Petticoat Press: Next Year's Pieced Block of the Month

 

Petticoat Press: Pieced Block of the Month For 2025 at CivilWarQuilts

When the Civil War commenced Americans had over 3,500 newspapers to inform them of battles, policy and shape their opinion. The newspaper correspondent had established an important position in public discourse and as the telegraph was introduced immediate battle reports became the news.

Black & white & red all over 

Library of Congress, Photo by Timothy O'Sullivan

Field camp for New York Herald reporters, 1863

The man in the broad-brimmed hat at right is photographer Alexander Gardner.

War reporting was man’s domain but we find bylines from several female journalists. The pieced block of the month here at CivilWarQuilts for 2025 celebrates a dozen of those female journalists who reported on the war from battlegrounds to Washington parlors.

Pettitcoat Press Sampler: The 12 monthly blocks are based on an X seam structure and the "Official" set
alternates a simple X block. You need 12 sampler blocks and 13 of the alternate block.

12" finished blocks make a 60" square field of patchwork.

EQ tells us the alternate X's require 2 yards of each fabric-

the red and the gray.

For the sampler blocks you can use your stash of scraps or buy about 3 yards

 each of red and black and a lighter color if you want to follow that color scheme.

 

The first free pattern will be published on the second Wednesday of January, 2025. Do join us to make a dozen monthly blocks with a central X seam-line (12" square)  celebrating female journalists who reported on the Civil War and its aftermath. Official! Color Scheme: “What’s Black & White, yet Red All Over???”

More later.