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Dubious Slave-Made Quilt
Quilt advertised as:"Slave Made Piecework Saw Quilt. c. 1846-184886" x 74"Estimated price $1,000 - 3,000."I believe it sold for quite a bit more than the estimate in 2017 and I hope you didn't buy it....
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Cassandra's Circle #5: Russian Sunflower for Lucy Pickens
Cassandra's Circle, Block #4Russian Sunflower for Lucy Holcombe Pickens by Becky BrownLucy Petway Holcombe Pickens, a sometime member of Cassandra's Circle, is pictured on a Confederate dollar bill...
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Massachusetts Memorial Quilt
Civil War Memorial Quilt from the Quilt Indexand the Massachusetts project. Each of the white strips and the stars are inscribed with thename of a Massachusetts soldier, his company and the date he...
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21st Century Slips
Center of a quilt attributed to Mary Miller Taylor, dated 1832MESDA Collectionhttps://mesda.org/item/collections/quilt/1533/A flash of light appeared over my head last week in looking at this quilt and...
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Sylvester Read's Quilt Business
Quilt in an unknown pattern, About 1900, 70" x 80"The Arizona project recorded this quilt with many triangles.Blocks are a little over 5-1/2".The tans probably were once red:a red, white and blue...
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Yankee Notions #6: Improved Nine Patch
Yankee Notions #6, Improved Nine Patchby Denniele Bohannon, 18" version.Yankee Notion #6 is the idea of improving things --- from Transcendental spiritual ideas of trying to become a perfect human...
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"The Union Forever"
"The Uni-on for ever" 1850Quilt by Elizabeth Helm Walker Stone (1828-1898), KentuckyWintherthur MuseumGift of Martha Walton Coonley in honor of great-great grandmother, Elizabeth Helm Walker Stone, her...
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Hospital Sketches: Spring Finishes
Charlotte Schmidt-Brodalski's Hospital Sketches quiltis finished.This former art teacher/blogger is pleased to see how creativestitchers have been in choosing colors, fabrics and bordersto make each...
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Godey's Unionist Patterns
Godey's 1857Account of a Missouri Fair, 1854Mrs. E.C. Davis of St Joseph, Missouri won a prize with a silk quilt in the Buchanan County Fair in 1854. "The design of this quilt was the 'American...
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Cassandra's Circle #6: Varina Howell Davis's Briar Rose
Cassandra's Circle, Block# 6, Briar Rose by Becky BrownThe rose with thorns remembers one of Mary Chesnut's closest friends during and after the Civil War, Varina Howell Davis, married to Confederate...
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Hannah Reynolds's Civil War
Hannah Elizabeth Reynolds 1851The cross-stitched name of Hannah E. Welch Reynolds (1822-1890) is on a block in an appliqued album quilt in the collection of the Alabama Department of Archives and...
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Threads of Memory: Underground Railroad Quilt Based on History
Nonie's Block 11St. Charles Star for Louisa AlexanderThreads of Memory BOMYou may recall six years ago that one of the first BOMs we did on this Civil War Quilts Blog was Threads of Memory. Jean...
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1864 Patriotic Union Sampler
Years ago I saw this tattered quilt in an online auction1864 with a Union sentiment embroidered in red thread.It was in terrible shape; the turkey red sashing had disintegrated so badlythat the blocks...
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Yankee Notions #7: Liberty Star
Yankee Notions #7, Liberty Star by Becky BrownAmerica, the Land of Liberty, has a checkered history with the word. As Samuel Johnson (late-18th-century-London's version of Dorothy Parker) asked:"How is...
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Sarah Carpenter Dickinson's Civil War
"A sort of memorial affair" pictured in the Brooklyn Eagle in 1909In the summer of 1862 Sarah Marie Carpenter married George W. Dickinson. Both were 19 years old. George Dickinson is said to have...
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Russian Sunflowers
DorothyThe May block in our Cassandra's Circle BOMBethKarrinLisa.Her background fabric is the Gettysburg Address in script.Debbie.She'd doing the Quilt as You Go or Potholder method,each block a...
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A Dressed Picture
Found this in the picture files with the caption: "Free Woman of Color & Her Daughter, Collage, New Orleans." It's a collage but a type of collage known as a Dressed Picture. The Louisiannes here...
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Briar Rose Blocks
Denniele's Briar RoseBlock #6 for Varina Davisa close member of Cassandra's CircleWe've got some beautiful examples to show a week before Block #7.Lisa'sHer background is Lincoln's Gettysburg Address...
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Lucie Barrett's Civil War
Unfinished hexagon patchwork attributed to the Barrett family,Jackson, MississippiCollection of the Museum at Michigan State UniversityLucy Walton Barrett was about 15 years old when the Civil War...
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Cassandra's Circle #7: Maggie Howell's Wild Rose
Cassandra's Circle #7, Wild Rose for Margaret Graham Howell by Pat StyringMargaret Graham Howell (1842-1930) Collection of the American Civil War MuseumOne of her nieces or nephews has written"Auntie...
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