Current project- Town of Greenwich, NY

The annual Whipple City Days festival is occurring next weekend & mom & I signed up to do the craft fair. Well, mom signed up & is taking some of my stuff because, as duly appointed public historian for the beautiful Town of Greenwich, I will have a booth of my own.

I decided to work on some different kind of projects in the hopes of making a sale (it's been a while).

Town of Greenwich design traced out on tea towel

This particular pattern I created myself for a quilt project by a professional organization I belong to, Association of Public Historians of New York State (APHNYS). I blogged about it before in my Greenwich History blog. Check out that post here. I just "googled it" & found an image of the quilt with my 2 blocks included!

Embroidering Susan B. Anthony in Redwork

 Since the tea towel has red stripes, I chose to do Redwork, which is my embroidery of choice. Susan B. Anthony (displayed in progress above) & her family lived in Battenville & Center Falls. Susan even taught school in the area. As a Quaker, she was active in the Temperance Movement before devoting her life to the passage of a national suffrage amendment.

The image of Chester Alan Arthur (21st president) came from the book Presidential Redwork: A Stitch in Time by Michael Buckingham. Arthur lived in Greenwich while his father William was pastor of the local Baptist church.

Finished tea towel in Redwork

Below is the finished tea towel. I think I will do this pattern again in green & place it in a hoop for wall art.

If you are out-&-about in Upstate NY next weekend (6/14 & 6/15) my mom (Just-A-Duck) & I will be there on Saturday, 6/15 from 9:00-6:00 p.m. For more on Whipple City Days click here.

History of Women in Redwork

I just finished embroidering a block for the redwork "History of Women" quilt I am making for myself. This block is a profile of Susan B. Anthony in an oval... so it kind of looks like a cameo & a banner with the years of her birth & death (1820-1906). Susan B. is one of my favorite suffragists. I realize she is one of the most famous, if not THE most famous... I have read a number of biographies on her. She even lived much of her childhood here in my hometown.



My redwork design of a favorite suffragist

Books for young readers include:
Susan B. Anthony by Stephanie McPherson- ISBN 9780822566861
Susan B. Anthony: Fighter for Women's Rights by Deborah Hopkinson- ISBN 9780689869099
Susan B. Anthony: Fighter for Freedom & Equailty by Suzanne Slade- ISBN 9781404831049
Susan B. Anthony: Champion of Women's Rights by Helen Monsell- ISBN 9780820418009

Books for adults include:
Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists by Jean H. Baker- ISBN 9780809087037
Failure Is Impossible by Lynn Sherr- ISBN 9780812927184
Susan B. Anthony: A Biography by Kathleen Barry- ISBN 9781587210099
The Trial of Susan B. Anthony- ISBN 9781591020998