Quilts, Gravestones, and Elusive Ancestors
Inspirations, challenges, discoveries, and connections.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
It's Almost Spring--Flowers!
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Last Friday a friend and I went to the New Jersey Flower & Garden Show where we saw beautifully landscaped gardens and prize-winning flo...
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Appliqued Heart Blocks and a Heart-shaped Gravestone
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I realized I had quite a few photographs of quilts containing appliqued heart blocks so thought I'd post them for Valentine's Day. A...
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
My Great Grandmother "Odie"
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My maternal great-grandmother, Henrietta Friederike Wesler Strubbe was born in Bremen, Germany in 1861. She emigrated to the United States i...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Fabric Diary
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Some of my fabric scraps I throw into a wicker laundry basket and others I have "catalogued" by decade and stored in ziplocs. Soun...
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Thursday, January 5, 2012
18th c. Ledger-style Gravestones and Epitaphs
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The Hanover Presbyterian Church Burial Ground in E. Hanover, NJ, has some very interesting ledger-style gravestones dating to the late 1700s...
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