Atlanta Garden BOM: One More Block to Go

 

Jeanne Arnieri's Atlanta Garden

The year is winding down and so is the pieced Block-of-the-Month we've been stitching over at my CivilWarQuilts blog.

The 11th of twelve blocks for Atlanta Garden was posted on November 8th. Each month in 2023 I've posted a free pattern for a simple nine-patch. Links:

https://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2023/03/atlanta-garden-links-to-free-patterns.html

Teresa Wood's blocks

The historical stories each month are drawn from a diary in the digital files of the Atlanta Historical Society kept by Carrie Mabry Berry (1854-1921), daughter of a well-to-do builder in a growing city. By the time she was seven the Civil War had commenced. When Sherman's siege of Atlanta began in 1864 she was ten and her father bought her a diary. Her first entry:

"The shells we dread. One has busted under the dining room."

Carrie's family seem to have been Union spies---at the least active Union sympathizers ---a fascinating under story.

Read Carrie's diary from August 1864 till 1866 here:

https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/turningpoint/ahc/cw/pdfs/ahc0029f-003.pdf

The transcript:

https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/turningpoint/ahc/cw/pdfs/ahc0029f-001.pdf

Denniele Bohannon's

The "official set" alternated a basic nine-patch to link the blocks.

Denniele's granddaughter Addie's

Becky Collis's in repro prints

Becky Brown's (No alternate nine patches)

It's an "I Spy" with pictures in the blocks' centers

Becky's friend Brenda's

Rondi Leslie's

Many more reader blocks at our Facebook group: AtlantaGardenQuiltBOM:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/536276161894534

You can buy the pattern package with rotary instructions for Atlanta Garden's 12 blocks in my Etsy Shop:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1359418637/atlanta-garden-12-pieced-beginner-blocks