Quilt History Reports

>>      THE ADVENTURES OF YOUNG CHILDREN AS TOLD VIA QUILTS                                              BETTY J. HAGERMAN One of the best research boo...

http://karenquilt.blogspot.com/2022/06/human-figures-on-quilts.html

 I was just now flipping thru some of the pre-game stuff for the Super Bowl and was astounded to see a pop-star leading the first musical number about 12:45 (PST) my time wearing a short-sleeve ...

http://karenquilt.blogspot.com/2022/02/ruby-mckim-makes-bigtime-at-super-bowl.html

I like creating altars in my home. My alters are always a composite of pieces of art, plus "found" objects in nature that resonate for me.  Once I even converted a deep shelf in a linen cl...

http://karenquilt.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-inspiration-in-our-lives.html

 “HOW WE LOVE SEQUESTERING,  WHERE NO PESTS ARE PESTERING”  My music-history-loving husband, Gary, has created a radio show based on his selection of songs whose titles somehow ...

http://karenquilt.blogspot.com/2020/04/music-to-uplift-us-in-troubled-times.html

"When catastrophe is sequential, it eventually trains its survivors to greet terror with the serenity of the enlightened." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/nyregion/naomi-replansky-eva-kollis...

http://karenquilt.blogspot.com/2020/04/when-catastrophe-is-sequential-it.html

QUILTS USUALLY ENTER MY COLLECTION WRAPPED IN MYSTERY IT'S SOLVING THE MYSTERY THAT IS SO ENTERTAINING AND EXCITING.   UNFORTUNATELY, I HAVEN'T SOLVED THIS ONE'S MYSTERY YET. The ...

http://karenquilt.blogspot.com/2020/03/mystery-quilt.html

JAZZ & QUILTS, ALWAYS A GREAT COMBO! My latest quilt project....applique quilt blocks which I have unexpectedly turned into vehicles for gathering the signatures of jazz musicians!  I have ...

http://karenquilt.blogspot.com/2020/03/jazz-and-quilts.html

Was there ever a life before Quilting ? If you click on the link above, you'll see the first article I wrote for my grandkids about my life before marriage. Only I called it "was there ever a ...

http://karenquilt.blogspot.com/2020/01/life-before-quilting-part-2.html

Barbara Gonce of Lopez Island -  Passes December 6, 2019 (click on photos to enlarge) Here is Barbara (above) celebrating with the gang in Houston in November 2018 !  A sp...

http://karenquilt.blogspot.com/2020/01/barbara-gonce-of-lopez-island-1876.html

How I got from Clara R. Brian to Richard Hofstadter! Youngest daughter Lori studying an old embroider sampler my father found in the old family homeplace in the Shenandoah Valley after he in...

http://karenquilt.blogspot.com/2019/09/the-rabbit-holes-of-research.html

How many of you viewed this quilt when it went up for auction earlier this year? It sold for an astounding amount for a Sunbonnet Sue, in my opinion. But it truly is one very interesting and uniq...

http://karenquilt.blogspot.com/2019/09/history-of-bonneted-children.html

STAMP COLLECTING CAME BEFORE QUILT COLLECTING I recently stumbled upon a quilt that is what I call a Sampler Quilt of US Postage Stamps.  Now I am trying to track down the source of the patt...

http://karenquilt.blogspot.com/2019/04/us-postage-stamps-on-quilts.html

    Here is a quiz about Quilting  that I first stumbled across in 2010.  What questions would you  like to see added to such a quiz? QUILTING QUIZ - HTTP://WWW.PBS.ORG/AMERICAQU...

http://karenquilt.blogspot.com/2019/03/quilting-quiz-from-pbs.html

My first article about the 1876 Centennial Quilt Project that I helped launch the summer of  2015 appeared in the local newspaper in the San Juan Islands, Washington, April 22, 2017.  ...

http://karenquilt.blogspot.com/2019/03/1876-centennial-quilt-project-part-i.html

Ocean Waves in Red & Brown (68" x 91") ca. 1880-1900 from Russel/Traver family, Rockingham Co., Shenandoah Valley of VA.  See Brackman’s Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns #113a, pg. 2...

http://karenquilt.blogspot.com/2019/03/ocean-waves-shenandoah-valley-of.html

A Shenandoah Valley Quilt Adventure (FIRST DRAFT ORIGINALLY WRITTEN IN 1998) It was a warm June day in The Valley. The blue sky was filed with large billowing white clouds. As soon as I ...

http://karenquilt.blogspot.com/2019/02/a-shenandoah-valley-quilt-adventure.html

"A Meeting of the Sunbonnet Children" by Betty J Hagerman (1979) I never set out to collect Sunbonnet Sue & Overall Sam quilts. THEN HOW DID SO MANY WIND UP IN MY QUILT C...

http://karenquilt.blogspot.com/2018/05/sunbonnet-sue-overall-sam-still-kickin.html

BIEDLER SPINNING WHEEL  FROM THE BIEDLER COVERED BRIDGE FARM  OF NEW MARKET VIRGINIA I have no experience spinning or weaving but I couldn't resist this quilt (67x98 from SE Ohio)...

http://karenquilt.blogspot.com/2017/12/spinning-wheel-quilt.html

A friend asked me recently how I could get so excited about quilt history. To her the color and design of quilts is what excited her, as well as the connection to the person to whom she was ...

http://karenquilt.blogspot.com/2017/11/why-so-passionate-about-quilt-history.html

Quilts that don't come with a date stitched into them or somehow inked on them have other ways of giving us clues as to their approximate age. Style is just one clue. Here is a general style gui...

http://karenquilt.blogspot.com/2017/04/quilt-style-timeline-cheatercloth-or.html

"Pattern Samplers" or "Pattern Quilts" are one of my favorite style of quilt. It is so exciting to find a quilt inside another quilt. Even if the inner quilt doesn’t turn out to be anything ...

http://karenquilt.blogspot.com/2017/04/sampler-quilts-quilts-inside-quilts.html

I am trying to determine the age of this crib quilt, which is 35x51 and came out of the Waco TX area. Does anyone recognize the images on these printed nursery rhyme blocks?  I am thinking ...

http://karenquilt.blogspot.com/2017/04/raphael-tuck-sons-pre-printed-nursery.html

From time to time we have a discussion on the price of cotton fabric for quilting on one of the several  quilt history Facebook lists I follow. A recent discussion got me to remembering that I ...

http://karenquilt.blogspot.com/2017/04/price-of-fabric-in-1875-page-co-virginia.html

ANYONE EVER SEEN THIS PARTICULAR  SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER APPLIQUÉ PATTERN SERIES MADE UP BEFORE? IT WAS APPARENTLY PART OF THEIR PRUDENCE PENNY COLUMN ABOUT 1927-1931. THIS JUST ENTE...

http://karenquilt.blogspot.com/2016/02/prudence-penny-applique-sampler-series.html

I wrote in 2011 about Ulster inspired quilts…or possibly Ultser inspired, per the research of Valerie Wilson published in 1991. You can click here to see that post. The other day I stumbled...

http://karenquilt.blogspot.com/2015/12/ulster-inspired-quilts.html