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Ellen Campbell Remembers the Eves
We started this search with a quest to find out a little moreabout Philoclea Edgeworth Casey Eve, whose applique quiltis in the Atlanta History Center. See last week's...
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Sprouts from Hospital Sketches
This year's BOM has a simplified version.#7 Denniele BohannonCathy Patterson Buell at Big Lake QuilterSprouts #1#2 Sue Hoover#1 Erica Cannon.Erica is fusing and then securing the edges with a...
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Keckley Quilt on Display: Details & History
Detail of a quilt attributed to dressmaker Elizabeth Keckley, made from scraps of Mary Todd Lincoln's dresses.The Museum at Kent State University regularly exhibits this quilt and has it on display in...
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Teamwork: Denniele & Sue's Sprouts
Blue Dot, Blue Dot-Where Might You Be?by Denniele Bohannon, quilted by Sue DaurioDenniele Bohannon won first prize in the Machine Appliquecategory with her version of Sprouts at the Missouri State Fair...
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Jane Stickles's 1863 Quilt on Display
Vermont's Bennington Museum displays its famous Jane Stickles quilt annually---this year from August 31-October 14, 2019.https://benningtonmuseum.org/portfolio-items/1863-jane-stickle-quilt/Jane...
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Hospital Sketches #8: Triple Tulips - The State Reliefs
Hospital Sketches #8: Triple Tulips by Becky BrownTriple Tulips recalls the smaller relief agencies staffed by women during the Civil War. The Union's Sanitary Commission is the best documented and the...
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Silk Scraps Through the Mail
Hexagonal silk block pieced over paper cut from a letter with the date 1864.A letter from Becky to her Aunty, Miss Phillips in Philadelphiaconcerning a similar project in process."Sister and myself...
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Label for Hospital Sketches Quilt
Here's a label to print out on treated fabric for yourHospital Sketches Sampler.One more block to go: September 25th.Print it out 5 inches tall. We put our names on it.You can ink yours in in all the...
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Salmonella and Typhoid Fever
Frank L Keyes and unidentified woman, 1862Civil War Treasures from the New-York Historical Society.We assume Civil War patient Frank Keyes has been wounded but odds are good he is a victim of disease...
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Tonko's Been Stitching
Tonko in Japan has recently posted her Hospital Sketches blocks#2#3#4She usually converts American inches straight across to centimeters so these block designed for 18 -inch backgrounds are on squares...
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Miss Information
Textiles with a Civil War association certainly are worth more monetarily than equivalent textiles with no accompanying Civil War stories. With a little research one can associate much 19th-century...
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Applique BOM Next Year
Gladi is making the most of her time healing a bone break by appliqueing.One more block to go.We have 830 members of our Facebook Hospital Sketches group with many wonderful examples posted every day....
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1863 Album, Elizabeth, New Jersey
It would be great to see more of this 1863 album quiltfrom Elizabeth, New Jersey99 blocks, 96 of them signedI've been sorting my paper files getting them in shape to send to the Quilt Research...
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Hospital Sketches #9: Star of the East - Camp Letterman
Hospital Sketches Block #9 by Becky BrownOur last block in Hospital Sketches recalls a giant field hospital set up after the Battle of Gettysburg in July, 1863. Gettysburg's three-day fight in Union...
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1902 Civil War Memorial Quilt
Flag quilt by Melanie Schmidt Schultheiss (1842-1933), Seymour, Indiana, pictured in the Indiana project's book Quilts of Indiana: Crossroads of MemoriesThe Indiana Project documented this patriotic...
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Becky's Top Is Finished
Becky Brown's Hospital Sketches top is finished and looks like this (a digital mockup---quilt top awaiting hand quilting)We've been showing her blocks all year, stitched from Vicki Welch's hand dyed...
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Grapevine in the Wilderness
Grapevine in Wilderness---A Civil War QuiltCapper's Weekly, a Topeka, Kansas periodical, published this pattern in the 1930s. Women's features editor Louise Fowler Roote wrote that the antique quilt...
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2020 BOMs at Civil War Quilts
Jeanne Arnieri's beautiful blocks for Hospital SketchesThe 2019 Block of the MonthWhat will she think of next year?We've been alternating pieced and appliqued quilts here for the Civil War Quilts...
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Susannah Deering Lohry's Grant Quilt: And a Few Digressions
The California Project's book Ho For California! pictured this collage showing front and back of a quilt made by Susannah Deering Lohry (about 1824-1883) in El Dorado County, perhaps in the 1870s. The...
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Lydia Dilliner's Flag Quilt
Several years ago our local newspaper featured this photo of a flag quilt owned by a woman who had inherited it from her great-grandmother. The pattern is the Peterson's Magazine Stars & Stripes...
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