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Hospital Sketches: Sets, Borders & Buying Fabric
Another war; a different roleThe 2019 B.O.M. here at Civil War quilts starts in two weeks.The historical topic: Civil War hospitals54" quilt with no bordersWe will have nine floral applique blocks, one...
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Rebecca Everingham Wadley's Family Quilt
The Georgia project in their book Georgia Quilts published a photo of this chintz applique quilt "Maker unknown, possibly an enlsaved African woman, ca 1800-1830 (104-1/2" x 110". Hand appliqued and...
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Reproduction Turkey Reds
You may be thinking of the classic red and green appliquestyle for your Hospital Sketches BOM that starts next week.Then you'll need some Turkey red reproduction prints.I've done posts on the topic...
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Quilt for a Civil War Nurse: Sarah Graham Palmer Young
Quilt made for Sarah A. Graham Palmer YoungState Historical Museum of IowaWe're beginning our Hospital Sketches BOM Wednesday so I thought I'd look for quilts associated with women hospital workers who...
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Hospital Sketches #1: Periwinkle Wreath - The Union Hotel
Block #1 Hospital SketchesPeriwinkle Wreath by Becky BrownWe begin the Hospital Sketches applique sampler with Periwinkle Wreath, recalling the Union Hotel Hospital in Georgetown, Washington City.Union...
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Quilts in Wartime #5: Cotton Famine in New England
Mill workers about 1860, former collection of the AmericanTextile History MuseumA few weeks ago I did a series on the Cotton Famine during the Civil War, the disruption of world trade with...
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Hospital Sketches Class
Hospital Sketches Block #1Periwinkle Wreath by Bettina HavigBettina has been teaching a class using the Hospital Sketches applique blocks for her guild in Columbia, Missouri, the Booneslick Trail...
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Vickery Sisters Quilt: Lincoln Mourning Ribbon
A Lincoln ribbon for Lincoln's BirthdayPost War Crazy Quilts are a good source of Lincoln memorabilia, particularly ribbons. This woven mourning ribbon is featured in a contained crazy quilt in the...
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Antebellum Album Quilts
Sara Reimer Farley's Civil Quilt(Not a Civil War quilt, but a Civil Quilt)We've been following Sara's blocks all year as she'sinked advice for a civil society in each.Some other finished tops.Cynthia...
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Pry Family: A Quilt Linked to Antietam
"Remember MeWhen far away.And in a distant landYou StayM.A. Rhorer"Album quilt inked with Washington County, Maryland namesThe quilt is thought to have been made about 1873-1874 when Elizabeth and...
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Periwinkle Wreath Blocks
Beverly SimpsonHeather MantzJanet OlmsteadKaren Doerr MartinLisa JewellLouise HaddonRiikka SarsamaShelly PagliaiFrom our Facebook Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/2152934498369880/Pattern #2 Next...
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Civil War Hospital Workers: Inventing Clara Barton
This album quilt in the collection of the Clara BartonBirthplace Museum is one of the most famous quilts associated with the Civil War.It was probably made to memorialize a veteran's re-union, called...
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Hospital Sketches #2: Robertson Hospital Richmond
Hospital Sketches #3 Virginia Cockscomb by Becky BrownThis flamboyant block recalls Robertson's Hospital in Richmond, a private facility that treated patients throughout the Civil War.The hospital...
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The Christian Commission
Silver pin, perhaps worn by an agent of the Christian Commission during the Civil War.In the fall of 1861 a group of YMCA members met in New York to form The Christian Commission, organizing men who...
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Sprouts
Sprouts #1by Erica Cannonhttp://spiralj2.blogspot.com/Sprouts is a variation on this year's BOM Hospital Sketches.Same pattern pieces; different arrangement.The smaller version is for people in a...
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Polly Shawvan's Eagle Quilt
This eagle medallion quilt on the cover of the 2001Â Wisconsin Quilts booksold recently at Skinner's Auctions.The quilt is spectacular and it has a Civil War story ---something that always increases a...
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Pat's Antebellum Album BOM
Block 12Antebellum Albumby Pat StyringI've been collecting photos for the Antebellum Album book (to be published in 2020) and Pat sent snapshots of her finished top and quilting progress.She was one of...
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Low Country Chintz Found in New Hampshire
A Carolina Low Country Chintz sampler albummade by Mary Frampton Townsend PopeThis elegant South Carolina quilt was found in New Hampshire.Sharon Pinka traced its journey in her AQSG paper in...
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Cockscomb + Bird = Addition
Hospital Sketches Block #2Virginia CockscombJoan SmithThere's been some discussion on our Hospital Sketches FaceBook page about the missing bird in the cockscomb block. Several of the traditional...
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Margaret Banks Eason's Civil War
Quilt dated 1844-1845, Charleston MuseumMade to celebrate the Charleston marriage between Margaret Thompson Banks and James Monroe Easonhttp://lcdl.library.cofc.edu/lcdl/catalog/lcdl:89298This...
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