Emporia Rose

Emporia Rose

Model for Common Threads Quilting

Waxahachie, Texas

Laura from Common Threads sent a photo of the shop model they made for their Block of the Month of the Emporia Rose quilt pattern that I designed several years ago.

 

Attached is our Emporia Rose. The woman who does our quilting is amazing, and I hope you can see it in this picture. The program has been really popular. We only have 5 spots left before we won't have the fabric to support it anymore.

 Ribbon winner by Betty Thayer, Saginaw, Michigan. I found her version on the web.

Years ago Karla Menaugh and I published the pattern in our Sunflower Pattern Co-operative line, but it's sold out. We sent the last to Common Threads for their Block of the Month.

Emporia Rose by Cindy Korb

I know, I know, we ought to republish it someday, but publishing is in such a state of change right now, we are kind of stuck between centuries. Paper or digital? Self-publish or Commercial...

Cindy's was on display at the Spencer Museum of Art a few years ago next to a quilt by Rose Kretsinger.

Rose lived in Emporia, Kansas and drafted patterns for her friends.

Spice Pink by Charlotte Jane Whitehill of Emporia,

in the collection of the Denver Art Museum

 I redrew several blocks for a sampler of Emporia design.

Emporia about 1920

Oriental Poppy by Rose Kretsinger

in the collection of the Spencer Museum of Art

Tomato Flower by Charlotte Jane Whitehill of Emporia,

in the collection of the Denver Art Museum

Links:

Subscribe to Common Threads Block of the Month and get one of their last few kits.

http://webstore.quiltropolis.net/stores_app/Browse_Item_Details.asp?Store_id=541&page_id=23&Item_ID=7093

Go to the Spencer Museum of Art's Search page and do a search for Kretsinger to see more of Rose's quilts.

http://www.spencerart.ku.edu/collection/

And see another post I wrote about Rose by clicking here:

http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2009/12/rose-kretsinger-pattern.html



More Inspiration from Rose Kretsinger

Oriental Poppy by Rose Kretsinger, about 1930.

Collection of the Spencer Museum of Art.

Rose and daugher Mary about 1915

I have a pattern for the Oriental Poppy that I drew up for a class I taught a few years ago. Here I am holding blocks by Denniele Bohannon and Gloria Clark.

Below is Gloria's in progress.

She's working on the border.

Oriental Poppy by Gloria Clark

Rose's had simple swag and flower border.

Charlotte Jane Whitehill who lived in Emporia also made one from Rose's pattern

 but she used a different border, a double scallop.

Oriental Poppy by Charlotte Whitehill, about 1930.

Collection of the Denver Art Museum.

I decided to make one and update the colors

Oriental Poppy by Barbara Brackman and Pam Mayfield.

I hand appliqued it and Pam added the sawtooth border and machine quilted it.
I did not do the reverse applique.