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Marion Family Quilts in Carolina's Low Country
(1) Chintz Applique Quilt date-inscribed 1848-1849, attributed to Mary Videau Marion Yeadon (1811-1871), South Carolina, International Quilt Study Center and Museum...
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Denniele's Pink Set for Antebellum Album
Denniele Bohannon's Antebellum Album Blocks 1-8 with her own setting block.Those black squares finish to 1"Here's her pattern with her Louanna Mary Quilt Design signature.The monthly 12" blocks...
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Civil War Era Quilting Party
"The Quilting Party," a humorous stereograph photo from E. & H.T. Anthony during the Civil War. George Stacy is the photographer.I found this photo at the Library of Congress's website.It's a...
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Antebellum Album Block 8: A Survivor
This antebellum album quilt made for Mary Pollard Tolford is one of the earliest date-inscribed quilts made in this month's album design. One block is dated October, 1844 with Bostonian Maria Millard's...
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Blockade Running: Charleston's Bee Store
Georgia Confederate in a calico shirtIn late 1863 Mary Maxcy Leverett sent her son Milton, a 24-year-old Confederate soldier, hand-knit gloves, shirts "two of which I bought ready made and had them...
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Block # 8: Old & New
"Caroline G?GermantownTis more blessedto give than to receiveApril 8 1845"A single block in a chubby version of Block #8.Album quilt signed by 96 friends of Rebecca Brooks (1824-1906) of Concord, as a...
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Errors in Etsy Shop Patterns for Antebellum Album #9 & 10
Mistakes were made!Judy & Martha have been quite helpful in acting as volunteer technical editors. They've pointed out two errors in the PDF of patterns 9-12 you can purchase in my Etsy shop. If...
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Red, White & Blue Veterans' Name Quilts
Quilt with veteran's names dated 1891, James Brownell chapter (#26)of the Women's Relief Corps,Cedar Falls, IowaRed, white and blue name quilts were quite the fashion between 1880 and 1915 as...
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Antebellum Album #9: Lexington Belle
Antebellum Album Block #9Lexington Belle by Mark LauerIn the 1830's when Kentucky was considered the American West, Lexington considered itself the Athens of the West. Two French immigrants ran a...
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Buried With the Silver: Unintended Consequences
Markett, Mary Caroline Markett, Alabama.Michigan project & the Quilt Index.According to the family tale:"This quilt is a family heirloom made by my grandmothers grandmother who lived in southern...
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Civil War Sampler by Tong
I was so pleased that Tong brought her Civil War Sampler toa recent show and tell. She lives in Arkansas now, made this inCalifornia.She's from Thailand and she bought my book Civil War Sampler to...
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G.A.R. Quilt from Cardington, Ohio
Quilt with the names of Presidents Rutherford B. Hayes and James A. Garfield in the center,both Ohio boys.Dated 1884, made in Cardington, OhioCollection of the Ohio Historical SocietyThere is little...
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Antebellum Album Label
Here's a label for your Antebellum Album quilt. Print the JPG above at 5" x 5" onto printable fabric leaving you room for your own message.Here are some instructions for...
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Linsey---Civil War Souvenirs
Nine Patch Linsey quiltCollection of Merikay WaldvogelAt a 1908 fair in Lexington, Mississippi, locals displayed their heirlooms including a "Quilt, pieced after the [Civil] war, of goods woven at home...
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Sara's Civil Quilt
Antebellum Album Block 3"Dare to Try"By Sara Reimer FarleyI recently spent a little time with my old friend Sara at the AQSG seminar. She pointed out that she is making a Civil Quilt from our Civil War...
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The Caldwells: Hard Shell Secessionists & A Family of Physicians
William Wiswell, Secession Exploded, 1861In May, 1861 delegates met in Raleigh, North Carolina at the state house to vote on Secession, among them Dr. Pinckney Cotesworth Caldwell of Charlotte, who was...
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Lexington Belle: Reader Blocks #9
Lexington Belle, Antebellum Album Block #9by Cindy B.As of last Saturday I have 15 reader blocks in my files.Pix purloined from our Facebook groupand Instagram and your blogs.A little Photoshopping to...
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Quilt Willed to Freed People
Gardner/Garner Families Appliqued Quilt, Shelby, North Carolina. Estimated date 1825-1850,National Museum of American History, Gift of Mrs. Eva A. WarrenThe photos are not too clear but we can see the...
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Antebellum Album #10: Carolina Lily
Antebellum Album #10 Carolina Lily by Becky BrownWe're familiar with many variations of the Carolina Lily as a repeat block. It's surprising to me, though, how many needlewomen thought it a good fit...
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Canton Illinois G.A.R. Quilt
Musical score embroidered on a Civil War commemorative quilt"Hail the grand army! Grand army of the Republic!"The Illinois State Museum is showing off a new acquisition this year in their Bicentennial...
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