Antique Quilt Shows Through Spring 2020

Cabin Fever? How about a road trip

to see an exhibit of antique quilts.

Here's a list through Spring 2020

Nora Ezell, Star Puzzle, 2001

Alabama, Montgomery

Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts. Pieces and Patterns: Quilts of West Alabama. Museum collection of quilts from Gees Bend and other locations.

February 13 through May 10, 2020

https://mmfa.org/exhibitions/pieces-and-patterns/

California, Folsom
Folsom History Museum. Quilted Treasures: 40 Years of Memories, the 40th Annual Quilt & Vintage Clothing Show, through April 19, 2020.
https://www.folsomhistoricalsociety.org/events

Connecticut, Hartford

Connecticut Historical Society, Connecticut Quilts, curated by Lynn Z. Bassett.

Through May 16, 2020. Tours of the exhibit every Saturday.

https://chs.org/

Indiana, Indianapolis

Eiteljorg Museum. Quilts: Uncovering Women's Stories, March 7 - August 9, 2020.

https://eiteljorg.org/exhibitions/quilts_uncovering_womens_stories/

Massachusetts, Lowell
New England Quilt Museum. New York, New York! NEQM Collection Quilts from New York State.
Plus: "Amish Quilts from the Collection" includes nine Amish quilts & a selection of miniature quilts from the Dorothy Bosselman Collection of miniature Amish quilts. Through April 4, 2020.

https://www.neqm.org/

Mississippi, Oxford
University of Mississippi Museum. Southern Quilts. Up till when?

Nebraska, Lincoln

International Quilt Study Center & Museum

Old World Quilts. The earliest quilts in the collection, curated by Carolyn Ducey. Through July 12, 2020.

New Views: Shape Shifters. Recent acquisitions. Through March 29, 2020.

New York, Long Island City

Self-Taught Genius Gallery (American Museum of Folk Art). Signature Styles: Friendship, Album, and Fundraising Quilts

January 22 – May 1, 2020

https://folkartmuseum.org/exhibitions/signature-styles/?mc_cid=a314c0afd2&mc_eid=993e4932b0k

New York, Owego.

Tioga County Historical Society Museum, Annual quilt show through March 28

http://www.owegopennysaver.com/PS/2020/02/07/quilt-exhibit-begins-february-8-at-the-museum/

Netherlands, Leiden

Textile Research Center. American Quilts: 200 years of everyday techniques and innovation. February 6 - June 25,  2020.

https://www.trc-leiden.nl/

Ohio, Kent
Kent State Museum. Ohio quilts from the collection. Through April 12, 2020.
https://www.kent.edu/museum/news/explore-ohios-rich-history-ksu-museums-ohio-quilts-exhibit

Ohio, Lebanon

Warren County Fairgrounds. Annual Lebanon Quilt, Vintage Textile Market. March 20th - 22, 2020. Warren County Historical Society will display a special exhibit all weekend.

https://www.wchsmuseum.org/quiltshow.html

Pennsylvania, Pennsburg

Schwenkfelter Library. Crazy for You: Crazy Quilts and Objects of Memory.

Opening April, 2020

In conjunction with the annual Penn Dry Goods Market: Lectures & sales. May 15 & 16th, 2020. Presenters include: Jane Lury, Lynn Bassett, Barb Garrett, Kim Ivey and more.

http://www.schwenkfelder.com/Penn-Market/registration.htm

South Carolina, Columbia

McKissick Museum, Piece by Piece: Quilts from the Permanent Collection. Three rotations illustrating the evolution of this textile tradition.

Through July 18, 2020.

Virginia, Harrisonburg

Virginia Quilt Museum. Treasures from the Vault exhibit looks at the Suffrage movement through the quilts of the women who lived during that time period. February 18 - July 11, 2020.

http://www.vaquiltmuseum.org/

Washington, LaConner

Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum. Recent Acquisitions.
Through February 23, 2020.

https://www.qfamuseum.org/

Wisconsin, Cedarburg

Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiberarts. Infinite Ivory and Blue. Two-color textiles from the 1800s to the present.

February 6 – April 26, 2020

https://www.wiquiltmuseum.com/

Grandmother's Choice: 2020 Suffrage Centennial

2020 is the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing women the right to vote. We will be celebrating all year.

Several years ago I designed a weekly Quilt Along of 49 blocks with names and references to

the story of the worldwide fight for women's suffrage. It's time to revive it.

From the Rural New Yorker in 1919

I've got two Facebook pages that you can join to follow along.

Grandmother's Choice, Block 1

by Becky Brown

https://www.facebook.com/groups/551644892053362/

The first block is up there now.

You'll see the link for a story and pattern is to the Grandmother's Choice blog, which is how we shared the blocks in 2012. It's still up there and so are all 49 patterns with lots of suggestions for colors, fabrics and setting ideas.

Georgann Eglinski made model blocks in red and white

Because the patterns are all derived from BlockBase and my Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns I thought they'd be good for our BlockBaseBlox Facebook group to use in the revised editions of both coming out in 2020. BUT the rules for those submissions say blocks 9"-12" and the patterns in Grandmother's Choice are 8". So I guess I'll give additional 12" instructions in that group every Saturday.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2671187196273767/

Join one or both.

Becky Brown made 2 tops (2 granddaughters), this one in

symbolic colors---purple was a big part of the suffrage image in the U.S.

Or just go to the 2012 blog:

https://grandmotherschoice.blogspot.com/

Martha used William Morris prints

Vicki Welsh used her hand-dyed cottons.

Dustin Cecil used his amazing scrap bag with

an emphasis on purple and gold (the British symbolic color)

There was a whole lot of fussy cutting going on. This one by

Terry.

Start stitching says Alice Paul

"Alice Paul is shown sewing the thirty-sixth star on the 

suffrage ratification banner, the stars having been 

added from time to time as the various states ratified,” 

1920. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.

2020 Centennial---Susan B Anthony House

100th Anniversary of New York and US Women's Suffrage

by Patricia Foote

Patricia entered her block in the 2020 Quilt Project:

Stitching Together Women's Suffrage...

...the Susan B. Anthony House Museum's ongoing quilt block

project to celebrate the 2020 centennial anniversary

 of the 19th Amendment guaranteeing American women the Right to Vote.

Susan B Anthony Dollar, Kenneth Dardenne

The project's been going on for a while. The deadline has passed for blocks to be displayed this year but they continue to accept entries for future exhibits. See a link to the project here:

https://www.susanbanthonyhouse.org/2020quiltproject/index.php/how-it-works/

Blocks from their Gallery.

Contrary Wife dedicated to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Emilie Monefeldt

"The 2020 Quilt is designed so that each new block may be attached to the growing quilt with ribbons. The 2020 Quilt may be complete with one block or with hundreds of blocks. It is anticipated that the Quilt will be displayed in community centers, libraries, schools, or other public places on request. The whole 2020 Quilt or specific sections may be displayed from time to time. Each individual quilt block will be able to stand out on its own AND mesh wonderfully with the other quilt squares. Each block will tell a story in a unique and creative way."

Centennial of the 19th Amendment by Linda Stauffer Heil

(The block was published as Centennial)

NAWSA Logo, Mary Jane Frind

The blocks will be tied with ribbons and the piece made as large or small as the show space dictates.

Kathleen Anderson

Do you know of any other 2020 quilt celebrations?

Block of the Months

Exhibits?

Women's Rights 1848-Present, Joan Robertson

Susan B Anthony, Diane Shirley

Susan Brownell Anthony 1820-1906,  Karen Cona

Susan B. Anthony Silhouette, Mery McEvoy

Susan B Anthony Star, Linda L. Rose Bushar

Susan Brownell Anthony, Lorraine S Ward

Sarah's Choice, Kathleen Mooney Rowland

See more at the Gallery

https://www.susanbanthonyhouse.org/2020quiltproject/index.php/gallery/

I'm surprised to find few 2020 quilt projects celebrating the anniversary on line, however. So I decided I'd revive a BOM from 2012. Tomorrow more on Grandmother's Choice.

Past Perfect: Debra Wagner

Rail Through the Rockies, Debra Wagner,  1991

This month's Past Perfect quiltmaker is

Debra Wagner who won many prizes and wrote

several books in the 1990s.

Her specialty 25 years ago was difficult-to-piece designs

and she adapted many classic patterns to machine quiltmaking.

Inspired by the cover of the Texas project book:

Lone Stars

January, 1994 cover quilt

She won three first place prizes in AQS contests at the time.

In 1994 she published her techniques of piecing

circles, Striplate Piecing, combining rotary cutting and template piecing.

Rattlesnake

A few quilt blocks from the book.

Wagon Wheel

 Debra lived in Minnesota when she was cleaning up on prizes. She mentions a degree in clothing textiles and design, but otherwise I was unable to find much about her.

Setting Sun

There were 20 circle patterns.

Sunburst, 1994

She was also an innovator in machine quilting.

She definitely had an impact on the next

generation of machine quiltmakers.

Ohio Bride's Quilt

All Quilt Blocks Are Not Square: 

Innovative Piecing and Quilting of Hexagons, Triangles

Circles weren't the only ideas she adapted.

If you are looking for a challenge, Debra Wagner's books might be just the inspiration and information you need.