Grandmothers Choice: Votes For Women: May 2012

Grandmothers Choice: Votes For Women

Saturday, May 12, 2012

A Block-of-the Week Blog Coming Fall 2012

Check back in the fall for patchwork and history about the fight for women's rights.

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Updating the blocks with new 12" patterns and lots more pictures. Click to see

49 Quilt Blocks in 2012 and 2013.

Click on the picture to start with Block 1, posted September 1, 2012. The posts are still up here in 2020.

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COLOR CHOICES

You may want a historic color scheme, one used in the early 20th century. In this side bar are suggestions drawn from the imagery of several prominent organizations. Alice Paul used gold and dark purple for her Suffrage Banner.

Sampler Plan & Fabric Requirements

Each week for 49 weeks I'll post a pattern for an 8" block. Click on the sampler plan to read more about yardage.

Symbolic Colors:
Purple, Green & White

England's WSPU adopted this tricolor palette in 1908.Click on the picture for a post about the color scheme

Symbolic Colors:
Red and White

England's NUWSS used red and white, choosing the color of rebellion. Click on the banner for a post about red and white.

Symbolic Colors:
Gold

America's primary suffrage color was gold, often contrasted with black or dark violet. The shade is close to the yellow-orange we see in 19th-century quilts, the color the dyers called chrome orange and we call cheddar. Click on the picture to see a post on gold.

Symbolic Colors: Green, Gold and White

Australian suffragists adopted the colors of the Women's Freedom League: Green, gold and white.

See My Other Blogs

I have several blogs devoted to quilt and women's history.

See My Other Blogs on Quilts and Women's History

Civil War Quilts

Washington Whirlwind #11 Road To the White House (& Away)
2 days ago
Barbara Brackman's MATERIAL CULTURE

Chester County History Center
2 days ago
Cloud of Quilt Patterns

Catherine Stetson Benson
2 years ago
Women's Work: Quilts

Charlottesville Shirt Factory
4 years ago

The Blocks Come From BlockBase

My computer program is the source for the names and the designs.Each week you'll get a BlockBase number for reference. It's out of print but we are working on a new edition.

Votes For Women
Print from Spoonflower.com

I've designed a commemorative print in yellow or purple. Click on the picture to see my Material Culture store at Spoonflower.com

Ideas for Shop Owners

See this post for ideas on how to link to this blog for kits, clubs and classes.

Suffragettes or Suffragists?

We'll use the term Suffragist, a general term for people campaigning for women's right to vote---women's suffrage. In 1906 English newspapers began using the term Suffragette to refer to the militant Women's Social and Political Union. WSPU members were thus Suffragettes, everyone else a Suffragist. Click on the picture to read more at the Museum of London website:

A BUTTON

I can't figure out the button thing. But you can copy this image to a gadget on your blog and link to the address in the bar at the top:
grandmotherschoice.blogspot.com

Web Sites on the Topic

http://herstoryproject.blogspot.com/
Suffrage Wagon News Channel

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