Susan B Anthony #11 (Lynn)

A bit late, but done!!

I took the liberty of substituting a different block this month.  The Carpenters Wheel represents a different sort of freedom, freedom from slavery.  This block in a quilt signaled runaway slaves a path / direction to head toward freedom.  Fun to assemble this block, but wouldn't want to make many of them...a bit tedious.  Eleanor Burns instructions in her "Underground Railroad Sampler" with Sue Bouchard were great!

One more block to go.  Happy Spring to All!!

 

 

 

Susan B Anthony #11 (Val)

I chose to do a Susan B Anthony star from Eleanor Burns "Stars Across America" as I knew I did not want to tackle the applique block in the book.  In honor of Spring I photographed by a Lenten Rose in our garden, one of the few flowers blooming in spite of late snow.

I'm hoping the blue center will help tie in the star framing I will be using for all the blocks.

Whirlwind 2.0 - Joan

Replaced 2 red blades with green and replaced background with more of a print used in the loog cabin block...brings more interest to the quilt...onward (but back to) the tulips block...still struggling with color choice for that block...red???pink???purple???chrome yellow???any thoughts???

Block #10: King's Crown and Fanny Jackson-Coppin (Joan)



Coppin State College in Baltimore, Maryland recognizes the formidable achievements of Fanny Jackson-Coppin, born into slavery in 1837 and purchased by her aunt when she was 12.  Ms. Jackson worked as a housekeeper for the Marylanbd Calvert family, graduated from and taught at Oberlin College, was the first African American school principal in the country, and served as a missionary in South Africa.

As to the photo....my idea of a wonderful snow day...quilting and a glass of red wine at the end of the day in one of the set of glasses my Mom received as a wedding gift in 1944...this was a challenging block...points did not match and were resewn many times. flying geese too large...and when all done or so I thought one of the half-square triangles was pointing the wrong direction and had to be ripped out...added borders to stabilize the over handled fabrics...plan to use the different Party of 12 fabrics as the cornerstones to tie the "busy" quilt together...now on to a replacement for Block #9...adding in green blades and a print background because the all red block while nice was too much of a blob of color for the quilt...at the end of this project I will have made half of another quilt!!!!..Happy Sewing to all...  Joan