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Quilts Buried With the Silver ---or should have been
Center of a chintz quilt,perhaps made between 1825 & 1850.The Arizona Quilt Project has a good photo of this cut-out-chintz quilt on the Quilt...
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Lincoln Museum Quilt Kit Giveaway
The Lincoln Museum Quilt84" x 96"Deb Rowden and FriendsTHE GIVE-AWAY IS OVER. Lori is the winner. I picked an arbitrary number (not a random number) of 24 and she was the 24th commenter. Since I read...
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Lincoln in Quilts: Log Cabins, Flags and Roses
Silk quilt made with campaign ribbons featuring Abraham Lincolnby Maggie Frentz, of New Albany, Indiana.This fragile quilt takes a lot of room to display horizontally so the curators at the Indiana...
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Stars in a Time Warp: Finishes in 2017
Hartwell Stars2015-2017Cynthia's Second Stars in a Time WarpThe Stars in a Time Warp Quilt Along ran here in 2015. Some people finished quilts or tops this year.Cynthia at Wabi-sabi QuiltsShe...
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Nine-Patch Quilt on Hilton Head Island
Eliza Ann Summers (1844-1900)Soon after the Civil War 23-year-old Eliza Ann Summers volunteered for a difficult job. The American Missionary Association needed women in Georgia to teach freed children...
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Yankee Diary: Block 11 Progress
Tonko's Block 11Victory is Grant-edhttp://thistlyroom.blog59.fc2.com/blog-entry-984.htmlBear Necessitieshttp://www.bear-necessities.net/2017/12/blog-post.htmlHer lower left cornerJeanne at SpiralWait a...
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A Boston Bazaar in Rhyme
If it's Christmas in Boston in the 1850s I'm heading on down to Faneuil Hall for the annual antislavery fair. There will be quilts for sale and probably imported fabrics donated by local merchantsand...
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Yankee Diary 12: Yankee Mourning
Block # 12 Yankee Mourningby Denniele BohannonBoy wearing a Lincoln mourning pin From Carrie's diary:April 15, 1864."The news came this morning that our dear president, Abraham Lincoln, was...
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Setting the Yankee Diary Quilt
Yankee Diary by Barbara Brackman42" x 54"Quilted by Lori KukukYankee Diary by Denniele BohannonHere are the setting instructions for the Yankee Diary quilt. As we've sewn along you've received setting...
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A Silk Quilt for President Lincoln
New England Kitchen at the Brooklyn Sanitary Fair in 1864Right before the last Christmas of the Civil War the women of Chicago put on a fundraising fair for the Union cause. "The New England Farm House...
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Antebellum Album for 2018: Fabric & Set
It's 2018 and I haven't told you enough about the new free Block of the Month here at Civil War Quilts. The twelve sampler blocks will all be pieced, drawn from designs popular for Antebellum Album...
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A Confederate Sewing Kit
The first Confederate flag indicates this small sewing kitor "housewife" was stitched early in the Civil War.The roll-up is in the collection of the Fort Morgan Historical Siteat the mouth of Mobile...
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Yankee Diary Border & an Epilogue
Yankee Diary with a 6" finished Checkerboard Border54" x 66"My digital sketch that isn’t totally to scale but you get the idea.This border uses the pattern from Month 8: Squares cut 3-1/2", finishing...
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Lucretia Mott's Quilt in Nantucket
Medallion quilt dated 1833 by antislavery activist Lucretia Coffin Mott (1793-1880)Collection of the Nantucket Historical AssociationWendy Coffin sent me a link to this great photo of a quilt by one of...
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Denniele's Ribbon of Stars Border
Yankee Diary by Denniele Bohannon58" x 70"As soon as Denniele began thinking about last year's Civil War quilt she decided on this star border.Her field of blocks measures 42" x 54"Two plain borders...
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Sewing Machines circa 1860
Wheeler and Wilson ad with a young seamstress.The framed poster on the left advertises the ParisExposition Universelle of 1867In looking for illustrations for the post a few weeks ago on the quilted...
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Yankee Diary: Links to Free Patterns
1 KristiTulip & Libertyhttp://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2017/01/yankee-diary-block-1tulip-liberty.htmlIn this post:Â Links to all the blocks for Yankee Diary,our 2017 Block of the Month.Click on...
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Losing David Leche
Lieut David Leche 1825-1862"In Memory Of Lieut. David H. Leche. Co.D 2nd Reg. Pennsylvania Cavalry, born in Baltimore, Md. June 2, 1825. He fell in the service of his country at Bacon`s Creek near...
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Antebellum Album #1: Wandering Lover
Block # 1 Wandering Lover by Becky BrownThe first block in our 2018 series Antebellum Album features Indiana Fletcher whose family tells us much about cross border relationships North and South before...
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Buried with the Silver: Temperance Smoot's Quilt & A Sad Tale
Quilt attributed to Temperance Neely Smoot byher great-granddaughter in 1986.Temperance Smoot's descendant brough this quiltto a documentation day in Alamance County, North Carolina.The pattern is...
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