Barbara brackman quilts

Print this label on your ink jet printer on treated fabric for a label for your Yankee Notions quilt. Last block in the series next Wednesday. Shawn Priggel is ready!

Honeycomb Quilt by Elizabeth Van Horne Clarkson (1771–1852) Metropolitan Museum of Art Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Moore, 1923 https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/23.80.75/ I've been indexing hexagon quilts for a while. This post is about one particular design, a quilt that's inspired many copies. The original by Elizabeth Clarkson is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Elizabeth Van Horne Clarkson (1771–1852) by Thomas Sier Cummings about 1844. Collection of the Metropolitan…

Circle of FriendsSomehow you all know about this surprise quilt made for me from blocks sent in by subscribers to this blog. "This quilt was made for Barbara Brackman in appreciation for her Civil War Block of the Week...." Dustin and Becky and others of you coordinated 49 [Becky says 56 not 49!!!] blocks from around the world. Becky set it and asked Deb Jacobs to machine quilt it. Both did a lovely job. Becky bordered it with a stripe from the Civil War Reunion collection. That's a heck of…

New Jersey By Becky Brown In the United States the right to vote could be determined by an individual state if the federal government did not address the issue. When the New Jersey Constitution was first adopted in 1776 the document defined a voter as a propertied adult resident of the state. 1880 representation of the 18th-century New Jersey "Petticoat Electorate" in Harper's Weekly How many women, blacks and non-citizens took advantage of this freedom at the polls is not recorded but by…

Women at the Albany, New York, Sanitary Fair Last season's Civil War reproduction that I did for Moda was called Metropolitan Fair after the Manhattan Sanitary Commission Fair during the Civil War. I've found a few more photos illustrating the work that women did to raise funds for field hospitals Like this one at Gettysburg. I'm always looking for interior photos of the Sanitary Fairs which were held around the Union. Here's a stereographic photo of some kind of an exhibition. A Sanitary…

Barbara Brackman is a quilt historian and author. She has written books on quilting during the Civil War including Facts and Fabrications: Unraveling the History of Quilts and Slavery and Quilts From

Barbara Brackman is back! Her new collection is Ladies Legacy.

"Richmond," pieced in Richmond Redsby Becky Brown Becky, who used to live in Richmond, Virginia, wrote she couldn't resist making up the "Richmond" block in my new 19th-century reproduction line calle

Here is your next block of the week. Are you keeping up? We sure do have alot of days this winter to bunker down and stitch.Gotta love it!! Debbie and Deborah