QuiltMania & Moi

#141 January-February 2021

I have an article in the latest issue of QuiltMania

about madder cotton prints.

Carol Veillon has given the French/English magazine a "brand-new look!" and it's full of great color photos and sophisticated patterns.

Spring Dance by Martha Walker

Criss-Cross Fleuri by Michele Beugnon

With an eye to traditional colors and fabrics this issue.

And an article on Penny & Dean at Electric Quilt...

Where we are working on a new edition of BlockBase.

QuiltMania's Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/quiltmaniainc/

As always we had more pictures of madder-style antiques than would fit on the pages.

Here are a few more mad madders.

1859 ad

Get a copy of the magazine here:
https://www.quiltmania-inc.us/boutique/magazines/quiltmania/quiltmania-141/ 

Madder-style repros from my Moda collection

Ladies' Legacy coming soon:

In Praise of Volunteer Cataloguers: Rebecca Scattergood Savery

 

Quilt by Rebecca Scattergood Savery (1770-1855), Philadelphia

Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Stitching one of these Sunburst quilts might be considered a

lifetime achievement but Rebecca made at least 3.

Collection of the International Quilt Museum

Plus three signature quilts

(And how many others not in the records?)

But this is not a post to sing Rebecca's praises. We need to

thank Nancy Ettensperger who has done a remarkable job

of documenting Rebecca, her quilts and her life.

Collection of the International Quilt Museum

Nancy, a genealogist, published a paper on Rebecca and her family

last April. See it here:

http://ancestorsandothers.net/PDF/Savery.pdf

Six quilts from the 1840-50s and a well-documented Philadelphia Quaker life!

Nancy's webpage Ancestors & Others is described as: 

Investigating the Lives of Ancestors, Collateral/Allied Families and Complete Strangers.

http://ancestorsandothers.net/

She says she's thrilled to find someone reads her blog posts. I love the idea of posting a lot of information in blogs (as you might guess.) Sooner or later somebody will find it and be quite happy to have all that info.

Happy Day!

 

A Visual Celebration of a Long-Awaited Day!

Freeman's Auction

David Wheatcroft Antiques

Binney Collection New England Quilt Museum

Elliot & Grace Snyder Antiques

Fenimore Museum

Freeman's Auction

Laura Fisher Quilts

Massachusetts Quilt Project & the Quilt Index

James Julia Auction

Julie Silber Quilts

Massachusetts Quilt Project & the Quilt Index

Woodard & Greenstein

MESDA Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts

Credit Suisse Collection

D.A.R. Museum

Ohio Historical Society

Skinner's Auction