New here with an old quilt
05-27-2011, 03:04 AM
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Thank you all for your welcomes! At your suggestion I've dug deeper and agree that the first quilt is a variation of the Crown of Thorns/N.Y. Beauty/Railroad through the mountains.
The second, my gg grandmother's 'Confederate Star' was said to be an original pattern, but the 7 star clusters suggests it was early and represents the first group of seceding states, the so called '7 sisters.'
Again, thank you for your greetings and help.
The second, my gg grandmother's 'Confederate Star' was said to be an original pattern, but the 7 star clusters suggests it was early and represents the first group of seceding states, the so called '7 sisters.'
Again, thank you for your greetings and help.
05-27-2011, 04:51 AM
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Regarding the 'Confederate Star' quilt, this is a portion of what was written by my ggrandmother in the 1930's when she was about 80. As a small girl of about 10 she watched her mother make the quilt.
"As an aside I want to tell about the household goods that started to Texas. When the Red River was being crossed, one of the wagons turned over. As it happened and as it often happens, it was the one wagon that was loaded with our most valuable things. There were on it all mother's silver, the family records and business papers, including our very old Bibles and all of our better clothing. The only thing salvaged was a quilt which covered the contents of the wagon. I have it now, all yellowed and stained by the brick colored waters of the Red. It was an original pattern of Mother's, the seven stars of the Confederacy. And it was quilted in very tiny circles made with Mother's thimble as a pattern for the quilting. How many fears and worries and forebodings must have gone under those almost invisible stitches which were made when Mother could not sleep. She on one side of the Mississippi and my husband's mother (her future husband was a young soldier from Mississippi) on the other often sewed all night when they heard the guns at Vicksburg. Again, I say, those women."
"As an aside I want to tell about the household goods that started to Texas. When the Red River was being crossed, one of the wagons turned over. As it happened and as it often happens, it was the one wagon that was loaded with our most valuable things. There were on it all mother's silver, the family records and business papers, including our very old Bibles and all of our better clothing. The only thing salvaged was a quilt which covered the contents of the wagon. I have it now, all yellowed and stained by the brick colored waters of the Red. It was an original pattern of Mother's, the seven stars of the Confederacy. And it was quilted in very tiny circles made with Mother's thimble as a pattern for the quilting. How many fears and worries and forebodings must have gone under those almost invisible stitches which were made when Mother could not sleep. She on one side of the Mississippi and my husband's mother (her future husband was a young soldier from Mississippi) on the other often sewed all night when they heard the guns at Vicksburg. Again, I say, those women."
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