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Georgia Adams Lane & A "No Nothings Fancy" Quilt
Applique quilt with a good deal of family information.The pattern is distinctive, a variation of a reel or pineappledesign that is sometimes called Chestnut Burr or Tobacco Leaf...as from the family of...
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Label for Your American Stars Quilt
 Print this label on pretreated cotton. It should be 7" widewith plenty of room for your name, the date you finishedand where you live.The last block is scheduled for the second Wednesday of December...
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Nancy Dunlevy Anderson's Civil War
 Nancy Dunlevy Anderson (1805-1870)1862, Columbus, Ohio. "The first ladies of that city, those who scarcely think of doing their own sewing, have worked all winter for the soldiers. To raise...
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Freedom's Friends #9 Sarah Speakman McKim: Pennsylvania Tulip
 Block #9, Pennsylvania Tulip for Sarah McKim by Georgann EglinskiSarah Allibone Speakman McKim(1813-1891)Chester County is just west of Philadelphia, the red dot.Sarah grew up in a family of Quakers...
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A Quilt for the Armory Square Hospital
 The Armory Square hospital in Civil War Washington was innovative and well-run.A correspondent for the Portland (Maine) Press described it as exceptional, "the bestconducted hospital in the city."...
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Book Giveaway: Civil War Quilts: Revised by Pamela Weeks
 Pam Weeks revised and updated the book she wrote with the late Don Beld several years ago. She sent me an extra copy of Civil War Quilts: Revised, Updated, and Expanded, 2020 to give away to readers...
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"A Virginia Girl's" Civil War
A Sewing CircleDuring the flurry of personal narratives nostalgic for the defeated Confederacy's "Lost Cause" Myrta Lockett Avary published books and periodical features telling Southern tales of the...
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American Stars #12: Kaleidoscope Star for The Grimkes
 #12 Kaleidoscope Star for the Grimkes by Jeanne ArnieriThe Grimkés became Americans in the early 1730s when brothers Frederick and John Paul Grimké emigrated to Charleston in the colony of South...
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Susan Barbour Evans Helps with a Hospital Quilt
New England Quilt MuseumSoldiers' Aid quilt "I made one square quilt and bound it....""I went to the 'Knitting Society,' at Mrs. Metcalf's they sent me a special invitation I had a real pleasant time....
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Atlanta Garden: 2023 Pieced Block of the Month
 Time to start thinking about next year's Block-of-the-Month pattern for piecers. The last block for this year's American Stars was posted on December 14th, 2022. American Stars was rather challenging....
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Why a Sanitary Commission?
Library of CongressSanitary Commission in the field, 1863, Alexandria, VirginiaBrady Studios PhotographMen who administered the Sanitary Commission during the Civil War:William Van Buren, George...
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Freedom's Friends #10: Elijah Shaw Birds of a Feather
 Freedom's Friends: Block #10 Birds of a Featherby Becky BrownBirds of a Feather remembers Elijah Shaw who found many friends "on the road," escaping from slavery. Elijah was typical of those who...
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Ann Mary Crittenden Coleman's Civil War
Ann Mary Butler Crittenden Coleman (1813-1891)Perhaps in the 1880s when she was in her 60s.Ann Mary was born in Russellville, Kentucky to politician John Jordan Crittenden and his first wife Sarah Lee...
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One More Set for American Stars
 So maybe you only have 9 blocks from American Stars finished.You could set them with a simple variation of Block #2 on point.12" blocks will give you a field of about 51" x 51"Use pattern number 2 but...
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Jessie Woodrow Wilson's Civil War
 The members of Savannah's Independent Presbyterian Churchtook part in the album quilt fashion that began in the early 1840s.The blocks never were assembled but bound into a scrapbook for a later...
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Atlanta Garden #1: Garden of Eden
Atlanta Garden #1: Garden of Eden by Dorry EmmerCarrie Mabry Berry (1854-1921) was born in Atlanta, Georgia, August 3, 1854. As daughter of a well-to-do builder in a growing city surrounded by extended...
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A Confederate Flag?
 Block dated 1861 and 1776 from a sampler of applique patterns...A variety of rather free-form florals set together with red heartsin the corners of each block.20 blocks bordered by a swag and...
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American Stars: Finishes
 Erica Cannon has her American Stars BOM quiltedand bound. She used '30s repro prints and solids fora retro scrappy look.Here are a few more finished blocks, tops & quilts from our Facebook...
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Louisa Cheairs Campbell's Civil War
Louisa Terrell Cheairs Campbell (1810-1866) fromher Find-A-Grave files.(Improved photo, the original is scratched and spotted)Louisa Cheairs, descended from French Huguenot (Protestant) refugees,...
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Freedom's Friends #11: Apple Pie for an Unnamed Cook
Block #11 Apple Pie for an unnamed cook by Becky BrownApple Pie Ridge is a regional pattern popular in Maryland and Virginia before the Civil War. We can remember an unnamed woman agent who worked as a...
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