QUILTS & FABRIC: PAST & PRESENT


Thursday, December 8, 2016

Lovely Lane in Baltimore Blues


Mid-19th-century fashion demanded stripes.

In dresses...


and quilts.



A mid-19th-century quilt in the bear paw pattern from the Quilt Index and the Iowa Project
It would look good in my new Baltimore Blues collection for Moda, which includes a couple of striped prints. You could use November's Bear's Paw pattern from my Westering Women BOM. Click to see it:


The most dramatic print in Baltimore Blues is this bold stripe from the 1840s

The stripe comes in three neutrals,
Talbot Tan (a buff-color), Sassafras Brown and Ivory colorways

Georgann Eglinski is using the Lovely Lane
stripe in a medallion quilt she's making

to frame her John Hewson panel.

The print is called Lovely Lane after a Baltimore
landmark, the Lovely Lane chapel, a Methodist church built
before the Revolutionary War. The church is now a museum
devoted to Methodist history.


The Museum has a quilt collection including this Baltimore Album
made for the Reverend Hezekiah Best.

In May Teri & Kara at the blog Telling Stories Through the Needle's Eye joined the Baltimore Applique Society for a lecture by Marylou McDonald at the Lovely Lane Museum. They saw five quilts in the museum's collection and did a great job of photographing them.

There were four Baltimore Album Quilts and one whole-cloth quilt for us to view.

2 comments:

  1. Thanks, Barbara! It was exciting to see such treasures in person. Pictures don't come close to capturing the true beauty of the work these ladies did, but it was fun to try!

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  2. Is anyone finding the Baltimore Blues collection in their quilt shops just yet? I'm eagerly awaiting it (hoping I might use some in a certain new BOM project starting in January).

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