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/

 

Setting Ideas

More ideas on sets. 2004 was the 150th anniversary of our town's founding so Mary, Joyce and I worked on this sampler of 9 blocks. No pattern---they are cleverer than I.

The two authors I go to when I am looking for setting inspirations are Sharyn Craig

Here's one of her ideas.

And Margaret J. Miller

This one's from a Jennifer Chiaverini sampler

And this one for the Civil War blocks is from RCCheryl.

I'm not going to post every Saturday---but I will do an occasional Saturday post. I'll leave the patterns up here, so you can access them by scrolling backwards in time.

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I'm working on blocks and posts for the Grandmother's Choice blog on the fight for women's rights and I'll let you know when I start the posts there too.

Next Block of the Week

At Quilt Market I did a presentation on what I was going to be doing next. I enjoyed doing the 2011 Block of the Week so much I will do another one on the topic of the fight for women's rights.

1913, the year before World War I broke out, was an important year in that campaign. I will start a block-of-the-week similar to the one I did here on the Civil War, traditional blocks with stories about the people, battles, themes and victories.

I'll focus on the English-speaking countries (since that's where I can read the histories) with emphasis on England and the United States.

American women won the vote in 1920.

New Zealand in 1893.

 I'll post the first blocks in the fall.

I'll let you know here when the posts will appear here. I'm reading the histories and Becky is making the blocks now.

Metropolitan Fair Reproduction for Fall 2012

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No time to blog this week. I am at Quilt Market where Moda is introducing my latest Civil War reproduction fabrics.

The line is called Metropolitan Fair in honor of the fundraising fairs the Ladies' Aid Societies put on during the Civil War.

It will be in quilt shops in October. Above are three of the prints.

And the project quilt.