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A Maryland Civil War Quilt?
Eagle medallion quilt with dogtooth appliqued border.Pictures float around the internet. Pinterest posts lose creditsand copyright---captions are completely gone. Where did this picture come from?It...
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Yankee Diary 9: Our Thoughts Are Intense
Yankee Diary #9Our Thoughts Are Intense by Barbara BrackmanCarrie's sweetheart Lieut. E. C. Clark led recruiting in Ontario County in spring, 1863From Carrie's Diary. May, 1863."A number of the...
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Two Antislavery Quilts
Signature Quilt with an antislavery message, about 1848,in the collection of the Royall House.From the Massachusetts Project & the Quilt Index.The Royall House & Slave Quarters is a...
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Northern Lily & Southern Rose
Got these photos recently of some beautiful hand quiltingby Candice Greco, a friend of a friend.The pattern for her quilt is from my book Quilts From the Civil War"Northern Lily & Southern...
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Picture Rocks Ladies' Aid Society
Winslow Homer's drawing of a Ladies' Aid Society in Harper's Weekly, 1862During the Civil War women all over the Union formed Ladies' Aid Societies that were branches of the U.S. Sanitary Commission....
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All Block Twos
Yankee DiaryBlock 2: Susan B.'s Star by Denniele BohannonWhat if you made a dozen of block 2 and alternated dark and light shading?Here are your blocks and a couple of darkPhotoshopped block 2s. They...
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A Nurse in Uniform: What War?
Nurse Amelia Mazzara (1831 - 1897)Collection of the California Historical SocietyPhotos of Civil War nurses are rare. Nurse Mazzara's picture was published in the California Historical Society...
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Repro Prints Fall 2017
Cheddar & Friends - Pam BudaI've been checking out reproduction prints in shops this fall. I found some fabric collections echoing the Civil War era.Abundant Blessings - Kim DiehlI was looking for...
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Martha Ann Barlow's Quilt for Lincoln
Mary Todd LincolnCopy of a photo by Wenderoth and Taylor, 1864Library of Congresshttps://www.loc.gov/photos/?q=mary+todd+lincolnThe New York Times noted a silk quilt displayed at the Soldier's Fair in...
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Yankee Diary 10: Leaves of Autumn
Yankee Diary 10: Leaves of Autumnby Becky BrownSusan Elizabeth Daggett 1841-1931Susie Daggett was a leader in Carrie's Canandaigua "Society," first called the Young Ladies' Sewing Society and once the...
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A Southern Quilt Linking North and South
Cut-out Chintz Album QuiltKansas Museum of HistoryAbout ten years ago Betty saw a photo of this quilt in my book Quilts from the Civil War.At the time we knew something about the quilt. It was the...
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Another Northern Lily/Southern Rose
I finally finished my version ofthe Northern Lily/Southern Rose sampler quiltI designed for my 2011 reproduction lineCivil War Reunion.I worked with Moda's designer Susan Stiff on this quilt. I drew up...
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Ellen Dicus Ex Slave
Thousands of people who'd lived as slaves made quilts but few made a note of their past history. This block was pictured in Patsy & Myron Orlofsky's Quilts in America in 1974, in the collection of...
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Tonko's Tiny Yankee Diary
Tonko's Block 9Our Thoughts Are IntenseTonko in Japan is keeping up with the Yankee Diary Block of the Month.She doesn't convert my pattern instructionsfrom inches to centimeters. She just changes the...
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A Civil War Quilt?
This quilt photo has found its way to several of those internet printing services that take images in the public domain and print them for you.There's no information on the source or the history of the...
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Stars in a Time Warp: Gladi's We Are Stardust
Gladi Porsche. We Are Star Dust.Gladi's goal is to finish hand quilting her Stars in a Time Warpby January because she is having a one-artist show at the New England Quilt Museum.A terrific appliqued...
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Monuments & Memorials
Memorial Quilt from Julie Silber's inventory.Stacked stones underneath an obelisk.http://shop.thequiltcomplex.com/2008/09/quilts-for-sale_17.php"Grant's Monument Quilt Block"from an old scrapbookThe...
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Next Year's Civil War Block of the Month
Antebellum Album2018 BOMWe are working on next year's BOM to be posted as a free pattern here at the Civil War Quilts blog.The blocks will be pieced, drawn from designs popular for Antebellum Album...
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A Day at Philadelphia’s Great Central Fair
On June 25, 1864 Emilie Davis and Sarah Wister, living together in Germantown, Pennsylvania, “went to town [Philadelphia].” In her diary entry for the day Emilie wrote they went “to see the great...
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Yankee Diary 11: Victory is Grant-ed
Block 12Victory is Grant-edFrom Carrie's Diary:April 10, 1865"We were quietly eating our breakfast this morning about 7 o'clock, when our church bell commenced to ring, then the Methodist bell, and now...
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