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Swapped Stories

With the restriction of using Civil War reproduction fabrics, nine other women and I made blocks to swap, resulting in this quilt.

Quilt Information

Piecing
Ann Tascone, Linda Aaronson, Rachael Arnold, Toni Rosinski, Rose Degni, Lyn Doring, Cheryl Cummings, Kelley Edick, Linda Tuggey, and Nancy Getz
Design/Quilting
Ann Tascone (block choices), Rachael Arnold (layout)
Geographic
Utica, NY
Fabrics
A wide variety of quilting cottons in general Civil War repro motifs. Many were scraps from stashes.
Piecing
machine
Batting
Pellon’s Nature’s Touch
Quilting
Machine: Walking foot, FMQ foot with Gutermman 100% cotton thread
Binding
Straight-edge 2.5″ strips
Size
58″×89″
Creation
Nov. 2012–Sept. 2013

Blog posts about this project

  • Swapped Stories To A Finished Quilt

    When you are the one who makes the quilt from start to… Read more »

  • Quilting A Grid

    Quilting a grid takes forever. I always seem to forget that part.… Read more »

  • Wednesday Wall—June 12

    The final block swap meeting for the puss-in-the-corner/uneven nine-patch blocks is later… Read more »

  • Wednesday’s Wall — April 17

    I did a bit of sartorial sewing over the weekend, but I… Read more »

  • Wednesday’s Wall — April 10

    Aside from the baby quilt I finished earlier this week, I’ve spent… Read more »

  • Repro Swapping

    Proper photographs of the full block sets I made eluded me, but… Read more »

  • Tiger Lily Block Swap Set 1

    I mentioned a few weeks ago that I joined a group doing… Read more »

  • Foto Freitag

    Two blocks down, 18 to go for the LQS’ block swap. (Actually,… Read more »

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