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Borderland in Butternut & Blue offers a new perspective on the Civil War with each block dedicated to a woman whose life was touched by the conflict on the Kansas/Missouri border. Barbara Brackman, using reproduction fabrics that hark back to the 1860s and the color tones of butternut and blue, remind us of the uniforms of the soldiers who engaged in battle.

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Borderland in Butternut & Blue
A Sampler Quilt to Recall the Civil War Along the Kansas/Missouri Border

Author: Barbara Brackman
Pages: 124
Page size: 8 1/2" x 11"
Publisher: Kansas City Star Quilts
Cover: Soft
Item Code: 4HG0123
Weight: 1.20 lb
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A beautiful array of blocks is set on point in a sampler quilt reminiscent of the Civil War. Using reproduction fabrics that hark back to the 1860s, the color tones of butternut and blue remind us of the uniforms of the soldiers who engaged in battle. This book offers a new perspective on the Civil War with each block dedicated to a woman whose life was touched by the Kansas/Missouri border

About the Author

Barbara Brackman has been writing about history since the 1970s. She grew up in Johnson County Kansas, and moved to Lawrence when she went to college at the University of Kansas. The Victorian town with its Civil War history captured her heart and she has lived there (with a few big city breaks) ever since.

Quilt history is her profession and local history is another passion. She's served as consultant for several museum exhibits on both, written quite a few books on quilts, in particular about quilts and the Civil War. She was the local history consultant when Ang Lee filmed Ride With the Devil in Kansas City, his movie about the border was starring Tobey Maguire and Jewel.

For Star Books, she has written Women of Design: Quilts in the Newspaper and Prairie Flower: A Year on the Plains. She also designs reproduction fabrics for Moda®

Table of Contents

 
Borderland: Historic and Cultural Background3
Butternut and Blue: Choosing Fabric 13
Quilts and Projects15
Block 1 North Star for Mrs. Henry Bruce16
Block 2 Indian Plume for Catherine Warpole 22
Block 3 Southern Star for Sarah Davis Johnson26
Project 1 Southern Star32
Block 4 Memory Wreath for Matilda Cosley Barber34
Block 5 Kansas Troubles for Mahala Childress Doyle40
Block 6 Underground Railroad for Clarina I. H. Nichols46
Project 2 Mystery Train51
Block 7 Missouri Star for Mattie Lykins Bingham56
Block 8 Crosses and Losses for Charity McCorkle Kerr64
Block 9 Mother's Dream for Elizabeth McMahon Speer70
Project 3 Dogtooth Sunflower76
Block 10 Order Number Eleven for Fannie Kreeger Hallar84
Project 4 Seth Thomas Rose90
Block 11 Southern Moon for Margaret Watts Hays98
Block 12 Missouri Puzzle for Sue Munday104
Block 13 Crown of Thorns for Bursheba Fristoe Younger108
Putting It All Together113

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