Civil War Sampler in December

 

At Quilt Market this week we are showing off the new Civil War Sampler book based on this blog.

It's scheduled to arrive in shops mid-December. The cover is based on Becky Brown's quilt.

 

 

There are fifty patterns inside with stories and two versions of each block, here Becky's and Valerie's. The blocks are in different order from the blog and I switched out ten blocks so there are ten new stories and blocks...

Like Courthouse Square by Roseanne Smith

You can see more about the book at the publisher's webpage.

http://www.ctpub.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=2743

 

 

Click on the Google Preview button there and it will show you a preview.

Or you can see a preview at Google Books.

http://books.google.com/books?id=76dG4MpTjuQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22civil+war+sampler%22&source=bl&ots=TUtL3vehLz&sig=jY-cUOoYj0CE_xaY3rXaZwrbooo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5JiGUJ_QIYL28gSnrYEw&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAQ

 

You may notice that the book is scheduled for delivery on December 10th. This may be a little late for holiday giving so I've made a certificate here that you could print out and put in an envelope, promising delivery---just in case.

 

 

Click on the photo and print or click on the PDF:

https://workspaces.acrobat.com/app.html#d=79IYGfBMT9NeFtNrq6v4hQ

You could also copy the image and email a gift notice.

If you have a block in the book---we wrote for permissions so you may remember who you are---you'll get a free copy, but when I get that box of books and when they will arrive at your doors is an unknown.

A Civil War Quilt?

A few months ago I saw this quilt for sale in an online auction.

It didn't last very long but I copied the photos.

 

On the back you can see that each of the blocks was quilted and bound before being set together, what we today call potholder quilts. This technique was done during the Civil War by sewing groups making quilts for soldiers---but you also see it in other eras.

Could it be a Civil War quilt

made between 1861 and 1865?

A look at the overall quilt tells me no for a couple of reasons

1) That crazy quilt block in the lower corner below---not done till the 1880s.

2) That large scale black or navy blue print looks wrong for era too.

But this block makes me think there is some Civil War connection.

Here we have four Union shields

Very much like a quilt with repeat blocks of four Confederate shields. It's an unusual pattern.

Perhaps the blocks were begun during the War and finished later. One could just keep adding finished blocks....

Homefront & Battlefield Catalog Available

At the AQSG seminar in the book sales area I found a copy of the catalog from the American Textile History Museum's show Homefront and Battlefield by Madelyn Shaw and Lynne Zacek Bassett. If you want the latest authoritative book on historical Civil War quilts you must have this one.

Union & Constitution Forever

Elizabeth Moffit Lyle, circa 1861

Smoky Hill Museum

Remember the show is only up until November 25, 2012 in Lowell, Massachusetts. The catalog features many iconic Civil War quilts---from Kansas to Maine.

 

Union & Liberty

Octavia Lewis, 1864

Maine State Museum

 

Many from museums...

like this Gunboat Quilt by Martha Jane Hatter in the collection

of the First White House of the Confederacy

 

And several from private collections.

Sanitary Commission Quilt

Caroline Bowen Fairbanks, 1862-3

Vermont Historical Society

See detail below.

The theme is Quilts and Context in the Civil War so there are many artifacts and much information. The book has 231 pages, paperback. $39.95.

 Here's what I know about buying the catalog. Call the ATHM to order it by phone:

978-441-0400 x 243 or 247

Their museum shop webpage:

http://www.athm.org/about_us/museum_shop/

 

You will have many chances to see the ATHM show as it will travel around the country in the next three years.

Future destinations:
New-York Historical Society, New York, NY, April 4 – August 31, 2014;
Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT, September 20, 2014 – January 1, 2015
Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln, NE, February 1, - June 30, 2015.

More Accomplishments

Linda H. fussy cut stars I think for her cornerstones

Basic Sashing for a Sampler

Strips and Cornerstones.

This is the same set I've planned for the new Block of the Week

Grandmother's Choice which starts today.

LillianOh

There are a lot of framed photo prints in this one.

Mieked's with a border of triangles

It's a classic and it works so well.

RedHen8

But of course, you might have your own idea---a strip around each block and then the sashing.

Sanguine Stitcher's strips are light.

CarmenMaria in Spain

Setting them on point is an option.

LJBush

Adding star points to the sashing

Magpie Memories

Adding a lot more---corners and a sashing

Marge Pearson

Adding corners and alternating light and dark.

 





Sets for the Summer

PassionPatchwork

Has 63 blocks done.

She plans to make 27 more = 90!

I love the subdued pink and blue color scheme and the side by side set.

I've been saving pictures over the summer and I can't remember what I've posted or not.

I (me personally) am done with the book I hope. I proof read it once again a few weeks ago---I hope that's the last time and that no mistakes have escaped me or the eagle-eyed editors. Now the artist will finish up the pages and then send it off to the printers. It should be out at the end of December.

 So now I have time to collect more sets and block photos.

Kathy in Canada had her blocks up on the wall and

 I see she used a similar rather controlled palette.

Karen has hers set and quilted. The blue sashing and border give it a true blue look.

The last time I looked AnneEliza was hand quilting hers.

The QuiltingBearGal has her top set with a bright yellow accent.

PatchGarden has used a completely different palette.

And Lillian of Lillian's cupboard has given her top to it's rightful owner who seems quite happy to have it.

Civil War Era Quilt Exhibit in Chicago

Civil War Era Quilts from the Illinois State Museum

is on exhibit at the The Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery

From June 18-September 14, 2012

The gallery at 100 West Randolph, downtown, is open only Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM, (closed state holidays.) The Gallery is free and wheelchair-accessible.

Quilt made in Jerseyville, Illinois

 Curator Angela Goebel-Bain Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts has selected 18 quilts from the Illinois State Museum's extensive collection. Highlights:

• An album quilt made by a close neighbor of Abraham Lincoln and includes the names of Springfield women surrounding the Lincolns.
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• A quilt that a wounded Civil War veteran helped his wife create after the war.
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• A quilt made by a soldier's wife from Effingham whose son also volunteered when he came of age.
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• Quilts made by mothers and sisters of soldiers
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• A quilt made by a Jerseyville, Illinois, woman for her granddaughter in Tennessee, whose father was a Confederate officer
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• Quilts representing the array of popular quilt styles of the Civil War period, including five outstanding appliqué quilts from a young Pennsylvania woman's dowry.

Click here for more information

http://www.museum.state.il.us/pressroom/index.html?NPR=1127

Homefront & Battlefield Exhibit in Lowell

Homefront & Battlefield: Quilts & Context in the Civil War

is opening at the American Textile History Museum, Lowell, Massachusetts, this weekend.

The show will be up from June 30, 2012 – November 25, 2012

The exhibit is curated by Madelyn Shaw and Lynne Bassett.

From the ATHM website:

Homefront & Battlefield will use quilts, textiles, clothing, and other artifacts to connect deeply moving and insightful personal stories (private memory) about the war, its causes, and its aftermath with the broader national context (public history). Textiles were integral to the Civil War—physically, economically, ideologically, and emotionally—and linked soldiers and civilians. The exhibition and book build on recent scholarship in social and economic history to tell of the events that led to the war, the stories of men and women affected by the Civil War, and the opportunities and challenges that followed it.

The curators will be giving a talk and signing books on
Sunday, September 16, 2012
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
                   

The catalog, published by ATHM, has been scheduled for publication June 1, 2012. Look for  Homefront and Battlefield: Quilts and Context in the Civil War by Madelyn Shaw and Lynne Zacek Bassett.    

See the ATHM website here:

http://www.athm.org/exhibitions/current_exhibitions/