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Found an interesting quilt on eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=174671384.

I've never seen a quilt made like this before, especially with the striped

background behind what are probably appliqued stars - has anyone else? The

seller also writes that the quilting on top and bottom has different

patterns and invites your input on why this is so. Unfortunately, there is

only one photo - no closeups.

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Found an interesting quilt on eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=174671384.

I've never seen a quilt made like this before, especially with the striped background behind what are probably appliqued stars - has anyone else? The seller also writes that the quilting on top and bottom has different patterns and invites your input on why this is so. Unfortunately, there is only one photo - no closeups.

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Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 07:42:54 EDT

From: JQuilt@aol.com

To: qhl@cuenet.com

Subject: QHL: blue stockings/

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maybe the women in the wctu felt the connection to the blue stocking

society...and their fight for prohibition

also some "blue laws" were concerned with alcohol ..one theory is that these 

moral laws were printed  on blue paper in the american colony of New Haven

1638-65

bluestocking:

[After the *Blue Stocking* Society, a nickname for a chiefly female literary

club of 18th cent. London.] A scholarly or pedantic woman.

Word history: The term bluestocking seems always to have been one of contempt

and derision, for it originally signified one who was informally and

unfashionably dressed in blue worsted rather than black silk stockings.

Such informal wear was common at literary and intellectual gatherings in

18th-century London, which were scornfully dubbed "bluestocking" societies by

those who preferred parties where they could play cards and indulge in other

idle amusements in their best and most fashionalbe clothes. Since the

literary gatherings were organized and attended primarily by women, the term

bluestocking was transferred, sneer and all, to any woman with pretensions or

aspirations to literature and learning.

From the Feminist Dictionary, edited by Cheris Kramarae and Paula A.

Treichler, 1985:

"Viewy women who gather for artistic, literary, intellectual and witty

exchanges. Critics have used the term to refer to learned, and thus in their

minds, unfeminine and pretentious women. The origin of the term is in dispute

but was evidently first used in the 1750s to refer to women and men in London

who gathered for conversation; one of the people attending wore blue worsted

instead of black silk stockings. The women who attended were first derisively

called bluestockingers and Blue Stocking Ladies and later Bluestockings and

Blues. The terms were thus first used to denote informal or homely dress and

then to refer to intellectual, literary, or learned women. To "wear your

blues" became a metaphor for evenings of intellectual and witty conversation.

As the term bluestocking associated with the women who held salons and who

put their energies and emotions into work with each other, it became a term

of abuse, with connotations of snob and misfit. The bluestockings, excluded

from politics, law, education and employment because they were female, formed

an alternative, knowledgeable, supportive, competent and intellectually

self-sufficient group. There are many bluestockings today, learning, reading,

writing, and exchanging ideas in women's groups. (Susan Conrad 1976; Seon

Manley and Susan Belcher 1972; Barbara Schnorrenberg and Jean E. Hunter 1980;

Dale Spender 1982b; Edith Rolt Wheeler 1919b) "He has left off his old

friends and his blue stockings." (Lady Mary Wortley Montague 1757, Oxford

English Dictionary)

P.S. [from Mardi]: my friend

jean

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Date: Sun,  3 Oct 1999 09:15:22 -0700

From: onthego@naxs.net

To: QHL@cuenet.com

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Subject: QHL: Seeking Jane of the Feedsack Club

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Sorry to post to group, but my address book is not

working the way it should....

I need Jane's email.

Thanks!

Dana

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Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 09:45:49 -0700

From: "Melissa Devin" <mldevin@aa.net>

I know this has probably already been discussed, but last night I finally

broke down and bought a book that I had been checking out at the library for

a couple years (off and on).  In The American Quilt--A History of Cloth and

Comfort 1750-1950 (0-517-57535-3), there is a quilt design that is listed on

page 101 that shows a Double Wedding Ring design, but in an album setting

(the album blocks are set within the centers of each ring).  This is from

1850, New England.  As for any other documentation about the Double Wedding

Ring, I haven't seen any.  It appears not to be actually pieced, but as blue

and yellow bias strips.

Also, many Eagle quilts are shown in this book.  pg 194 shows an eagle

quilt, not greatly detailed, in red, green and two different yellows.

Although this one is from 1926, it states that "Quilts with a configuration

of four eagles on them are often erroneously dated c. 1875, on the

assumption that they were made at the time of the the American Centennial

Celebration.  Many date from the 1880s but, as this example shows [described

above], they were made well into the 20th century.  Most of the known

examples have a Pennsylvania origin, leading to the speculation the pattern

was shared or copied among a regional group of quiltmakers, as no such

printed pattern is known to exist before the last quarter of the 19th

century."

There is another quilt, titled Eagles and Stars (pg 134) 1870, Maryland.

Although this one is not set up as four eagles, the eagle design itself is

very similar to the others I have seen mentioned.

Another, pg 123, 1850-75, northeastern Ohio, shows the four eagle desgin,

but it has a Baltimore Album design.  this quilt has green and red eagles

(4), and they have appliqued grapes and leaves circled around each (I assume

to be grapes and leaves--this applique is also red berries and green

foliage).  The outside border is of appliqued grapes and leaves.  It states

that "the eagle was a popular motif in Baltimore Album quilts; it was also

popular from time of the Civil War well into the 20th century"

Although this book is older (1993, first edition, have there been later

editions?), it does have some very good all-around information, starting

with a dabbling into the textiles, then to quilts.  This is probably old

information for most, but for others it is a good book to check out at the

library.

Melissa

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Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 13:30:51 EDT

From: AlineMcK@aol.com

To: judy@chesco.com, qhl@cuenet.com

Subject: Re: QHL: Interesting quilt on eBay

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More photos have been posted on that wool starburst quilt. Very unusual

design.  They've also added that old wheeze about the "intentional mistakes."

 Ah well.

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Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:47:08 -0400

From: "Wykes Family" <wykesfcn@tdi.net>

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From: "pepper cory" <pepcory@bmd.clis.com>

>>>>>>is a small quilt (70") and I purchased it in

>Flint, Michigan about 10 years ago. I read somewhere that Michigan, after

>New York and Pennsylvania, contributed the most soldiers to the Union

cause

>even though it had only been a state since 1857.

Pepper Cory

Hi Pepper:

Michigan has been a state since 1837.  Michigan was among the highest in

the participants in the Civil War.  90,000 Michigan soldiers were enlisted

in the war.  (Lincoln proclaimed "Thank God for Michigan!")  During the

war, Michigan raised 45 regiments and contributed soldiers to over 50 other

military units (other states) and 600 men to the Navy.   During the war,

over half of the men of military age were enlisted in the Union army.

14,000 Michigan soldiers lost their lives in the war.  (Source:  Michigan

History Magazine, 1998)

These facts are from my museum curator husband but I am heavily involved in

making a Civil War style quilt from Barbara Brackman's book.  And I'm from

Monroe, MI, one of the last stops on the underground railroad.

Debbie Wykes

Monroe, MI

Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 19:54:05 -0700

From: "Melissa Devin" <mldevin@aa.net>

Some of you may know Bonnie Hunter (she does custom machine quilting)...

well, she had recently finished an eagle quilt.  Even though this is a new

quilt, she said that the eagle pattern came from an old quilt magazine.  She

also said that the colors aren't true to scan, but deeper in reality.  I had

mentioned to her about the discussion on here about eagle quilts, and wanted

to see her newly completed quilt :-)  (she said to feel free to share with

others here).  Here is a link to the picture:

http://www.quiltville.com/bon&eagle.jpg

http://www.quiltville.com (her front page)

Melissa

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mldevin@gocougs.wsu.edu Go Cougs!!

WAshington State Internet Quilters  ~WASIQ~

http://www.wasiq.org

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Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 23:32:10 -0400

From: Barb Garrett <bgarrett@fast.net>

To: QHL@cuenet.com

Subject: QHL: Re - Eagle Quilt~New

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Hi Melissa and others -

Thanks for posting about Bonnie's newly made eagle quilt -- I haven't

been home much this weekend to do any looking, but when you said she

found the pattern in an old magazine, the light bulb lit as they say.

McCall's Super-Book of Quilting, copyrights 1964 through 1976, has

directions for making a copy of an old eagle quilt   Their antique quilt

is green and red on cheddar, and the caption reads --

Four wide-winged eagles make an impressive display on a field of bright

yellow.   The eagle motif, popular since the Revolution, became bolder

and more stylized in the 19th century.  Eagle quilts were also known as

Union quilts.   Ours was made around 1890 in Pennsylvania.  Directions

on page 106.

In looking at Bonnie's quilt -- her center compass is different from the

concentric star and circle in the antique McCalls quilt.   Can you find

out what magazine she got the pattern from -- it would be fun to compare

their antique quilt to the others we've seen.

Thanks, Melissa.

Barb in southeastern PA

<bgarrett@fast.net>

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Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 07:29:57 -0500

From: Karen Bush <Birdsong@worldnet.att.net>

There are several more pix on this one now. I'm just wondering if she

used another Quilt for the backing? If it was quilted 'twice'? and in a

different design. I don't know ((why)) she would have done this, but, I

can't figure out another way she Could have. ?? Looks like a Great

quilt, though! kb

--  background behind what are probably appliqued stars - has anyone

else? The

> seller also writes that the quilting on top and bottom has different

> patterns and invites your input on why this is so. Unfortunately, there is

 Ebay Seller, User name: karenbush

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Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 09:45:29 -0400

From: denise nordberg <quiltdiva@usnetway.com>

To Frank,

I another life, when I did counted crosstitch, there were firescreens available for mounting the crosstitch and then it would be backed by some yardage.  Hope this helps,

Denise in Scranton, Pennsylvania

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Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 09:51:19 -0400

From: denise nordberg <quiltdiva@usnetway.com>

Plain and Fancy by Susan Burrows Swan WAS reprinted - in 1997, I think.  I have a copy and it is worth having.  There's quite a bit more information in the new one.

Denise in NE Pennsylvania

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Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 11:10:14 -0700

From: "pepper cory" <pepcory@bmd.clis.com>

Thanks Debbie for your timely correction of my 'facts' regarding Michigan.

It's MSU (my alma mater) that was founded in 1857! Got my sevens confused!

Pepper

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Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 13:22:21 -0000

From: "Jeanne Fetzer" <jeanne.fetzer@integrityonline3.com>

Can anyone give me help on good quilt stores in Washington D.C. or =

Arlington, VA?  Also, any museums with good quilts.  Thank you!

jeanne.fetzer@integrityonline3.com

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Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 16:35:40 -0600

From: Brooke Flynn <brookef

Hello - I'd appreciate a word about the cigar "silks".  It seems like I have seen

them on a kind of nappy fabric.

I am looking at a quilt that has patches of flags of many nations.  I know the

flags

must have been cut out of an overall print but would like more information for the

quilt's owner.  Thanks!

Brooke

Flynn Quilt Frame Company

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