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A Patchwork Balloon
Union Balloon used for enemy reconnaissanceFrom Harper's Weekly in 1861.Both sides used balloons for observation during the first years of the Civil War.A colorful story tells us of the Confederate...
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Antebellum Album #6 Madame's Star
Block # 6 Madame's StarBy Pat StyringSouthern girls educated at Northern boarding schools risked "imbibing habits and manners not perfectly congenial with those of the people of the South," warned an...
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Call For Quilts: Cutters
Two women sewing, about 1860Photo from the Ross J. Kelbaugh Collection:http://www.ssdaggers.com/HG/webpagedefault.htmlHundreds of calls for quilts and bedding went out during the Civil War.This article...
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Fireworks
5 Erica CSome sunny yellow blocks in our Antebellum Album Series....4 TeddyBear's Momma6 MarkInspired perhaps by Mark's set of traditional red, green and yellow.2 MarkBasket quilt about...
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Elizabeth Moffitt Lyle's Union Quilt
Center of a quilt made by Elizabeth Moffitt Lyle Moffitt,Kewanee, IllinoisWe documented this quilt during the Kansas Quilt Project thirty-some years ago and were a little confused about its...
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Half Done
AÂ look at model maker Pat Styring's design wall, Antebellum AlbumBlocks 1-6Other posts with setting blocks.MarieKellyMarshaDustin is making four of each and setting them side by sidewith a central...
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Kansas Troubles Fundraiser
This comforter fragment is not much to look at but it has a story.The piece is about one-sixth of a tied bedcover. The blue is probably a calendered wool, a finish that gives it a gloss. It is tied...
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Civil War Club
The Civil War Club met last Friday at A Quilter's Oasis in Mesa, Arizona.Kathy posted pictures of progress on the Antebellum Album sampler.This pretty blue version looks smaller than the 12" blocks.The...
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Quilt Buried With the Silver: Sarah Wilfong Ramseur's Chintz Panel Quilt
Lincolnton, Cabarrus County, North Carolina,North Carolina Museum of History#H.1926.4.1There is a tendency in the Southern oral tradition to attribute every stain in an antique quilt to a subterranean...
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Antebellum Album #7: Chimney Sweep
Antebellum Album #7 Chimney Sweep by Becky BrownSoutherners anxious to establish schools in the antebellum years had difficulty finding qualified teachers, so they were motivated to offer handsome...
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Boston's City Donation Room, Pincushions & Eliza Boardman Otis
20,000 Pincushions came into this Boston building to be given to 20,000 Massachusetts soldiers in one ten-month period during the Civil War.Evans House at Tremont & Mason StreetsThis obtuse Civil...
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Antebellum Albums: A Sampler of Samplers
From the Massachusetts project & the Quilt IndexEach month I post an antique sampler or two with the monthly block.From an online auction in 2002I chose the twelve blocks in this years B.O.M. from...
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Major Henry Chew's Civil War Quilt: Chimney Sweep
"Presented by the Ladies at the Salem Academy, Miss A..... teacher."The name may be Miss A.R. DallNew Jersey's Salem Academy was founded in 1818.This month's pattern for the Antebellum Album BOM is the...
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Alternate Set for the Antebellum Album
Watercolor of a quilt date inscribed 1847 from the W.P.A.'s Index of American DesignThe quiltmaker was Caroline Lusk of New Baltimore, New York; the painter Jenny Algrem in 1938. The quilt has been in...
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Unlikely Civil War Story with an Early Quilt
Civil War Handkerchief Medallion by Susannah Johnson JusticeMichigan State University Museum#85.0180An unusual quilt with a Civil War tale. According to museum notes:"This pieced quilt has been passed...
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Stars in a Time Warp Finishes
Sandy at MyMaterialCreations blog has finished her Starsin a Time Warp quilt.We finished posting the stars of various period reproduction printsabout a year and a half ago here. She's thought of...
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Stitching the Union Back Together
Political cartoonists drew the United States as a torn map, a metaphor for Civil War.Here the four candidates in the 1860 Presidential electiontear the map to shreds.Four years later Lincoln and Davis...
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Inked Extravaganza
The center of an antebellum album quilt features an inked self-portrait. I thought you inkers might be inspired to make a label for your Antebellum Album.In her skirt:"How much I prize my Album...
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Stolen Quilts: South Carolina to Massachusetts
An elegant quilt from Patricia Smith's collection, pictured in the catalog Calico & Chintz."One chilly night it was taken from a plantation mansion by a Union officer---a Captain Tory from Foxboro,...
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Antebellum Album # 8: Southern Cross
Antebellum Album, Block # 8, Southern Crossby Becky BrownMartha, known as Mittie, in her early 20s.The second Martha Stewart Bulloch was born on a hot July day in 1835 in Hartford, Connecticut and died...
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