The American Folk Art Museum in New York is exhibiting wartime quilts made by British soldiers from their uniforms in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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While shopping at the antique mall, one of the things I’ve been noticing re-surge more and more are Victorian Crazy Quilts and all of their lovely styles and forms. Since I cannot begin to to…
Quilted bedcover with scenes from the legend of Tristan, Sicily, about 1390
Inspiration for Prayer Banner: REPENT - the Kentucky Coffin Quilt
My Tuesday quilt group was given boxes of craft supplies from an unknown source. I picked up some Aunt Martha's quilt booklets that date from 1952 to 1977. According to Quilt History Tidbits the dates are: Quilt Designs; Old Favorites--& New (No. 3175), ca. January 1952 Quilt Lover's Delight (No. 3540), ca. January 1960 Bold and Beautiful Quilts (No. 3778), ca. February 1977 Quilts; Heirlooms of Tomorrow (No. 3780), ca. February 1977 There were several figural patterns. The Gingham Dog and Calico Cat patterns are dear to my heart. The Eugene Field poem The Duel was a favorite of mine as a girl, as I wrote about here. There is a sweet lady with a nosegay to applique and embroider. And Sunbonet Sue and Overall Bill. My friend Linda is making a version of this Morning Glory pattern. I love this Hexagon Wreath! I can't see myself making it this size, but I would like to make a larger version of this. Hexagon Wreath The Cornflower is another cute floral pattern. The Ferris Wheel Quilt is an interesting pattern that could work up to be very Modern done in solids on white. Some day I will do a Rose quilt. This Democratic Rose makes an 18" block. Read about Aunt Martha at Quilt History http://quilthistorytidbits--oldnewlydiscovered.yolasite.com/aunt-martha.php The Quilt Index has full text and photographs available of Aunt Martha's Favorite Quilts (No. 3230), ca. January 1953 found at http://www.quiltindex.org/ephemera_full_display.php?kid=1E-A3-5D8 Q is for Quilter has clean scans of all pages in Quilt Designs, Old Favorites found at http://qisforquilter.com/2011/08/quilt-designs-old-favorites-and-new/
Scrappy Broken Dishes Quilt – Antique Inspired Hello Dear Friends and Readers, Reflecting on antique Dutch quilts, I will immediately think of stars, hourglass, tumbling blocks and broken dishes in the quilt designs. Of course there are others too, but this is what comes to mind for me. The appeal is timeless and the beauty of … Continue reading Scrappy Broken Dishes Quilt – Antique Inspired →
I wish I could say these lovely blue and white Dear Jane blocks were mine. In fact, they were made by Sherri Crisp of Knoxville, Tennessee. (Sherri and I are in the same Reach for the Stars cohort;…
A story from our archive (2001), by Bridget Bodoano. Chef, restaurateur and writer Antonio Carluccio and his wife, Priscilla, allowed the atmosphere of their weekend cottage to dictate its restoration.
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On Saturday the 21st of July 2012, Margaret Sampson George spoke for the Quilt Study Group of NSW about Medallion or Frame Quilts. There were 68 in the audience in the Target Theatre at the Powerhouse Museum who came to hear Margaret Sampson George talk about her introduction to sewing and quilting, her love of medallion quilts, examine some quilts in detail and then to see examples of her work and her students’ work. Margaret discovered quilt making through her contact with the craft magazines that her US service wife friends read when living in Alice Springs. After making her first quilt, a log cabin, and then moving to Penrith, she and a friend enrolled in a patchwork class run by the Embroiderers’ Guild of NSW. The teacher, Audrey McMahon, allowed them to make 4 blocks, instead of a glasses case, and introduced them to Avril Colby’s “Patchwork” (her bible still) and the Lady's Circle Patchwork Quilts magazines and the Quilter's Newsletter Magazines. A year later, she started teaching but saw there was a need for commercial suppliers of metal templates and quilting frames. She encouraged a local company to make these – thus beginning the successful start of JH Bonwick & Co’s quilting products manufacture. Now Margaret teaches whatever people want to do – “repeat blocks are not me”, she said. This is why medallion quilts have interested her – they are quirky, eccentric and traditionally are not made from a pattern but evolve. Her detailed examination of Joanna Southcott’s quilt (http://www.rammtimetrail.org.uk/#/period-17//object-1011) which was stitched in the centre with her own hair, best exemplifies what attracts Margaret’s interest. Margaret then discussed the historic reasons for the popularity of medallion quilts, the development of fabrics from the 1500s onwards (especially the quilt centres based on pastoral, floral, military or commemorative panels) and the importance of medallions for commemorating important dates in the makers’ lives (such as the New Zealand Martha Quilt – see the story of this wonderful quilt at - http://roxborogh.com/Marthasquiltimages/565K%20Martha%27s%20Quilt%201%201%2007.pdf). She finds it wonderful that there are no two identical frame quilts yet found and loves the odd ones – those that are not “oversized mathematical behemoths”. She doesn’t believe that there is a mathematical formula applicable but can see how the Fibonacci principles could help when designing the width of the frames. She now loves renovating her centres to take advantage of new, brighter fabrics. Margaret then took us through her quilts and those of her students. She started with the One Day Quilt she made in 1992. This is her 'Not the Levens Hall' quilt. Here are 2 centres inspired by the Jane Pizar Irish medallion quilt which is held at the Cheltenham Museum. The original can be viewed at http://www.bridgemanart.com/search?filter_text=pizar&x=0&y=0 (Barbara Brackman has a more detailed examination of the quilt on her blog). Marg discovered the quilt when she saw an ad for the museum in an 'English Country Living' magazine. The first example was made by one of Marg's students and the second one is Marg's version. And this is the medallion quilt she made from available fabrics and sewed under the curfew during the coup when living in Fiji. Margaret then shared a number of quilts her students have made including some made by Gay Drummond and Maree Spencer, who were in the audience. Thank you for letting us see your wonderful quilt tops. And this is the last quilt Marg showed us. A group of her students made it for her. She never uses Visoflex, so for fun they used it when making the blocks.
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applique, 1851-1900, English; Classical statues, animals and domestic items
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This probably has another name as many quilt patterns do. It's wonderful how they survive through the centuries! To download the chain of diamonds pattern to yo
