Barbara Brackman is sharing a block a week for a Civil War Quilt:

http://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2...-troubles.html

Fantastic link/blog...

Here's mine so far:

Thanks!

Wonderful !! I saw this before and printed the first patterns, but that's as far as I got ! I'd better get busy

Thanks. My daughter is a civil war fanatic. I'll try do keep pace and have a quilt for her.

It's a great site. You don't have to do the blocks if you don't have time, but there is some Civil War history posted along with the blocks so it's worth a visit. Here are the blocks I've done thus far, unfortunately not arranged very neatly on the design board.

oh thank you! she is one of my fav author/quilt/fabric historian. have the site bkmarked...she has a wonderful homepage too
http://www.barbarabrackman.com/

not keeping up and had not seen this offering of hers.

Love both of your blocks. One question...how do you print the pattern off? I must be missing something cause I can't figure out how to do that without printing the whole blog post. Thanks for your help.

One way is to open a new word document. Highlight the portion of the blog you want to copy. Click copy. Go back to your word document, paste.

I just printed a pic of the block and wrote the directions underneath. She does not give always the most expedient directions for making the blocks - you can make half square triangles and flying geese for some of them so far - so you might want to think through the directions a bit before you start cutting because there might be an easier piecing method.