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Secession Album Quilt

Unquilted Album 77 " x 61 "From the collection of pottery collector Robert Hunter of Williamsburg, VirginiaJeffrey S Evans Auctions recently sold this album sampler.One block with a Secession theme...

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Yankee Notions #1: Open Book

Yankee Notions #1Open Book by Denniele Bohannon12"We'll begin the Yankee Notions series with a block about the idea of literacy and the value New Englanders have placed on education since the first...

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Susie King Taylor & her GAR Quilt

Susie Baker King Taylor (1848-1912)Photo from her autobiographyReminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33rd US Colored Troops.In 1898 Susie Taylor, who had been a slave in Georgia and as a free...

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Hospital Sketches with Borders

Barb RSome chintz bordersKarrin HMaureen FAnd an appliqueSee a few more borders here:https://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2019/11/hospital-sketches-done-deals.html

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GAR Encampment Quilts

Collection of Historic HuntingtonTent camping at a 1900 Huntington Beach veteran's reunion in Californiawith a quilt on the bed. Is the girl holding a kitten?Union Civil War veterans and their families...

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New Books on Old Quilts

It's always a pleasure to find new books on old quilts. Four books published in the last year on traditional style updated for today's repro fabrics.A Country's Call: Civil War Quilts and Stories of...

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Baltimore Maryland's Sanitary Fair: Union Women Behind the Fair

Quilt dated 1853 Severn District, MarylandThe motto: E Pluribus Unum  (One from Many)Since I couldn't find any quilts from this fair I thought I'd throwin some union images from Baltimore quilts of the...

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Cassandra's Circle #1: Washington's Plume

Cassandra's Circle Block #1 Washington's Plume by Becky Brown36"Our Civil War story begins in 1789, seven decades before that war began, with a moment frozen in American myth. General George Washington...

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A Civil War Quilting Match

A Quilting Party of the '50sWhen Joseph Fountain, a 44-year-old English immigrant, joined the Sixth New Hampshire Volunteers, December, 1861, his wife Mary Ann must have sent along a quilt to keep him...

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More About Mary/Cassandra

Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut (1823-1886)Ambrotype from her photograph album.Mary Chesnut is the source for our historical information in thisyear's applique block of the month Cassandra's Circle."The...

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Applique in 1865

Signed and dated 1865 by Mary Louise Orndorf FallerOnline auctionMy photo files are short of quilts dated 1865, the year the Civil War ended. Five years of war and a  cotton famine meant that...

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Yankee Notions #2: Schoolhouse

Yankee Notions #2Schoolhouse by Becky BrownLast month we discussed Yankee Notions about education. Even after the Civil War, notions about free public education continued to divide North and...

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A Pieced Southern Beauty

Quilt associated with Mary Isabel Dickson Carlisle (1846-1934)Ladies's Circle Patchwork Quilt magazine photographed this quilt with its chintz border at Atlanta's Tulley Smith House years ago. The...

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The Problem With Samplers

....IS the blocks never turn out the same size.Reasons---inadequate pattern drawing (Sorry!)Variations in sewing seams.Trying to fit blocks based on a division of five into a 12" block.It is all part...

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Dolly Keys McClanahan's Civil War

Dorothea Keys McClanahan 1802-1892Her quilt was recorded in the Texas project and pictured in their book Lone Stars.When the Civil War broke out in 1861 Dolly Keyes McClanahan had been living in Lee...

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Cassandra's Circle #2: Mulberry Wreath for Mary Boykin Chesnut

Cassandra's Circle Block #2 Mulberry Wreath by Denniele BohannonDenniele changed the proportions of leaf to rose, whichmeant she could fit only 5 leaves in her wreath.You get the idea.Painting of Mary...

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Clarissa Steadman Gross's Confederate Memorial Quilt

Well, you wish you could have seen this quilt at the Atlanta, Missouri fair in 1917.It was a large silk quilt with a map of the Confederate states and 161 autographs of "prominent women of the...

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Washington's Plumes

CarlaMany central blocks for our Cassandra's Circle BOMhave been stitchedChristineAnd/or bastedLisaMcKenna working on a linen backgroundBeth---going through her pink stashPeggyKarrinRebecca's on a...

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Stolen? Confiscated? Plundered? Quilt Block

James A. ColehourVicki Wendel called our attention to this little piece ofpatchwork in a museum in Minnesota, far from Waynesboro, Georgia.It's silk hexagons with a rather crudely inked date of...

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Yankee Notions #3: Water Wheel

Yankee Notions #3Water Wheel by Denniele BohannonWater wheels represent the Yankee Notion of industry.Two styles of water wheels that use a moving streamto power machinery, technology suited to New...

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