Originally Posted by sewNso
Originally Posted by Quiltbyrd
"Dear Jane" quilts are a copy of a original quilt made by Jane Stickley during the Civil War. The original is in the quilt section of the museum in Kentucky. Brenda Papadakis saw the quilt and drew copies of each block and published a book without how to do the squares only block drawings. She named it Dear Jane.
i thought the orginal was in vt. that was where i was planning my trip.......
and live and learn. i didn't know the material in each block was never used again. what am i going to do with all that civil war fabric i just ordered?
The original is at the Bennington Museum in Bennington, Vermont......I saw it last October- it was beautiful!