Kentucky Classic #9: Bluegrass Bouquet for Sarah Nelson Edwards
Bluegrass Bouquet by Elsie RidgleyBluegrass Bouquet, our last block in the Kentucky Classic series of nine blocks, was inspired by a medallion appliqued by Sarah Nelson Edwards of Harrodsburg, Kentucky...
View ArticleWashington Whirlwind: Links to the 2024 Pieced BOM
Links to the dozen 2024 blocks: Introduction with sets, etc.https://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2023/12/2024-pieced-bom-washington-whirlwind.htmlSee our Facebook Group and post your...
View ArticleWashington Whirlwind #12: Windblown Square
Washington Whirlwind #12 by Jeanne Arnieri. Windblown Square recalls the Lincoln family's life after the White House years.Heritage AuctionThomas "Tad" Lincoln at about 14 in 1867Mary Todd Lincoln...
View ArticleCivil War Fundraiser from Newlin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania
"Liberty1862"https://mycchc.catalogaccess.com/objects/13873Museum cataloging notes: "According to old card, 'Made by women of Newlin Township in 1864 and chanced off at Fair for sick in field hospitals...
View ArticleHarriet Newell Trefethen Skillings's Civil War
Name quilt organized as a fundraiser on Peaks Island, Mainein 1875, ten years after the Civil...
View ArticleThe Herrick Sewing Circle---An Abolition Quilt
Chester County History Center CollectionFeathered star block in the center of a crib quilt stitchedby the Herrick Sewing Circle of Lancaster County,...
View ArticlePetticoat Press #1: Olivia's Chronicle for Emily Edson Briggs
Petticoat Press: Block # 1 Olivia's Chronicle by Jeanne ArnieriOur 2025 pieced Block of the Month is Petticoat Press. This celebrationof women journalists reporting on the Civil War will include afree...
View ArticleArt Student Mary Hallock Foote's Civil War
Sampler quilt inscribed "School of Design Engraving Class Cooper Union"I loaned this quilt made at the Cooper Union school in New York, probably during the last year or two of the Civil War, to the...
View ArticleRebecca Stoner Rosen's Civil War
Flying Geese Quilt attributed to Rebecca Jane Stoner Rosen (1838-1921)79" x 94"Quilts of VirginiaWhen the Civil War began 23-year-old Rebecca Rosen had been married to David Harrison Rosen for about 6...
View Article2025's Applique Block of the Month Starts in March
Our 2025 Applique Block of the Month series begins here on the last Wednesday of March. Models are made----well, some models are started; some tops are DONE. Many years I base the series on a woman's...
View ArticleSusan Cutter Wyman's Civil War
Collection of the St. Louis Art Museumhttps://www.slam.org/collection/objects/37239/Silk star quilt attributed to Susan Cutter WymanSusan Frances Cutter Wyman (1789-1864)Susan Cutter Wyman was in her...
View ArticlePetticoat Press #2: Sarah's Favorite for Fanny Fern
2 Sarah's Favorite for Fanny Fern by Denniele BohannonSarah Payson Willis Eldredge Farrington Parton (1811-1872)Drawn from a commercial cabinet card dated 1864.Sarah's Favorite remembers "Fanny Fern"...
View ArticleLizzie Lisle Marries a Civil War Veteran
Collection of the National Museum of American HistoryQuilt attributed to Lizzie Lisle (1836-1913), donated byLizzie's grand-niece Lois Marmon Flannery (1900-1986) with another (see below.)Lizzie Lisle...
View ArticleMarilla Riser Wise's Civil War Quilt?
Sampler applique quilt that descended in the Wyse familyof Columbia, South Carolina with a family tale related to the Civil War, a gift for soldier Allen M. Wyse. Mary Boozer (1906-2005) who brought...
View ArticleBathsheba Phillips Crane's Civil War
In my files of silk quilts I have one attributed to Bathsheba Howard Crane. Notes say it's in the Vermont Historical Society but I don't see it in their catalog.An image search was of no help either.In...
View ArticlePetticoat Press # 3 Pathfinder for Jane Cannon Swisshelm
Petticoat Press # 3: Pathfinder for Jane Cannon Swisshelm by Elsie RidgleyMinnesota Historical SocietyJane Grey Cannon Swisshelm (1815-1884)Jane was born in western Pennsylvania into a family of...
View ArticleMary Gaddy Inman's Civil War Quilt?
The North Carolina project recorded this quilt forty years ago. A great-granddaughter who'd inherited it attributed itto Mary Gaddy Inman of Robeson...
View ArticleLiberty's Birds #1: Bluebird
Liberty's Birds #1: Bluebirdby Denniele BohannonThis year's applique Block-of-the-Month series features the diary of Sara T.D. Robinson written her first year in Kansas where she and her husband came...
View ArticleEliza Trigg Brents's Civil War
Kentucky Historical SocietyAttributed to Susan Mary Cheatham Smith Montgomery (1846-1910)Silk quilt pieced over paper templates in a hexagon designwith added embroidery on the borders. Kentucky had a...
View ArticlePetticoat Press: #4: Starry Path for Miriam Folline Leslie
Petticoat Press: #4 Starry Path for Miriam Folline Leslie by Becky BrownMiriam Folline [Follin] Squier Leslie (1836–1914)Above: many but not all her names: Miriam Florence Follin Peacock Squier Leslie...
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