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Great Bazaar in Columbia, South Carolina
Fair-goer suffering from "Crewel Kindness" loaded downwith afghans, slippers, caps and pincushions---homemade itemssold for the cause.In January, 1865 the women of Columbia held a fundraising fair for...
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Fussy Cutting & Problem Solving
Cindy BBlock 3 is turning out quite nicelywith several posting pictures of fussy cuttinginspired by our model makers.Becky fussy cut both center and points.Delaine and Lisa fussed with the star...
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1864 Quilting Party in St. Louis
I found this photo from the 1864 Sanitary Fair in St. Louis recently.That is a quilting frame.And that is NOT Abraham Lincoln sitting at it.I am looking for more information and a better scan but I bet...
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Antebellum Album 4: Quaker Pride
Antebellum Album 4: Quaker Pride by Mark LauerBlock from the Aimwell School Quilt, Philadelphia, 1847. Collection of the Historical Society of Moorestown, New Jersey.This month's block is found in a...
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Memorial Quilt for an Ohio Soldier
The Ohio quilt project documented a memorial quilt from1869 with two mourning blocks lamenting the deathof Lewis A. Hulse."Lewis. A. Hulse. Member Co A 69th Reg O.V.I. Died Feb 16th 1863, at Nashville...
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Antebellum Inking Ideas
Quilt block in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.The Philadelphia Museum of Art has a couple of groups of album blocks with beautiful inking. And they have good shots of the signatures,...
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Dastardly Border Ruffians
In the years before the Civil War a border war was fought in Kansas where free-state and slave-state emigrants came to vote on the territory's future status. Things got ugly as you can see by this...
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Southern Charm
Collection of the Charleston Museum #1992.45.2106" square.The Charleston Museum's annual quilt show comes down at the end of this month. Piece by Piece: Geometric Quilts features pieced quilts from...
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Lydia Hamilton Smith and a Movie Quilt
Tommy Lee Jones & S. Epatha Merkerson as Antislavery Activists Thaddeus Stevens & Lydia Hamilton Smith in the 2012 movie LincolnAlways being up on the latest in cinema I just got around...
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Quaker Pride---Block History
I tossed 20 of your blocks into a digital quilt.Looks pretty good.Dated 1851, made by students at the Five Point Schoolin Warren County, Ohio. Ohio Historical Society Collection.I have many photos of...
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Military Memory in a Sampler
Eagle with cannons, a liberty cap and 9 stars,block from a mid-19th-century applique sampler.Mexican War or Civil War?I've been collecting photos of applique samplers for nextyear's block of the month....
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Westering Women Samplers
Kay BI've found some Westering Women finishes on the internet.Great fabric choices here.Fishmermaidman Posted Mom's quilt on InstagramAnn L at the GardenofNeedles blogSee a post a few months ago on...
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Quilts Buried With the Silver-Or Should Have Been
Quilt by Jane McCullough Mosby (1785-1877)Estimated date 1840-1860This chintz quilt's journey tells us a little about Virginia's Civil War. It's pictured in a website about the culture in the Upper...
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Antebellum Album #5: Cross & Crown
Block 5: Cross and Crown by Denniele BohannonOur fifth Antebellum Album block is a version of a pattern we might call Bear's Paw or Goose Tracks. This month's focus is a Massachusetts public...
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A Collecting Coup: Annie Bell
Anyone interested in women in the Civil War has seen this photograph,which is usually labeled as a nurse feeding a patient.Lately, she has been identified as Annie Bell, matronat a Nashville Union...
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MINOR Error in Pattern #5
Block 5 Antebellum AlbumCross & Crownby Susan V.The signature is from her family member.You may have noticed that you cut too many 4-1/2" squares for the Cross and Crown block. I've updated the...
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Patriotic Headdress
A headdress shown in Godey's Lady's Book in 1861Several New Yorkers wearing similar headdresses in 1864.The theme lately is CDVs sold at Sanitary Fairs.These women were photographed at the Albany...
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Washington Street Studio Repro Prints
A reproduction of a Prussian blue plaid, ca 1850.Washington Street Studio from P&B by Nancy KirkThe good news is you should be able to find some new collections of Civil War era reproduction prints...
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Which Woolsey? A Sanitary Fair CDV
A rather mysterious photograph from the MetropolitanSanitary Fair in Manhattan in spring, 1864.I've been looking closely at some of the Sanitary Fair photosof women from the Civil War lately.Some think...
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Progress: Antebellum Album Blocks 1-5
Charlene's Blocks 1-5Lots of stitchers keeping up with the monthly Antebellum Album blocks.You'd better catch up this week because #6 is up a week from today.CarrieHere are some...
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