Wild Oats, Fruitlands, Walden and Wayside: Document Prints.

Vintage silhouette of a woman and her work.

The Sew Simple Quilt Shoppe in Ozark, Missouri, is offering a class in this kaleidoscope design

made with my Old Cambridge Pike fabrics.

http://www.sewsimplequilts.com/

The Old Cambridge Pike

Here are a few more of the document prints we interpreted for that Moda reproduction collection.

The print names are reminders of the New England intellectuals who lived along the road from Concord to Cambridge and Boston.

Someone lost her silver set along the Old Cambridge Pike

a long time ago.

I named the leaf print Wild Oats from one of Louisa May Alcott's

memoirs.

The document print (the original antique) is the dark brown triangle.

Another post with a little more about Wild Oats

http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2015/12/wild-oats-quilt-pattern-for-old.html

#8322 Fruitlands

Fruitlands, another leafy calico, is named for the ill-fated commune

Louisa's father Bronson founded.

It's printed in six different madder colorways from pink to chocolate brown.

The document print is the larger scrap, a scattered leaflet

in madder shades.

A detail from the Antler Patterns kit Jubilee for

Old Cambridge Pike from Moda.

Wayside is the house that Sophia and Nathaniel Hawthorne occupied 

after the Alcotts moved down the road.

Document Print for this mid-century stripe is the light gray/blue.

You can't remember the generation who called themselves Young America without Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) who went to live in simple fashion in the woods by Walden Pond.

The hut at Walden Pond

Walden is the small paisley that's printed in three colorways, tan, green and brown.

I found the original print in this circa 1840 nine patch. It's the 

stained light paisley along the outer border.

Walden paisley is the olive green border here on Jubilee.

See more about the kit here:

http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2016/01/antler-quilt-designs-pattern-for-old.html

Over the years I've read so much about the New England literary group. It is great fun for me to have fabrics named after them and their lives.