Saturday, January 15, 2011

Civil War Quilt week 3

It's Saturday, and Barbara Brackman's newest Civil War Quilts block, Seven Sisters, is up.  Hmmm.  While it certainly is an appropriately authentic block, and her historical background is fascinating as usual, I decided to do some Executive Decision Making.

Brackman's pattern is for an appliqued star block, but I'm planning to keep my version of this quilt pieced.  So I went hunting for pieced Seven Sisters templates.  Found 'em, but seven stars in an 8" block equals MINISCULE pieces, not in keeping with the scale of my other blocks.  So I ended up with ONE sister, rather than seven :)  Marching to the beat of my own drummer here ...


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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

They are looking very good together. I like your Executive Decision :-)

January 15, 2011 at 3:36 PM
antique quilter said...

good for you!!!!
I just may do the same when I get started on this quilt!
which hopefully will be this week
always enjoy reading your posts and seeing pictures from your part of our country
Kathie

January 16, 2011 at 1:35 AM
Alice said...

Thanks again for the link to this blog, I love the history part of it. What a brave girl to flaunt her flag like that among the Union soldiers.

I like your Executive Decision too. You are just focusing on one of the seven sisters.

January 17, 2011 at 3:44 AM

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