Union Baskets

Basket with a Union Flag

This extraordinary block is from a quilt in the

collection of the Indiana State Museum

by Martha McFeely Fry

According to family records when the quilt was donated, Martha McFeely lived in Greencastle, Indiana. Sweetheart Benjamin Fry from Fountain County, Indiana, enlisted  in the 2nd New York Regiment, the Harris Light Cavalry.

Library of Congress

Martha and Benjamin's letters and diaries from the Civil War years are also in the collection of the Indiana Historical Society.

New York Historical Society

https://www.indianamuseum.org/

Martha's is Quilt A.

Union by: Kay Ross, 34” x 44”, 2014

Kay Ross's interpretation of that quilt made for the 2014 American Quilt Study Group exhibit.

Read more about her process here:

 https://www.facebook.com/baldwinreynolds/posts/10153991350597024:0

Julie Silber has shown an antique quilt with a similar flag in a basket. The flag is repeated in the border. The piece is said to have been slave made (Quilt B)

The two quilts (Martha Fry's on the right) have a lot in common: Same basket pattern although
the appliqued handles differ a bit. 

Different basket, similar idea.

This marvelous sampler is in the collection of

the Iowa State Historical Society.

This sampler was donated by a woman named

Eleanor Orth

And on the topic of baskets with words:

Block in a Masonic album sampler from Cumberland County, Maine

in the Museum of our National Heritage,

the Scottish Rite Museum.

http://mdsmobius.supremecouncil.org/detail.php?term=quilt&module=objects&type=keyword&x=0&y=0&kv=545&record=22&module=objects

Wish you had a pattern for a basket quilt with a flag? Wait till Wednesday.