Richmond Reds: Springfield

Springfield is the largest print in my new

Richmond Reds collection of repro prints.

Springfield in Mahogany Red

We found the document print in an antique sample

book in the Moda collection. I liked the graceful

tossed repeat and the detail in the original drawing

Springfield in Rebel Red

It has a very characteristic middle-of-the-19th-century

look, mainly in the dark outline around lighter stems. The range

of madder shades of creams, reds, tans and chocolate is also typical

of the style.

Bright Star

Here Georgann Eglinski has used the Shirting

Cream colorway for her first block in the

Austen Family Album series (see the link to the free patterns in the

left hand column.)

Block 10--Good Fortune

Bronze colorway

Chocolate colorway

Copperplate Colorway

We've used the Rebel Red colorway for the

border in the Richmond Red kit.

The Lincoln house in Springfield, Illinois

Why Springfield for the print name?

It's Lincoln's hometown in Illinois

but it's also one of the most popular town names in the U.S.,

even if you don't count the Simpson's mythical Springfield.

So if you don't feel good about using the Rebel Red colorway

to remember Springfield, Illinois, consider the print named for 

Springfield, Georgia

or

Springfield, Arkansas