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Sunbonnet Sue "...creating smiles ever after..."

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Molly and May by Bertha Corbett, this lense is about their history, and relatives, their illustrators and the textile artwork created with their pattern.

Sunbonnet Sue in Redwork and Quilts.

Sunbonnet Sue's History 

History and backgroud about Sunbonnet Sue's popularity as well as the who-is-who of Sunbonnet Sue's Illustrators...
Hartcottage Quilts
This is Hartcottage Quilts wounderful Sunbonnet Sue genealogy. A timeline from Kate Greenaway in the 1870s via Bertha Corbett Melcher and Bernhardt Wall to 20s Century Holly Hobby. A very comprehensive article with lots of links to Sunbonnet Sue Illustrations.
Quilters Newsletter Magazine
Sunbonnet Sue article and pattern (paper pieced Sunbonnet Sue and Overall Bill) by Janet Jo Smith. Again a lot of information on and links to the different types of Sunbonnet Sues....
Winterpark Public Libary Eulalie Osgood Grover Collection
Eulalie Osgood Grover wrote the first Sunbonnet Babies books illustrated by Bertha Corbett. Many of those illustrations found their way into Redwork and Quilting...
Bertha Corbett Melcher on Sunbonnet Sue Com
I quote "The "Mother" of the Sun-Bonnet Babies by Julia Darrow Cowles, Reprinted from THE HOUSEKEEPER, September 1907"...
Bertha Corbett's Sunbonnet Babies
A website on angels; don't know why they would include the Sunbonne Babies but nevetheless, intersting. Pictures by Bertha Corbett which I know from vintage postcards and Sunbonnet Babies nursery rhymes.

Sunbonnet Pattern Sources 

A Rose is a Rose is a Rose? Well, it is Sunbonnet Sue, Sunbonnets, Sunbonnet Babies, SBS, Dutch Girl, Bad Sue etc.
Linda Anns Quilted Gifts
Not too sure how long this site will be available as it looks like a Block of the Months feature...but the different Sues are worth stitchting. I'd tag this site Applique and Redwork
Sunbonnet Sue Com - The mother of all Sunbonnet Sue Sites...
Each and everything on Sunbonnet, Freebies, lots of pattern etc. to buy, history, Sunbonnet Sue Gallery and Community and and and. Tag it with Applique, Quilt, Redwork, History and more.
Little Baby William Torkingston Website sharing the Sunbonnet Babies Book online
One of the great possibilities on the web. William Torkingtons parents share some of their favorite old books with us. One is Eulalie Osgood Grover's entire "Sunbonnet Babies A-B-C Book" illustrated by Bertha Corbett. You wil recognise the pictures; many where used for Redwork pattern...
Rosetta Project presents Sunbonnet Babies in Mother Goose Land
The Rosetta Project is a wounderful online libraby of illustrated - mainly children - books. They present the entire book Sunbonnet Babies in Mother Goose Land by Eulalie Osgood Grover, again with the beautifl illstrations by Bertha Corbett Melcher. Take your time a browse through their entire library it is worth the time and if you liked it support them with a donation....
Intenatinal Children's Digital Library presnets: A Apple Pie" by Kate Greenaway
Just a few illustrations in this book really could be called %u201ESunbonnet Sue" but as Kate Greenaway is known as a "Sunbonnet Sue" illustrator I add this one to the list for reference.

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Sunbonnet Sue on Amazon 

an unmoderated choice of Sunbonnet Sue related books on Amazon

The Ultimate Sunbonnet Sue Collection (Leisure Arts #1881)

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Fun With Sunbonnet Sue

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Snbonnet Sue on eBay 

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Redwork in Germany

About Redwork in Germany

Whether it is Redowrk or vintage Quilts, it is inevitable you will come across the Sunbonnet Sue pattern one way or the other. I fell in love wiht the old illustrations; especially by Bernhard Wall and Bertha Corbett and I enjoy discovering  and identify  their work in old Redwork Quilts.

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