Series Quilts – 15 years later
Back in 2007, when I first started this blog, I put together a listing of Newspaper Series Quilts that I was aware of. Since then, many more sources have become available and have allowed me to make additions to the listing. I have many of the original newspaper clippings, blocks, tops and quilts in my collection and continue to add when I come across new items. The listing, by group, is sort of chronological. The Italics text indicates new information.
Ruby Short McKim/McKim Studios – Syndicated
Quaddy Quiltie or Bedtime Quiltie (based on Thornton W. Burgess characters)
Mother Goose Quiltie
A Jolly Circus
Nursery Rhyme
Alice in Wonderland Quiltie
Roly-Poly Circus
Child Life Quilt
Peter Pan
Colonial History
Bible History
Bird Life or Audubon Quilt
Flower Garden
Farm Life
Patchwork Sampler
Patchwork Parade of States (A series of 48 individual quilt patterns representing the 48 states)
State Flowers
Fruit Basket
Toy Shop Window
Wildwood Flowers
Three Little Pigs
Flower Basket
Rhyme Land Quilt
American Ships
Nancy Page (Florence LaGanke - author / Ann Kerven - artist) – Syndicated (Publisher’s Syndicate)
Grandmother’s Flower Garden
Noah's Ark Wall Hanging
Kitchen Fruit Stencils (not a quilt design, but a series of stencils)
ABC Quilt
Magic Vine
Leaf Quilt
Wreath Series
Garden Bouquet
Snowflake Quilt
Old Almanac / Zodiac Quilt
French Bouquet
Brother Sister Quilt
Festoon Quilt (pictured in Successful Farming 1935)
Many Stars
Crossed Arrows (pictured in Successful Farming 1935)
Star & Sprig
Laurel Wreath
Garden Fruit Linens (pictured in Successful Farming 1935)
Georgian Rose Quilt (not really a series quilt, based on an antique quilt)
Calendar
Peasant Embroidery Design (not a series quilt, pictured in Successful Farming 1935)
Summer Garlands
Ships at Sea (pictured in 1941 Capper’s Farmer)
Falling Leaves
Buckle My Shoe
Picnic Cloth (vegetables)
Quilt of Birds
Tyrolean Table Cloth
Hearts & Flowers
Mother Goose Quilt (small illustrations, need to send 3c for full size patterns)
The Calico Tree (not a series quilt, described in 1932 column, pictured in Country Gentleman 1939)
Our Blue Ribbon Quilt (not a series quilt, pictured in Country Gentleman 1940)
Margaret Techy (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
Fruit Quilt
All-Sports
Old English (copyrighted by Margaret Techy and the Plain Dealer Publishing Co)
Medieval Quilt
Ohio Flower
Eveline Foland (Kansas City Star primarily, patterns copyrighted by KCS)
Santa’s Parade
Memory Bouquet - offered in papers other than KCS
Horn of Plenty
Cecil B. Mullen
Nursery Rhyme Quilt (Syndicated, copyrighted by Cecil Mullen and Fielding Lemmon)
Noah’s Ark (Syndicated) *assumed*
Modernistic Flower (copyrighted by Cecil B. Mullen)
Aileen Bullard - Cox Features
Happy Childhood
Omaha World Herald Artists
State Birds and Flower Quilt (Nadine Bradley, Woman’s Dept Director; Merriam Lieb, artist)
Covered Wagon States (Unknown, not signed by artist)
Nursery Rhyme (Laverne Bartos)
Costumes of Nationalities (Laverne Bartos)
Big Top Circus (Harry Rasmussen)
Mary Erckenbrack - Syndicated
Golden West
Old Glory
Vanity Table Runner (series of 5 motifs)
All American Quilt *assumed*
Jane Alan - John F. Dille Co.
Flower Basket
Lois Clayton DeRaine (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
Flowers of Ft. Worth Texas
Helen Baxter (Philadelphia Inquirer) – illustrated by Jean McDowell
Many quilt/bedspread/crib cover patterns, plus many other needle art designs were published.
Bonnet Girls, Sep-Oct 1920, 2 part pattern
Nursery Rhyme, Nov 1920 - Sep 1921, 15 motifs
Noah's Ark, Oct 1922 - Jan 1923, 18 animals and ark motifs
Hexagon flowers, Aug 1923, 3 motifs
Floral designs, May 1924, 2 motifs
Bo Peep, Dec 1924 - Jan 125, 3 designs
Boy Blue, Mar 1925, 3 designs
The Nursery Bedspread, Jan 1926, 4 motifs
The Circus Parade, Apr-May 1927, 3 designs
Patchwork Quilt, Jan-Feb 1930, 6 pieced blocks
Owl and Rose Tree & Butterflies, June 1930, 2 blocks
Boy and Girl with Balloons, Oct 1930, 2 motifs
Clara Tillotson / Aunt Martha’s – Syndicated (NEA Service, Inc)
Parade of Nations – also appeared in Aunt Martha’s Workbasket, Vol 1, No 1-12, 10-1935 to 9-1936
Bernice Orpha Redington - Head of the Prudence Penny Dept, Maxine Buren - Artist
Prudence Penny's Patchwork Zoo (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Designer/Artist Unknown
Mother Goose (Detroit News) – Banner underneath each motif
Circus Quilt (Detroit Free Press) – 20 patterns, large central elephant plus 14 animals
These are series quilt designs that appeared in the newspapers and a few magazines. Several magazines offered series quilts to their readers, with an early one being the Mother Goose quilt from 1908 with 20 motifs, offered by Farm and Home magazine in 4-block installments, either as pre-printed blocks or perforated patterns.
