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Some Design Walls
Nancy Bekofske's got all nine blocks of the Hospital Sketches quilt done.Here's her design wall.So has Janet OlmsteadAnd Jeanne ArnieriHere's Julee Prose's design floor - her deck with her sashed...
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Calico Lining in a Confederate Hat
Here's a cool item. A Confederate cap, called a Kepi.Wool on the outsideWith a calico lining.One could probably have a nice collection of hand-made kepi, but this one sold for about $8,000.Here's what...
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A Show of Hospital Sketches Quilts---2022
My Hospital Sketches top is done. Here it is with the scrappy borderand an extra Dot. It's on its way to quilter Lori Kukuk who will makeit look really good.I have two and a half years to get it bound...
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Catherine Fitzsimons Hammond's Civil War #1: Antebellum Years
When researchers documented South Carolina quilts thirty five years ago, the family member who brought this chintz album dated 1846 to 1848 to be photographed recalled it as a gift for James Henry...
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Yankee Notions
Becky, Denniele, Mark & I are plotting two BOM patterns here next year, one pieced, one appliqued. The pieced Block of the Month is Yankee Notions---Twelve traditional blocks with monthly stories...
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Catherine Fitzsimons Hammond's Civil War #2: During the War
Catherine, the Hammond album quilt and the panel wreathrepeated in the quilt blocks. Finding out more about this panel quilt is how this search got started.The house at Redcliffe plantation,...
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Shopping for Reproduction Fabric Fall 2019
What's happening in the reproduction fabric world this fall?I've been shopping, just to report.Some conversation prints.Birds & bees from My Redwork Garden by Bunny Hill for Moda.Above and below...
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Woman's Relief Corps Files
Top dated 1892-1893 from Marilyn Woodin's collection, made by members of the Chicago Woman's Relief Corps. I pictured it in my 1989 book Clues in the Calico with little idea what the symbolism was at...
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Hospital Sketches: Pattern Posts
HOSPITAL SKETCHES 2019Nine Popular Mid-19th Century Applique BlocksBy Barbara Brackman & Becky BrownHere's a list of all the pattern posts for the nine blocks of the Hospital Sketches applique...
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The Soldier/Cannon Calico
Skinner's Auction offered a piece of cotton "Calico made during Civil War 1861"Fabric collectors and quilt historians discussed this print a few months ago on one of our social media pages. The print...
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Hospital Sketches - Done Deals
Karen at MooseBayMuseshttps://moosebaymuses.blogspot.com/Her own border idea. Vickie Wendel added three more blocks and her own border.MoFabricNut on InstagramOur Instagram...
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Montana GAR Quilt
This fancy hexagon quilt is not the kind of quilt you'd expect to be connected the the GAR veteran's organization, but among the embroidered, elongated six-sided shapes are several referencing...
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Battle Trophy
19" squareHere's a sorry old applique block found at a Philadelphia estate sale.Sold again online recently.It has an inked label on the reverseand a couple of paper labels on the front."Taken at...
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Yankee Notions: Fabrics
Yankee Notion of the tangible kindOur 2020 pieced block of the month begins here on January 8, 2020.Every month you'll find a free pattern for a traditional block on the second Wednesday throughout the...
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Maria Harper's Confederate Memorial Quilt
By Maria Preston Harper (about 1823 - ?) South Carolina, 1861Collection: American Museum of the Civil War38" x 56"http://quilts.acwm.org/portfolio/harper-crib-quiltThe cliche is that every quilt has a...
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Cassandra's Circle: Fabrics & Sets
Cassandra in the center with a few women of her circleCassandra's Circle Block of the Month begins here on Wednesday January 29, 2020. Look for a free applique pattern on the last Wednesday of every...
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Mark Twain Has to Leave Town
Banner Quilt by the Ladies' Social Circle Collection of the Clarke Museum in EurekaSam Clemens certainly must have irritated the womenof Eureka, California when he wrote satirically about their fund...
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Union Star Set for Yankee Notions
Denniele Bohannon designed this Union Star set for our Yankee Notionspieced Block of the Month (starts in two weeks).61" x 78"A dozen 12" blocks fit like the white square shown.Sashing finishes to 5"...
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Constitution & Union Quilt
Quilt dated 1859-1861OhioTwenty-two years ago Linda Critchfield sent me snapshots of a quilt from her collection. We had hopes of including it in my book Quilts From the Civil War, but it did not...
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Applique Border for Cassandra's Circle
97” x 97” with 12-1/2” Finished Border. The general idea.Cassandra's Circle BOM begins on the last Wednesday of January here.The rose border, digitally sketched from an antique quilt, is simple but...
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