Union Blues for Spring Delivery

Typical eagle from Baltimore Album quilts of the 1840s and '50s

Union Blues, my new Moda reproduction collection, is scheduled for delivery to shops in mid March and shop buyers are planning their spring arrivals now.

The collection includes a variety of blues, light tan shirtings, and darker taupe browns and olives.

Among the blues are a few rainbow or foundue prints,

The first three eagle blocks here are from antique Baltimore Album quilts.
which are good reproductions of the shaded Prussian blue prints popular in the 1840s and '50s.

We have two shades of blue and two shades of taupe/brown in the rainbow or ombre prints.

Buy lots. The ombre prints will be very useful for mid-19th-century repro quilts.

From Sea to Shining Sea by Gaye Rice Ingram
Gaye made good use of reproduction ombre prints in this small quilt based on the Baltimore eagles.
See some Prussian blue period quilts from the Quilt Index at this site: http://www.quiltindex.org/galleryFullRecord.php?kid=3-98-5B#

And here are two posts I've done in the past on the bright blues obtained from Prussian blue dye.

http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2013/05/prussian-blue-old-new.html

http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2009/11/prussian-blue.html