Antebellum Album---Divided Hearts

Barbara Goetz, Antebellum Album, 2019

Collecting pictures of the 2018 BOM, Antebellum Album.

The book Divided Hearts should be out in a few weeks.

Charlene Bongiorno Stephens

These from our Facebook group show several in the "official set."

Debby Grisante

With a few additions, like the leaf applique

Janet Nagy Hanley

Jeanne Arnieri

Mary Walker Colgin

And then there are the unofficial sets.

France Aubert

Hard to get the correct color but here's an accurate

shot of her fabric.

Michelle Marker Christiansen

Traditional look in the sash with the blocks on point and the applique edge blocks.

Dominique Renou

Pieced stars in the sash.

Martha Claassen

Arrows an idea from Westering Women

a few years ago.

The Facebook group:

Ask to join.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/799666626885682/

And see this blog post at C&T's blog:

https://www.ctpub.com/blog/divided-hearts-a-civil-war-friendship-quilt/

Westering Women Samplers

Kay B

I've found some Westering Women finishes on the internet.

Great fabric choices here.

Fishmermaidman Posted Mom's quilt on Instagram

Ann L at the GardenofNeedles blog

See a post a few months ago on more finished Westering Women samplers

https://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2018/02/finishes-boms-from-years-past.html

Finishes BOMs from Years Past

Mary Ellen at Little Quilts has finished quilting her

2014 BOM Threads of Memory

And I found this version by Teddybears/mamabear

Liz at Gone to the Beach finished her Westering Women sampler from 2016. She made 16 blocks, adding to the twelve I posted here two years ago.
https://gone2thebeach.blogspot.com/2018/02/westering-women-top-finish.html

She thinks I should do more 20th-century history, but I'm stuck right now in the 19th-century compartment in the wayback machine. I think others should be telling their 20th-century family stories through quilts.

Liz is also doing this year's Antebellum Album. Here are some of her fabric ideas:
http://gone2thebeach.blogspot.com/2018/02/antebellum-album-quilt-schoolgirl.html

Post with links to the patterns:
Threads of Memory
http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2015/01/threads-of-memory-bom-free-pattern-posts.html
Westering Women
https://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2017/02/westering-women-links-to-bom-quilt.html

And I've digitized both of them so check my Etsy shop. The Pattern Page:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/BarbaraBrackmanShop?section_id=20633915

Thistle Quilters' Westering Women

The Thistle Quilt Guild in Nova Scotia, Canada, just had their quilt show. This display is all Westering Women samplers.

Sheila's model

Sheila, the program director, organized the guild's block-of-the-month last year.

The thirty or so members followed the monthly blog here and Sheila added a few more blocks to make the quilt larger.

They all used the traditional set. It's a small guild but obviously they are enthusiastic stitchers.

Sheila gave them 20 blocks instead of 12.

I Photoshopped her model to give you

a wrinkly picture of all 20.

I am always pleased to have guilds use my BOM's for their monthly programs. The Westering Women pattern began as a BOM for my own guild several years ago.  It's not too late to start Yankee Diary with your guild.

Pat's Westering Women

Pat Styring sent a photo of her finished Westering Women sampler.

She added some free-form floral applique---

Broderie Perse---to the blocks.

And stitched the name of each block in the sashing.

She says:

"Each month I looked forward to the new block. Had 'Road to California' not been the name of the last block I might have had space for 'Westering Women' on the front too. Thanks for the fun of thinking about my Nebraska Pioneer ancestors as I sewed."

The words are appliqued by machine with

raw edges....

Something Pat seems to be quite good at.

Love it!

Label for Westering Women

Brenda reminded me that I hadn't made a label for your Westering Women quilts. So here it is.
The black box is about 3" x 4-1/2".

I used an image from a cowboy-themed feedsack with a wagon drawn by horses. I liked the look but remember those westering wagons were pulled by oxen.

To Print:

• Create a word file or a new empty JPG file. 
• Click on the image above. 
• Right click on it and save it to your file. 
• Print that file onto pretreated fabric.

Ellen at LittleJewelQuilts

Ellen's top is done. 

March Finishes for Westering Women

Pink Deenster has finished setting her bright blocks (she also did a low-contrast set.)

She made up her own clever set that alternates blocks on point with blocks on the straight. Basic geometry means the blocks on point will take up more space.

So she added a frame to the blocks on the straight.

Size of block on straight  x 1.414 = Size of block on point

12" x 1.414 = 16.968

We'll call it 17"

Size of frame on each side finishes to 2-1/2"

Am I right Dena?

Danice has finished her Way West version

http://homespunhannahblog.blogspot.com/2017/03/westering-women-qal-quilt-top-completed.html

As has Bernice.

Ellen at LittleJewelQuilts used a triple-strip sash and a series of pieced and plain borders to get a larger quilt that is 80 x 91"
http://littlejewelquilts.blogspot.com/2017/03/taaa-daaa.html

The sorely missed Pat Summitt

Let's get those tops finished!

NOW!

Resources for Pieced BOM's & Quiltalongs

Westering Women by Mark Lauer

Mark just finished his sampler, which he pieced and bordered with prints from my Alice's Scrapbag repro collection from a year or two ago.

Nice collaboration, me and Mark (and Alice).

He enjoyed making a sampler of pieced blocks:

"I love the blocks you picked and wonder if you can suggest any resources for finding more similar style blocks. It's a great mix! "

Maureen G.'s Threads of Memory

in Morris Jewels fabrics.

I have ideas. He ordered the patterns for the Threads of Memory BOM we did a few years ago. Those are original star blocks I designed. 

Those of you who've been quilting for a while might be able to suggest 225 or so other pieced BOM's and sampler patterns. As far as resources I did a web search for 

pieced sampler BOM

pieced sampler quiltalong

Pam Buda's Conestoga Crossing

Fabric designers often offer free sampler patterns

to promote their fabric lines.

Nancy Gere's Generals' Wives

Some of these are several years old but you can still find links to

the free patterns.

It's not too late to catch up with Moda's traditional designers and their

BlockHeads Block of the Week 2017. Do a web search to find participating designers.

I looked at Pinterest boards of sampler quilts like this one:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/280349145528109604/

Some bloggers keep lists with fairly easy to follow links:

http://www.seamstobesew.com/block-of-the-monthweek-events/2017-block-of-the-months-and-quilt-alongs-around-the-web/

Debbie Mumm's Stars of Honor

http://www.debbiemumm.com/Projects/QuiltBlocks/2014/

Many pattern designers sell samplers in traditional colors and blocks.

Lori Smith's Abigail's Sampler

From Lori Smith's From My Heart to Your Hands pattern company.

https://www.frommyhearttoyourhands.com/Qstore/Qstore.cgi?CMD=009&DEPT=1155191200&BACK=A0001A1

UPDATE: Mandy sent this link on a 2017 CW BOM starting soon:
http://www.piecingthepastquilts.com/peace-and-healing-bow-ii

Carol Hopkins's Land of Lincoln

http://www.carolhopkinsdesigns.com/shop/Civil-War-Legacies-Click-on-quilt-title-to-see-full-story/p/244-Land-of-Lincoln-Sampler-sku-244.htm

Layer Cake Sampler Quilt Along

All triangles, all year

I have been doing these pieced block series since 1976 when I started writing for Quilters Newsletter,.

Several of my history-themed samplers have been published as books:

Civil War Sampler with 50 blocks and Facts & Fabrications with 20

are sill available from C&T Publishing.

http://www.ctpub.com/search.php?search_query=brackman

Borderland is out of print.

And....I still have a couple of blogs on line with series for traditional pieced weekly blocks.The patterns are free; you just have to scroll through the posts.

Cookie's Creek's Austen Family Album

The Austen Family Album with history about Jane Austen-- 36 blocks

http://austenfamilyalbumquilt.blogspot.com/2014/04/block-1-bright-star-for-jane-austen.html

Grandmother's Choice, 49 weekly blocks about Women's Rights.

http://grandmotherschoice.blogspot.com/2012/09/1-grandmothers-choice.html

And if that is not enough you can use my greatest resource:

BlockBase, 4,000 pieced patterns in a PC program. 

http://electricquilt.com/online-shop/blockbase/

Of course, I wrote it---but I must say it makes it easy to find themes, topics and related blocks. Design your own block-of-the-month.