My Garden Trellis
(20″ x 16″)
Pieced and quilted by Sue Hickman Berryville, Va 6/2011
A study in machine applique.
Featured in The Barns 1st Annual Fiber Arts Festival in Berryville, Va
11/2011 – 1/2012
of Berryvile, VA.
Pops of Paradise
A One Block Wonder (56.5″ x 51.25″)
Kaleidoscoped, pieced, layout designed and quilted by Sue Hickman Berryville, Va 11/2011
This lap quilt was finished with long-arm quilting.
Featuring Bird of Paradise and Plumeria Blooms.
Sunburst Freedom Star
(31.75″ x 32″)
Pieced by Sue Hickman Berryville, Va 7/2011
This quilt was finished with long-arm quilting.
Suffrage in 48
(45″ x 44″)
Pieced by Sue Hickman Berryville, Va 7/2011
This quilt was finished with long-arm quilting.
Blank note cards featuring this quilt are currently available for purchase in sets of four (4) for $14.00 by emailing Sue@Studio2724.com .
It won a Blue Ribbon at the Clarke County Fair in August 2012.
This quilt also showed at the 2013 Northern Shenandoah Valley Quilt Show, held in Berryville, Va.
Throughout the Civil War, another war was waged behind the scenes, the struggle for the right of women to vote.
First perilously proposed in the United States in July 1848 at the Women’s Rights Convention, it wasn’t until August, 1920 that the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was signed into law giving women in all 48 states the right to vote.
This traditional block pattern was first published in 1884 as “Sawtooth” in the publication “Farm & Fireside”.
Near A Railroad Crossing (1)
(43″ x 43″)
Designed and Pieced by Sue Hickman Berryville, Va 7/2011
This quilt was finished with long-arm quilting.
Blank note cards featuring this quilt are currently available for purchase in sets of four (4) for $14.00 by emailing Sue@Studio2724.com .
This quilt showed at the 2013 Northern Shenandoah Valley Quilt Show, held in Berryville, Va.
Adapted from Clothesline Quilts’ Bull Run pattern.
**I named these two quilts with Railroad Crossing blocks for where, on July 21, 1861, near Manassas, Virginia railway junction, the first major battle of The Civil War took place.
This First Battle of Bull Run was named for a stream that flowed across Wilmer McLean’s field where battle yielded a Confederate Victory.
Interestingly, less than four long years later, on April 9, 1865, Gen. Robert E Lee surrendered to Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in the parlor of McLean’s farmhouse in the community of Appomattox Court House marking the beginning of the end of the war.
“It began in my front yard and ended in my front parlor.” ~ Wilmer McLean
No, these two events did not occur in the same place. Wilmer Mclean had moved after those initial battles to make a new home in Appomattox Court House.
Near A Railroad Crossing (2)
(20″ x 20″)
Designed, pieced, and quilted by Sue Hickman Berryville, Va 7/2011
Blank note cards featuring this quilt are currently available for purchase in sets of four (4) for $14.00 by emailing Sue@Studio2724.com .
This quilt showed at the 2013 Northern Shenandoah Valley Quilt Show, held in Berryville, Va and earned a Third Place Viewer’s Choice Award in the “Other” category.
A Quilt of Many Colors
(32.25″ x 26.25″)
Pieced by Sue Hickman Berryville, Va 11/2011
Remembering the many colors of The Civil War, this quilt is finished with long-arm quilting.
This quilt was shown in the 2013 Quilter’s Unlimited 40th Anniversary Quilt Show at the Dulles Expo Center.
A House Divided, No More
(27.75″ Sq.)
Designed, pieced, and quilted by Sue Hickman Berryville, Va 12/2011
This quilt showed at the 2013 Northern Shenandoah Valley Quilt Show, held in Berryville, Va. and also in the 2013 Quilter’s Unlimited 40th Anniversary Quilt Show at Dulles Expo Center.
A Biblical Truth – Mark 3:25 “If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.”
On June 16, 1858, in Springfield, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln, when nominated to be their candidate for U.S. Senate, delivered a speech to his Illinois Republican colleagues in the Hall of Representatives. Lincoln boldly addressed the challenges of his times and shared that he foresaw a time when these United States would cease to be divided over the issue of slavery. It took a Civil War to bring about his vision for our great nation.
On April 9, 1865, The Civil War was essentially ended when General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, and soon our nation was divided no more.
In this quilt, the individual stars represent the re-unification of the blue and the gray, the North and the South, the Union and the Confederate with Court House Steps prominently featured in the center with house blocks anchoring the four corners.
Patterns for these Eight-Point Star blocks were first published in 1897 in theLadies Art Company, then again as a Two Star Quilt in 1899 in Farm and Home.
This quilt has the honor of making a trans-Atlantic journey where it will be given to Chloe Rebecca Smith (Member of Britain’s Conservative Party, youngest minister in Parliament, Economic Secretary to the Treasurer) on the occasion of her marriage to Former Parachute Regiment Officer and Financial Consultant, Sandy McFadzean in the fall of 2013.
of London, England
Freedom Forever
(51.5″ x 51″)
Designed and pieced by Sue Hickman Berryville, Va 12/2011
Finished with long-arm quilting.
An Apple Valley Needle Threaders Charity Challenge.
In April 2012, this quilt was awarded the 2nd place prize in this Apple Valley Needle Threaders Charity Quilt Challenge. All the quilts entered in this challenge were donated to benefit the chemotherapy patients at Winchester’s Medical Center, Winchester, Va.
It’s A Colorful Beach
(16.5″ x 40″)
Pieced and quilted by Sue Hickman Berryville, Va 11/2011
Made using The Quilt Company’s “It’s a Beach” pattern.
Island Punch – Sun and Surf
(21″ x 18″)
Pieced and quilted by Sue Hickman Berryville, Va 12/2011
An American Beauty
(Queen-sized)
Pieced by Sue Hickman Berryville, Va 12/2011
This quilt was finished with long-arm quilting.
This quilt began in a class taken with the TOVA Quilt Guild in Middletown, Va. Teacher, Diane Taylor from Surrey England, taught the class. The quilts were to be made from a scrappy mix of floral fabrics, but this one better suits the recipients.
