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| Hands All Around |
National Civil War Quilt Trail, Stewart County, Tennessee
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| Snow Crystals |
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| Letitia's Medallion Sampler |
This sampler was the largest and most impressive at 16' x 16'!
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| Delectable Mountains |
What a pleasant surprise yesterday driving through Dover, Tennessee to find all the quilt squares! We stopped and got pictures of most of the ones we saw, and then later found a list and map of quilt squares in the area - 91 total! So you know I will be back over there to find some more.
The map was found at the Land Between the Lakes visitor's center, where they also had a quilt block:
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| Crossroads |
More about the National Civil War Quilt Trail in this news story: HERE
NOTE: I contacted Carolyn Darke, artist and president of the
Stewart County Arts and Heritage Council, who created the beautiful sampler quilt
above. I wanted to tell her how much I loved seeing all the quilt squares and
ask about the construction materials (as the ones we made out of plywood are
deteriorating quickly). She graciously responded:
Thank you so much for admiring our quilt blocks....hope you
were able to visit our Visitors Center, there are some there also. About ours, they
are painted on "sign board" a light weight material that sign
painters use, it comes in 4x8 sheets and can be cut in half for 2 4x4 squares
or two whole sheets for an 8x8 block. The board needs to be lightly sanded
before painting it. We used Home Depot's best exterior paint, latex, it has
primer and paint combined. After we finished painting our blocks we painted
them with an ultraviolet protection clear paint called "frog juice" expensive
stuff, not sure that step was too important, anyway they seem to be holding up
just fine. About hanging the blocks, if on a flat wood surface we used screws
that are used for metal roofs, on uneven surfaces and masonry we made a wood
frame out or 1 by 2s, used masonry screws to put up frame then screwed the
painted block to the frame.
