Indigo, Pewter & Honey

Indigo, Pewter & Honey ~ from the collection of Judie Rothermel, Marcus Fabrics.

Judie Rothermel’s latest issue of historical range fabrics get an authentic color scheme. Honey, pewter, and indigo are some of the historically accurate dyes used in textile prints. Indigo, a blue pigment and a dye, was used in India in the earliest civilizations to dye wool. Pewter and honey dyes were added to give this line a bold and distinguished look for quilting.

Indigo, Pewter & Honey quilt designed by Jean Ann Wright: indigo_pewter_honey.pdf

Reproduction Quilts

old_virginia_calicos.pdf

Calico & Old Lace

Hand Made Art by Calico & Old Lace
Quality cotton jacket machine quilted in free motion style using silk threads.

This stash?

Mrs. Bobbins "Oh, THIS fabric stash..." print.

Quilters Anonymous

Mrs. Bobbins "Quilters Anonymous" print.

Stitch in the Ditch Club

Mrs. Bobbins "Stitch in the Ditch Club" print.

19th block - Birds in the Air

from Barbara Brackman's Underground Railroad quilt

"After years of war, the end seemed tantalizingly near in 1864. Edward Taylor told WPA interviewers his perspective as a slave: " I used to hear the white folks reading the paper about the war and reading the Yankees beat them, and I wondered what in the world is Yankees. I thought they were talking about the birds of the air or something."

Facts & Fabrications ~ Unraveling the History of Quilts & Slavery by Barbara Brackman

14th block - Trip Around the World

from Barbara Brackman's Underground Railroad quilt

"One step in the process toward emancipation was a national movement called Colonization, which developed early in the nineteenth century. Many people believed freed and escaped slaves should move to Canada, which had eliminated slavery with a program of gradual emancipation. Another idea, popular for a while, was a back to Africa movement."

Facts & Fabrications ~ Unraveling the History of Quilts & Slavery by Barbara Brackman

13th block - Underground Railroad

from Barbara Brackman's Underground Railroad quilt,

"Escapees were often hungry, lost, and terrified on their lonely trips North. In the 1830s, an organized network of help developed. Members of the movement known as the Underground Railroad offered assistance to runaways in the way to shelter, food, clothing, jobs, and transport to another station closer to freedom. At first, assistance came mainly from Quakers. As time went on, however, more white people, motivated by religious and moral beliefs, joined the Quakers and free and escaped blacks in helping fugitives."

Facts & Fabrications ~ Unraveling the History of Quilts & Slavery by Barbara Brackman

Underground Railroad Quilt

from Barbara Brackman's Underground Railroad Quilt - center panel

Facts & Fabrications ~ Unraveling the History of Quilts & Slavery by Barbara Brackman

Harriet Power's 1st Story-Bible Quilt

Adam & Eve Naming the Animals, Panel 1 (of 11)

I Spy Ugly Quilt

My husband does not have good taste in fabric hence the name I Spy Ugly

Dreams of Flying - by Jan von Holleben

This photographer has the most amazing series of work called - dreams of flying.

Better as Women?

Sorry I can't give credit, have no idea who did these photos...what a good laugh!

Hearts & Hands

I just bought this pattern - I must be crazy...let's just call it my forever project.

McCall's Vintage Series - Hearts & Hands, from the collection of the York County Heritage Trust,
York, Pennsylvania.