I will comment on the origional post who said she wanted to make a unique quilt.

First. I have never seen an authentic Civil War quilt made up of many sampler blocks. This to me is a 20 th century invention. I have seen medallion quilts of thar era but no sampler. So, if I were making a "Civil War" quilt, I would
Pick a block which has some meaning or inspiration to me or family heritage. Make it scrappy or controlled, scrappy is probably more authentic.

How about a Dear Jane quilt?

I put Dear Jane in an entirely different category. To me a "Civil War" quilt is one which has a design in general use at the time.

Grace, Do what you like, it will be beautiful and uniquely yours! Enjoy the journey!

Elise, Your quilt is beautiful and looks just awesome on statue. That s most appropriate. I am still on the hunt for what I am going to do, but considering the pattern you choose as it is so nice. How did you quilt this, I would love to see a close up of the quilting. It is much admired.

Holice, How interesting you say sampler's are a 20th century invention. I would like to do some investigating about this . Do you have a clue as to where I would begin, you seem to know about this some and I would love to learn. However, I may or may not contribute to this invention.

Thank you Jo

O my How I admire Dear Jane quilts but unsure if I could begin to tackle something as such.

I do like your log cabin Ester and that was my original thought, but not sure if that's how I want to go anymore. I spend so much time thinking about what I want to do and that is so much of the time I spend.

I have a rather red face tonight over my statement about sampler quilts being a 20 th century invention. I googled History of the sampler quilt...and read an article by Robert Shaw. This is a most interesting article. He says the style dates to early 1800's. Baltimore album quilts are certainly samplers of a sort. Statements are also in his as well as other references that sampler types were used as teaching projects. Having said all this, I don't recall many samplers of the era standing out as being a common and popular style.