Liberty's Birds #8: New Orchards

 

Liberty's Birds #8: New Orchards by Denniele Bohannon

Sara Robinson returned to the ruined town of Lawrence in June, 1856 after traveling in the east hoping to convince politicians and some of her influential relatives to free her husband still jailed by the pro-slavery Kansans for treason.

She heard of the "Sack of Lawrence" in Chicago.

New Orchards by Becky Collis

Crossing the river on the rope ferry...

New Orchards by Elsie Ridgley

A girdled tree

The Missourians' vindictiveness is illustrated by her account of their taking the time to kill the new fruit orchards citizens had planted by girdling the small trees---removing all the bark in a circle around the trunk which prevents nutrients from traveling, a cut that eventually kills the tree.

The Block

                

A bird and a floral----

Applique Classic

Sandra Starley has a crib quilt in her collection featuring 

a similar pattern.

We might call that two-toned bird a robin.

We still plant fruit trees like peaches and apricots in Lawrence, but mostly the ornamental type. It's a rare spring that doesn't blast the blooms with a late freeze destroying our hopes of homegrown fruit.

Print the patterns out on 8-1/2 x 11" sheets.

Note the inch-square guide.

New Orchards by Susannah Pangelinan

in her sashing with four-patch cornerstones.

Elsie needed 13 blocks for her on-point set so she made 

4 blocks of a simple rose for the corners.

Last BOM next month #9.