When we see quilts from the Civil War era, we are amazed and awed.
When we see Civil War reproduction fabrics, we smile. And we buy them.
Too often...... :-)
So, more than a decade ago, Annie's quilt group, with which I was not yet familiar, embarked on a group project making a Broken Dishes pattern using Civil War reproduction fabrics. Some of the blocks were orphaned and ended up in a bag in her stash. Last summer she gave them to me and I turned them into this:
There are 6 original blocks, then several that were taken apart and put back together in different color combinations, and then there are many that were made new from fabrics from both Annie's stash and mine.
From there we began sharing books and blogs and Wednesday afternoons, and came upon Barbara Brackman's Civil War Sampler. At first, I wasn't too impressed with the blocks in the book because the colorways were not often to my taste, but Annie saw beyond the block pictures to Becky Brown's finished quilt that is pictured in the book. Beautiful!
She suggested making it as a group project with our quilt group. The idea lasted about a week, at which point we realized it would be akin to tearing our hair out to organize such a feat. So, she suggested we just do it ourselves. Well, then.
So, we decided to focus on Barbara's Metropolitan Fair fabric line, purchased a fat-quarter bundle of the whole collection (something neither of us had EVER done! Woo Hoo!!), and we were in motion. I put together pattern sets for each of us and we put them in binders, bought a couple of pretty boxes for our fabric stashes specifically for this quilt, and started in.
What a fun ride it is turning out to be!
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