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Dubious Slave Made Quilt
Quilt associated with the Long family, Gilmer, Texas,Upshur County.We have few quilts with accurate stories that enslaved seamstresses worked on them. Unfortunately many of the quilts with that...
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Yankee Notions #10: Thrifty
Yankee Notions #10: Thrifty by Denniele BohannonThis simple nine-patch with four-patches in the corners can symbolizethe quilt's iconic role as a thrifty craft.From the collections of Historic New...
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Varina Davis's Drapes?
Fair goers in 1918Lincoln, NebraskaQuilts have always been a state fair feature. Visitors to Nebraska's 1916 State Fair viewed 18 "woven quilts"---antique bedcoverings, we can guess, lumped together in...
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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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Yankee Notions Blocks: Free Patterns
 Our Facebook Group: Ask to Joinhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/5436620698208492020's pieced monthly pattern at CivilWarQuilts is Yankee Notions, in which we look at cultural ideas across the Mason...
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A Union Quilt in Virginia
A pair of embroidered flags and the words"The UNION"Six-pointed Star Quilt, Albemarle County, Virginia92" x 75"Collection of Ash Lawn Highland, the Monroe House MuseumThe embroidered vignette is along...
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Cassandra's Circle #10: Carolina Rose/Miriam De Leon Cohen
Cassandra's Circle Block #10 Carolina Roseby Becky Brown. She simplified the stems and pieced the star.Mulberry, mid-20th-century view of the main house.Mary Boykin Chesnut spent time during the war at...
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1866 Southern Relief Association Fair Missouri
Elizabeth Bacon Custer (1842-1933) aboutthe time she attended St. Louis's Southern Relief Fair.Elizabeth Bacon Custer, traveling west with her soldier husband after the Civil War, stopped in St. Louis...
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Forgotten Angels: The Lives of African American Women Who Served as Nurses
Here's a beautiful book coverfor a new book by Kalinda Page & Jack McElroyA father-daughter teamKalinda and Jack's Forgotten Angels: The Lives of African American Women Who Served as Nurses in the...
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Harriet Alexander Caperton's Sampler 1
 Block from a quilt top made by HarrietAlexander Caperton (1811-1899)It looks like a friendship applique sampler but there are no names on it, and many of the blockslook like the design ideas of one...
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Yankee Notions #11: Modern Broken Dish
Yankee Notions #11, Modern Broken Dish by Becky BrownThe block can contrast nostalgia and modernism as North and Southremained distinct cultures after the Civil War.The classic story of Southern...
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Harriet Alexander Caperton's Sampler #2: Pre-Civil-War Years
                   Unusual block, probably made from a paper-cut pattern,in an appliqued sampler attributed to Harriet Alexander Caperton (1820-1899)Union, Monroe County, Virginia, 1850s,...
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Buck Preston's Lost Love Blocks
 ValindaReaders got busy on Block #9 of our Cassandra's CircleBlock of the Month.Buck Preston's Lost Love.BethCarlaChristineDebbieDorothyKarrinLisaPeggyWendyBlock #11 next Wednesday!
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Harriet Alexander Caperton's Sampler # 3: The Civil War
Unusual block from Harriet Alexander Caperton's samplerUnion, (West) VirginiaPrevious two posts are about Harriet's family and her quilt. This one givesus a view of one extended family's misery in...
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Cassandra's Circle #11: Charleston Star for Susan Petigru King
Cassandra's Circle #11, Charleston Star by Becky BrownSusan Dupont Petigru King Bowen (1824-1875)Sue was one of Charleston's literary lions, a Charleston star before the war.Sue Petigru King was at the...
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1860 Fabric?
 An intriguing online catalog entry from the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts: A nine-patch quilt with "Constitution Must Be Preserved" associated with it and an estimated date of 1865.My guess is that...
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Yankee Notions Label
 Print this label on your ink jet printer on treated fabric for a label for your Yankee Notions quilt.Last block in the series next Wednesday.Shawn Priggel is ready!
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Southern Log Cabin Quilts After the War
Detail of a log cabin quilt with an inked date 1868.Alamance County Historical SocietyPictured in The Book of Burwell StudentsWe have written records of Log Cabin quilts before 1870 but few actual...
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Yankee Notions #12: T Quilt
Yankee Notions #12, The T Quilt by Dorry EmmerThe T quilt seems to have represented Temperance, a national reform movement but one many Southerners resisted until the latter part of the 19th century....
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Elizabeth Grisham Brown's Crazy Quilt
Crazy Quilt from the Brown Family of Georgia"M.V.C. 1874"When we see a date before 1880 on a crazy quilt we guess it is probably commemorative recalling an important event such as a birthdate or...
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