Wednesday Posts Only

 

Unknown girl with mourning ribbons and photograph

of a soldier

I began this CivilWarQuilts blog in 2010 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the terrible rebellion. I had no idea I'd find so many women's stories (most associated with quilts).

Sampler applique from a Jeffrey Evans Auction

I see I have done 1,130 posts since then, usually a woman's story on Saturdays and a pattern on Wednesdays. At the beginning I thought I'd keep this up for a year or two until I ran out of stories. 

But 16 million American women lived through that war. I'll never run out of stories.

An old collection of my Civil War repro prints

One reason to maintain a Civil War Quilts blog was to give readers ideas on how to use all those Civil War reproduction fabrics I and other designers were creating at the time. But few accurate mid-19th century prints are being produced today.

 (If quilters don't buy; shops don't order; companies don't produce.)

You've all got plenty of repro prints.

And I am trying to cut back on my sitting at a computer---writing blog posts certainly kept me entertained during the pandemic lock-down. Now there are other things to do besides sift through digital genealogy records so I am going to cut back on the number of posts each week. I've been posting Saturdays & Wednesdays. From now on just Wednesdays.

Thistle Tomo of Japan makes tiny versions...Her Atlanta Garden miniatures

I'll still be creating block of the month programs, probably both pieced and appliqued every year (each accompanied by historical tales.). Patterns posted on Wednesdays. And I'll still be doing short posts on women's stories and showing readers' progress on the BOM series.

But maybe I'll get more sewing done!

Look for a story about a very interesting woman next Wednesday.