.... think/imagine, it's 1862 you're a quilter and your husband is going to war to fight for the Union. (Civil war North-Union versus South-Confederates 1861-1865) .You're not sure when or if he is coming home. You give him a kiss, huswife and quilt.
Caro's Quilt
My 'civil war' quilt is a mixture of old and new fabrics. The old blocks (blue and red) probably date from the late 1800s, maybe some of them have older fabrics. I found them in an estate sale (on the internet). The basic pattern is 'square on square'. The pattern fits the estimated date, in the book 500 quiltblocks from Maggie Malone the block is known as: unnamed 1858. So can give a clue about the age of the blocks.
I added the cream blocks with the union eagle (free pattern on the internet), stars and borders myself. The blocks are machine-stitched.Yesterday Dieuwke and I spend the evening to sandwich the quilt. It's ready to quilt now.
Did you know that?
- at the end of the war 250.000 quilts were made for Union (North) soldiers by women.
- most of these quilts were lost on the batteflied, because they were worn out, or because soldiers were buried in their quilts.
- the military requested that quilts should be made about: 4 feet x 7 feet
- about 625.000 men were killed in the civil war (World War I - 115.000, World War II - 400.000)
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Wat een prachtige quilt met een verhaal heb je er van gemaak! Ooit al in Gettysburg geweest? Zeker een aanrader na het maken van deze quilt!
van mij mag het ook best wel snel augustus worden als je die interesante geschiedenis bij mij in een show and tell komt vertellen, maar deze prachtige periode van het jaar mag van mij heel lang duren, daar eerst goed van genieten,
een gezellige zondag,
Bep
mooie quilt en bijzonder verhaal over de civil war quilts
Wat een mooie quilt heb je weer gemaakt met die oude blokken. Met het verhaal erbij heel bijzonder!
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