My new book of antique-looking quilting patterns, Remembering
Adelia, was inspired by the diary that was kept by a young woman during the Civil War. Adelia Thomas' diary
had been locked in a trunk in a family's attic for over 100 years. I came across it at a local historical
society several years ago while I was researching photos for my last book, Prairie Children and Their Quilts.
Upon glancing through the diary, I discovered that Adelia was a quilter and I became fascinated with her journal
entries about daily life on a farm in northern Illinois in 1861, the year the Civil War broke out. I knew I had to tell her
story and design quilts to go along with it. Remembering Adelia features a number of large quilts as well as charming doll quilts and is full
of 19th century quilting traditions. Look for it in quilt shops or order your signed copy from me.
Prairie Children & Their Quilts
What was life like for children growing
up on the prairie? Inspired by actual children’s diaries from the American frontier, this follow-up to the bestselling
American Doll Quilts gives complete and easy directions to create small, antique-style projects as you read about
the lives of pioneer children and their families.
• Fourteen patterns spotlight popular quilt designs from the nineteenth
century
• Projects include a signature quilt, a game-board
quilt, a schoolhouse quilt, a log cabin quilt, an African American quilt, a prairie doll apron, and a schoolgirl sampler
• See vintage photos of prairie children, and read actual diary
entries from children who traveled with their parents to settle in the West
American
Doll Quilts
(OUT OF PRINT)
(Digital version available from Martingale & Co. Click below book
cover for details.)
Celebrate the sweet,
centuries-old American tradition of antique doll quilts with stories of the past and heirlooms for the future. These simple
projects will capture the charm of yesteryear for a child—or the child within.
Sixteen designs represent doll quilts made during different periods in American history, starting with the colonial
period and moving through the Civil War, the Victorian era, the Great Depression, and World War II. Explore our
country’s quilting traditions while you learn some very basic blocks and simple piecing techniques to make simple little
doll quilts much like the ones children learned to make long ago. Create authentic-looking doll quilts for your favorite 18-inch
doll or just have fun with your reproduction fabric scraps.
Projects
in a range of sizes up to 20" x 22" include an embroidered medallion quilt, a crazy quilt, Civil War era quilts
and needle cases, an Amish quilt and a friendship pillow easy enough for a child to make.
Also includes information on fabrics and designs popular during the different historical periods.
