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Hands All Around #10 Crown of Thorns for Annie Brown

 Hands All Around #10 Crown of Thorns by Janet PerkinsCrown of Thorns remembers Anne Brown whose father John Brown, was hung as a traitor in December, 1859 for instigating an attack on a federal...

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Sophia Kenner Seaman #2: Her Civil War

Last week we looked at Sophia Kenner Seaman's quilt,using clues in pattern, style and fabric to date it as about 1900.I'm posting details today of other Chips & Whetstones based on five.This one...

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Rachel Teaches an 8-year-old to Piece Hexagons

Quilt begun when Sarah Winifred Cobb Phelps (1842-1917)was about 8 years old in 1850, Kentucky.Colonial Williamsburg is showing this recent acquisition in a new exhibit The Art of the Quilter in their...

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Ladies' Aid Album #8 : Social Butterflies in Westchester County

 #8 Social Butterfly by Barbara SchafferA block for the ladies of Sing Sing, New York and their Union Relief Association, which sent 9,000 garments to clothe Union soldiers and raised $3800.When...

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Small Mysteries: Lincoln Rail Fence Quilt

What we'd call a Rail Fence pattern, early 20th-c?October 25, 1878, Paw Paw, MichiganThe True NorthernerAt Michigan's Van Buren County Fair in 1878 Mrs. Joseph Dodge won a quarter for her "Lincoln rail...

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Confiscated Confederate Flag

 48" x 80"Cowan's Auctions sold this Confederate flag about five years ago. They always do a good job of authenticating and researching their items and the flag is exceptionally well documented.This...

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Hands All Around #11: Indian Star for Alf Whitman

Hands All Around #11: Indian Star by Pat StyringThis was once #7 but I switched the order.Indian Star can represent Alf Whitman who left his friends in Concord, Massachusetts to settle a little west of...

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Union Shields from New York and Elsewhere

 From a sampler albumPolak Collection in AmsterdamIf you are looking for more blocks for your Ladies' Aid Albumconsider a Union shield from a New York sampler.Julie Silber & Jane Lurie's inventory....

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Civil War Era Needlework

 David Thompson AntiquesQuilts were not the only needlework inspired by sectional imagery during the Civil War. Here's a reticule, a purse in Union imagery.Godey's Lady's BookGodey's Lady's BookThe...

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Ladies' Aid Sampler #9: Hearts & Darts & The Alerts

 Hearts & Darts by Becky BrownBlock #9 in the Ladies' Aid Sampler is Hearts & Darts to recall the Ladies' Alert Clubs, a neglected chapter of Civil War women's work.A "Daughter of the...

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Annie Moseley's Civil War and After

 Silk quilt sold at a Case Auction  a few years ago. Notice the blueribbon at the top.FIRST PREMIUM TENN STATE FAIRWOMAN'S DEP'T NASHVILLE 1909Nashville Banner, September 23, 1909"Quilt, silk...

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Label For Your Hands All Around Quilt

 Here's a label to print on pre-treated fabric for your 2021 Block-of-the-Month quilt. The portrait of Meg, Jo, Beth & Amy is adapted from Jessie Wilcox Smith's 1915 illustration for Little...

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Mary Lucina Grennell Bass's G.A.R. Quilt

 Graphic applique in a quilt top by Mary Grennell Bass (1849- after 1940) of Fulton County, New YorkEarly 20th century.The top was recorded in the New York project's...

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Hands All Around #12: Ednah Dow Cheney Old Gray Goose

 Brown Goose/ Gray Goose by Becky Brown An Old Gray Goose remembers Louisa's later years & her circle of women.Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney (1824-1904)Her husband did this drawing of her in...

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Letters to the G.A.R.'s National Tribune

 The National Tribune was a newspaper published for members of the Unionveterans' group the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) and the women'sauxiliary organizations.Women were a good part of the...

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Completed Quilts: Eight Hands Around Alcotts At War

 Hands All Around by Becky BrownWe're done! Done ! Done! with the 2021 BOM Hands All Around.The model makers have been finished for quite a while and here's the Big Reveal.See more at our Facebook...

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Martha Harris's Civil War

Quilt associated with Martha Elizabeth Harris Harris,Leonardtown, Maryland, 1830s.The D.A.R. Museum showed this star quilt in their Eye on Elegance exhibit several years ago. It's also pictured in the...

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2022 Block of the Month: American Stars

 Time to think about next year's sampler here at CivilWarQuilts. We'll begin the new year with a new pieced block-of-the-month series. The patchwork theme is four-pointed stars to symbolize American...

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Chintz in South Carolina

The South Carolina project recorded this chintz applique quilt with a Civil War story. Family stories recall that Harriet Katherine Kennedy Steele (1818-1908) did the applique during and shortly after...

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Ladies Aid Sampler #10: Tools & Canandaigua

Ladies Aid Sampler #10: Scissors by Denniele BohannonWilling hearts and hands wielding a pair of scissors recalls Canandaigua, New York and its Civil War sewing societies.In 1863 the ladies of...

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