Nanette Chopin Cook's version of Carol Hopkins's Enduring Love See Nanette's blog here: https://doitrightquilter.com/ This month's Past Perfect quilt designer is Carol Hopkins. Enduring Love from Carol's pattern line Civil War Legacies.- Carol Hopkins Quilt Market fun includes a look in Carol Hopkins's booth to see what she is up to. She consistently produces authentic patterns for reproduction-style quilts using 18th- & 19th reproduction prints. Carol Hopkins Designs has a Civil War Legacies pattern line of mid-19th century designs and a Vintage Legacies line of other dates. Faded Roses She shares her love of "old-looking fabrics" and "soft, faded colors" with these stand-alone patterns and quilt books from her home in West Lafayette, Indiana. She's been quilting since 1980 before the mills were doing much in the way of reproduction coloring. "I relished the challenge of finding fabrics that looked old. I remember the day that I bought 6 yards of a cream colored fabric with a tiny black motif because it looked like a shirting fabric, something that just didn’t exist in the marketplace. And when I found a pink fabric that looked like some of the cinnamon pinks I’d seen in old quilts, I wanted the entire bolt so that I could reproduce those wonderful turn-of-the-century scrap quilts." Carly's Star Southern Belle Give & Take Most of the quilts she makes herself are small, but the designs are easily adaptable to larger formats. Mama Sara Baskets for Betsy Bonnet Ties Her sixth book was published recently by Martingale Press. Vintage Legacies focuses more on larger quilts See a preview with lots more pictures here: https://www.shopmartingale.com/vintage-legacies.html http://www.carolhopkinsdesigns.com/patterns.htm Patriotic Logs We've got two months till Quilt Market. I wonder what she's plotting. Here's her webpage: http://www.carolhopkinsdesigns.com/patterns.htm

Nanette Chopin Cook's version of Carol Hopkins's Enduring Love See Nanette's blog here: https://doitrightquilter.com/ This month's Past Perfect quilt designer is Carol Hopkins. Enduring Love from Carol's pattern line Civil War Legacies.- Carol Hopkins Quilt Market fun includes a look in Carol Hopkins's booth to see what she is up to. She consistently produces authentic patterns for reproduction-style quilts using 18th- & 19th reproduction prints. Carol Hopkins Designs has a Civil War Legacies pattern line of mid-19th century designs and a Vintage Legacies line of other dates. Faded Roses She shares her love of "old-looking fabrics" and "soft, faded colors" with these stand-alone patterns and quilt books from her home in West Lafayette, Indiana. She's been quilting since 1980 before the mills were doing much in the way of reproduction coloring. "I relished the challenge of finding fabrics that looked old. I remember the day that I bought 6 yards of a cream colored fabric with a tiny black motif because it looked like a shirting fabric, something that just didn’t exist in the marketplace. And when I found a pink fabric that looked like some of the cinnamon pinks I’d seen in old quilts, I wanted the entire bolt so that I could reproduce those wonderful turn-of-the-century scrap quilts." Carly's Star Southern Belle Give & Take Most of the quilts she makes herself are small, but the designs are easily adaptable to larger formats. Mama Sara Baskets for Betsy Bonnet Ties Her sixth book was published recently by Martingale Press. Vintage Legacies focuses more on larger quilts See a preview with lots more pictures here: https://www.shopmartingale.com/vintage-legacies.html http://www.carolhopkinsdesigns.com/patterns.htm Patriotic Logs We've got two months till Quilt Market. I wonder what she's plotting. Here's her webpage: http://www.carolhopkinsdesigns.com/patterns.htm

This is how far I’ve got with the American Civil war mini quilt that I’m making using the English paper piecing method. I’ve sorted out the fabrics for each block now: Once I̵…

Becky Brown Reproduction block with Chrome orange plain and chrome yellow print Vintage mid-19th century applique Chrome orange is a color familiar to every collector of antique quilts. Vintage quilt about 1870, photo from the Quilt Complex Chrome orange in the stars and the stripes. Read more about this quilt here: http://blog.thequiltcomplex.com/2009/06/sandra-mitchell-queen-of-cheddar.html Vintage quilt, probably Pennsylvania, end of the 19th century After 1840 or so chrome orange in prints and plains was popular for piecing and a favorite accent to the reds and greens of appliqué florals. Towards the end of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth, quiltmakers in parts of Pennsylvania and the Southern United States considered the color the perfect background for appliqué and pieced designs. Hexagon quilt mid-19th-century Chrome yellow at the top and chrome orange at the bottom were closely related in chemistry. Reproduction block by Bettina Havig We'll make chrome orange stars this week, to use a name the dyers and printers used. William Crookes captioned this printed plaid "Chrome Orange Light and Dark" in his Practical Handbook of Dyeing and Calico Printing, published in 1874, Chrome dyes are mineral dyes, rather than vegetable dyes. Doll quilt about 1850 Flying Geese quilt about 1840-1860 We call it cheddar today. Vintage quilt about 1880 Polka dots (circular figures set in a diagonal grid) were popular on chrome orange. The prints are often quite simple. Vintage Quilt, late 19th-century Detail of an album sampler dated 1857. It's called the Odd Lady Quilt, perhaps a reference to the Odd Fellows or to the style where every block is different. Vintage quilt, about 1880-1900 When shaded like this the Evening Star block loses its starry qualities. You occasionally run across a complex chrome orange print, here combined with chrome yellow. Vintage quilt about 1880-1910 Kathlyn Sullivan collects Cheddar or Chrome Orange quilts; many of them from North Carolina. After the Civil War, Southerners opened fabric mills, some specializing in solid colors and plaids. Chrome orange plains dyed with the mineral dye were colorfast and inexpensive leading to a Southern regional style of solid color quilts featuring chrome orange. Reproductions: Antique Diva Pyramids (detail) by Diana Petterson from History Repeated Using a lot of chrome orange creates a certain look, style often seen in the quilts of the 19th-century Patchwork Divas group. The color is so strong it's sometimes hard to find. Yellows don't sell as well as blues or greens. Repro Quilt Lover recommends Moda's Bella Solid 9900-152 called Cheddar. See why she has two bolts here: http://reproquiltlover.blogspot.com/2012/11/cheddar-madness-giveaway.html Reproduction quilt by Marcie at PatchaLot Rosemary Youngs, Macaroni and Cheese reproduction, 2011 There are a variety of cheddary colors out there. Rosemary seems to have a lot of this solid in her stash. I think she used 4" blocks so she probably still has a lot of chrome orange reproduction left. Three chrome orange prints from Nancy Gere's Colonies: Cheddar and Poison Green The PolkaDotChicken blog used a Moda dot from an old collection called Rooftop Garden. That particular dot is probably tough to find now, but the point of this QuiltAlong is to teach you what to look for---bright orange background with white or brown/black dots. Also look for bright cheesey-backgrounds with spaced-out figures. Mercer County Star by Jean Stanclift used a chrome orange and a chrome yellow from some of my early collections. Star Puzzle by Jean Stanclift. When we had our Sunflower Pattern Co-op we were on a cheddar and blue roll. Reproduction Star by Bettina Havig Reproduction Star by Becky Brown If the authentic cheddar colors are too much for you remember you can use toned-down shades for an interpretation of an antique quilt rather than a copy. Go towards the pumpkin color or a brownish-gold. Jo Morton's Spice Market But even if you aren't comfortable with a true cheddary chrome orange you should try it. As Becky says: "Cheddar/Orange is my least favorite color - until now - I have [the block at the top of the page] pinned up and can't stop looking at it, and loving it." Setting Idea for Your Stack of Star Blocks Alternate Plain Blocks on Point Reproduction quilt by Carol Hopkins, Tribute to Judie [Rothermel] Set the blocks on point with an alternate unpieced square for a very traditional look. Carol's used a few of Judie's 19th-century yellow-orange prints to move our eye around this composition. Vintage quilt from first half of the 19th century, Holstein Collection, International Quilt Study Center & Museum. Reproduction quilt by Claire McKarns Claire used a similar set for her 2010 AQSG Star Study quilt. Reproduction quilt by the Women Who Run With Scissors Years ago our sewing group made this star quilt with two borders to benefit our guild. Same set: pieced and appliqued borders with an updated border repeat. One More Thing about Chrome Orange A spill stained the white and damaged the chrome orange The mineral dye chrome orange is quite colorfast, resisting light so it doesn't fade. But like Prussian blue it reacts to the acid/alkalai balance in laundering. Acids in the water or in a spill can draw out the orange leaving a pale yellow green as in the above quilt. We don't use chromes anymore for dyeing. The minerals are too dangerous to workers. More posts on chrome orange: http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2011/09/chrome-orange-background-and-accent.html http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2010/02/chrome-orange-chrome-yellow.html http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2009/12/chrome-orange.html

Are you ready for a beautiful new book for the holidays? If so, now is your chance to get an early Christmas present from one of these talented designers. Sunday November 22nd there will be several giveaways on the designers, blogs, Instagrams or Facebook pages. We are all different just like the quilts in this

I received a copy of one of Martingale's new titles, Civil War Legacies , by Carol Hopkins --- what a sumptuous book! It's a collection...