looks good.ColvinKiwi pieced hers too.Jeanne inked her word.She says: "Piecing, applique,...
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Lincoln's Monument Quilt Pattern
A Monument Quiltfrom Julie Silber's Inventoryhttp://juliesilberquilts.com/Newspapers and magazine offered Exchange columns in which readers offered to trade or sell items, for example advertising cards...
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Yankee Diary 7: Valentine for Noah Clarke's Brother xx
Yankee Diary 7: Valentine for Noah Clarke's Brother by Becky Brown9" Finished BlockFrom Carrie's diary, Fall, 1860. Sunday."Frankie Richardson asked me to go with her to teach a class in the colored...
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Hopkins Family Trials & Troubles
 Private Charles Sanford Hopkins.  Tinted salt-print photograph.Virginia Historical Society 2012.109.1Charles Sanford Hopkins was a member of the 5th New York Volunteer Infantry, known as Duryée’s...
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Star Quilts from Threads of Memory
Cathy's Star-stravaganzaA Note from Pat Styring in Florida:"The St Augustine Piecemakers enjoyed making your 2014 BOM, Threads of Memory during 2016-7.Pat's versionRazzle Dazzle Stars by MarthaThere...
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Mary Carswell's Second GAR Quilt
Mary Carswell wasn't much of a speller butyou have to give her credit for advocating"Eqal Wrights"Â on her 1887 Civil War Commemorative quilt."Made by Mrs. N. W. Carswell, Waterbury, Conn.,...
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Yankee Diary in Japan
Tonko at the blog ThistlyRoom from Japan has been keeping up with the Yankee Diary BOM. I just came across her blog and was thrilled to see her interest in American series patterns.Block 1Tulip &...
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Quilts at the Lee's Arlington House
Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial,has a few quilts in their collection.Arlington House under Union occupation by Robert Knox Sneden.Virginia Historical Society. The house was built about...
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More From Japan (and New Hampshire)
I showed Tonko's work last week.https://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2017/08/yankee-diary-in-japan.htmlHer Japanese quilt friend Jun wrote in a comment:"She treats inches as centimeters to make blocks....
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Edward Burges Marches Off to Fight the Yankees
Women on the piazza, the side porch of a Charleston house,watching Confederate troops camped on the Battery overlooking the harbor,Harper's Weekly, May, 1861"We have Dress parades every afternoon....
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Civil War Sampler on Instagram
Civilwarquiltsampler is an Instagram tag. Someone hasbeen working on a Civil War Sampler from my book.Love his/her fabric choices.Instagram is easier to lurk on than to post on.I get tired of texting...
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Soldier's Memorial Quilt from Farina, Illinois
The owner of this quilt posted a photo on Instagram with the caption that it was made to record the Civil War veterans in Farina, Illinois. In QuiltStories she said her great-great grandfather's family...
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Yankee Diary 8: A Wartime Wedding & Checkerboard Strips
Becky's top half in progresswith the checkerboard filler blocks.Yankee Diary #8Â Â A Wartime WeddingIt was silly to plan the checkerboard filler for anything but the last month but this error in planning...
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Grant Banner Quilt
Banner Quilt made for General Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil Warby the Ladies' Social Circle of Eureka, California.Collection of the Clarke Museum in Eureka.Every couple of years the Clarke...
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Civil War Quilts: Block of the Month
Trolling around to see what's up in the reproduction fabric world I've come across some Blocks of the Month designs that may interest you. Perfect for your reproduction stashes---or buy new fabric.Pam...
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Old Abe the Eagle
The show of historical quilts now on display at the East Tennessee Historical Societyin Knoxville features Lillie Harvey's Knoxville Crazy Quilt with its imageof "Old Abe...dead & gone....Died in...
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Antebellum Album 1840-1860: Free Civil War Block of the Month 2018
Antebellum Album 1840-1860Â Â We tend to picture all 19th-century Americans facing off across the Mason-Dixon line in a deeply divided North and South. But before the Civil War the border line was not so...
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Emma Civey Stahl's Pictorial Quilt
Block 11. Detail of a pictorial quilt attributed toEmma Civey Stahlabout 1870.Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of ArtEmma Stahl's quilt is called the Women's Rights Quilt or Suffragette...
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Ooops.
All summer my Do List has said "Bind Yankee Diary Quilt."This week I ...1) Remembered where I put the quilted top.2) Remembered where I put the binding fabric.3) Cut the binding fabric.4) Began to trim...
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