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Label for Your Yankee Diary Quilt
Tonko's got her tiny top quilted and bound.Here's a label for your Yankee Diary quilt from 2017.If you print it as is it should be 5" giving you plenty of room to write.Note I didn't put a date on it....
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Correction to Block 2 Antebellum Album
Yes, I know most of you haven't even seen Block 2 (scheduled for posting February 28th) but if you bought the patterns 1-4 there's an error. See above.Thank you Nancy
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Mary Lincoln Quilts???
The label on this old photograph of a silk crazy quiltis hard to read but it definitely says"Quilt made by Mrs. Abraham Lincoln"I've been reading about Mary Todd Lincoln and I was surprised to see this...
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Social Media Sites: Antebellum Album Quilts
Me (or a close facsimile)Trying to be more with-it lately I have been doingsome social mediating or whatever the proper verb is.Here are some sites to post pictures from the quilt-alongs we've been...
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Serving Time & Keeping Busy
Crocheted collar in the collection of the Library of Congressby Antonia Ford Willard, made for her mother Julia F. Ford"This collar was was made in the old Capitol prison during Antonia's incarceration...
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Finishes BOMs from Years Past
Mary Ellen at Little Quilts has finished quilting her2014 BOM Threads of MemoryAnd I found this version by Teddybears/mamabearLiz at Gone to the Beach finished her Westering Women sampler from 2016....
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Slave Made Quilt? Unlikely.
Chalice Quilt, Marshall, TexasEstimated Date"From 1855 (circa) to 1865 (circa)"Collection of the American Museum in BritainAcquisition number 1983.172Â The quilt was given to the Museum by Mrs. W....
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Antebellum Album #2: Lend & Borrow
Antebellum Album #2Â Lend & Borrow by Pat StyringEmiline F. Cross attended Mount Holyoke Seminary in South Hadley, Massachusetts, thirty miles from her home, graduating from the elite women's...
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Soldiers & Celebrities
Tied quilt with 168 inked signatures.76 inches x 88 inches. Thought to have been made in Boston, 1876-1884Lucy Hayes's signature and her husband's are framedin an accompanying piece."RBHayesNov....
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Antebellum Album Photos
Go to the Facebook Group:https://www.facebook.com/groups/799666626885682/Click on Photos in the column on the left. See what's new.
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Post War Party in Boston: Quilts from the Freedmen's Schools
Students and teacher at a Freedmen's School,late-19th centuryThe Freedmen's Record, June, 1865"While a grateful nation is welcoming back its soldiers from their victorious battle-fields, it seemed...
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Oh Scrap! Repro Stars
Sherbet Stars by Lissa AlexanderNow that's a pretty picture.It's from Lissa Alexander's new book Oh, Scrap! - Fabulous Quilts That Make the Most of Your StashI wrote a introduction on the history of...
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Tarrytown Fair Quilt
The Connecticut Quilt Project documented this unusual quilt which is connected to a July, 1864 Sanitary Commission Benefit Fair in Tarrytown, Westchester County, New York.In the central...
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Scraps of History: Post Civil-War Scrap Quilts
Great repro of a late-19th-century scrap quilt by Lissa AlexanderWe're Blog Hopping this week about the new book Oh Scrap!A few more scraps of history from the book.Same idea---smaller pieces.From...
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It's Old Abe Forever: The Nunda Lodge Quilt
Quilt known as the Nunda Lodge QuiltCollection of the Chicago Historical SocietyThis flag-strewn quilt gives us much narrative information."It's Old.AbeForeverGen's Grant ShermanSheridanThomasNunda...
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Antebellum Album #3 Friendship Star
Antebellum Album #3 Friendship Star by Mark Lauer in traditional printsAlbum quilt top dated 1844 through 1858 in the collection of the North Carolina Museum of History (H.2000.96.2). Six signers in...
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Liverpool's Grand Southern Bazaar
Ladies's fairs were similar in England and the U.S.A rather odd footnote to the role of women in the American Civil War is the Grand Southern Bazaar in Liverpool, England, held in October, 1864, about...
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Block # 2: Some Virtual Quilts
Paula MKim D.I pulled a few of the second block Lend & Borrow from our Facebook group and madethem consistent by squaring them up and changing theshading to a consistent light.Lisa J.DelaineMarsha...
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Cats on Quilts
Here's a patriotic sampler I found in the records of the Tennesseeproject and the Quilt Index. I betcha there's a New York connection.It has at least three blocks that you often see in New York...
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What If Sampler Blocks Vary in Size?
What Me Worry?A Solution in a quilt about 1900from the Connecticut project and the Quilt IndexWhat If?Sampler blocks always vary in size. It's due to different proportions in each block, the way EQ...
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