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A while ago an internet friend asked if anyone would be willing to trim a bonnet for her. I eagerly volunteered for this project! Making hats and bonnets from scratch is fiddly, but just putting the trims on is the fun part! Katie sent me a delightful box of goodies. A pre-made, silk-covered blank bonnet from Timely Tresses was the base. Loads of lovely flowers and ribbons from Etsy! I consulted several fashion plates for design inspiration, including these. Katie asked me to just be creative with the design, and also said that more is more! I started with a double layer of gathered cotton net. This was easily the most challenging part. It's very hard to do any sewing on the tight inner curves inside the bonnet. I tacked the net at the far back, the edge of the brim, and at the midway point. Flowers were next! I had several bunches of flowers, velvet leaves, glass berries, and golden and green sprigs to work with. I started with the ones for the inside of the brim. I gathered a few flowers and things into tiny bunches like so: Then I wrapped their wire ends together and covered them with floral tape. If you've never used floral tape, you should know it's amazing. It has a papery texture, it stretches, and it only sticks to itself. Perfect for covering up all the wire and locking everything in place. Several of the finished sprigs, before taping. I sewed them down with white thread at the edge of the inside brim. As I went along, I pulled the net over the stems and tacked it down to hide the stem ends. I played with the layout a lot before committing. A lot of 1860s bonnets have just a few flowers, or one central bunch, or a bunch off to one side. Katie told me more is more, so I just went ahead and filled the whole inside brim! Then I started the bunch for the top. First I made a flat base of velvet leaves. Then I made some larger sprigs of flowers. I thought keeping the glass berries together would have the best effect. I started sewing them to the leaf base, crossing their stems. All sewn down! Finally, I bent the stems back up to cover all the sewing. The finished piece! I cut several loops of ribbon to pleat and lay under the flower piece. To trim the outside, first I sewed two pieces of ribbon over the crown, pleated the long way to give them texture and help them shape over the curve. Then I added the loops and the floral piece right on top. The last step was to add the chin ties. I used two lengths of ribbon, cut the ends at angles, and sewed tiny hems. Then I pleated up the other end into a little fat stack of pleats so it was only about 1/2" wide, and sewed it to the pointy tip of the bonnet brim. The ties are about a yard long to make a nice full bow. Here's Katie wearing this bonnet at an event in Gettysburg! I love the way it coordinates with her dress! This was a super fun project. Trimming hats is definitely my cup of tea!
I have yet again been slow to post projects. I am currently spending most of my time working and stressing over my thesis, which is due far ...
I have yet again been slow to post projects. I am currently spending most of my time working and stressing over my thesis, which is due far ...
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This house is near the campus of Andrew College. It dates from 1853, and has been undergoing repair and renovation.
I have yet again been slow to post projects. I am currently spending most of my time working and stressing over my thesis, which is due far ...
I have yet again been slow to post projects. I am currently spending most of my time working and stressing over my thesis, which is due far ...
I have yet again been slow to post projects. I am currently spending most of my time working and stressing over my thesis, which is due far ...
I have yet again been slow to post projects. I am currently spending most of my time working and stressing over my thesis, which is due far ...
I have yet again been slow to post projects. I am currently spending most of my time working and stressing over my thesis, which is due far ...
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Block # 1 Wandering Lover by Becky Brown The first block in our 2018 series Antebellum Album features Indiana Fletcher whose family tells us much about cross border relationships North and South before the Civil War. Unknown class and teacher Throughout the year we'll explore women's academies and signature quilts in the 1840s and '50s. We'll look at school girls whose lives were interrupted by the American Civil War and examine album quilts. Each month I'll post a free pattern for a favorite signature block from those early friendship quilts. Indiana Fletcher 1828-1900 Indiana Fletcher was a woman whose ties to North and South were tightened during her school years. Born in 1828, Indiana's unusual name celebrated her Uncle Calvin's new home on the western frontier. Calvin and Elijah Fletcher were Vermonters who refused to stay put. Seeking opportunity far from his parents' New England farm, Indiana's father Elijah wound up as a Yankee school teacher near Lynchburg, Virginia. He married well-to-do student Maria Antoinette Crawford and in short time became a Southerner--- a slave holder at his Sweet Briar plantation. Indie and sister Betty benefited from their mother's family money and father's faith in education---"the best fortune we can give our children." Indiana traveled north to St. Mary's Hall in Burlington, New Jersey and the class of 1843. Indie attended school across the Mason-Dixon line, which runs between Maryland and Pennsylvania southwest of Burlington New Jersey, the star at the top. Sweet Briar is the lower star. The Episcopal school overlooking the Delaware River was five years old. St Mary's was later named Doane Academy after founder George Washington Doane, who believed girls' curricula should be the same as boys'. He and wife Eliza built Riverside, an Italianate mansion next to the school, with Eliza's money from her first husband. Eliza also used that inheritance to support the school in the early years while it became established as a women's academy with a national reputation. Doane Academy still provides an education for young men and women. The Doane's home, Riverside. St. Mary's influenced Indiana in many ways. Perhaps the most concrete was the makeover she and Betty planned for their Virginia family home, improving the brick farmhouse with a tower on either side, ala Riverside. Father Elijah wrote, "This is a project of my Daughters, and as I rarely deny to gratify any of their desires, have consented this." Remodeling also dictated travels to New York City to buy furniture and keep in touch with friends made in school. Sweet Briar in Virginia in the early 20th century. One can see the bones of a Southern plantation between the towers. Burlington, New Jersey was not only home to important 19th-century boarding schools but also to some of the earliest album quilts. We have no evidence that Indie Fletcher ever contributed to a quilt but as a fashionable young woman in Burlington she must have been aware of the new fad for patchwork albums. Our first signature block---just like Indie---has links to Indiana and New Jersey. The Block Block 1 by Mark Lauer We have four modelmakers this year and two of them are making two sets so you're going to get lots of ideas. Mark's doing one traditional red, yellow & green set. 1843 Signature quilt from Burlington, New Jersey Collection of Conner Prairie Museum in Indiana http://indiamond6.ulib.iupui.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CPQuilts/id/229 A nine-patch variation is not something we might pick for an album block but in the antebellum years that white center square was seen as the perfect spot for a name and sentiment. No applique in this block of the month! But you might get ideas. Those buds stitched in the corners are pretty cute. I've seen two albums dated 1842 and 1843 with the pictured pattern---both from New Jersey and both attributed to Quakers. The quilt directly above with sashing is the cover quilt on the New Jersey Quilts book. Variations were common for albums from the complex version above to a simpler version below. Online Auction. Quilt looks to be about 1880-1910. The pattern is BlockBase #1700 I've picked a pattern of medium complexity: #1700 in BlockBase. (#1702 is for the ambitious---54 small HST's per block.) Late 19th-century version of #1702 The oldest published name I've found is Wandering Lover, published in Hearth & Home magazine in 1895, an appropriate name for Southerner Indie and a certain New York minister, two people divided by Civil War. Mark's second set is done in the bright and black repros we call neon prints today---black novelty prints from about 1910. Cutting a 12" Block A—Cut 3 background squares 4-7/8” Cut each in half diagonally. You need six large triangles. B— Cut 9 dark and 3 light squares 2-7/8”. Cut each in half diagonally. You need 18 dark and 6 light of the smaller triangles. C--- Cut 3 squares 4-1/2”. Block 1 by Pat Styring Pat is doing her distinctive collage-like interpretation: a little applique, a lot of fussy-cutting. The Civil War & After Indiana Fletcher Williams, perhaps in the 1880s. When Civil War broke out Indie was a rich single woman, a 33-year-old slave-holder living on the family plantation. Her personal war was less painful than that of many Virginians. Sweet Briar remained safe from fighting so many of her trials were just tribulations. The railroads no longer ran; food and goods were scarce. And she missed her Northern travels. Pass for travel in Virginia right after the War. Indie applied for a pass to cross into the Union from Virginia. In 1864 she asked Uncle Calvin to recommend her, hoping to escape the South where "fortunes are vanishing like the glories of the setting sun." Calvin Fletcher refused to vouch for her loyalty, fearing she'd try to get her hands on the Vermont family farm, but I would guess Indiana's motivation to cross the lines was more romance than greed. James Henry Williams Frustrated travel plans may have included a visit to Dobbs Ferry, New York, where J.H. Williams was an Episcopal minister. Once the war ended Williams visited Sweet Briar and married Indie soon after. Daughter Maria Georgiana (Daisy) was born in 1867. The Fletchers' fortune did not vanish with the Confederacy's setting sun and she and Williams continued to prosper throughout the century, dividing their time between New York and Virginia, while Daisy attended Manhattan schools. Daisy Williams (1867 -1884) Sadly, their only child inherited a debilitating disease and died at the age of 16. Her broken-hearted parents moved permanently to New York. In 1889 when J.H. Williams died his will requested Indiana use their fortune and Virginia land to establish a women's school in Daisy's memory. You may be familiar with Sweet Briar, a private women's liberal arts college on 3,000 acres near Lynchburg. Sweet Briar College in 1914, fourteen years after Indiana Fletcher Williams's death. Indie's mansion still stands Sweet Briar College was recently named a top ten small school in Forbes' Magazines survey. Denniele Bohannon is also doing two sets in high contrast brights. This is from her pink set. And this one with more triangles is from her blue set. BlockBase #1701. Sentiment for July Each month I'll show an inked flourish from a mid-century album. You might want to print it and trace it. Or try some free-hand grape vines with your signature. Information about the Fletcher/Williams family is abundant. I first read Indie's tale in a group biography of her father's family. Our Family Dreams is by Daniel Blake Smith. Album sold at Hindman Auctions about 15 years ago with a variation of this month's block on the top row next to the willow tree. If you'd prefer you can buy the patterns for Antebellum Album in my Etsy shop. I've packaged blocks 1-4, which you can buy as a PDF to print yourself for $5. Or I'll print it on my black & white printer and mail it to you for $9. You'll be getting patterns January through April ahead of everyone else so don't be telling anybody. Here are the links: https://www.etsy.com/listing/589746451/antebellum-album-2018-bom-patterns-1-4? https://www.etsy.com/listing/575941078/antebellum-album-2018-bom-patterns-1-4?
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Antebellum Album #7 Chimney Sweep by Becky Brown Southerners anxious to establish schools in the antebellum years had difficulty finding qualified teachers, so they were motivated to offer handsome salaries to well-educated Northerners who agreed to emigrate. Caroline Matilda Seabury, a single 27-year-old with a good New England education, accepted a position teaching French at the Columbus Female Institute in northeastern Mississippi. Caroline Russell Seabury (1827 -1893) Brooklyn, New York to Columbus, Mississippi Caroline had been living with her few surviving relatives, sister Martha and brother Channing, in their uncle's Brooklyn home. The family was prosperous (Uncle Edwin was a dry goods wholesaler) but cursed by tuberculosis. After Mary's father and most of her siblings died of the disease her despairing mother Caroline Plimpton Seabury committed suicide. Caroline left Brooklyn in fall, 1854 seeking an independent life, a difficult step. Columbus Female Institute about 1880 when it became a woman's college "O, the loneliness of that great half furnished place, it overpowered us both. Miss S. who had just left school & for the first time tried a life among strangers---far from home---I with no home felt----both of us utterly heartsick." Sister Martha joined her but Martha was ill too and would soon die. Caroline made friends in Columbus, earning local minor celebrity for her brave care of a young small pox victim in 1857. She maintained ties with some of those friends over her lifetime. Chimney Sweep by Mark Lauer The Block Chimney Sweep Variations on this block must be the most popular friendship pattern. Quilt dated 1852. "The Quilt of Friendship" "The quilt of Freenbship" Mrs. Cowperthwaite wasn't much of a speller but we are glad she tried. You can construct the block in many ways. BlockBase #3266 is easy to cut and piece in diagonal strips. Cutting a 12" Block A- Cut 2 squares 2-3/8". Cut each in half with one diagonal cut. You need 4 small triangles. B- Cut 3 squares. 4-1/4". Cut each into 4 triangles with 2 diagonal cuts. You need 12 triangles. C- Cut 6 rectangles 4-3/4" X 2-5/8". D- Cut 3 rectangles 6-7/8" X 2-5/8". E- Cut 4 squares 2-5/8"--- 2 light/2 dark. Chimney Sweep by Denniele Bohannon A Sentiment for July You have a little more room in this block so here's an extravagant flourish---perhaps a music book. Chimney Sweep by Pat Styring During the War & After When Civil War came Caroline stayed at her position in Columbus, ambivalent as to where she belonged. "When will this agony be over?—From the hour when I first saw the Confederate flag flying to this evening there has been a conflict of feeling—personal attachments struggling against inborn principles." She'd made friends in Mississippi; she was dependent on her salary; her sister was buried there. To some degree she'd become a Southerner but never a secessionist. Through her war years she always saw the folly of the Confederate cause and the fallacies in Confederate propaganda, ideas she could confide only to her diary. In 1862 the Vermont-born principal, wary of Northern-born teachers, fired her. She found work tutoring the daughters of George Hampton Young at Waverley Plantation, seven miles from town on the Tombigbee River. Mid-20th century photo of Waverley's Plantation House built in 1852. "My home is pleasant with two little girls to teach---plenty of time for sewing, reading, walking or riding---a great deal too much for thinking..." A year later: "This summer time hangs heavily on my hands...with nothing to sew, because there is no material to be had...Even after learning to twist on a 'great [spinning] wheel' there is nothing left to twist...I have been reduced to the last semblance of occupation---patch-work---in company with my friends here---a last resort in the hour of extremity." Chimney Sweep by Mark Lauer She yearned to go North but could not get a pass to legally cross the lines. In late July, 1863 after the fall of Vicksburg, friends arranged an "opportunity," an undercover wagon ride northwest across the state to Union-held Mississippi River banks with four men, four mules and some cattle. Edwin Forbes's drawing of a four-mule team with an African-American driver, similar to the wagon that took Caroline northwest across Mississippi. Her driver was named Jack. Library of Congress. Caroline's account of the two-week trip through ravaged Mississippi is a classic adventure tale. Her saviors deposited her on Buck Island on the Arkansas side of the river where she feared remaining "a prisoner condemned without a trial." How to catch the attention of the Union army? "A thought came to me---that in my trunk were some pieces of red white & blue silk---remnants of a Union flag....I made as large a flag as I could with them, cut paper stars out of a blank leaf in my note-book---and soon had a Star spangld---though small-sized--national emblem---With a cotton-wood stick for staff, it was tied on---the stars down---in token of distress." Mississippi river steamboat with paroled prisoners aboard, 1865 She waved her flag at a passing boat carrying Union troops from Vicksburg. They stopped and picked her up. She made it to Cincinnati and then back to New York. Channing Seabury's late-19th-century house in St. Paul Caroline's life is known through her diary and her post-war letters, which were included with the papers of her brother Channing, a gilded-age success in St. Paul, Minnesota. The Seabury papers were donated by Channing's wife to the Minnesota Historical Society. Channing Seabury taking the first shovel of dirt at the ground- breaking ceremony for the new Minnesota capitol in 1896. Photo from the Minnesota Historical Society Caroline died in Washington D.C. in 1893 and is buried with her brother and his wife in St. Paul. The Diary of Caroline Seabury, 1854–1863, edited by Suzanne L. Bunkers is still available from the University of Wisconsin Press. See more here: https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/0283.htm Sarah Elizabeth McKinley's flourish on the 1852 quilt of friendship above Turkey red and white sampler from French72 Antiques with five examples of this month's album block One happy ending in Caroline's story: Waverley's resurrection. It's been restored to its antebellum glory. Here is where she was reduced to "the last semblance of occupation---patch-work." Chimney Sweep by Denniele Bohannon
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Block # 6 Madame's Star By Pat Styring Southern girls educated at Northern boarding schools risked "imbibing habits and manners not perfectly congenial with those of the people of the South," warned an Alabama parent. Cautious planters and urban aristocrats had the option of pricey schools closer to home. Among the elite academies was Madame Talvande's French School for Young Ladies, L'École pour Demoiselles, in Charleston, South Carolina, run by a family of Haitian refugees. Madame Talvande's school building still stands, known today as the Sword Gate House. Mary Boykin Miller (1823-1886) soon after her marriage to James Chesnut in 1840. Mary Miller, a student in the late 1830s, recalled Madame as,"the Tyrant of Legare St." who was forced to seek U.S. asylum by revolution in Haiti, then called St. Domingue. The Haitian uprising (1791-1804) was the most successful of the slave revolutions, creating the second independent country in the Western hemisphere. "She wasted no time in vain regrets, or in thoughts of what was due her by God and man---on account of her social position---before the social earthquake; but she at once took measures to utilize her rare accomplishments, and to make them pay." Madame's accomplishments: She was a native French speaker and a force to be reckoned with. The Eastern U.S. was dotted with what were called French Schools run by exiles from Europe and the Caribbean with just those gifts. Unknown school. Class picture with Madame? About 1860 Mary was a favorite student, invited to sit at Madame's table during meals, conversing skillfully in the required French. (English was forbidden.) Classmate Susan Petigru was not so favored. Sue did not thrive in French and believed that girls in her elite position wasted time and tuition on education. Block # 6 Madame's Star By Denniele Bohannon Sue and Mary had much in common besides social class. Both were gifted writers and conversationalists, witty and outspoken. But Mary knew the limits for Southern womanhood. Sue never accepted the conventions, earning a lifelong reputation as a "fast woman." Sue published popular novels pushing those limits in the 1850s. Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut wrote novels too, but she's remembered for her Civil War diary, while Sue Petigru King is forgotten except by those who relish a scandalous life story. Older sister Caroline Petigru Carson (1820–1892) enjoyed her years at Madame Talvande's more than Sue did. The 1841 portrait is by Thomas Sully, Collection: Gibbes Museum of Art Chintz album quilt. Signatures from Columbia, Charleston, Savannah, Danbury, Connecticut & New York sold at Skinner's Auctions. Quilt dated 1848, Eudora F. Davis, Sumter District, South Carolina. Online auction. Other names include Clark. Finding antebellum South Carolina album quilts with pieced blocks is almost as hard as finding Yankee pupils in Carolina girls' schools. Cut-out-chintz applique is the dominant style in pre-Civil-War South Carolina signature quilts but here are some familiar pieced designs. (We are not going to do the pale blue sunburst!) Madame Talvande's "had two or three distinct cliques," wrote Mary in a thinly veiled novel about school days. She classified herself (and probably Sue) as among the English girls---those "of Cavalier stock" (meaning descended from English aristocrats). There were "The French speaking [Catholic] refugees from St. Domingo of whom Madame was a distinguished representative. wonderfully handsome girls... gayer and less studious than Charleston proper...." Then the "Huguenots...not ashamed then to be both American and protestants." She lists their traits: piety, thrift, industry, energy and worldly wisdom, "stiff necked, with somewhat of a hard narrowness." The always observant Mary could bite. Mary's parents removed her from Madame Talvande's after gossip she was seen walking with James Chesnut, six years older. James and Mary married when she was 17. He was a clerk in Sue's father's law office. Once the Millers met Mary's callers in frontier Mississippi, a temporary home, they sent her right back to Charleston. Sue's stay at Madame Talvande's was short. Hoping perhaps for more polish, her parents enrolled her in a French School in Philadelphia, which she didn't like any better than she did Philadelphia or the North. Mix of chintz and calico styles in an album dated 1843 from the Philadelphia/NJ area, made by Hannah Nicholson Grave's Quaker relatives. Collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History See a post on Hannah Grave's three quilts here: https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2018/05/hannah-nicholson-grave-quilts.html Links between Carolina students and Philadelphia schools seems to have been one agent of design transmission. Girls like Sue (if Sue noticed needlework at all) would have brought new Philadelphia fashion back home. The Block: Madame's Star Block # 6 Madame's Star By Mark Lauer Blocks from an undated mid-19th century New Jersey album from Stella Rubin Antiques Simple nine patch stars often served as signature blocks. This month's design gives different effects with different shading. On the reverse of an 1843 quilt from Swedesboro, New Jersey in Mary Koval's collection. It's #1634 in BlockBase, published in the 1930s by Nancy Page as Mosaic. Block # 6 Madame's Star By Mark Lauer Cutting a 12" Block A - Cut 2 dark & 2 light squares 4-7/8" Cut each in half diagonally to make 2 triangles. You need 8 large triangles. B - Cut 1 light, 1 dark & 2 medium squares 5-1/4". Cut each into 4 triangles with 2 diagonal cuts. You need 16 medium-sized triangles. C- Cut 2 squares 2-7/8" Cut each in half diagonally to make 2 triangles. You need 4 small triangles. D - Cut 1 square 3-3/8". Sewing Block # 6 Madame's Star By Denniele Bohannon A Sentiment for June A scroll with a bouquet from a set of blocks dated 1843 in the Philadelphia Museum of Art The Civil War & After Mary and Sue kept up an edgy relationship through the Civil War. Through her husband Mary was Confederate elite. Sue married Henry King, a Charleston lawyer who was neither ambitious nor sober. By the time the War came and Henry joined the Sumter Guard they were living apart. Henry was killed in the Battle of Secessionville in June, 1862. Susan Dupont Petigru King Bowen (1824 - 1875) perhaps about 1870 Sue's Southern family was outspoken against Secession. During the War sister Caroline found that Charlestonians thought so little of her opinions she was obliged to obtain a pass to move to New York and then Italy. Sue remained in Charleston and Columbia, suspected of spying, treason and hiding Yankee fugitives and growing more rebellious and combative as the years passed. The former classmates met at Columbia's 1862 Gunboat Fair. In her diary Mary noted Sue's escort, an infatuated soldier 12 years her junior, and called her "fast." "People talk of her flirtations and keep out of her way because she is so quarrelsome." Two years later Mary had the nerve to accuse Sue to her face of dressing provocatively in search of a new husband. "And yet I am as afraid of her as death." In January, 1865 Sue was talking of her engagement to Confederate General Pierre Toutant Beauregard. Mary was indignant. "She showed his letters and his photograph. Incredulous we were and openly pronounced the photograph proof worth nothing. Anybody can get that for a small pile of Confederate money. It is in every shop window." Paper photos like this carte-de-visite of P.T. Beauregard were collectibles, apparently advertised in "every shop window" in Columbia right up to the end of the War. Sue was perhaps delusional as well as bad-tempered. Well, I could go on as it's so much fun to read Mary Chesnut's diary. She is a 21st-century woman in a 19th century-milieu. Block # 6 Madame's Star By Becky Brown Read previews of recent editions of both Mary's and Sue's novels. Sue enjoyed financial success with several of her books in the 1850s. See Busy Moments of an Idle Woman (1853) and Lily: A Novel (1855). Gerald Gray's Wife and Lily: A Novel have recently been republished. Here's a preview: https://books.google.com/books?id=yvFC913xm50C&pg=PR17&dq=sue+king+lily+a+novel&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjch97B8sDWAhVJjFQKHf1CCOwQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=sue%20king%20lily%20a%20novel&f=false Mary Chesnut's novel Two Years or the Way We Lived Then was not published till recently. https://books.google.com/books?id=uhVbWa-kA7oC&pg=PR9&dq=mary+chesnut+two+years+or+the+way+we+lived+then&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQtZ7N8MDWAhXqlFQKHeVlDBsQ6wEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=mary%20chesnut%20two%20years%20or%20the%20way%20we%20lived%20then&f=false The introductions are the best part.
Hats and bonnets, April 08, 1861. Der Bazar. Images via Google Books.
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