Battle Hymn Flag Print

I called this flag print "Shiloh" after an 1862 Tennessee battle.

According to the National Park Service site:

"No soldier who took part in the two day’s engagement  at Shiloh ever spoiled for a fight again.”

The document print came from a very ragged comforter, a charm quilt made of hexagons. I had one piece of this patriotic print very much like the Sharpsburg Tan on the left. The only other piece worth saving in the comforter was a U.S. Grant presidential campaign fabric from the late 1860s or 1870s somewhat like this:

So I have dated the flag print as 1870s, like most of the prints in the tied comforter.

A few weeks ago I spent a few days sewing with my friend Bobbi who is making the Checkered Past pattern from a pack of fat eighths of 1862 Battle Hymn.

See the pattern with a photo of Bobbi's ancestor Hancy by clicking here:

http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2012/01/checkered-past-free-pattern.html

I bet she has the top done by now.

The quilt is similar to the Lincoln Museum Quilt that Deb Rowden and I did for the museum in Springfield, Illinois a few years ago.

We used plaids and stripes---sort of like this. It's a digital sketch.

 See more here:

https://www.pickledishstore.com/productDetail.php?PID=945