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Hospital Sketches #3: Love Apple - White House Landing
Hospital Sketches Block # 3 Love Apple by Becky BrownOur third block recalling Civil War hospitals focuses on Union hospital ships docked at White House Landing, Virginia.Ships on the PamunkeyPhoto by...
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Belinda McQuaid Webber's Flying Geese Quilt
Many years ago we cataloged this quilt with a Civil War story in the collection of the Kansas Museum of History. Of course, many quilts made in the last half of the 19th century would have an...
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Lotta Love Apple Blocks
Roseanne Smith's Blocks 1-3Roseanne's #3I have quite a few photos of Love Apple blocks as of yesterday morning.Some from our Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/groups/2152934498369880/Some from...
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Secession Bonnets
Civil-War-era bonnets were amazingconcoctions of frothRichmond Daily DispatchIn November, 1860 after Abraham Lincoln won the Presidency and talk of South Carolina's secession was the news, several...
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More Arithmetic: Addition & Subtraction
Block 2 Hospital SketchesVirginia Cockscomb by Bettina HavigSome stitchers thought the classic pattern for Block 2 was a little sparse.Antique sampler from the Michigan project & the Quilt IndexWe...
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"A woman gave me a Bed Quilt the other day"
Quilt dated 1862 from the Dutton-Steers families, VirginiaA letter sold on an online auction a while ago was from a Union prisoner of war from New York. He had lovely penmanship, creative spelling and...
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Antebellum Albums Arriving
Erica CannonQuilts have been arriving in the mailI'm gathering several finished Antebellum Albumtops and quilts for photography for the book (2020).Meliss SwansonI took some snapshots of examples from...
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Newark Album in the American Museum in Britain
The American Museum in Britain in Bath, England ownsan album quilt top with this image of Miss Liberty.It's dated 1862 and she looks like she is fighting a war.Twenty-five blocks include two American...
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Hospital Sketches #4: Cockscombs & Currants - Field Hospitals
 #4 Cockscombs & Currants by Becky BrownCockscombs & Currants recalls the Union field hospitals,in particular those established after the Battle of Antietem. Smoketown Hospital was laid out...
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Sarah Childress Polk's Civil War
Case Antiques in Tennessee sold this puff or biscuit silk quilt last year.It went for a lot more than any regular old late-Victorian puff quilt in poor shapebecause of its historical...
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Appliqued Border for Hospital Sketches
Quilt by Nancy Brougher and Elizabeth Brown,Washington, Pennsylvania, 1861.Michigan Project and the Quilt Index.Many mid-century applique quilts are framed with vine borders. Nancy and Elizabeth used...
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Housewifes and Rollups
? (Probably Joel) C. ButlerCo. D 8th RegtInd Vol This may have been made for Joel or Theodore Butler of Wayne County, IndianaGodey's pattern for a "Housewife for a Gentleman"While a housewife or sewing...
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FaceBook Pictures
On our FaceBook page see where it says Photos on the left. Click on that and you get a panorama of everything that we've posted over the last four months. You have to join Facebook to see it and then...
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Amanda Donohoe's Civil War
 Quilt block signed Amanda Donohoe, Retirement, Va13" x 13"Some of you may recall Amanda's inking with its graceful banner fromlast year's Antebellum Album quilt. Barbara D. Schaffer's signature block...
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Arty Antebellum Album Photos
Kay GentryI've been taking some glamour shots for next year's book on our Antebellum Album BOMI got out all my props and invested in flowers.Cindy BrouillardDottie (lower right) will probably not...
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Children of the Confederacy
Most of the quilts are from online auctionsMy picture files of crazy quilts made at the end of the 19th century include an unsettling number of Confederate flags. An article in the Washington Post this...
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Repro Prints at Quilt Market
Riviera Rose by Renee Nanneman I went to Quilt Market last week looking for what was new in repro fabric.Not much. It was hard to find any 19th-century reprints scheduled for summer and fall delivery.I...
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The Rest of the Post on Repro Fabrics
Sarah's Story in Betsey Chutchian's boothPam Buda's boothRiviera Rose by Renee Nanneman I went to Quilt Market last Friday looking for what was new in repro fabric.Not much. It was hard to find any...
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How Many Sanitary Commission Quilts Survive?
In a study of quilts made for Union Soldiers Virginia Gunn estimated that 125,000 quilts and comforts were distributed by the Sanitary Commission during the war.The Sanitary Commission was all about...
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Hospital Sketches #5: Pineapple - Armory Square Hospital
Block #5 Pineapple by Becky Brownremembers the Washington hospitals where poetWalt Whitman was a volunteer.American writer Walt Whitman was in his early forties when the Civil War began. He came to...
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