I finished the second corner basket last week. I am eager for the 15th of the month when the next basket pattern is released! Love Entwined is Esterh Aliu's reproduction pattern based on a 1790 appliqued marriage coverlet found in Averil Colby's book Patchwork. The medallion style quilt has seven borders, three densely appliqued.
See more about the project at Esther Aliu's blog:
http://estheraliu.blogspot.com/p/love-entwined-1790-marriage-coverlet-bom.html
The pattern is available to members of the Yahoo group found at: http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/estheraliubom/info
I am also working again on my Pan American Redwork reproduction quilt. I am using the Blu Hill printed fabric from several years ago, and adding more blocks by tracing the patterns from the Pan American Redwork quilt I purchased last January.
Here is the 1901 quilt.
And here are the blocks I have finished. The Electricity Building is the first one I traced from the vintage quilt. President McKinley and the American Eagle is also from my vintage quilt. The rest are from the Blue Hill fabric which I embroidered. I use DMC #304 embroidery floss, three strands mostly but 2 for detailed areas. The background fabrics are not all the same, as I could not completely match the Blue Hill fabric background. I think the setting blocks will be varied so it will all work out in the end!
http://www.quiltinaday.com/shoponline/fabric_display.asp?i=41936
