Next year this blog will feature a free Block of the Month pattern called Yankee Diary. Each month in 2017 you'll get a pieced or applique pattern for a Civil War reproduction sampler inspired by several patriotic quilts from the time.
I've been reading the diary of Caroline Cowles Richards who worked on many quilts in Canandaigua, New York, in the 1850s and '60s. She wrote about them in her diary, which also gives us insight into life for fortunate girls in the mid-19th century.
Civil War era tea party in Richmond, Virginia.
As Carrie Richards discusses the coming of the War in her town we'll be stitching stars and stripes and dogs and flags. You may recall we did a Dixie Diary quilt a few years ago, focusing on Sarah Morgan's Louisiana journal A Confederate Girl's Diary.
Moose Bay Muses version
of the Dixie Diary
Carrie and sister Anna
We'll go to upstate New York for our time travel in a Yankee Diary. Sarah and Carrie begin the War in parallel fashion, a little bit spoiled, a little bit self-absorbed. Both matured under very different circumstances.
A few of the inspiration blocks for Yankee Diary
You'll have to wait till next year---the last Wednesday of January,
which is January 25, 2017---to see the first block.
We'll discuss color schemes and fabrics before then.
How exciting!
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ReplyDeleteI have yet to finish the blocks for this year sew-along. (I fell off the wagon in August.) Still, I am happy to hear about this new sew-along. :^D It'll be fun, I just know it! Thanks for doing these sew-along. ;^)
ReplyDeleteSounds intriguing. Oh boy!
ReplyDeleteYou are so generous! I look forward to making this quilt and learning history from your posts along the way.
ReplyDeleteLook forward to it. Your block of the months are really interesting.
ReplyDeleteExciting! I did take my Grandmothers choice to vote I tagged you on instagram!
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like fun and I have done the dog piece, that is my favorite.
ReplyDeleteDebbie
Wonderful. Looking so forward to this :)
ReplyDeleteColleen: I saw that!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds great!
ReplyDeleteSounds like fun--can't wait!!
ReplyDeleteI will do what I can and join. I love your history. I'm in! Thank you!!
ReplyDeleteI love the previewed blocks, I'm inspired!!
ReplyDeleteI would love to start next year's BOM with everyone. Is there a Facebook Group I need to join or just follow the blog? Thank you Lyn
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ReplyDeleteJust follow the blog. On a computer screen you'll see a spot where you can sign up for emails.
Doesn't show on a phone.
Excited about it. I may be have time to finished my civil war quilt and start with a new one.
ReplyDeleteRegards
I'm excited about the next quilt along, I learned so much this past ten months with the Westering Women, as I enjoyed to sew along so many Quilters all around the world!
ReplyDeleteThank you Mrs. Barbara for bind us with pieces of gourgeus fabrics!
This sounds wonderful - I can't wait! I so appreciate your BOMs, not only for the beautiful blocks but for the history and links you share as well. Thank you so much for all the time, research, and designing you do for us!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful idea. Thank you! I had wondered what might be next, hoping there would be something. I'm looking forward to your notes on the diary.
ReplyDeleteThis is my first time doing a quilt along with you. I've made lots of quilts, but never a reproduction. Can't wait too see the fabric ideas so I can go shopping!
ReplyDeleteHoping to join you, and be able to keep up with the pace!
ReplyDeleteNot only am I excited about once again joining in on the BOM, but my husband's great-grandmother was Sarah Cowles Hollenbeck, a wonderful quilter, who came to Nebraska to hmestead with her husband, Andrew, from upstate New York; lived in a sod house and raised 12 children. Now I am going to have to do some genealogy research to see if she and Carrie are kin, which is quite possible.
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