Mary Morgan's Appalachian Quilt Legacy by The Dairy Barn Arts Center

MARY MORGAN’S A P PA L A C H I A N Q U I LT L E G A C Y

D E D I C AT I O N This project is dedicated to Mary Margaret Steele Morgan, a preservationist of the cultural history of the Appalachian quilt.

CONTENTS

Dedication ...................................................................................................... ii Foreword ........................................................................................................ vi Preface .......................................................................................................... viii Introduction ..................................................................................................... x Quilts ..................................................................................................... 1â&#x20AC;&#x201D;204 Appendix ..................................................................................................... 205 Caring For and About Quilts by Mary M. Morgan Index ............................................................................................................ 215

FOREWORD There are people in your life that you regret not knowing before you meet them. Mary Morgan is one of those people in my life. She touched me in a number of ways. She was a wonderful story teller, a person that regarded the quilter as an artist, and wanted to make sure that everything was handled with the utmost care and respect for the quilters as well as the pieces of work. Mary was a long time member of the Dairy Barn and one day came to visit me to see if we would consider adopting some 200 Appalachian quilts that she would like to donate to the Dairy Barn Arts Center to support our work. She told me that the quilts were in storage for last 10 years. The quilts were loaded up in Yellow Springs and driven to Athens and unloaded and processed. The quilts were numbered, measured and documented by volunteers. While volunteers examined each quilt, Mary, on a digital recorder, went through as many quilts as she could to note her recollections of each quilt, giving history, definitions, and stories as she went along. She did such a great job telling stories of each quilt or memory of them for the project. This project and document is the story of how Mary acquired these quilts to resell in her store, to help a quilt maker in need of money, or to preserve the cultural history of the Appalachian quilts. The goal of this project is to share Mary Morgan’s Appalachian Quilt Legacy with the public and to demonstrate the Appalachian quilt heritage that we treasure. It is important for us and to her to share the stories of each quilt and the people that made them. We will miss her and get good homes for each quilt, so that people will be able to acquire a piece of our cultural heritage that she so very much wanted to be documented and celebrated. We want to thank the many volunteers who worked on the project: Anne Braxton, Kathleen Dawson, Carol “Candy” Fritchley, Darlene Innis, Eula Kasler, Lynn Last, Martha Laufman, Sharon Pinka, Gretchen Schultz, Reid Secoy, Carol Sinclair, Betsy Story, and Meta VanNostran. Jane Forrest Redfern Executive Director The Dairy Barn Arts and Cultural Center

MARY MARGARET STEELE MORGAN YELLOW SPRINGS — Mary Margaret Steele Morgan, 89, died Jan. 30, 2015, at Friends Care in Yellow Springs. Born Sept. 10, 1925, in Alderson, W.Va., she was the eighth-born child of Robert and Mamie Beckett Steele. After working during World War II at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio, as a computer and aircraft mechanic, she received a BS from the University of Dayton in 1954. She taught at The Miami Valley School, the Dayton Public Schools and became education director of a five-county Head Start region. In 1967, she was awarded a Fellowship from Columbia University, New York, N.Y., where she earned an MS in 1968. In 1969, she became a candidate for the Dayton City Commission — the first woman candidate for that office. She was endorsed by the Dayton Daily News, saying “She is the best candidate for Dayton City Commission.” But she did not unseat either incumbent. In 1979, she co-founded the Susan B. Anthony Memorial UnRest Home Womyn’s Land Trust, a feminist education center, with her longtime friend Jan Griesinger. In the 1980s, she was the first woman to be a candidate for the board of the Ohio University Credit Union. She received an award in Athens County in 2003 for 50 years of activism in the American Civil Liberties Union. She received the Social Justice Lifetime Service Award from the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Yellow Springs in 2007. The mayor of Dayton proclaimed Mary Morgan Day on Sept. 20, 2009: “For the rights of women by opening the door for women candidates in the Miami Valley and working tirelessly for social justice.” She also received the Cathy Bantz “Making Democracy Work” award on Feb. 23, 2010, from the League of Women Voters, and she was a Leadership Award winner of the Greene County Council on Aging in 2011. Morgan was an active member of the ACLU, the First Unitarian Church in Dayton, Dayton Women’s Liberation, Dayton Women’s Rights Alliance, and several anti-war and civil rights organizations. She was active in the Yellow Springs Senior Center and the group Older and Bolder. Morgan retired as an instructor from Ohio University in 1988 and then opened Antiques, Uniques and Reliques, a collector’s shop in Amesville, Ohio, which later was destroyed by a flash flood. She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert Morgan; an infant son, five sisters and two brothers. She is survived by four nieces and one nephew; friends, Trudy K. Whitacre, Shirl Levesconte, Pat Dewees and Jan Griesinger. She directed her body to the Wright State University Anatomical Gift Program. Mary rescued many abandoned dogs and has asked that memorial gifts be directed to any county Humane Society or Glen Helen Ecology Institute, 405 Corry St. ,Yellow Springs, OH 45387. She lived in Dayton from 1942–1977, in Athens County from 1977-2003, and in Yellow Springs from 2003 until her death.

P R E FA C E My grandmother Beckett made a quilt for me and for the other 11 grandchildren. I know my mother would have valued it and cared for it. But after her unexpected death, when I was 5 years old, it just became Mary’s bed cover. And I took it to 4-H camp where a sharp eyed thief removed it along with about 12 other grandmother-made quilts from the unprotected barracks during afternoon activities. Quilts disappeared from my life. About 30 years later I bought a quilt at a fundraiser for a widowed co-worker. It would be another 20 years before quilts entered my life again…this time through an old woman with quilt over her arm who, with some degree of synchronicity, appeared at an Appalachian craft far at Berea College in Kentucky. She needed to sell the quilt to raise money for taxes in order to save her homestead. When I spread the quilt on a bed several days later, I felt I was looking at a piece of art. The curator of the Dayton Art Museum did not agree. He said, “The Dayton Art Museum is not a craft collection” and suggested I take the quilt to the Dayton Historical Society. The quilt did not stay long in my linen closet. A quilt exhibit opened at the famous New York art gallery and established quilts as artwork. For the people who made the quilts, they were more than works of art. They were works of toil, sacrifice, and love in which to wrap family and friends. I hope I have honored these makers of art through my collection, preservation, and rescue of well over 100 quilts. Their hard work resided with me for some years at What Goes Around Comes Around: Antiques, Uniques and Reliques, a store I owned in Athens County, Ohio. And now I am an old woman dying of cancer. It is my privilege to contribute my collection of quilts to the Dairy Barn Arts Center and for them to accept these gems for public display, for their use, and to further their mission. Mary Morgan January, 2015

INTRODUCTION I became involved in this project when Jane asked me to help in documenting Mary’s quilts when they arrived at the Dairy Barn. I told her that I sewed, but that I didn’t know much about quilts. After assisting with the documentation, I began transcribing Mary’s recorded comments on the quilts. It was interesting and enjoyable hearing Mary describe the details of the quilts and her recollections of the origins of some of the quilts. One of my favorite stories is of the “backwards quilt,” a vertical American flag made for the 1976 bicentennial (Quilt151). This project represents an assortment of quilts that Mary Morgan acquired over the past 50 years, including completed quilts, quilt tops and comforts dating from the mid-1800’s to the 1990’s. Each and every quilt in this project is special, not only to Mary, but to the quilter, and to the cultural history and the art of quilting. Throughout the project I learned a lot about quilting, from the colors, fabrics, stitching, and patterns used to the quiltmakers and Appalachian heritage of these timeless treasures. I hope you enjoy viewing this information as much as I enjoyed compiling it. Carol Sinclair

Quilt 1

Butterfly At The Cross, Simple Sue, Algonquin Charm c. 1950 69x70 Description: back pieced, block in reds and whites prints with blue sashing, backing is turquoise and yellow rose print Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted Condition: good to fair condition, fading, wear to edge or binding Written Information on Tag: c. 1930-40, feed sack prints

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: My brother-inlaw became a dealer in seeds and feed at some point in his life after having lost a much better job that went to some foreign country and he said the dealers did not like the feedsacks because in came the farmer "and his wife" as he referred to her...and she would say "I want that one" and it would be six down deep into the feedsacks and they would have to unload five sacks off it to get down... because she was buying the feed by the feedsacks. They said it did increase the sales especially during the Great Depression and we had children who went to school wearing feed sack clothes and they were okay, feed sack clothes and feed sack tablecloths, all fine, but there was a lot of difference in the quality of the fabric, but the dealers said it caused them so much trouble to have to pack and store, lift and build and take apart so that the "wife" of the farmer could get the pattern that she wanted to complete whatever project she was in. Sorry, I digress.

Quilt 2

The Colorado Quilt c. 1925 80x84 Description: some feed sack fabric, set on point on a lavender background, lavender and white double border on two sides and lavender, lavender saw tooth and white triple border on two sides Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, hand quilted, quilting irregular, 910 sts/inch Condition: good condition, fading, worn Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Lavender border. Some feed sack fabric used for a kind of cartwheel turning design in it and the blocksâ&#x20AC;Ś.definitely its been used and some fading.

Quilt 3

Eight Point Design, Lone Star, Star Design, Texas Star, Tippecanoe and Tyler Too, Texas, Eastern Star, Eight Point Star, Shoofly, Star c. 1980 83x104 Description: contemporary, red and white blocks with blue sashing, double border with block set in each corner Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, hand quilted Condition: great condition, fold marks Written Information on Tag: new, never used, "USA Tribute", Ohio, c. 1994

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Modern quilt; never owned; never used; never washed. It is maybe my remembrance that it was shown at a quilt show in Jackson County, West Virginia, sometime during the 80's. It is a result of some patriotic fervor...red, white and blue, pattern Stars, very consistent quilting.

Quilt 4

Rail Fence c. 1940 74x78 Description: graduated colors, patchwork border, no repeats, scrap material Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, hand quilted Condition: great condition Written Information on Tag: prints c. 1940, excellent condition, West Virginia

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Some solids, some prints. Oh, look at the backingâ&#x20AC;Śis a different era. Looks newer. Pristine condition. All rectangles except first border. The backing is all new fabric, all of one kind, none of which is on the top.

Quilt 5

Pineapple c. 1880 77x66 Description: red, blue, green and brown, backing is brown/pink flower print, quilting like strip piecing Fabrics: wool, cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, machine pieced, hand quilted, stitching regular but not done by perfectionist Condition: disintegration of fabric, worn, fold marks, wear to edge or binding, frayed in spots Written Information on Tag:

Mary’s Remarks: This was called a pineapple quilt pattern. It is kin to log cabin. The design itself sewn together makes…it is attached to the back only in two or three or four places…not really quilted through. The backing is a solid piece of very interesting fabric in itself, a printed rich brown, but it's the pineapple on the front side that is the art and it has been visited probably by more than one moth because I believe its wool, worsted wool fabric. But, oh, what a labor this was to put this...and the people tell me that it's so easy to get out of sync or just a little bit off on these pineapples and they go off sideways and you never get them back. I think there are three pineapples across and I can't see inside and my memory doesn't tell me quite what the placement is. It's quite large...and I'm trying...not pulling up where I found the pineapple quilt. Sorry on that.

Quilt 6

Connecticut Star quilt top c. 1940 86x86 Description: quilt top, four large double eight pointed stars surrounded by diamonds, eight pointed star in each corner, piecing in red and green on white background Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced Condition: some fold marks Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Is a quilt top with a large border with a star in the corners and diamond shapes. I have no ideaâ&#x20AC;ŚI know that I bought one or two or maybe even more stacks of quilt tops thinking at the time that they would be used for yard goods or tablecloths or picnic tablecloths or hanging for draperies...curtains...because I already knew by that time that there were hundred quilt tops to every completed quilt. Making the top was great...getting around to quilting it was not so great. So there are just a mountain of...sorry I brought all these quilt tops. I must've gotten into the wrong stack...some of them have just fascinating fabrics. But I'm not going to say anything about...unless I see something really unusual about these quilt tops. Oh, I did get way too many quilt tops and they're not being used. Occasionally in Yellow Springs I will see someone has made a skirt or...particularly a long skirt...out of a quilt top. But they are not selling.

Quilt 7

Nine Patch Chain c. 1930 83x100 Description: 3" square 9 patches sashed with light yellow and green posts Fabrics: Threads: Construction: hand quilted Condition: never washed or used, 9-10 sts/inch, a small tear could be easily repaired Written Information on Tag: 9 Patch Chain, circa 1920, Hocking Co., Ohio, never used, old top, finished by Amish quilters in 1989

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Quilt 8

Crazy Quilt c. early 1900's 70x75 Description: large pieces Fabrics: wool, cotton Threads: cotton embroidery Construction: machine pieced, hand embroidered Condition: worn, tears or holes, paint damage Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: I appreciated the complexity of the construction the first time I really "saw" a "crazy" quilt. But now, fifty years and a few art galleries later, I see movement and can almost hear soundâ&#x20AC;Śprobably Stravinsky. I appreciate the crazies so much more than when I was first beginning to really see quilts as an art form and not just a worthwhile exercise of thrift.

Quilt 9

Rose Dream, Endless Chain, True Lover's Knot, Broken Square, Martha, Lover's Knot, Lover's Bowtie c. late 1800's 73x73

Description: large blocks in Cheddar print and Icky greens Fabrics: Threads: Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted Condition: fading, disintegration of fabric, worn, new/later binding, heavily used Written Information on Tag: Morgan County

Mary’s Remarks: The center of each block, with its two square ends, seems to be cut from one piece of fabric. Why did so many early quilters make a piece so much more difficult…with curves plus 90° corners! I think modern quilters have learned to cut simple pieces and then make complex patterns out of them.

Quilt 11

Feathered Star antique blocks, 1987 finished 70x98 Description: blue and white stars on white background, wide blue border, hanging sleeve Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, machine pieced, hand quilted, not regular, border machine stitched, antique blocks, polyester batting, new backing Condition: worn, blue chalk marking lines Written Information on Tag: Blue and white "Feathered Star", antique top, quilted 1987, modern backing, Dacron batting, Perry Co. OH

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: The story is pretty much on this little tag. Perry County...and I can't name the town right nowâ&#x20AC;Śbut Perry County has tried to develop some kind of tourist attractions. They have an opera house that they're trying to save, if not restore, and a couple of storefronts, trying to do their street...a really dedicated family that saved the elementary school and turned it into a community center. But they have a couple of historic displays there. I went to see one of their fundraisers...participate, and saw that there were some quilt squares there with...it was the blue and white...famous blue and white...just the squares only and I had to buy them because they looked beautifully cut, beautifully pieced, and they're hard to get. And of course I pretty soon (Continued on page 11)

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found myself talking to the woman that wanted to finish it up and make it into a quilt for me and if you look at it horizontally you can see that the stars are on white...it's not the same as the modern fluorescent white that surrounds the stars and the blue border is not the same blue as in the new added border...but it comes off as a blue and white traditional...still probably the number one pattern for people collecting historic...now I've lost my words...antique or whatever this new one is that's 50 years old. I think that this is one of the quilts that the Athens County Museum asked to display the year that they had quite a effort to display quilts because I'm the one...I can look at this and see I'm the one who sewed the pocket on the back...that comes from an old sheet. I can see I sewed a pocket so it could be slipped along a rod. Vintage is the word I couldn't retrieve. Antique must be saved for 100 years old or more. Vintage is 50 to 100 years old, but still some specials.

Quilt 12

Nine-Patch c. 1885 86x80 Description: quilt top, earth tone colors, brown/tan border, possible walnut died shirting Fabrics: cotton, calicos Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced Condition: some stains, one large tear or hole Written Information on Tag: "1 square", 82" x 88", hand pieced, c. 1885

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: I see lots of shirt material or prints for apronsâ&#x20AC;Śevery day fabrics. I don't believe this quiltmaker went to town and spent an hour selecting just the "right" fabric for this creation as many current "art quilters" do. This one is a "home industry scrap quilt."

Quilt 13

Wedding Ring, Crown of Thorns c. 1965 94x76 Description: calico prints on white, wide lilac sashing Fabrics: cotton and polyesters, muslin backing Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, hand quilted, 4-5 sts/inch Condition: fading fold marks, quilting threads broken, puckering in lilac background Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: I believe new, not washed, not used. The backing is veryâ&#x20AC;Ślooks like inferior, thin, kind of material but it was bought to be a backing on a quilt. It has large patterned squares in it. Nine big squares and each one of them has a different print on it with this purple border. Quilting regular but rather...I believe I see at least two, maybe three different quilters on this quilt.

Quilt 14

Crazy Quilt c. 1940 77x66 Description: flashy fabric, variety of wool yarn embroidery, cotton sheeting back, Kentucky State outline, cotton blue/brown Chevron backing Fabrics: wool, poly, cotton Threads: cotton yarn and floss stitching Construction: hand pieced, embroidered Condition: disintegration of fabric, tears or holes Written Information on Tag:

Mary’s Remarks: Is a "crazy embroidered"… almost an FF…flashy fabric…but most of these are subdued…they look like they are suit or winter fabrics or men's suit. Just covered with all colors of embroidery. I don't know that I've seen this one before. It needs a little help in a couple of places. It would be an interesting wall hanging for some people. I count at least six variations of the seam stitching, which was almost a contest among quilters who had the time to acquire a new pattern stitch and then brag "I now know how to do 18 different cross stitches!"

Quilt 15

Carpenter's Wheel c. 1990 81x106 Description: black floral print and pink blocks on white background with pink and black floral sashing, fundraiser AOPIC Fabrics: cotton and polyester, sheeting on back...poly? Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, hand quilted Condition: good condition, stains, pencil or pen or marking lines Written Information on Tag: "Carpenter's Wheel", large 81 1/2' x 106", created by Flo Hartness, Ritchie County, WV, lovely corner treatment, perfect star centers!

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: This is a new, never washed, never used quilt. I see on the tag that that was a fundraiser of some sort. I'm not sure that I can remember what AOPIC was, Appalachian Ohio Peace something or other, I don't know quite what I did with that quilt. The quilting corners are just splendid with circles quilted in and the piecing is just incredible using all of these diamond shapes and the points match in the centers. Just unbelievably good matching. I've got the name of the maker. I was a little bad and slow at realizing how important it was that we just bought quilts and didn't pay attention to the people. We'd never do this with a painting. We need to recognize the artist. It was just another woman (Continued on page 16)

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in the country who did quilting. I did hear a speaker once who urged women to embroider their names. I mentioned this to some women at one of the homemakers clubs and they said "oh, no", they just didn't feel like they could put their name on a quilt, that people wouldn't want somebody else's name in their house, so women have not considered, and they haven't been treated, as artists and I was slow at getting but I've got the name of Flo Hartness in Ritchie County and I'm trying to place...I can't even place Richie County right now, but I hope I gave her some credit some place. Ritchie County is in West Virginia, east of Parkersburg. It is the home of North Bend State Park, which hosted the Heritage Quilt search where I took a number of quilts to be photographed and registered. One of those quilts is pictured in the book "West Virginia Quilts and Quiltmakers: Echoes from the Hills" authored by Fawn Valentine.

Quilt 16

Trip Around The World c. 1980 92x105 Description: shades of blue with wide blue border, Amish made to benefit an Amish charity Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, hand appliquĂŠd, rounded corner binding Condition: excellent condition Written Information on Tag: one page of handwritten information by Mary Morgan dated 3/6/2013

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Made in Amish country (Holmes County, Ohio) in 1996; a quilt that has never been owned by anyone; all different shades of blue; a prominent pattern; has never sold, but it did hang in a store window and also in a quilt exhibit for several weeks and it does show that it has been in a store window. Quilt has superb quilting. Amish made and sold at a benefit for an Amish charity.

Quilt 17

Nine Patch c. 1970 88x68 Description: yellow and print blocks with sashing and double border, tied, beginner's quilt Fabrics: cotton, poly, muslin back Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, tied, C - construction, "picnic piece", Utilitarian, blanket filler/batting, top may be pieced from sheets Condition: good condition Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Looks contemporary, modern fabrics. Not quilted, but tied. 9 patch pattern, with yellows and greens. The back is very, very heavy muslin, never washed, very stiff. Would be great for a picnic or for a large table. A beginner's effort, very bright and quite pretty, but not skilled at all.

Quilt 18

Broken Dishes c. 1940 86x71 Description: scrap quilt, edge finish no border, lies flat--neat, well pieced Fabrics: cotton muslin back Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, hand quilted, each triangle outlined by quilting creates pattern on the back Condition: good condition, some age spots, but not distracting Written Information on Tag: Patchwork quilt, solid-print squares, c. 1940, very good condition, Marion Co, West Virginia

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Cotton patterned. Marion County, West Virginia. Solid alternate...the pattern is one solid colored triangle facing one print triangle put into a 4-square piece with other solid prints called "broken dishes." Each of the triangles is outlined in quilting, backed up against another triangle which is outlined in quilting, which makes a double row of quilting through the centers, every block.

Quilt 19

Ohio Star, Eight Point Design, Lone Star, Star Design, Texas Star, Tippecanoe and Tyler Too, Texas, Eastern Star, Eight Point Star, Star c. 1880 blocks, c. 1920 backing 78x78 Description: browns, reds, greens, grays, Turkey red in blocks with red and yellow sashing and gray border, McArthur, OH Fabrics: Threads: Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted Condition: Written Information on Tag: Antique patchwork quilt, never used, c. 1900, Ohio

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: I have already written a note that this is antique, way past vintage, and never used. I don't know how I was so certain about that, but it has been shown...has some Velcro fur on the back on an edge that it was displayed...it seems to me it was displayed in McArthur, and I asked about what was going to happen and that somehow it ended up after a display in McArthur and I ended up with it. Fascinating, lots of dark browns and dark prints...they weren't too happy during the civil war time...that and the dye was a problem and the dye did all sorts of things. This has some really dark, not very welcoming, patches. But of course it's got the red...finally got the Turkey red...finally held the dye, but I see two or three different shades of reds here and they don't all match. Quite an interesting pattern. I love the fabric that they used on the back. They did not use white muslin. They used...many of the antique, way old ones, always had a kind of back on them. The quilting is rather large quilting. (Continued on page 21)

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It was not...this was not a prize winner for the number of stitches...I don't know when that became such an obsession...count the stitches...it was certainly a way that rich people would hire quilt makers by the number of stitches they could put to the inch and the number of stitches...I ran into this in my short career as a quilt judge...they wanted to know how many stitches and I said "Let's look at the design and the work and how the person brought the pattern to life," but no, they wanted to count the stitches. I don't know, now we have machine stitching, maybe we got over that stitches to the inch...how many angels can dance on a pin?

Quilt 20

Flying Goose c. 1950 85x75 Description: distressed and well used Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: tied Condition: worn, uneven batting Written Information on Tag: Heavy cotton filler, laundered and sanitized Oct 2013

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Quilt 21

Triple Irish Chain variation/crosses c. 1900 84x76 Description: crosses offset by square in square, blocks on point with alternate blue print blocks, a man's quilt, made from men's apparel fabric, interesting collection of early fabrics, green/blue flannel backing, blue binding Fabrics: wool, flannel, shirting, silk, some linen, velour, textures Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted Condition: fading, worn, needs small repair Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: I don't know the pattern. It's crosses made out of one inch squares with large squares. Cotton flannels as well as wool flannels. Bound in purple. A man's quilt. Small slit in the corner needs repaired. Some browns are beginning to disintegrate. Large blocks of beige, gray cotton flannel.

Quilt 22

Log Cabin c. 1890 72x80 Description: Amish coloring bold ops Fabrics: Threads: Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted Condition: fading, worn Written Information on Tag: big informative tag attached, purchased @ auction Hocking Co OH

Mary’s Remarks: A bright half opposite, a somber half of each "log cabin." Traditionally, the center block was red…the symbol of the necessary fireplace and heat. This quilter saw it differently…maybe she saw a blue sky over every log cabin…it's her call.

Quilt 23

Grandmother's Fan c. 1935 blocks, c. 1970 border/finished 100x76 Description: fans with lavender handle and peach background, old blocks finished later, vintage fabrics, triple border in lavender and orange Fabrics: cotton, vintage and new Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, machine pieced, hand quilted, feedsacks, polyester batting Condition: great condition Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: An old top, fan pattern that has been completed by adding one, two or three borders. Couldn't quite match the colors in the fan, with a shade deeper on the peach/orange and it looks well done knowing that the borders are new, the fans are old. Certainly vintage. Lavender and peach with the fan pattern.

Quilt 24

Broken Dishes/Tumbling Triangles c. 1910 85x84 Description: reversible, one side is Broken Dishes set on point on a red background, one side is Tumbling Triangles of clothing scraps, Athens Co. Museum Show Fabrics: cotton rayon Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted, heavy batting--maybe wool, 4 -5 sts/inch, black thread Condition: fading, discolored or dyes ran, worn, all wear is slight Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: This is really a triumph of piecing. One of the many names would be "a thousand triangles." But the triangles are put together with some care. She's run lines of red triangles diagonally...lines of striped triangles diagonally, then she would go in a direction. It makes stars, it makes stripes, it makes a lot of things and then one edge...would be the top edge or bottom edge would be quite straight but the side edges are pointed, made from by putting two triangles together..it's just part of the quilt. There is no binding and no border on it. The quilt comes down over the edge of the bed in points. Some pretty old fabrics in that. I don't know what to say...I would say maybe 1910...some pretty strong fabrics to be before 1900...or it hasn't had much use. It's a solid beautiful...it's a two-sided quilt...I'm just now seeing on the back of it is a two-sided quilt that I saw a large piece of beautiful red fabric on the back that I thought was the backing and I got into it and discovered...these people that hide these quilts by making two(Continued on page 27)

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sided ones...I saw one go by yesterday that I don't think got noted...was a two-sided quilt and so is this one. It has been used and it has been washed but there's not a great deal of color lost in the binding certainly. I hope that it's in good condition. I'm the one who sews the muslin track at the top. I loaned this quilt, with all the time that goes into it, to the Athens County Museum...they had a quilt show and I think it hung for three months and I'm the one who hand sewed the track. The track, you'll notice, is bigger than the space I sewed in because I measured the rod that went in it so it wouldn't pull the top back over but it's all hand sewing and it could be ripped out in just a minute, I hope people aren't offended. A lot of people came to see the quilt show in Athens County and I was glad to lend it. I can see another quilt coming with muslin tracks. Sometimes I used the hem from an old sheet and I could get that bowed so it would take a rod or whatever they were going to hang it on. I did want the quilts to get out and be seen so a number of them have this and they're...none of them are sewn on the machine. Please, I sewed the track by hand.

Quilt 25

Dresden Plate c. 1930 69x82 Description: calicos, wedge border, off-white background Fabrics: calico, cotton Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, machine appliquéd, hand quilted, quilting and quilt done by two different people? Condition: great condition, fading Written Information on Tag:

Mary’s Remarks: A Dresden Plate, has an anchor pattern in it. Looks like WWII to me. Wedge border, 4 sides. There were people who did just the penciling. I think machine appliqué is harder. The awesome border is made of color cones. Children have called it "the ice cream cone quilt"...waiting for the scoop of ice cream? Or already eaten?

Quilt 27

Thrifty variation/Nine-patch c. 1880 76x67 Description: blocks set with alternate white blocks, Indigo and Turkey red shirtings Fabrics: cotton, muslin back Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted, 10-11 sts/inch Condition: fading, age stains, wear to edge or binding Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: We've got an old quilt here. I can see large areas at the corner of fabric that my grandmother, who made my grandfather's shirts, would have bought this little black and white pearly print to make some of his shirts out of, and I see in the pattern of squares some really indigo blue and quite a number of black and white checked that makes me want to put 1890 on this. I'm not secure in dating fabrics. I got fooled many times...I went to a presentation at the fabric museum in Washington D.C. and I got fooled quite a lot...they were dating fabrics between 1810 and 1820 and I was just lost down at that area. This is a rounded corner quilt. The backing is not the greatest quality of fabric. It was an intentional quilt made with lots of red and blues to brighten it up. I was told that you don't ever...many, many cultures do not put any black in quilts. Certainly not black figures because that brings death and I'd seen that this one used lots of black and white, it would be the ginghams that my grandmother's aprons were made out of. It is a rounded corner quilt...a little bit of a problem for her but she rounded the corners. To look at the back we're talking about a lot of stitches per inch.

Quilt 28

Trip Around the World c. 1950 80x79 Description: unbleached muslin background, scraps, blues and purples, symmetrically chosen, Summer spread/sheet filler batting Fabrics: cotton gingham, prints, clothing scraps, calicos Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, tied, no binding, middle square set on point Condition: no batting Written Information on Tag: knotted

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Is a contemporary tied, small quilt, quite thin, not an interesting fabric, so the people who like to date fabrics, this is probably a 50's , at least 1950's, but lots of different patterns, very simple block patterns, I think in the center. A pretty minimum work of art. I'm sure it was fun to do. Almost no filling at all. Nice muslin on this quilt, both the front and the back. If you like muslin, and I think muslin can be one of the beautiful American fabrics, that would be a nice...I don't think it has ever been washed.

Quilt 30

no pattern c. 1960 59x77 Description: white background, yellow gingham pattern Fabrics: polyester Threads: cotton, cotton embroidery Construction: machine pieced, front and back held together at edges Condition: stains in center Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Is a puzzle to me. It looks like someone has done intentional quilting tucking to make a design of ridges and it has very little quilting in the center. The material has been extended with a cross-stitch addition on the side. I can't â&#x20AC;Śsolid back of plain, probably muslin...I can't for the life of me explain anything about this quilt. I apologize for having it in the show unless it's better than I can see under the covers here (referring to reviewing these quilts in a stack and only seeing a corner or so of each quilt).

Quilt 31

Bow Tie c. 1988 81x68 Description: scrap quilt, bow ties surrounding cream snowballs Fabrics: cotton and polyesters Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted Condition: great condition, distortion or shrinkage, pencil or pen or marking lines Written Information on Tag: "Bow Tie", with decorative quilting, maker unidentified, origin: Jackson County WV, 1988

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: New, never used, never washed. It's a bow-tie pattern variation and I can't see enough of this quilt. I have a note about the quilting is unusual. Jackson County, West Virginia, obviously the Homemakers Club that has a quilting show every year. I attended it probably 8 to 10 years, not quite consecutively. I have a 1988 date on it that I bought it. It is what they call...I can't name it now...a quilt made of all different kinds of fabrics...that word will come to me later, probably...heritage quilt or something...that they tried not to use the same... and that's really a difficult thing to pull off, but I see just different, all kinds of different... it's got a muslin back...it's certainly a contemporary quilt. Looks to me like it might possible be a charm quilt. I just had James look it up on Google what the name of this insane distinction of quilts is that no two printed pieces are the same print and I've been to places (Continued on page 33)

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where they gave prizes to a woman who used the most different pieces with not repeating any single printed piece of fabric in the entire quilt. I saw one once that supposedly had 3,000 little squares...3,000...each one a different print, and she corresponded with people all over the country and she would send them a little packet of 10 prints and they would send her a little ??? until she had enough to make a small, I think about 1 inch square quilt with no two fabrics and the people who ... I took a fabric course at Ohio University and there were people who used this sort of thing dating the style and the design and they could pick out who designed that kind of fabric in St. Louis, who would be the designer in Philadelphia who would design that, and they were really down into "where really did the designs come from," a little too technical for my interest, but it's hard to pull off if you're not careful. I think the bow-tie maybe doesn't pull it off very well. There's too many different strange fabrics.

Quilt 32

Checkerboard c. 1920 70x72 Description: blocks set on point with alternating white blocks, with pink and white borders, looks old, one inch six square, a distressed well used quilt, a few age stains. Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted, very nice quilting Condition: fading, uneven batting, wear to edge or binding Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Distressed and worn.

Quilt 33

Apples c. 1990 35x33 Description: wall hanging with two rows of three large apples and checkerboard row below each row of apples Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced Condition: great condition Written Information on Tag: Hand pieced, hand quilted, for wall (has pocket) or table, made in Morgan County, Ohio, buy American

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Some quilt shows have size limitations. If it doesn't go on a bed it is NOT A QUILT and they won't accept it. But now most women not only are housewives, they are also working outside the home at underpaid wages. Can't she create a smaller quilt and enter the show? We need not pry our way into a show by naming it "an ART quilt." Every quiltmaker was making art, whether it was for bed covers or a wall hanging.

Quilt 34

Primrose Path c. 1950 72x80 Description: scrap quilt, some feed sack, set in muslin, every block different, different fabrics, with pink print sashing with nine square in between Fabrics: cotton muslin Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, hand quilted Condition: good condition, worn, fold marks, pencil or pen or marking lines Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Is a patterned quilt. One side. It may never have been washed. It looks like it still has pencil marks on it. It has a very busy block pattern with largely horizontal rectangular shapes plus some squares and triangles. Pretty much straight-lined quilting all the way through the blocks. Slanted quilting on the edge and a solid muslin backing. With a green printed binding and rectangular blocks in the block pattern. Blocks are of different color going the full length of the quilt.

Quilt 35

Shadows, Rainbow Block, Roman Stripes c. 1980 93x76 Description: black quilting, white cotton backing, Fabrics: cotton, calicos Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted, polyester batting Condition: great condition Written Information on Tag: "Black and Bright", new, never used, large sized, Jackson County, Ohio

Mary’s Remarks: This quilt was made by a woman in Jackson County, Ohio…not far from Jackson County, West Virginia. But it's a county with quilt makers…both the counties have quilt makers. Jackson County, Ohio…this woman I got to know fairly well and convinced her to enter a couple… there was one time that the Dairy Barn had a show of traditional quilts and I got her to take pictures and enter and she had two quilts...I think...accepted in the only show...I believe Mountain Mist helped fund it...but traditional didn't go so well with Dairy Barn. They did well and they wanted to emphasize the modern quilting so the traditional Appalachian quilt, I think, only had one show here. But she got two quilts in and I had to go down and pick them up. She didn't drive. Stubborn as could be. Interesting woman. She had a sister who was a prize winning quilter at the Jackson County Fair and was known far and wide as...and made these traditional (Continued on page 38)

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sweet quilts and this woman said...she said "I've built picnic tables and I built a wood shed." She said "I didn't do anything like my sister did. I didn't want..." But life goes on. Her husband was injured in a mine and died and she was beset with grief and she said "I think I'll cut up some material and make a quilt." This is the story she told me. And she went and got some material and cut it up. Her sister came to see what she was doing...if she could help her. And was just horrified at the colors that she had picked out and she wasn't using a pattern...she was just cutting piecing and putting it together herself...and was pleased, this woman...great lady...that she was able to get back some kind of feeling of competence and independence by not following her older sisters directions of how to live her life. Well, I'm talking...this quilt has black...a large square and half of it's bound point to point...is black. Of course the sister just had fits..."I can't believe your husbands been dead less than a year and you're making black in quilt." And this woman said to her "I like black. It emphasizes these bright colors I like." And so she made this black quilt which I don't think this...I can't remember and I'd have to look at the top...which I can't find...if this was one that was accepted in Athens at the Dairy Barn show. But I bought the black quilt because the black thread on the back just blew me away. Nobody would ever buy a white fabric and then do black quilting if they had never quilted before and were just learning their stitches. But she was going to defeat her grief and do it her way and that's the story of this black and bright quilt. Jackson County, Ohio. And I can almost call her name but I can't quite. I tried to...and she may have made...the ticket...I can't find the corner of this...but she may have started putting her name on the back of quilts. And I think there is one other of her quilts. I think I bought one from the Dairy Barn that she had...I know she made a log cabin that was an asymmetrical log cabin that I hung up in my store as soon as I got these ticketed and hung from the ceiling. I hung this up and the professor...an economics professor from OU...came out one day and said "I'd heard you opened this country store" and he said "I want that quilt" and he pointed to the log cabin. And I said "I have about 15 hanging here. Would you like to see these?" And he said "No, I don't want to see any others, I want that one" and he bought that log cabin quilt that the woman in Jackson County had made by her own way of making an asymmetrical log cabin. He resigned in a huff and a little stew and went to teach at some Ivy League school. But he took with him a southeast Ohio quilt.

Quilt 36

Nine Patch with Flying Geese c. 1925 76x73 Description: dusty pink and white blocks set on point with alternate white blocks Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted, slight puckering, nice rounded corners Condition: discolored or dyes ran, fold marks, pencil or pen or marking lines Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Looks to me like it might be a new, never used quilt. I can still see some pencil marks in the quilting lines. It has interesting rounded cornersâ&#x20AC;Śsomebody solved the corner problem fairly well. It is a design quilt. The back is solid muslin and the design is a dusty rose, chambray maybe, with very nice quilting patterns in between the blocks. I cannot identify a location from this at all. I think it's a nice quilt.

Quilt 37

Contained Crazy Quilt c. 1910 79x88 Description: traditional, hand embroidered, embroidery is wool thread, beautifully stitched, Turkey red backing, Berea, KY Fabrics: cotton silk, wool Threads: embroidery floss, cotton Construction: hand pieced, embroidery acts as quilting, attaches to back Condition: good condition, fading, disintegration of fabric, given its age extremely good condition Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: (Do you have an idea about the age?) She was living and she had made this. I talked to the woman. I was recently married, let's say 1950, and I was talking to a woman who was 79 years old. She'd brought it to a fair at Berea, Kentucky, and the people there said "she's not part of our fair" because it was a fair about the college. And this woman is carrying this quilt, "could somebody buy it because she couldn't pay her taxes." And I was not a quilt owner. I could not see this (tearfully) and I took it to the art institute in Dayton, Ohio and they said "we are not a craft center." And I thought about 10 years ago "you try and get this from me now to add to your quilt collection" and I showed it to the neighbor and she said "Oh, yes. The apples are always darker toward the ground." And I just went into tears at this woman selling this work so that she could get her taxes paid that year. This is in the 50's and I up and (Continued on page 41)

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said "what are you doing, we don't use quilts at our house" ... (Someone asked if it was made in the 50's) I didn't know enough to ask, I didn't ask "at what point did you make it." She got it probably out of some trunk and probably the last thing in the trunk. ...I thought I didn't find it, I said "it's gone." Some woman put that kind of effort, well...I have heard women brag about how many different stitches they knew, and I once had a little book that had a hundred and some copies of what kind of stitches you could put a crazy quilt together with and the women would brag how many they could do..... The silk is split. .... Here again, darker down here and lighter up here. I didn't know that and I grew up with apples. ....... Oh, we have the doveâ&#x20AC;Śthe dove. Oh the lost quilt was not lost after all (tearfully). Yesterday we went through all of these packagesâ&#x20AC;Ś.

Quilt 38

Crazy Quilt c. 1890 70x67 Description: beautiful hand painted Fabrics: velvets, silk, wool, ribbons Threads: embroidery floss, cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand painted, hand embroidered Condition: disintegration of fabric, not beyond repair Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Don't you know she could hardly wait to put in the next "crazy" piece? But first, she would have to embroider the scrap! It doesn't work to "gild the lily," but embroidering the crazy piece seems to work for this artist.

Quilt 39

Thrifty variation c. 1880 77x76 Description: Old, on point, zigzag setting, prints on prints, now called Civil War Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted Condition: good condition, wear to edge or binding, really good condition for its age Written Information on Tag: Antique Calico Patchwork Quilt, c. 1880, good condition, origin: Hocking Co., OH

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Old quilt. We'll see if its antique or vintage. On point 9 patch. Old 9 patch set on point with half blocks toward the edge. Border very frayed. Overall condition â&#x20AC;Śornate. The back is unusual in that is beautiful brown, rich brown deep red, flowered and lined print. The tuck patches look like the could've come from clothing or maybe reused, and yet the back had to be purchased. It's a beautiful piece of backing.

Quilt 40

Cross variant c. 1970 49.5x92 Description: large unequal nine patch blocks with sashing, green and white stripe cotton backing, no batting, great mix of 60's and 70's fabrics Fabrics: corduroy, flannel, cotton Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, tied with heavy cotton thread, no batting Condition: good condition Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Modern contemporary backing. I don't know how old the pieces are. Dark corduroy. Somebody with rather sophisticated colors chose this. And quite a wild border on one side. I've got to take the gloves off so I can feel thisâ&#x20AC;Śthat's a cotton flannel print along the edge of it. It's a tied...very thin...it would have to be a quilt..it's not quite a comfort...tied.

Quilt 41

Floral Appliqué c. 1970 73x62 Description: Novelty quilt, appliqués on yellow squares; offset by green, yellow and white print; with sashing Fabrics: cotton, knits, polyester Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, hand appliquéd, hand quilted, embroidery enhancement on flowers Condition: good condition, pencil or pen or marking lines Written Information on Tag: Novelty Quilt, maker unknown, origin and date unknown, never used, from the collection of Mary M. Morgan

Mary’s Remarks: Has some appliquéd blocks that may or may not have the same origin as the blocks that are print, pretty contemporary print on the front, and bound in a very lovely but solid print backing that…no, I don't think that's a sheet, but the backing had been used as the edge, and the blocks are hand appliquéd florals. I'm not sure if I can see whether they're all the same block or not. They may have had a different origin than the flannel quilt. Those "pumps" give it away. This quilter had flair!

Quilt 42

Nine Patch, Checkerboard Design/ Square in a Square c. 1900 81x69 Description: reversible, one side is mostly blue square in a square with sashing, one side is nine patch/ checkerboard, nice collection of shirtings, heavy batting Fabrics: cotton, shirtings, "men's pj's and drawers" Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, tied, unusual in that it's reversible, one side much brighter Condition: great condition, fading, excellent for its age Written Information on Tag: bought 5/28/88 McConnelsville, Ohio Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Purchased at an auction in McConnelsville, Ohio...McConnelsville is in Morgan County, Ohio...in 1988. It again is a tied quilt and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a double-sided quilt and both sides are nicely done. One is more elaborate pattern using some vintage material and the back is probably...it has some shirt material that is past the vintage stage so that may have considerable old material on both sides. 46

Quilt 43

Nine Patch c. 1900 85x70 Description: blue predominates, soft color prints, shirting's, scraps, with sashing Fabrics: cotton mostly, some wool Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, tied, unusual Condition: good condition, stains Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: This is a thin, tied quilt with a solid backing of some geometric scaled print. No borders on it at all. This is definitely, to me, in the second category. It has some antique fabrics, quite possibly some shirt fabrics that are antique, but this would certainly be the middle category. This is certainly vintage fabric, if not into the antique. Very simple 9-square pattern. A little bit down to the left baroque category.

Quilt 44

Floral Appliqué c. 1930 77x88 Description: Kit quilt, red and pink tulips on cream background, green framing Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, hand appliquéd, hand quilted Condition: fading, discolored or dyes ran, tears or holes, uneven batting, wear to edge or binding, fading in stems and leaves of design, one corner very stained Written Information on Tag:

Mary’s Remarks: Is a large appliquéd floral quilt. The appliqué is done with very, very tiny stitches, and then outside the appliqué it is outlined quilting. The entire quilt is quilted. It has been used, has some wear, but looks, and I believe, in fairly good condition every place. The backing was probably purchased muslin backing for quilts. The appliquéd sections are set into large squares that are divided by solid green bands making a criss-cross pattern across the full length of the quilt. I don't think this was kit. I don't believe that they would have...this could've been a kit quilt of the 50's. Whether or not they would have put such a little blocked center into each of the tulips, or the flowers, I doubt if that would be commercial but the leaves and the stems look like maybe that was a commercial kit backed. Again the appliqué of the stems is just outstanding.

Quilt 45

Double Wrench, Wrench, Monkey Wrench c. 1995 89x72 Description: print fabrics, predominant gray and rose/maroon, solids used in sashings of gray and blue Fabrics: cotton and polyesters, muslin backing Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, hand quilted Condition: great condition, never used, mint condition Written Information on Tag: New, never used, made in 1995, Athens County, Ohio

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: I see on my card that I bought it in Athens County, very late, I didn't know I was still buying quilts by 1995. That seems to me that it came from a quilt show, that would not have been an auction quilt, unless it happened to be the one made at McDougal Church, I hope I recognize, which was a fundraiser. It's new contemporary fabric, white backing. Has diagonal quilting apparently all the way through with strong colors, blue and maroon and touches of gray.

Quilt 46

Log Cabin Crazy quilt top c. 1910 79x70 Description: quilt top Fabrics: many ties, menswear, etc. Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced Condition: disintegration of fabric Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: This "log cabin" construction has the traditional red "hearth" center block. But oh, did the quilter ever go for morning and evening effect in each cabin. The evening is almost pitch blackâ&#x20AC;Śbring the oil lamp, quick.

Quilt 47

Hourglass, Triangle Combination c. 1950 80x92 Description: alternate white blocks with white border, distressed and well used Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, nicely hand quilted, 10-12 sts/inch Condition: fading, worn, disintegration of fabric, wear to edge or binding Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Four patch hourglass. Bad break in the middle of the quilt. Nobody has said the word cutter yet. People make coats out of them, pillows, vests, skirts, bathrobes. Sometimes they go to the dog shelter to comfort needy dogs.

Quilt 48

Roses in Baskets with Butterfly Appliqué c. 1932 81x78 Description: center basket of flowers with smaller baskets and butterflies around edges appliquéd on whole cloth with red binding Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand appliquéd, hand quilted, appliqué with cotton floss detail Condition: fading, stains, maybe dry cleaner can get out stains, faded binding on top Written Information on Tag: This handcrafted appliquéd floral quilt is an ORIGINAL, one of a kind, unique quilt. Made by an American Woman in the USA. There is no other quilt like it in the world! Origin: Ohio. Made about 1932, mint condition.

Mary’s Remarks: I've written a big, long message and you read that for yourself. I don't know what…I think I was reacting to the fact that at some point I realized my store was not going to be a great success because the imports had come. I think I maybe had one or two years in my store before the markets opened for the imports. They were poorly made out of poor material but they were fraction of the cost so people could just buy a quilt. They've gotten much better. They're now using really authentic American patterns. The workmanship is much, much better, and the material is coming...chosen again by American. Of course all of the fabric is woven in some other country...but it's good fabric. So you can get just an extremely well made quilt for $60 or (Continued on page 53)

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$70 or $80 in the store. And it's made the whole local...United States quilt market has just gone to the zero. Quilt 48 is a what I believe to be an original with really, really lots and lots of the buttonhole stitch appliquĂŠ on flowers and flowerpots but there are other kinds of embroidery work on that. I don't know where I got this or why I had to sound off so on this one. This is probably a commercial quilt kit popular in the 1950's. Beautifully appliquĂŠd with a perfect buttonhole stitch. A beautiful quilt. I must have been asked a question about my lost store and I had a meltdown. But don't let it affect your enjoyment of this beautiful quilt.

Quilt 49

Double Wrench, Wrench, Monkey Wrench c. early 1900's 73x70 Description: black/gray gingham wrenches on white on point with alternate pink blocks, double border Fabrics: cotton shirtings Threads: Construction: machine pieced Condition: much wear, large color loss spot Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Is just a sad, sad story. This kind of consistentâ&#x20AC;Śover the top of all the higher raised parts of the quilt that have been turned brown. This could have been in a black garbage bag that turns to oil if you store your quilts in nice clean garbage bags thinking that you're doing something good for them. The garbage bags that we have now...in about four months...begin to give out oil and just ruin many a quilt. A quilt should never be stored in any kind of plastic...even the clear plastic...it shouldn't be. Or, this could have been stored in a cedar chest. And I've already told the story of the cedar chest that we all thought it was good...it kept the rats away and it floated in a flood...but the cedar was hard and if you don't line the cedar chest in an old sheet or a bedspread you're going to get this kind of discoloration. It's just almost impossible to take it out. One of the few ways, of course, is for the sun to bleach it.

Quilt 50

Nine Patch c. 1950 67x83 Description: Novelty fabrics, solids are blue, true scrap quilt, set with alternate plain blocks, older fabrics in some blocks Fabrics: cotton and others, seersucker, true scraps Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted, made to be used Condition: good condition, thin sheet for batting Written Information on Tag: never used, c. 1960

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: A single-sided quilt with squares and many patterns of prints in the squares. It has a sheet backing. The woman used a sheet. The sheet is modern. The top is not. The top has been inherited and she used a sheet for the backing.

Quilt 51

Diamonds quilt top unknown 86 X 76 Description: quilt top, wool patchwork Fabrics: wool Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced Condition: good condition, some holes, distortion Written Information on Tag: Wool patchwork

Mary’s Remarks: This would be a very worn quilt…it is made from sheep's wool. Some surprisingly strong colors for wool…but oh, so warm and comfy.

Quilt 52

Wanderer's Quilt, Drunkard's Path, Wonder of the World, Robbing Peter to Pay Paul, Solomon's Puzzle, Drunkard's Trail, Old Maid's Puzzle, Endless Trail c. 1991 88x98 Description: red and white, traditional, muslin, Queen size Fabrics: cotton and muslin backing Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, machine pieced, hand quilted, 56 sts/inch Condition: great condition, one stain Written Information on Tag: "Rocky Road to Dublin" or "Drunkard's Path", king size, created Lillian Fisher, Jackson County, WV 1991

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Has two names. Rocky Road to Dublin, came from West Virginia. Is a red and white quilt. One small scotch tape saying "stain on the border". Otherwise condition 10. Red and white quilts are still the best seller in a worldwide quilt marketâ&#x20AC;Śeven before the awesome "Red & White" show held in the atrium of a multi-story office building in New York. That collector shared some 300 of her red and whites with the public. Wish I could have been there.

Quilt 53

Mosaic #9, Windmill, Water Wheel, Watermill, Sugarbowl, Old Crow, Fly, Pinwheel, Broken Wheel c. 1940 83x81 Description: unfinished quilt, pink and white, Morgan County, OH Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted Condition: Written Information on Tag: laundered + sanitized, Oct. 2013

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Is an unfinished quilt that was part of an estate sale and the family saw that I was interested and I heard a little bit about it. The quilt maker was not extremely old and her death was quite sudden. She had just finished quiltingâ&#x20AC;Ś she pieced thisâ&#x20AC;Śand she had just finished quilting it and she hadn't gotten the binding on and I thought it was...what was this material that was inside?...and the people that I talked to think that it's wool...that their mother had talked...mother or maybe sister in this case was a sister talking to me...said she would like to make a quilt with a wool batting inside. I couldn't tell...I tried...I took some of this batting out and burned it at the stove to see if I could get the odor of wool burning. I don't know...I've never seen batting like it and I wish somebody knew a little more about how to make quilts than I do...where this batting came from. But in the process of having the estate sale this quilt had a problem and it was...I don't know...dropped in a mud puddle...something or the other...and I took it home and I just thought it had to be (Continued on page 59)

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washed quickly or it was never going to survive. So I put this in a front loader in Springfield, Ohio...because Springfield has the softest water in southwestern Ohio and washed it in the front loader which is the easiest and then I took it home and sun dried it with the top facing down on top of a clean sheet I had put on the yard with the sun on it's back so that I didn't hang it on anything...I didn't want it hung. It's never been used. It's never been finished. It has a big, wide border so it could take...use material that is there to turn over to make the hem that's needed or to have another finishing border. A lovely quilt with a story. I know the family didn't want it...it was the one they remember seeing her sitting there and it didn't get finished...none of them wanted to take it and finish it. And I thought...I wanted to find out what this...and I never have found out what this kind of batting is...if it was wool...I washed it, of course, in lukewarm water in a front loader...I don't know what that would do to wool. I've had two quilts that were lined with wool. Both of them were thicker than this and they were considered really prize quilts...that people knew how to take care of them...but wool batting just disappeared...I don't know when it disappeared...sometime in the 20's I think...it was impossible to get wool batting after that. This quilt was made in Morgan County, Ohio, and I cannot remember where...it was an estate sale and I can't remember anything more than it was in Morgan County, Ohio. And I bought this...probably one of the last quilts I ever bought. I can't place together why I took quilts to Springfield when I was buying quilts in Morgan County...it doesn't quite fit together. But I did try to get the stain out of the quilt as soon as I could and I think it worked. I think it's in good condition but needs to be finished by a good quilt maker.

Quilt 54

Crazy Quilt quilt top c. 1935 90x65 Description: quilt top, crazy blocks with sashing Fabrics: many..lots of rayon, some cotton Threads: rayons and acetates Construction: machine pieced, maybe used old ties Condition: stains Written Information on Tag:

M a ry â&#x20AC;&#x2122; s R ema rks: WOW! Are these ties? Stripes on strike! This quilt is making a statement! Stand back.

Quilt 55

Snowball, Virginia Snowball, Four Point c. 1940 78x79 Description: pastels on white, blanket filler, pink backing Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted, 5-6 sts/inch Condition: fading, stains front and back Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: A young child said "You could put a picture in each square and make a family album out of it." Children see quilts quite differently than adults see them. They seldom are taken to quilt showsâ&#x20AC;Śthey have a short attention span for a 60 quilt show. But bring two or three out of the blanket drawer and they look and feel for a very long time!

Quilt 56

Calendar Quilt c. 1960 92x77 Description: squares with embroidered month and flowers, other blocks lavender and white square in a square with lavender sashing, square quilting, each month different embroidery, looks like the purple fabric was faded when it was put on, could've been in a store window, hand embroidered, some silks Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton embroidery thread, embroidery floss Construction: machine pieced, hand quilted, hand embroidered Condition: fading, not worn, embroidery not faded Written Information on Tag: Calendar/Flower, large, new, embroidery pieced. displayed in quilt contest, superb quilting, never used, casing still attached for hanging

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Calendar quilt. Never used, never washed. The casing is attached to the top. Embroidered calendar quilt. Embroidery very sharp. There is some fading in the sashing. It may not be as deep a purple as it was to begin with. Good condition, fading. The month's were probably a kit and put inside of...the month's blocks are different from the pattern blocks. The December block probably came from a commercial kit, were pre-marked, and may have been made by two different people.

Quilt 57

Crazy Quilt c. 1955 66x84 Description: double sided, large piece crazy quilt, cottons and blends Fabrics: mostly cotton some blends Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, hand quilted, quilting big stitches, blanket batting Condition: good condition, stains, uneven batting, wear to edge or binding Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Two-sided, quilted, thick. Came from North Carolina, large pieces, probably with a quilt inside for filling. Could be a blanket inside, could be another quilt inside. They didn't buy batting, they used another quilt. Some of the fabrics come from the 50's. Made to be used, not following any of the standard, middle-class quilting patterns.

Quilt 58

Crazy Quilt quilt top c. 1945 83x79 Description: quilt top Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, top, some puckers Condition: some stains Written Information on Tag:

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Quilt 59

Log Cabin c. 1925 81x65 Description: curved edges, maybe blanket batting, top border is a different print and wider, print binding, white backing Fabrics: cotton calico, gingham Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, machine pieced, hand quilted, borders rounded Condition: good condition, some age spots Written Information on Tag:

Mary’s Remarks: We've got old fabrics and rounded corners and hand-whipped binding and awful strange patterns and the fabric…1915…who knows what they were doing in 1915. Lots and lots of quilting. I don't think this one's been laundered or had any wear and the quilting on the back is not small but very even...it was expertly done...expertly pieced. And I'm not sure what kind of value it has.

Quilt 60

The Dresden Plate c. 1940 75x68 Description: plates on white background with pink sashing and border, mostly feedsacks Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand quilted, 1012 sts/inch Condition: some stains on top, fold stain Written Information on Tag: nearly new, some feed sack, pink quilt, Fairmont WV, 6/87

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: This Dresden Plate has added interest by pulling points on each scrap in the plate. Interest nearly always comes at the price of more difficult piecing.

Quilt 61

Grandmother's Fan c. 1970 87x75 Description: fans set, light brown background, tied Fabrics: mostly polyester Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, tied, acrylic blanket backing, no batting Condition: stains on blanket Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: It's a fan quilt and it is machine pieced. The fan is machine pieced. It is a tied with strong pink yarn. The back is unusual in that the back is a modern orlon blanket. This is the third or fourth interesting multi-color quilt that has been tied with pink yarn that is terribly out of place with strong color scraps. There must have been a sale on pink yarn left over from the Great Depression when we almost smothered with pink which was supposed to make us less hungry, less cold, less depressed. Even my bloomers were pink dyed feedsacks.

Quilt 64

Mariner's Compass c. 1880 95x98 Description: white background, faded red print compasses with flying geese borders on two sides Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand appliquĂŠd, hand quilted, outer border only salvageable Condition: fading, disintegration of fabric, tears or holes, fold marks, oxidation of fabrics, worn Written Information on Tag: c. 1880, very large, antique, some stains, can be laundered

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: This is very old with lots of flying geese borders with sunburst star patterns. I think it's going to be 1850 to probably not later than 1890. I'd still put it down at 1850 or so. It's had a lot of use. I notice the white dots in the red fabric have all dissolved which tells me that this used to be probably red and green or red and some other colors. The fabric workshops that I went to told me to always look and see there were dyes that ate the fabric and you couldn't get...wear would not take out the center of every dot in all this red fabric...this has been eaten by whatever dye it was and there are people who can go into the edges and say "well it was red and green." Green was notorious for eating fabric. So was any kind of (Continued on page 69)

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brown. Red and green was a very popular combination when they would have put it together but this red that's used for this old wonderfully splendid grand quilt for its day has just about eaten, certainly the dye's gone, and in a lot of places the fabric is gone but I see that the dye has gone and in holes and didn't eat all of the little holes so maybe I'm a little bit mistaken ...no, it ate a number of the holes but anyhow the dye is gone so we have this red print with little white dots in it. Oh, I can see on some of the big pieces the dots where the fabric is gone, but that's an interesting problem for people who like detective stories. People who like perfection should not buy 1800's quilts.

Quilt 65

12" squares c. 1900 71x89 Description: on point 12” squares, purple and black wool, stripe flannel border Fabrics: wool Threads: cotton Construction: Condition: tears or holes Written Information on Tag:

Mary’s Remarks:

Quilt 66

Improved Nine Patch, Circle Upon Circle, Four Leaf Clover, Nine Patch Variation, Bailey Nine Patch c. 1960 82x71 Description: bright colors, scalloped edges Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, hand quilted, scalloped edge Condition: good condition, stains, pencil or pen or marking lines Written Information on Tag: "Improved Nine Patch", scalloped border, never used

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Is a very elaborate form of the traditional nine-patch in that each of the four corners are pointed...around curved spacesâ&#x20AC;Śpieces that are curved are hard to piece and this quilt maker took it on. The quilting is just really fine. The corners turn out to be...the edges are really curved to fit into the pattern so there are no straight edges and the corners are curved corners to take a full...it's a great way to solve it. I cannot give any origin to this except that it's fairly recent contemporary. My guess is that that's from one of the West Virginia homemaker clubs with one of their quilt shows. That would have been one of there better quilts that were selling way too low of a price.

Quilt 67

Windmill, Whirligig c. 1930 79x86 Description: blue and white, all one print split solids blue and white Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted, outline quilting of all pieces Condition: fading, worn, uneven batting, wear to edge or binding, repaired badly on corner Written Information on Tag:

Mary’s Remarks: Blue quilt, onesided, solid backing…it looks like what you would buy to back a quilt…white fabric. The blues, pinwheel sort of things, solid blue, very intense, mixed with a lovely little light blue print in the other pieces of the design. It has some wear, I can see some fading on the outside border. The binding is beginning to wear through. It's just a lovely use of an accent color and then a secondary color to show off the pattern. I don't know it's origin. Another rounded corner. I think that was maybe a geographical sort of thing. I can't tell where the people were that couldn't cope with square corners. The blue pinwheel is a rounded corner quilt.

Quilt 68

Trip Around The World, Ninety Nine Times Around The World, Postage Stamp, Rainbow c. 1975 76x93 Description: bright colors, thirty blocks, modified prairie points, yellow backing--red prairie points visible, all blocks have red centers Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted Condition: Written Information on Tag: "Postage Stamp", new, handmade in 1978. Magnificent quilting and construction on this color explosion by Geneva Rhodes, Jackson Co., W.V.

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Oh, the work that went into these. The squares are used for the points on the edges. Looks a little like prairie points but not made like prairie points. Hand pieced, hand quilted. 1978 is when I found it. Lots and lots of different patterns in the pieces. I have counted the squares in about 12 quilts...choose a typical block, count, then count the number of big blocks, multiply and get a close approximation. But the number of pieces in a quilt is so like Americans bragging about how many cars are in the U.S.A. I don't intend to do it again.

Quilt 69

Victorian Crazy Quilt c. 1900 66x50 Description: damaged, beautiful fabrics, some hand painted Fabrics: velvets, silks, beautiful fabric Threads: embroidered Construction: hand pieced, embroidered, traditional Condition: disintegration of fabric, wear to edge or binding, salvageable Written Information on Tag: Crazy comforts. 8/87

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Please, reinforce the back edges and hang this on some gallery wall.

Quilt 70

Nine Patch c. 1985 85x68 Description: plaids and stripes, set with sashing, striped back..maybe a sheet Fabrics: cotton and blends Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, hand quilted Condition: great condition, perfect Written Information on Tag: new, never used, $48

Mary’s Remarks: Very contemporary. The back certainly is a modern sheet. A lot of the front material is just current…she liked current plaids and stripes…very colorful. I don't know where I got this. It's never been used. It was one I thought I could sell in my store. That little project went down the tubes. Actually what it did it went down the creek. That's where a number of the quilts were headed by the time the flood was over.

Quilt 71

Crazy Quilt c. 1970 73x80 Description: variety of fabric and color, dark green border, cotton print back, no batting Fabrics: variety Threads: cotton backing, wools, velvets and upholstery on top Construction: embroidery w/wool yarns, top to front edge finish Condition: tacking holes throughout backing, perhaps earlier quilt redone Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: This is a crazy quilt. It is bordered with a very heavy, almost suedelike fabric around all four sides but still looks very much intact, but every piece is put into this crazy quilt with yarn, and the yarn just almost overcomes the patchwork effect. It is yarn turned into flowers, yarn turned into a shaft of wheat, yarn turned into a little fence...every single...there wasn't anything that she couldn't wrap two pieces of yarn together...she was into embroidering with yarn, sewing it, making the patchwork quilt...it's just...one could spend...if one was not revolted by this...one could spend an hour looking at all that she did with wonderful shapes put together for this crazy quilt joined together with colorful yarn. I have the back...the back is flowered...I see it's maybe had some other use...was maybe once curtains or it has some kind of sewing marking, maybe the pins, little wholes along the edge...I don't know what that original use of that was...but it's a strawberry print on green, solid, and it was strong enough and sturdy enough the edge of this black heavy felt border is turned over and turned (Continued on page 77)

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under and she's whipped the border...it took a long time to whip that down. But again, it gives me the age...I can't tell from the patches...wool, all sorts of things, in fact I think all of them are wool...I don't see any silk...this is not what I call the flashy fabric...this one...wool is not flashy like the silks and the satins and the velvets. This is an all wool and that made of necessity...she needed to use yarn to attach this together. It's quite an effort and she gets "A" for whatever it was that she wanted to achieve with this.

Quilt 72

Love Ring c. 1970 97x73 Description: purple background with purple floral print throughout, cream sheet backing Fabrics: cotton, cotton poly Threads: cotton ties are yarn Construction: machine pieced, tied, nice job on curved seams, thick polyester batting Condition: good condition, uneven batting Written Information on Tag: Jackson Co, Ripley WV; "Love Ring" comfort, Carla Lockhart

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Is a tied pattern quilt with fairly thin filling. It came from a quilt show, I think the Homemakers Club in Jackson County, West Virginia...its county seat is Ripley...and every year they have a show. It seems that I paid $88 for it, $80 for the quilt and then $8 for a fee to keep the Homemakers program going. It is contemporary fabric.

Quilt 74

Lone Star, Star of The East, Blazing Star, Star of Stars c. 1980 81x83 Description: predominately red and pink, vibrant, white background Fabrics: poly cotton Threads: polyester Construction: hand pieced, machine pieced, hand quilted, uneven wavy borders, puckered Condition: good condition, worn, pencil or pen or marking lines Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Is a star pattern with various names but always the star. It has some pretty interesting quilting patterns in the large areas in the corner that a star quilt never fills. It has some really wild colors with the edging being a strong pink and the binding being the very loud normal red. I cannot give the origin of that quilt . Diamond shaped pieces in the star are solid and all multi-color. No hint on where I got that quilt. It is contemporary fabric both front and back.

Quilt 75

Trip Around the World - hexagon c. 1940 83x68 Description: predominantly dark colors, is a comfort-not a quilt, tulle needed to stabilize some areas, some dye run, some missing ties Fabrics: wool, silk, rayon, velvet Threads: cotton tied with wool Construction: machine pieced, tied, no binding Condition: fading, stains, disintegration of fabric Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Is an all wool hexagonal pieced quilt that's tied with ubiquitous pink yarnâ&#x20AC;Ś most of it's pink. Quite thick. In my store that would have been on the comfort division instead of in the quilt division. It's very colorful and very, very graphic to hang. But many people think that comforts, their day is past...everybody has central heating. I keep saying "Yes, when the heat goes out and the fuel gets even shorter, people are going to return to using comforts for warmth in the wintertime." But my store didn't last that long. The back is cotton flannel. Most of the comforts came from Hocking County...I'm not sure why. I don't think I bought any wool quilts from West Virginia. I did try to limit comforts. Some people call them comforters, which is, as far as I'm concerned, a noun. I've looked it up in lots of big dictionaries and stories and both have been used for bedcovers. But the one that I think is the original one is a comfort...that's the name of a thick bed covering.

Quilt 77

Puritan Star Quilt, Star of LeMoyne, Lemon Star, Diamond Design, The Star, Eastern Star, Idaho Star, Hanging Diamonds, Diamond c. 1940 84x76 Description: patchwork, shirting's, blue cotton, probably dyed backing with fold fading Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted Condition: fading, stains, disintegration of fabric, tears or holes, wear to edge or binding Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks:

Quilt 78

Double Nine Patch, Fundamental Nine Patch, Single Irish Chain c. 1870 82x82 Description: blocks set on point with alternate red print blocks, each block is different, double border Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted Condition: worn, plain off-white backing Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks:

Quilt 79

Crazy Quilt unknown

Description: very bad shape Fabrics: velvets, silk Threads: Construction: Condition: disintegration of fabric Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks:

Quilt 80

Rail Fence Crazy Quilt c. 1975 88x75 Description: reversible, pieced backing, purples, pinks and grays, yarn embroidery and ties Fabrics: wool Threads: wool Construction: back piecing, embroidery with yarn Condition: a few insect holes Written Information on Tag: 2003 Best of Show, Athens County Fair; wools and hand stitched, Lula Ford, Athens, OH (Estate Memories, a shop owend/run by Lula Ford)

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: An impressive comfort creation.

Quilt 81

Wool Bricks, Brickwall, Brickwork c. 1930 76x42 Description: suit coat samples quilt Fabrics: wool back, upholstery fabric, SW pattern Threads: cotton floss top stitching Construction: hand pieced, machine pieced, wool samples appliquéd to back with cotton floss Condition: tears or holes, some insect damage Written Information on Tag:

Mary’s Remarks: This is one of the three that I know of that I have bought from the stock of samples…it is a bedcover or perhaps just a wall hanging…and it's made with…all patches are the same size. They're about one and three quarters inches high and about four…three and a half or four inches long...rectangles. Why would anybody cut this many rectangles? Well, the quilt maker didn't cut them. She had a friend or a neighbor or she located the suit salesman. I think I've told this story before but you have to hear it again. Men's suits were made probably...I think...somebody looked this up...no more than four factories in the entire United States made men's suits. Men who lived anyplace other than in very large cities had no way to get the good suit...every man had to have a good (Continued on page 86)

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suit. Cars and roads were difficult, but they had great service. These salesman would come to the grocery store or the feed store or to the local...any kind of gathering place in town, to let people know that the suit salesman was in town. You made an appointment and he came to your house or if it was...I know in my town the post office was a place where the suit salesman set up his little stand and got out the books that the men picked from these little rectangles of fabric...that was the sample that their suit would be made out of. I feel some of these very slick...I thought they were all wool. I'm not sure but wool could be worsted to almost feeling like silk. So I think with the era on this...I don't know how rayon had been invented so maybe this has some rayon in it. But we're talking from certainly 1890 through 1943 or 44...I think post World War II. I don't know what happened...the salesman couldn't sell during the war cause they didn't have cars or gas and all of the suit manufacturers were making uniforms. I don't know what happened to that business. Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward, you could order a men's suit but otherwise you waited till the suit salesman came and took...you picked out your fabric and the suit salesman...I watched one take maybe 18 very, very careful measurements...wrote it all, the man paid for the suit, about three weeks later...in our town on the train...came these big boxes containing a man's suit and it was like "the suits are in", sort of, that many of them came at the same time. And these samples lasted maybe a year, or maybe longer than a year. But there were always women in line who would pay the suit salesman for his sample book. Usually it went to a neighbor or somebody in his family...they got first choice. This quilt maker has put them all together as though they were patches and has used a feather stitch and a whipping stitch and I think she bound...I believe she bound every one in bias tape. I've never seen a sample book at which they were bound by the suit company...they were always pinked or raggedy wool. Anyhow, there's different colors of binding on this. And then she's put this on some really heavy duty fabric. I don't know about that fabric on the back...I can't see on the table what size this turned out to be. It's going to be a very, very heavy quilt.

Quilt 82

Red Spades Appliquéd c. 1900 76x79 Description: Turkey red spades Fabrics: cotton Threads: Construction: machine pieced, hand quilted, hand appliqué-stitches visible, 5-6 sts/inch quilting, newer binding--no wear but weak and staining within Condition: stains, distortion or shrinkage Written Information on Tag:

Mary’s Remarks: See the red and white quilt! Would it be possible to go to sleep under this?

Quilt 83

Dresden Plate variation c. 1940 87x69 Description: with sashing Fabrics: Threads: Construction: machine pieced, tied Condition: uneven batting Written Information on Tag: laundered + sanitized, Oct. 2013

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Quilt 84

Big Dipper, Yankee Puzzle, Hour Glass, Envelope Quilt, The Whirling Blade, Bow Ties, Pork and Beans c. 1900 75x63 Description: on point with wide border, c. 1900 top, border/back and quilted in 1940's Fabrics: cotton calico Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted, border replacement, top is older than binding and backing, cotton batting Condition: good condition, yellow stains, wear to edge or binding Written Information on Tag:

Mary’s Remarks: Has this tiny little…white print with tiny little anchors, tiny little stars… that was the kind of fabric that my grandmother bought to make my grandfather's shirts…was this white with this teeny, tiny little black...I don't know what that was about. I think probably it did not show dirt easily and that's why all the white shirts were made...of course I never saw him in anything other than a white shirt or a blue work shirt. I don't know the origin of this quilt.

Quilt 85

Tulip Appliqué c. 1930 86x86 Description: on point lavender tulips on white set in individual squares, with alternate lavender blocks Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand appliquéd, hand quilted, excellent hand quilting and appliqué, cross hatch in appliqué square, feather quilting in solid squares Condition: worn, discolored or dyes ran, wear to edge or binding Written Information on Tag:

Mary’s Remarks: Looks to me like another kit. Might be the same kit as we saw in one other or I've done this quilt before...I hope not. The fabric…the purple that accents the white blocks…seemed to be used for the binding and it just dissolved. The quilt is not that badly worn but the binding is just a disaster. So I don't know how you can get that one...I would say it needs to be laundered. But I certainly would see about putting...if it were my quilt...I would put another white binding on it and then I would wash it and put it outside to have the sun bleach it.

Quilt 86

Joseph's Coat, Peeled Orange c. mid 1900's 82x76 Description: green background, scraps Fabrics: wool Threads: cotton wool ties Construction: hand pieced, tied, unfinished on one side stitching loose Condition: stains, tears or holes, insect damage, damage essentially minor "could be fixed" Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: No wonder Joseph's brothers were jealous.

Quilt 87

Patchwork squares c. 1970 49x58 Description: simple 6 x 6 patch Fabrics: wool Threads: cotton wool ties Construction: machine pieced, tied Condition: great condition, fold marks Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Wool squares. Looks to me like it was intended for a lap robe.

Quilt 88

Flowered Appliqué c. 1945 80x78 Description: colored flowers on white set in individual squares with sashing Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: machine appliquéd, hand quilted, 5-6 sts/ inch Condition: fading, stains, wear to edge or binding Written Information on Tag:

Mary’s Remarks: Quilt, quite thin, maybe a thin cotton blanket in it, but not much batting. It is a flowered appliqué…it has a flower in every single square that is outlined by a pink frame and this appliqué...this person was into the most incredible appliqué...I just don't believe we had appliqué machines at that time...but it's hard to believe that this was done by hand but I don't know how she would do, in this era, appliqué like that. The flowers are pretty bold and don't have much grace. I think this has to be machine appliquéd and I don't know that they made appliqué machines because this one's got a little age on it. It's been used and its binding is not faded but the bars are somewhat faded. Not our greatest quilt.

Quilt 90

Shoo Fly, The Eight-Cornered Box, Fence Row, Simplicity c. 1900 68x85 Description: lots of gray print fabric, on point with alternate plain blocks Fabrics: cotton muslin back Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, hand quilted Condition: some fading, stains, fold marks, one spot color bleached out Written Information on Tag: Antique patchwork quilt, never used, laundered 1 time, c. 1900, Fairfield County, OH

Mary’s Remarks: I'm just extremely puzzled by this color. If black was going to cause any problem to the family and cause a death, I don't know how about the gray. The border is…the edge binding… is even deeper gray than…it looks dirty but it's a deeper gray than the border and this "laundered one time" makes me think that this may be the one that I dropped on the way to putting quilts in my Volkswagen and dropped it in the mud. I did drop a quilt after I went to a quilt auction and dropped a quilt in the mud on the way to the Volkswagen. I don't know whether...it just seems to me that this has not been used. Certainly the back of it looks fairly good. The quilting's fairly good and very (Continued on page 95)

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unusual. I showed this to someone fairly soon after I got home and they think it's a quilt to go in a coffin...that that was not...sometimes bodies of the deceased were wrapped in quilts and put into wooden coffins before we got all carried away with caskets and things like that. But isn't it unusual...I'm going to say 1880.

Quilt 91

Sunbonnet Sue c. 1950 78x85 Description: Fabrics: Threads: Construction: machine pieced, hand quilted, hand embroidered Condition: stains, disintegration of fabric, wear to edge or binding, distressed and well used Written Information on Tag:

Mary’s Remarks: I'm going to confess. When I was a teenager, my older sister Helen gave me a choice of 3 quilts she had just acquired in a lucky "find." I chose Sunbonnet Sue. Now, 60 years later, I've been known…somewhat late in a party…to recite "The Murder of Sunbonnet Sue", which some exasperated quilter wrote in the 80's. I should apologize. This one is sweetly done.

Quilt 92

Rainbow Quilt c. 1940 74X67 Description: nice diagonal pattern, yellow striped backing, may be wrong side of fabric Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, machine quilted Condition: stains, tears or holes, open seams, wear to edge or binding, no batting, distressed and well used Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks:

Quilt 93

Double Wedding Ring c. 1981 89x89 Description: thousand pieces, scalloped border with points on yellow field, light blue backing, medium blue binding Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, hand quilted, excellent construction Condition: great condition, excellent construction, backing pieced, some fold line fading, few spots on back-probably wash out Written Information on Tag: Double Wedding Ring. This pattern is difficult to piece and contains over a thousand different patches. Made by an unknown quiltmaker in Meigs County, Ohio. Spider web quilting, scalloped edges all 4 sides, c. 1981

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Double Wedding Ring on yellow field. Yellow field is spider quilted patterns. Quilt has never been used and never been washed. The spider web quilting design is not easy to do. Very time consuming. We don't see it often.

Quilt 94

Dresden Plate c. 1950 84x77 Description: small and large plates on white, yellow centers, yellow border, many feedsacks, border is different yellow Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted Condition: pencil or pen or marking lines, worn, back stains from storage Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks:

Quilt 95

Grandmother's Flower Garden, Hexagon c. 1960 79x98 Description: pink solids, prints, purple field, pink backing, plaid binding, polyester batting Fabrics: cotton muslin backs Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted, polyester batting Condition: good condition, stains only on edges, discolored or dyes ran, field itself good Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: This is a hexagon print. Lots and lots of pinks and purples all through with going to a solid hexagon border of lots of blues and florals. Solids and prints all hexagon. Back is muslin on the purple/pink hexagon. Very complex piecing. Lots of hours of work in this pattern.

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Quilt 96

Snowball c. 1945 73x72 Description: feed sack backing, mostly feedsacks on front Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, hand quilted Condition: stains, disintegration of fabric, tears or holes, uneven batting, wear to edge or binding Written Information on Tag:

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Quilt 97

Nine Patch c. 1930 83x68 Description: nine patch on point set with alternate lavender blocks Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted, 8 -10 sts/inch Condition: fading or bleach--color gone, distressed and well used Written Information on Tag: Fading, c. 1930

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Lavender was not very common in the 30sâ&#x20AC;ŚI haven't seen nearly as much lavender as I would expect. It was a very popular color to line coffins.

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Quilt 98

Crazy Quilt c. 1945 84x64 Description: muslin backing, wide print binding Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, hand quilted Condition: worn Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: This is what I call Appalachian Gee's Bend. It is a crazy quilt. It is quilted through some...I'm sure it's got a cotton blanket in it...it isn't filling or stuffingâ&#x20AC;Śit's got a blanket in there, and it has every patch that the family has used and the neighborhood has used for the last 25 years. I see 20's and maybe some 30's in it. It's single, it's on the back, and it is plain...it's been ripped out, it was something else...I think might be a feed sack. It's mended even once. That could have easily been a flour sack or a sugar sack that was used for the backing of this quilt. I 'm sorry that my gathering these together..and they were mixed up...that maybe I should have made stricter requirements for what I brought, but the more I look at this I think that a person put this together out of the wildest most available things in the neighborhood and deserves some credit. Takes a nice printed edge and runs it as the border and around and over the backing. I would say there's some tablecloth material in there. I don't believe I see a feed sack...I don't think that's feed sack material.

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Quilt 99

Yo-Yo Quilt c. 1935 90x82 Description: sixteen squares framed by 1 5/8" apricot yo-yos, 30 -40's fabric Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand gathers, individually Condition: great condition, few loose threads, could be easily repaired Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Yo-yo quilt. Shaped borders in points. Athens County, found in a trunk that had a quilt that I saw and wanted. I didn't go underneath and this was underneath. Hand pieced. Hand gathered. It does have a spot on itâ&#x20AC;ŚI kept thinking I hope that comes off. That is a spot of blood...oh, no...that's on a leaf. I think that was a mistaken pattern she picked for that leaf. Extraordinary yo-yo's. Some need to be reattached. Very difficult to photograph this, the yo-yos are not very strong and the weight of the quilt will pull each yo-yo apart. I remember as a child sitting in church watching the women during the summer doing the little yo-yo's in church and get by with it. And then the real quilters would say "Those aren't real quilts."

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Quilt 100

Hearts & Gizzards, Pierrot's Pom Pom, Snowball, Tennessee Snowball, Springtime Blossoms, Windmill, Dutch Windmill, Dutch Rose, Lover's Knot, Heart & Flowers, Morning Glory, Wheel of Fortune, Primrose unknown 59x69 Description: wools, suiting, dark colors on gray Fabrics: wool, back is cotton sateen Threads: cotton, tied with wool Construction: hand pieced, tied, top appliquéd to back, construction well done..seams matched Condition: fading, worn, insect damage, moth holes because it's wool..can be repaired Written Information on Tag:

Mary’s Remarks: This is, I think, entirely wool. Only two things are used…nope, wrong again...I see three colors...four colors. I just know that the men's suits were saved and cut up...when they really wore out and they were cut up and how what a striking design she's made by using a gray neutral color to set off the other colors with navy blue or the standard brown or the other blue. And it is a tied quilt. Probably not much filling in it because this wool top is really think enough. I think this must've been in a stack that I bought from an auctioneer because I didn't remember seeing it until yesterday when I discovered it. I certainly did not choose this from an individual stock of auction sale.

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Quilt 101

Nine Patch Chain variation c. 1880 71x81 Description: diagonal blocks with rows of nine patch alternating with plain blocks Fabrics: cotton, muslin back Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted, really good hand piecing and quilting Condition: fading, stains, tears or holes, wear to edge or binding, well used Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Do I see lavender? Again, so soon. I can't even take myself as an expert.

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Quilt 111

Postage Stamp variation c. mid 1900's 74x70 Description: beautiful scrap quilt Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted Condition: great condition, back has been repaired, looks like it's been washed, very clean Written Information on Tag:

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Quilt 115

Log Cabin c. 1925 74x75 Description: incredible use of color Fabrics: wool, cotton silk, rayon Threads: Construction: hand pieced, cotton ties Condition: stains, disintegration of fabric--insect damage and limited silk rot Written Information on Tag: Fancy fabrics, log cabin, very good condition (wool, cotton, rayon, silk)

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Another A.M./P.M. log cabin with a center square of blue. To heck with the traditional red "hearth" center block.

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Quilt 140

Garden Medallion, Magic Vine variation c. 1935 80x78 Description: center medallion, appliquéd borders, white background, framed in salmon, multicolor vines, prairie point border, great depression piece Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, hand appliquéd, extraordinary workmanship, good color sensibility, 9-10 sts/inch Condition: great condition, couple light stains Written Information on Tag: "Garden Medallion", a pattern made famous at the Chicago Exposition Women's Building 1893, Montgomery County, OH, c. 1935

Mary’s Remarks: Appliquéd quilt with pointed border. This is the quilt that was patterned and copied after the one famous for the Chicago Exposition Women's Building. White background, salmon framed points. Vines, greens, leaves are multi-colored prints. This was the second quilt I ever bought largely to help a recently widowed colleague burdened with inhuman medical debts after the death of his wife from breast cancer. We cannot get universal health care too soon.

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Quilt 141

Trip Around The World, Ninety Nine Times Around The World, Postage Stamp, Rainbow c. 1980 95x76 Description: twenty blocks in peach, blue and white, peach sashing, peach backing Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, hand quilted, thin poly batting Condition: good condition, some worn spots Written Information on Tag: New, 2350+ patches! 1" piece in squares, c. 1980

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Quilt 142

Mola Cutwork Quilt 94x124 Description: Darlene Innis sold this to Mary at Motherin-law's auction, bought in Thailand for $90, 1986 Fabrics: cotton, cotton percale Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, no batting Condition: great condition, fold marks, never used, mint condition Written Information on Tag: mola cutwork, imported

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Not an American quilt. My little tag says "Mola cut work." I know the quilt czar in Yellow Springs, whose name is Mark French, could hardly bring his hands to touch it and throw it over to another stack. He doesn't want anything imported. And I think I did make a mistake. A student came to Ohio University was selling Mola cut work and I thought it was very interesting and I thought quite incredible reverse appliquĂŠ and all sorts of techniques and it was a mistake. What am I going to do with a Mola? And Jan says "Take it there. Someone else will make a mistake and buy it." It's never been used. It's never been washed. And do I know where Mola comes from? No, I don't know. Did the student steal it and then sell it? I don't know. But I did pay quite a sum of money for this Mola artwork. Doesn't belong in an American quilt show at all. But I know that one or some women made it.

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Quilt 143

Star Bouquet Quilt, Morning Star c. 1900 75x74 Description: patchwork stars, embroidered seams, stripe print backing Fabrics: suiting, cotton, silk Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, tied, hand embroidery embellish Condition: disintegration of fabric, quilting threads broken, wear to edge or binding Written Information on Tag:

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Quilt 144

Crazy Quilt quilt top c. 1995 73 x 71 Description: quilt top, blocks set with green sashing and border Fabrics: Threads: mixed cotton Construction: machine quilted, pieced and topstitched Condition: Written Information on Tag:

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Quilt 145

Crazy Quilt c. 1900 68x46 Description: in blocks Fabrics: silks, velvet Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand stitching Condition: disintegration of fabric Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: I wish I could remember the artist famous for his slices and jabs paintings. I think he had crazy quilts in his home.

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Quilt 146

Crazy Quilt quilt top/coverlet c. 1900 76x72 Description: quilt top, excellent, triple border Fabrics: many Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, embroidery Condition: good condition Written Information on Tag: Crazy Quilt Winter Patchwork, top c. 1905, finished 1982, completed as coverlet, open back

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Quilt 147

Brickwall, Brickwork c. 1970 63x107 Description: jeans and khakis, chino fabrics, tied Fabrics: jeans and khakis, chino fabrics Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, wool yarn ties Condition: great condition Written Information on Tag: Glo Project

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: She said "I am not going to make a crazy quilt. I am going to make a statement and it will be made of leftover scraps." And she did.

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Quilt 148

Floral Appliqué c. 1930 76x77 Description: white whole cloth bed cover with pink border, square floral appliqué in center, Art Deco look summer coverlet Fabrics: Threads: Construction: hand pieced, hand appliquéd, hand quilted Condition: good condition, stains, fold marks down center, wear to edge or binding Written Information on Tag:

Mary’s Remarks: I believe this to be a counterpane. Robert Louis Stevenson would know what a counterpane is.

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Quilt 149

Crazy Quilt quilt top c. 1920 68x57 Description: quilt top, in big strips, with sashing and green border Fabrics: many Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, machine pieced, hand quilted, machine quilted Condition: worn, insect damage, tears or holes Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: I never gave a second look at this geometric influenced "crazy quilt". But they have grown on me. This one kept from exploding by the brick wall borders on the two sides. Clever.

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Quilt 150

Crazy Quilt quilt top c. 1920 68x70 Description: quilt top, squares with embroidered seams Fabrics: mix..wool, rayon, flannel, knit Threads: cotton multi colored embroidery floss Construction: hand pieced, traditional, bright colors Condition: good condition, stains, little wear Written Information on Tag:

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Quilt 151

Vertical flag c. 1976 85x64 Description: patriotic quilt, great story behind it Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted, hanging sleeve Condition: stains on edge Written Information on Tag: A typed page with the story of the "backwards flag" is attached.

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Has a pocket on the top that I sewed and has my name on the corner because it has been used on several occasions but you've got to prepare for a story. Visiting my sister, who was a professor at West Virginia University...she always knew whenever I was there where the next quilt show would be or the next gathering of the county homemakers association...and she and I went to one close Grafton, West Virginia...I think it was Grafton...I'm really not sure...but anyhow a woman there recognized her for some work my sister had done and she said "Oh, you're the one that has the sister who's a quilt collector. Well here's a quilt you ought to get but it's not here at this show." And she told me that she could give me the directions to the house of the woman who made the "backwards flag" quilt. I had to hear this story. It was the bicentennial so I remember 1976...everything was flags, flags, flags...going to be a big celebration. This woman, 79 years old, isolated in the country, had seen the President of the United States making some remarks about the 200th birthday of the United States in front of the White House and she had seen this flag that was standing in kind of...a vertical U.S. flag... and she said "I (Continued on page 121)

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could make that...it looks like a bed quilt that hangs there...I've been making bed quilts all my life. I could make a flag quilt." And sure enough, she got the family to take her to the local store, which at that time had not been put out of business by Wal-Mart, and picked out this USA fabric that had gotten popular because of the space program and she picked out her colors and her material. She had this sketch that she had made and created this entirely of her own, including these incredible stars. And she was so proud of it. Her family was proud of it. When I think of it...well it was Grafton...and they were going to have a big celebration on whatever day...different cities had different times that they were going to celebrate the 200th birthday of the nation and they had their time and she offered her flag quilt. She had, of course, had history...and they treated their elders with respect...and they knew she was a quilt maker and they accepted this. Well the men who were putting up the stage and doing all of the decoration and all of the bunting and so forth, they were given this quilt...this flag...and they had never seen, obviously, a vertical U.S. flag. They hung it the only way that they knew, which was horizontal, and the stars were on the wrong edge of the flag. Well, what would they do? Tell her they couldn't do it? Refuse? No, maybe it would be alright but sometimes maybe the real flag could be hung. They hung it anyhow and they had the celebration and it became known as the backwards flag made by an old woman that was revered in some ways and got known as the "backwards flag". She was not well enough to go. She did not see it hung like that and nobody said anything to her. I drive up to her house and I introduced myself and told her who had sent me there and that I liked unusual flags and I'd heard what she had made and she said "Oh, yes, I'm not going to use a flag on a bed, so yes, and it is for sale." And she said "I really could use the income from the quilt." It had taken a lot of time and she was supporting herself doing a little bit of quilting. I bought this and I have hung it at any number of patriotic and nonpatriotic occasions when I could and I always hung it vertically but I made everybody hear the story of the "backwards flag". At that time, there were all kinds of awards for centennial creations that were made by quilters and I had seen an exhibit where the first centennial celebration...there were three or four quilts in Washington that were made for 1876 and this was going to be 1976. But it's interesting...I mentioned this to these people at the Dairy Barn and they had forgotten we'd had a bicentennial so I don't know how famous...who's going to want a bicentennial flag quilt when they've even forgotten the bicentennial? That's the story of this quilt. Her stitches...she was losing her eyesight very definitely...but I felt her stars were just incredible. That she would create her own flag at home because she had seen the possibility on the television set was a story that I wanted to be a part of.

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Quilt 152

Log Cabin c. 1980 84x98 Description: pinks and grays Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, machine quilted Condition: few worn spots Written Information on Tag: New Quilt "Log Cabin", machine quilted for durability, quite large! Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Ah, we're moving in to the modern age. This is one that I think I have two machine-quilted quilts that may be here, if they both got here. This is one of the early machinequilted quilts and machine-quilting has improved tremendously, so that Quilt National has gorgeous pieces done machine-quilting. But even home machine-quilting...you can design your own patterns and swirl and do whatever you want. This one was a pretty beginning machinequilted. A little bit boring, but what a beautiful job of coloring and matching. This is a person who goes to the fabric store and buys coordinated material. These are not leftover from aprons or pajamas like all of the others I brought here. Nice material in the back and very nicely bound on the edges. New. Never used. And I remember the woman saying "This one won't come apart. Just throw this in the washing machine." So, she had an eye...pretty thin in the middle there...I don't know what kind of batting, if any, she must've had something...I feel something in there but it's really thin. She would want this quilt to come apart and she knew it went in a washing machine. I really think that was Meigs County...I'm not sure...it's Ohio...and contemporary.

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Quilt 153

Floral Appliqué c. 1934 90x75 Description: floral embroidery in center, pink and white scalloped border with peach binding Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand appliquéd, hand quilted Condition: few worn spots, few broken quilt lines Written Information on Tag: Embroidered quilting, scalloped border all sides, buttonhole stitch appliqué, laundered once to remove chalk guidelines; c. 1934 (no room for quilting frame after leaving farm)

Mary’s Remarks: This quilt is quilted in a way that it's called embroidery and not quilting. Now I've been told by a number of quilters "This is not quilting. You can call it embroidery." It was not done on a machine and it was not done on a quilting frame in a farmhouse. This was done in hoops by a woman and it was probably 1934. I went to see an exhibit of hand-woven coverlets in Lancaster, Ohio. They have a nice museum there and they had hand-woven coverlets. Parked the car on the street fairly close to where I could go see this exhibit and in the window was a little shop selling little unusual things and back in the back of the front window...which wasn't very big...was this quilt hanging. How can I park at places like this? Well, I did park there, and I went to see the hand-woven wool coverlets which later got me into some trouble in that area too, but anyhow when I came back I (Continued on page 124)

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had to stop in because I had heard of people...when they moved out of the farmhouse and nobody could keep a quilting stand up full-length as they did in the Amish communities...they began to do hand work which included embroidery. So we're talking 1934 or so, and this woman wanted to make a quilt. Beautifully bordered with the tiniest little appliquĂŠ border on here and the stitches are great and she appliquĂŠd it and it is a gorgeous center. Now, did she have a pattern? Did she have a stencil? Maybe so. I don't know that that's original work, but it is just a beautiful, beautiful picture for those people who don't get so uptight about the fact that it's not a real quilt...I've been told. I've exhibited this twice at quilt shows and one group had a big meeting whether they would accept it or not because it wasn't real quilting. And somebody said "It's saddle stitching, that's what it is, saddle stitching." To my knowledge, it has never been...I've never washed it. It looks to me like it was washed before it was taken to this store to be sold. I don't...this flattened out so it has been washed...so I don't think it's been used at all...I hope that it's in just splendid shape. It's interesting to look at it on the back. Pretty nice backing that was probably purchased. Very, very thin...maybe a sheet...a cotton or flannel sheet inside. Scalloped edges that are just almost perfect scallops. And on the back side those scallops are hand whipped. Quilting really dropped down in the 30's. It just took thread...it took the big...nobody had the space. Families were combined. People had to go back home and live on the farm because they were out of work and no place to live. It just...quilting really went down and out in the 30's. And then we got into a war, so quilting took a bad hit. But it's, of course, at totally different thing in the 21st century. It has become the new knitting and it's done on machine or hand in small hoops. It's not like a community group...although the quilters get together...it still pulls them together and they trade patches and stuff. It's not quite the community effort that it was. Even in my childhood...early childhood in the 20's.

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Quilt 154

Fiesta Bow Tie c. 1980 75x82 Description: bright colors, white back, light blue binding, minimal quilting but nice Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted Condition: good condition Written Information on Tag: Fiesta Bow Tie, New, ultra-loft batting (extra thick), expert piecing, even quilting, created by Mary McCune, Athens County, Ohio Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: This quilt was made by Mary McCune who lived in Millfield and was a member or attending the church on 550 known as the McDougal Church. She donated this to the church for a benefit yard sale/auction they had...the only thing there...and it was a miserable crowd or turn-out, and people were bidding $20 and $35 for this quilt. New, thick loft, lots of quilting. She was there. It was pathetic. And I started bidding on it...which interested a couple of people...because they knew I was a quilt collector...that raised the bid a little bit...and I was getting it up...I don't know, I'm ashamed...I think I paid $80 for it...got it at the high bid. It was the wildest bow-tie I had seen. But to donate a whole quilt to a church and them only bring that. So, I had to do something about that. I whipped out a check and a note for her work and I wrote to support the McDougal Church and I left a note and a check in an envelope on her door in Millfield and said a person deserves a lot more than...I know you made it for the church...the church got some money...but you deserve something for your effort. so this was a double purchase almost for this quilt. Never used, never washed, and frankly never liked by me, but it would be really great for some log cabin. It's a newly made, thick loft, carefully made with careful quilting.

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Quilt 155

Caesar's Crown, Grecian Star, Whirling Wheel c. 1940 top, c. 1970 border 86x76 Description: feedsacks, border on front and back, blocks hand pieced, then machine stitched together Fabrics: cotton scrappy, back bleached muslin Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted, blocks put together by machine, polyester batting Condition: good condition, age stains, discolored or dyes ran, pencil lines on border Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Just a wonderful attempt to take an old top and make it wide enough for a modern bed and add a contemporary border around it. As I think I've said before, every border adds $50 to the sale price of a quilt. It doesn't exactly match the center of the oldâ&#x20AC;Ś.but she does a good job. Nicely done, nicely quilted. I cannot place at all. If there's any message on...it'll be on some other corner of the quilt. I do not know where or how I bought it.

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Quilt 156

Big Dipper, Yankee Puzzle, Hour Glass, Envelope Quilt, The Whirling Blade, Bow Ties, Pork and Beans c. 1890 Description: Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand quilted Condition: great condition, some stains Written Information on Tag: Antique quilt - very large, never used, mint condition, c. 1890

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Antique, very definitely antique. Browns, lots of browns and dark fabrics. Never used, never washed. Incredible number of stitches to the inch. Rounded corners. A real treasure of very old fabrics. The top and the back use a lot of the same fabric, it probably was called muslin. It's quite a different muslin than we know later. The piecing of the triangles is pretty spectacular. They go together to make a whirlwind whirligig and they do meet in the center at the point.

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Quilt 158

Embroidered Baskets c. 1950 77x92 Description: Rainbow Quilt Co. blocks, possibly blocks earlier than fabric piecing/sashing and border print, twelve embroidered baskets with appliquéd flowers, cross-stitch, seed stitches, sashing, scalloped border Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, hand appliquéd, hand quilted, scalloped edge Condition: great condition, some stains Written Information on Tag:

Mary’s Remarks: Embroidered, appliquéd quilted, scallop borders. There are 12 large panels, each one containing an appliquéd basket of flowers and each basket has three flowers, one purple, one yellow, one rose. Appliquéd, crossstitched and French knot. Scalloped border. Correction, not French knots, they're some kind of makeshift French knots. Condition excellent. Superior embroidery.

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Quilt 159

Wanderer's Quilt, Drunkard's Path, Wonder of the World, Robbing Peter to Pay Paul, Solomon's Puzzle, Drunkard's Trail, Old Maid's Puzzle, Endless Trail c. 1930 84x77 Description: pink and white Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted Condition: fading, worn, fold marks, good shape and stains may wash out Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Is another pink and white quilt. They had to come out of the 30's. Everybody was sad and depressed. The socks...my anklets were pink, when I could get anklets. Pajamas were pink. Any kind of fabric that came from the store to make a dress had pink. It was just so cold between 1930 and 1938. We were just inundated with pink...it was supposed to...I don't know whether we knew it or whether the deciders, whoever they were, knew it...that somehow pink was somehow used to make us less depressed. This one is a 1930's pink. Nicely, nicely quilted. Very thin fabric. Used, worn, still quite nice bed quilt. The backing was pieced so it was probably yard goods or maybe a sheet that was sewn together to make enough... but the quilting is like 10 stitches to the inch.

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Quilt 160

Crazy Quilt c. 1960 71x83 Description: scrap quilt, double sided, blanket filler Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, hand quilted Condition: uneven batting, batting piece smaller than quilt Written Information on Tag: Double sided quilt, very sturdy, never used

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Another double sided "no holds barred" crazy quilt from the North Carolina church yard sale. I packed them in our car. I thought they were very unusual, undisciplined, determined to use every scrap of material. Bully for them. My sisters, one of whom had to set atop some quilts, were not as taken by them as I was...but they supported me in my effort to have quilts recognized as art. c. 1952

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Quilt 161

Garden Basket with Tulips c. 1950 85x78 Description: on point blocks of pastel tulips in green pots, with green sashing, white backing Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, hand appliquéd, hand quilted, binding is zig zag stitched to back Condition: good condition, some soiling on top, white backing has fold stains Written Information on Tag:

Mary’s Remarks: Looks to me like a kit. I think out of the 50's…they just had to make pretty quilts…no subtlety or no geometric or no question...just a beautiful quilt with these pink flowers…well pink and yellow in all this…in this strange flower bowl that has two colors. I'm looking at the machine binding...can't do anything about the origin of that one.

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Quilt 162

Friendship Ring, Dresden Plate, Aster c. 1940 79x84 Description: appliquéd on whole cloth, 1950's fabric Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, hand appliquéd, hand quilted, not antique, 8-9 sts/inch Condition: good condition, pencil marking lines Written Information on Tag:

Mary’s Remarks: This one has been a thorn in my side. I did buy that…I didn't really see…I bought that at an auction. It just was…they held it up and it was startling to see from far away. It's a Dresden Plate with an intensive square block quilting all the way through with all the lines still marked with many pencil marks that may never come out. The fabric in the Dresden Plate is not...to me...attractive, which means it's 1940. I see a little bit of musical creatures here to that ...I still think it was still not too late...maybe 1948. The Dresden Plate is appliquéd on...it's not stitched like one of the others I've just seen. It is appliquéd on and I expect that pieces in that have been machine sewn.

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Quilt 163

Painted flowers c. 1970 77x90 Description: painted flowers in individual blocks, with light green and white sashing, squares from a kit or stamped or transfer patterns, clean muslin backing, very nice quilting Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, hand quilted, painted, not embroidered Condition: some wear Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: I had to take the gloves offâ&#x20AC;ŚI can't believe that this is stenciled on. Did they buy the squares? Were these already stenciled and then they did the outline quilting to add to their own work? And nice quilting on the borders on that. A nice pattern and nice square corners with quilting in the corners. But the stenciling...just...it's painted.. and then it's outlined. Never seen this before...would never intentionally have bought this...it must've come in a stack.

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Quilt 164

Double T, T Square c. 1890 64x87 Description: blue Ts on white with blue border, good collection of indigo prints Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: Condition: distressed and well used Written Information on Tag: Dan Smith auction, Hartford, WV, T square, 6/23/84

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: There is a quite old blue and whiteâ&#x20AC;Śthe most easiest quilt for me to sell in my store was to get a blue and white quilt. Everybody wanted that blue and white quilt to show off in their guest bedroom. This one is old and has quite a bit of wear but it has no tag and I can't find the number and I've been around to all four corners. It's a T-square...the pattern is Tsquare...which is an interesting history in the fact that there were a number of T-squares made around 1890 when the temperance movement came and women who supported the temperance movement felt that they could help by making a T-square quilt. This is older than the temperance movement. But it's that traditional deep indigo blue fabric with...each one of the T's has a little different design in fabric and nicely quilted but very worn.

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Quilt 165

Fruit Basket c. 1910 83x70 Description: on point blocks set with alternate pink blocks , brown backing Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, hand quilted with black thread, 10-11 sts/inch Condition: great condition, some fading on top Written Information on Tag: Genuine Antique Amish Quilt, large, never used, Holmes Co., OH, c. 1910

Mary’s Remarks: I used to go to Charm, Ohio, because it was close to where I bought cheese at the Pearl Valley Cheese place and I discovered the quilt makers at Charm… trying to find the material that I was going to use to patch or to make or do something with matching quilts…it was a mistake…but anyhow I made friends with Mrs. Miller who ran the Charm quilt shop...and admired the quilts. I did buy some fabric there but I'm not sure what kind I bought. She eventually came and gave a little workshop or a little appearance at the Dairy Barn later. But once I was there and she said "I have a genuine"...I told her I was buying stock for the store...hoped to maybe open a museum...thought they were wonderful...and she said "I have a genuine Amish quilt that has come in." And she said "The people need the money right away and I will just mark the price half for you." And she marked the price half and I bought it. Very dark, somber Amish quilt coming from Charm, Ohio.

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Quilt 166

Nine Patch, Checkerboard Design unknown 67x66 Description: blues, blacks and white, sash border, flannel grey stripe backing Fabrics: wool blends, wool Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, wool ties Condition: few holes Written Information on Tag: Antique wool comfort, nicely made, never used, 1 or 2 moth holes. This comfort was made in Morgan County, Ohio.

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Quilt 167

Squares on Squares/Medallion c. 1915 60x75 Description: large and small blocks, nine square blocks Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, machine pieced, hand quilted, machine quilting in borders Condition: worn, age coloring Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Backing is loosely woven cotton, never washed.

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Quilt 168

Patience Nine Patch, Easy Quilt c. 1915 83x82 Description: blocks of dark men's suiting, tied, blue stripe heavier cotton backing Fabrics: wool suiting Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, tied, no batting, maybe a sheet Condition: great condition, wear to edge or binding Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Tied. Large squares. Nearly all darkâ&#x20AC;ŚI think it's men's suits. Wool. Striped backing. I don't know where I got it. Many block comforts made of wool were made from men's suits that were outgrown or wearing out. Wool fabric was expensive and it was warm and few people had central heat. "Use it up, wear it out, make it do, do without".

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Quilt 169

Crown of Thorns c. 1895 66x68 Description: on point blocks with alternate pink blocks, double border, muslin backing Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, machine pieced, hand quilted, excellent hand quilting Condition: good condition, mild fading Written Information on Tag: Antique quilt, about 1895, very good condition, little wear

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Must've been in a stack of quilts.

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Quilt 171

Crazy Quilt c. 1955 64x80 Description: double sided, tied Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, tied with string Condition: great condition Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: This is a tied quilt. Double-sided. Again this one looks to me like the big unusual patches that I insist came from the mountains of North Carolina. My sisters and I had all been to a vacation down in the mountains coming home and we passed a church that was having a yard sale to benefit the church and I saw all these quilts spread out over a wire fence and I just said we had to stop. They turned out not to be quilts...they turned out to be comforts but they were double-sided comforts and they had very different kind of patchwork...great big irregular patches of really ancient mixed up fabric that I said was just very unusual. I'd never heard of Gee's Bend, of course, at that time...I'm talking 1955 or something like that. And I bought the stack off of the fences in North Carolina...double-sided patched quilts.

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Quilt 172

Nine Patch c. 1960 80x62 Description: large blocks, perhaps a blanket for batting, grey-blue sheet backing turned and zig zagged to front Fabrics: cotton Threads: wool ties Construction: machine pieced, tied with yellow wool yarn Condition: Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Has certainly new fabric and has a lot of machine stitching on it. Lots of big squares on it. I would never have picked that out. It must've come in a stack of quilts from some auction or from some yard sale.

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Quilt 173

Pinwheel quilt top c. 1950 70x84 Description: quilt top, blocks set with sashing Fabrics: Threads: Construction: machine pieced Condition: great condition, worn Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks:

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Quilt 175

Antique Appliqué c. 1940 78x84 Description: Colonial Revival Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted Condition: fading, worn, stains across top, repaired in center, water damage on back Written Information on Tag: Antique appliqué, c. 1940, condition: good; typed note about quilt (Hocking County, Ohio)

Mary’s Remarks: The appliqué stitch is almost invisible…hours of needlework but may not be salvageable.

fine

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Quilt 176

Crazy Quilt c. 1900 75x58 Description: in blocks with significant embroidery, beautiful stitching Fabrics: silks, velvet Threads: embroidery floss + cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand appliquĂŠd, hand embroidered Condition: worn, disintegration of fabric Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Who knew what box or trunk this came in at the auction? Can it be rescued? Embroidery amazing.

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Quilt 177

Wool Bricks, Brickwall, Brickwork quilt top unknown 77x65 Description: quilt top, wool men's suit samples Fabrics: wool Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced Condition: tears or holes Written Information on Tag: This handsome antique creation was superbly made from wool suit samples carried by salesman 1870-1942. Each salesman was trained to expertly measure his door to door customer and order the suit from the factory. Rare antique.

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Oh, I want to see this one. In good shape. It's wool. That's why it hasn't disintegrated like silk does. (Someone says "I never knew they made quilts out of wool"). Wool was a very common fabric up until you were born or maybe considerably before you were born. And then the wool got so expensive and then...see, when they invented all these nylons, orlons and dacrons and stuff, wool died out. People can't even grow sheep anymore and make a living. Yes, wool has just about disappeared from modern life. Thanks to Dow Chemical...and a few others. Wonderful design from suit samples. Yes, recycle with style!

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Quilt 178

Wool Bricks, Brickwall, Brickwork quilt top c. 1920 75x73 Description: quilt top, wool men's suit samples Fabrics: wool Threads: Construction: hand pieced, machine pieced Condition: tears or holes, fold marks Written Information on Tag: Wool comforter top, Shamrock Auction, Athens, Ohio

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Is a top for a quilt. All wool. Each piece of this top is about one and a half inches wide and about three inches long. They are rectangles and they are all wool. Why would any woman cut up wool into rectangles of that dimension? No, she didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cut all this up. There was a time when there were not department stores except in very large cities and men's suits were much too expensive for small country stores to carry. The place to get men's suits was from the Montgomery Ward catalog, Sears & Roebuck catalog, or you had to go to the city. Farmers and the rural people and the people who didn't earn much money couldn't do that. The salesman came to them. The suit salesman was a very important sales figure certainly in the late 1800's and all the way up to World War II. The suit salesman...I had a classmate whose father was a suit salesman..we're talking 1942...had carried a large book with all of the samples...wool samples...that he could get suits made out of and the samples were one and a quarter or one and a half by three...the kind that we're looking at in that (Continued on page 147)

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sample. The buyer would pick out the sample that was what he liked and what he could afford and then the salesman would measure him. I saw a suit salesman measuring a man and he took probably 18 or 20 measurements from the man and put it on a form, the man paid him some money and in about three weeks the salesman came back with a completed suit that fit beautifully. It was almost a tailored suit because these salesmen were expert at how to measure people and the suits were made in probably no more than four suit factories in the entire United States. I know the one that I knew about was in Chicago. The salesman sent his order in to Chicago and it came back in big boxes on the train. He would meet the train and big boxes would hold the suit. He would take it back to his customer and the customer would have a new suit. It was a very efficient program, on transportation and a whole lot of ways, and they were very, very good fitting suits and every man...almost every man...would have at least one good suit and it would be tailor fitted.

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Quilt 179

Devil's Puzzle/Crosses c. mid 1800's 79x78 Description: golden, green and dark red with wide golden border on two ends Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted Condition: fading, tears or holes in the red pieces Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Has a tag that tells me that it is hand-quilted extensively withâ&#x20AC;Śit says it's an Autumn Leaf pattern and it is not an Autumn Leaf pattern...so who knows where that tag came from but I'm not that mixed up. This is a golden, green and dark red quilt and that is not an Autumn Leaf pattern. That is a geometric pattern...I don't know it's name. It is a handsome quilt. I think probably it has had some use. I hope that it's still really in good shape. Handsome colors.

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Quilt 180

Mosaic PW #1, Flying Crow, Ohio Star c. 1890 65x73 Description: on point blocks with alternate blue blocks, red border Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: Condition: faded Written Information on Tag:

Mary’s Remarks: It looks to me like a terrible mistake. It should not even be… it is very, very old. It has a print back which tells me it's probably 1800's and it just looks extremely dirty…worn… extremely worn. I have no idea…I can't see it well. Is there any possible way of saving it? I have no idea where I would've gotten an old quilt except I've bought some things in trunks and it may be...who knows...it might be saved or not. It does look like the oldest quilt here.

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Quilt 191

Snowball Trip Around the World c. 1940 72x67 Description: has some age, underwear fabric, clothing scraps, old tablecloths, wool blanket filler Fabrics: varied scraps Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted, tied Condition: fading, worn, puckering, runners in some of fabrics Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: This looks like some kind of tic-tac-toe game. Maybe ready now for the dog shelter that always needs blankets...covers for wet, cold, terrified dogs. Ask first.

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Quilt 192

Tumbling Blocks, Stairstep Quilt c. 1910 56x83 Description: red, black and gray blocks, with alternate rows of gray, tied, knife edge finish, possible wool batting Fabrics: wool, cotton flannel backing, blanket batting Threads: cotton, tied in wool Construction: hand pieced, tied with red wool yarn Condition: stains, disintegration of fabric, minor small holes, excellent condition for 100 yrs old Written Information on Tag: Greene Co, OH; 1910 (labeled-county, owner on back of quilt)

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: This is a narrow "cot" comfort. I named it Stairsteps to Heaven and displayed it in a Greene Co., Ohio church. It was not appreciated. Still very warm.

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Quilt 193

Shoo Fly, The Eight-Cornered Box, Fence Row, Simplicity c. 1910 69x74

Description: on point pink/blue pattern blocks with alternating pink and white blocks Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand quilted Condition: distressed and well used, binding is not intact, light pink is faded Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks:

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Quilt 194

Flutter Wheel, Windmill, Pin Wheels, Clover Leaf c. 1945 72X75

Description: print pinwheels with alternating pink blocks, older fabric in pinwheels Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted, binding by machine Condition: fading, stains Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Yes, it is anot her Gr eat Depr essio n pink...and boring at that. Win some, lose some.

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Quilt 195

Children's Delight c. 1930 69x68 Description: four rows of blue print and white blocks with darker blue and pink sashing, exterior rows of pink and brown blocks with gray and blue sashing Fabrics: rayon top and binding, blanket filler Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, machine pieced, hand quilted Condition: disintegration of fabric, wear to edge or binding, blanket batting Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: She tried. She was careful. She planned with what she had. And it was used.

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Quilt 196

Squares and Oblongs, Geometric Block - variation c. 1900 72x79 Description: red blocks on tan background, back is calico, Cadet Blue backing, possible Mennonite and Walnut dye on brown Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted Condition: fading, some tears or holes Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: better days.

Fine quilting.

Had

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Quilt 197

The Sunflower, Queen of The May, Chinese Star c. 1950 64X71 Description: calico wheels on white with pink border Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, beautiful! Condition: fabric in excellent condition, hole, big stains Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: The prints in the 40's and 50's were still in shock from the war. Quilters were few. Home sewing was disappearing.

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Quilt 198

Hearts & Gizzards, Pierrot's Pom Pom, Snowball, Tennessee Snowball, Springtime Blossoms, Windmill, Dutch Windmill, Dutch Rose, Lover's Knot, Heart & Flowers, Morning Glory, Wheel of Fortune, Primrose c. 1990 72x90 Description: green print and yellow blocks with triple border Fabrics: cotton, muslin back Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, hand quilted Condition: great condition Written Information on Tag: made Laurene Skeens, Ripley, Jackson Co, WV; 1993

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: An experienced quilter from three generations of quilters. Needing incomeâ&#x20AC;Ś foreign, cheap labor quilts taking her buyers. Attendance at annual Homemakers Quilt show low. American quilt market sinking. Job market? Wal-Mart Associate.

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Quilt 199

Crazy Quilt c. 1920 87x87 Description: Fabrics: cotton, velvet, silk mostly Threads: embroidered Construction: machine pieced, hand embroidered Condition: disintegration of fabric Written Information on Tag: Worth replacing silks, still beautiful, Lola Gardner embroidered by hand

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Not for bed cover, not now, NEVER. A wall in a mansion, maybe.

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Quilt 200

Trip Around the World - hexagon c. 1960 75x83 Description: bright colors Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted, binding by machine, turned and hand stitched Condition: good condition, tiny stains Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: A difficult pattern to keep aligned. Hours and hours of work. Probably not enough time in choosing fabrics.

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Quilt 201

Home Queen, Rocky Road To California c. 1900 71x67 Description: wonderful fabric, super poor condition, Turkey red print backing, Cadet Blue blocks, possible Russian trade fabric, 24" wide panels Fabrics: wonderful old fabrics, scrappy cotton and flannel, wool Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted Condition: fading, worn, stains, discolored or dyes ran, disintegration of fabric, tears or holes Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks:

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Quilt 202

Endless Stairs, London Stairs, Endless Stair, Winding Stairway unknown 67x51 Description: Fabrics: corduroy, etc Threads: cotton Construction: wool blanket filler, corduroy back Condition: holes Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: It looks like the U.S. Congress on a bad day. This is ready for the S.U.V.

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Quilt 211

French Bouquet, Bride's Bouquet, Flower Garden c. 1932 77x79 Description: old looking, orange binding, beautiful, nicely made Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted Condition: damage on top fabrics, holes, repairable Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Looks like 1932. Orange borders. Orange bindings. I believe that one is about ready for New To You or Goodwill.

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Quilt 212

Anna's Choice Quilt c. 1900 blocks, c. 1930 border 75x83 Description: pink and white blocks set with alternating white blocks, pink border, white backing Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, machine pieced, hand quilted, 8-9 sts/inch Condition: good condition, stains Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Looking for a really old quilt for a four poster bed? This may be the one. Orderly red and white, formal expert piecing for points on star.

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Quilt 213

Octagon Block c. 1900 79x72 Description: includes feedsacks, interesting graphic and construction Fabrics: cotton and wool Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted Condition: worn Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Too much happening here. Quilting outlines the shapesâ&#x20AC;Śwork intensive. Holding up after hard use.

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Quilt 214

Crazy Quilt quilt top c. 1900 77x75 Description: quilt top, dark green border Fabrics: many Threads: cotton Construction: hand embroidered, several types Condition: stains, worn Written Information on Tag: Excellent condition! A very fine antique top.

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: For display only. Design still intrigues.

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Quilt 215

Squares and Triangles c. 1940 59x72 Description: lavender and white blocks Fabrics: Threads: Construction: machine pieced Condition: good condition, stains Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks:

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Quilt 216

Crazy Quilt c. 1945 68x86 Description: double sided Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, hand quilted Condition: worn Written Information on Tag: Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Is a double-sided crazy quilt made in North Carolina and it's a very distinctive kind of crazy quilt. These people did not use yardsticks or measuring tape. They were isolated up in the mountains and their crazy quilts are quite different from the crazy quilts you would find in a more populous area that had quilt shows and everybody knew how to measure. Crazy quilts have always been difficult to make...to sew them and get the pieces fit together. It's a real skill and an art. But these are a different...I compare these...I say this is the Appalachian version of what they have done at Gee's Bend. Gee's Bend people were isolated. They didn't know quilts. They couldn't get out, you had to get there by boat or something. Black, oppressed and just barely surviving and they made quilts that have now become world famous and sell for between $10,000 or $20,000 per quilt. Of course these are not famous. The one I'm looking at is not famous and is never going to be famous. But it is a North Carolina version of isolated people...untrained, unskilled in making super fine quilts. That was not it. It was to create something out of the scraps they had. And this one just has done...it is quilted...if you look...some places you can see the dark...the quilting is not their specialty, but it's a fairly fine uneven stitch. So they are quilted, but that's not what this was about. This was about piecing patchwork together and they do a fantastic job of piecing patchwork together.

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Quilt 217

Baby Quilt c. 1970 45x37 Description: solid fabric, crib quilt, bears, rabbits and apple trees, white ruffled edge, yellow backing, beautiful shell quilting Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand quilted Condition: great condition, one small dirt spot on ruffle Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Is a contemporary baby quilt that I bought in Athens County not too long before I left...it's maybe 14 years ago or so...say the year 2000... out of already cute printed material which is a shame because her quilting is beautiful. If you turn it over, on the solid on the back, still has her pencil marks there. You can see what's called...a certain kind of quilting that I can't name right now. Anyhow, it's curved arcs. It's a little bit harder than straight line quilting or the big sweeps and she marked it with pencil and the pencil mark is still there. Then she added the ruffle to it...which is I expect a commercial ruffle...that she's added to it. And I bought it just to have it....to be able to give somebody a baby quilt and that one got mixed up into my other quilts. The quilting is a combination of clamshell and fan. Quite difficult and not shown off well on this print. I hope she continues to quilt but chooses fabrics that don't compete with her superior quilting skill.

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Quilt 218

Bow Tie Quilt c. 1900 76x67 Description: shirtings, Claret Red and Cadet Blue Fabrics: cotton, shirtings Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted Condition: fading, worn, disintegration of fabric, fold marks, wear to edge or binding Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: This miniature "Bow Tie" pattern is overwhelmed by the almost "Snowball" inserts which dominate the quilt. The white patches are made from a common block speckled print frequently used for men's shirts which were also made frequently at home. The pattern, the materials, and even the colors, seem almost at war with one another. It is captured by two nice strong borders...the most successful element of the quilt in my opinion.

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Quilt 219

Ocean Wave, Waves of The Ocean, Odds and Ends, Octagon, Odd Fellows Quilt c. 1895 67x81 Description: calico triangles with indigo centers and border on two sides Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted Condition: fading, worn, stains, disintegration of fabric, distressed and well used Written Information on Tag: On point blocks, contrast triangles, Indigo blue predominating; very old, c. 1890 or earlier, unbleached muslin backing, clean, recently laundered 2011 Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Very, very old. Sometime in the late 1800's. Unbleached muslin, to begin with, on the back. Lots of discoloration. I think it's still holding together but it has lots of spots on it. I can see one patch was a striped fabric and whatever the stripe was...could've been green or could've been one of the reds or could've been brown...the dye ate up and all that's left are what looks like a little ventilator. The white is fine...the other color that was in the stripe the dye has eaten the fabric. That's just a little something that people find interesting. I do. But it deteriorates...it detracts from those who want perfection in their quilts. The back is a solid, not particularly very good...and I see that some reinforcing has been done on this quilt with the machine...that they're trying to save it and they've gone around in some places and run a stitch across with the sewing machine. So it's both hand-quilted and reinforced with the sewing machine. "Ocean Wave" requires many, many small triangles, usually requiring hand stitching until recently when stripe piecing has been developed by modern crafters. 170

Quilt 220

Mosaic #9, Windmill, Water Wheel, Watermill, Sugarbowl, Old Crow, Fly, Pinwheel, Broken Wheel c. mid 1900's 74x74 Description: wool and cotton w/ red and white, flannel backing Fabrics: wool Threads: Construction: hand pieced, machine pieced, tied, flannel back Condition: disintegration of fabric, tears or holes, mended, distressed and well used Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Tied. Quilted. Flannel backingâ&#x20AC;Ślooks like a flannel blanket was used as the backing of it. Lots of wool in this. And I see quite a bit of damage on the side over here that the wool has been torn, quite thin. It's a pattern quilt. Not long for this world, but still a strong graphic, colorful statement.

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Quilt 221

Nine Patch, Checkerboard Design quilt top c. 1980 62x48 Description: quilt top, yellow and white blocks set with alternate yellow blocks, blue border Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced Condition: great condition Written Information on Tag: Blue/yellow 9 patch variation, blended fabrics

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Made for a child's bed? Expert piecing with two "framing" borders.

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Quilt 222

Nine Patch, Checkerboard Design quilt top c. 1980 44x65 Description: quilt top, on point dark and light peach blocks set with alternate peach blocks, dark border Fabrics: Threads: Construction: Condition: Written Information on Tag: Blended fabric, 9 patch on point, single

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Unusual size. A beginner's quilt. Nice color contrast in the two frames. The borders are valuable, especially for small quilts.

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Quilt 223

Nine Patch quilt top c. 1965 58x65 or 79x66 Description: quilt top, nine patch with light green sashing Fabrics: Threads: Construction: Condition: Written Information on Tag: Cotton scrap, some sheeting, pieced by hand, large 9 patch, green sashing

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: A quite famous modern "wall quilt" artist in a Dairy Barn presentation told us "If you ever find a good green for sale, buy the entire bolt." He believed the greens always were too blue or too yellow and difficult to incorporate in a quilt. We really don't know how this green looked when new...it is slip, slip, slipping away and becoming very pale and sickly now.

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Quilt 224

Nine Patch, Checkerboard Design c. 1990 68x77 Description: holiday quilt, red solid and print blocks w/ green ties Fabrics: cotton, flannel Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, tied with red wool metallic yarn Condition: great condition Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: This is a current quilt. It was definitely made for Christmas. It is red and it's tied on one side. All new material. I don't think that this one was ever washed. It was never used except in a store displayâ&#x20AC;Śit was under, supposedly, the Christmas window in a store. It was made fairly quickly probably with strip piecing...offset one long printed piece and sew it to one long solid piece...repeat the cut into squares. Very neat little green yarn ties which oftentimes are much too long and get spaghetti-like. Ohhh, what a Christmas gift this would make for a loved one!

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Quilt 225

Double Nine Patch, Fundamental Nine Patch, Single Irish Chain c. 1925 74x84 Description: purple nine patch blocks with alternate white blocks Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, machine pieced, hand quilted Condition: fading, holes on top, batting washed, binding wear, distressed and well used Written Information on Tag: Clean, still beautiful double

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Quilt...purple backing. Front is white with square pattern as a pattern. Nicely quilted. Edges extremely worn. Looking at the back of it the quilting is unevenâ&#x20AC;Śit's a beginning quilter or perhaps a group quilting. This may be the only real purple I've ever seen in a heritage quilt. I am leaning to the 1930's...not older.

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Quilt 226

New Jersey, Log Cabin c. 1970 76x46 Description: colorful w/ striped backing; X1XX172 embroidered on corner block, with gray sashing, sheet backing, blanket filler, excellent display of home textile variety Fabrics: cotton wool, polyester, satin, rayon, corduroy, toweling, double knits, acrylics Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, machine pieced, hand quilted, not a lot of quilting - not well made, piecing not lining up Condition: good condition Written Information on Tag: Outstanding construction, fabulous design and colors! New, never used. Mary’s Remarks: Is a log cabin quilt made and put on a striped sheet backing. The sheet backing is certainly contemporary. Some of the things in the log cabin design…we have knits, we have percales, we have flat material, we have woven...the sashing between the squares is a really, of course, some kind of summer fabric...partly looks like linen..... It is a conglomeration of fabrics and the squares do not line up...the squares do not have to line up on this. It's a kind of a version of a crazy log cabin pattern because the logs do not match and it's okay. They do end up making a square. Traditional quilters who have spent years cutting precisely, sewing so very carefully to get corners and stripes as perfectly matched as if the color was put on by the printing press, go MAD when they see famous modern quilters deliberately not lining up stripes or making 90° corners! Who gave them permission to do that? And then for the art galleries to buy and display them..."Oh, what is the world coming to?" as my grandmother would say.

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Quilt 227

Sunbonnet Sue c. 1988 51x37 Description: wall hanging or crib quilt, six large blocks with saw tooth border Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, hand appliquĂŠd, hand quilted Condition: great condition, new and unused Written Information on Tag: An original rendition of the traditional Sunbonnet Sue, superb crafting, saw tooth border, wall hanging or crib quilt, made by Evelyn Parsons, Wood County, W.V.

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: This seems to be a rural Sunbonnet Sue, maybe slightly influenced by the "hippie movement"? I may have to make friends with her and be more accepting now that her dress is less doll-like and prissy and so fancy.

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Quilt 228

Lattice, A Quilt of Variety, The Quint Five Quilt c. 1960 73x66 Description: calico prints with dark lattice Fabrics: Threads: Construction: machine pieced Condition: great condition Written Information on Tag:

Mary’s Remarks: The width of the sashing…or lattice…and its dark color almost "trap" the calico prints. It is very difficult to make the original decisions of "how am I going to use the calico triangles?" Sashing is so important to the finished quilt. Almost every step of quilt making is difficult to make a really exciting, satisfying finished quilt.

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Quilt 229

Double Wedding Ring c. 1940 70x83 Description: one muslin backing, scalloped edges Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted, scalloped edge, beautiful quilting Condition: fading, worn, pencil or pen marking lines Written Information on Tag: Almost new, stains, can be saved, c. 1940

Mary’s Remarks: This is a wedding ring…with blue and pink center square emphasis and all of the other rings are fabric… it's lots of yellow and blue and pink. Pretty badly stained. It has had almost no wear but it's had a problem. It could easily have been in a cedar chest. You can see on the back it's good muslin on the back and lots of quilting. A very sturdy quilt that's not had the pencil washed out of it. It's had very little laundering but it needs a lot of help both with the design and the colors. 1940 perhaps. Cedar chests were highly advertised in the 1930's-40's. They "protected" every precious belonging such as quilts, wool blankets, wedding dresses, baby's first clothes and on and on from theft, rats, mice, wool moths, and even a house fire. It was frequently sold to young women as their first step to establishing their "dream home." The manufacturers neglected to reveal that cedar is highly acidic and was disastrous to quilts and wedding gowns. Wrap your quilt in an old sheet or bedspread if you are still using your cedar chest for fabric storage.

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Quilt 230

Winding Ways, Nashville, Wheel of Mystery, Robbing Peter to Pay Paul, Kaleidoscope c. 1938 75x61 Description: orange and unbleached muslin, three sides bordered Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted, work - beautiful Condition: stains, several holes in border, wear to edge or binding, slight wear, a few age spots Written Information on Tag: Excellent piecing, muslin backing, c. 1938

Mary’s Remarks: Patterned quilt. It's got a salmon color…very unusual color. An all over design with lots of curved pieces. That's an extremely difficult pattern to put together and piece. Every triangle is curved…has at least two curved sides…some of the triangles have three curved sides. It was nicely quilted. It's had some use and some wear, but I think looks like it's still in good shape. I've put 1930...maybe all the way to 1935.

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Quilt 231

Depression, Streak O' Lightening, Zig Zag, Old Garden Wall c. 20th century 68x78 Description: dark blue and plaid earth tone bricks, cotton flannel stripe backing to front binding Fabrics: wool Threads: Construction: machine pieced, hand quilted Condition: tears or holes Written Information on Tag: Warm Springs, Virginia yard sale, old wool top, LOUD large square top, corduroy comfort, 9/89

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: I was, along with my sisters, either going to or coming back from Warm Springs, Virginia, for about an every 5 year get together, I had to stop and park the car in front of a yard sale and I ended up buying this quilt. This one's made out of work clothes...I do believe...it is heavy duty work clothes. The back of it was pretty much a flannel, could've been a flannel sheet. This blue background with all of these work clothes and men's clothes and men's shirts...they're bound to appeal to some man who has a cabin in the woods. I see that that has been attacked...oh, I think it's broken through...carried badly and it's split..this last little border...truly a "working man's quilt."

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Quilt 232

Patchwork Quilt c. 1925 77x64 Description: on point lavender and white blocks with alternating lavender blocks, white backing Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted Condition: uneven batting, some fading and fold stains Written Information on Tag: Antique, hand pieced, hand quilted, patchwork quilt, washable, double bed size, made in Ohio, c. 1932

Mary’s Remarks: It says made in Ohio, double bed. Quilt ...very thin…may have one of those little flannel sheets inside…it's got more than the backing…but it is very, very thin, beautiful lavender…yes, very definitely 1930's. Hand quilted, and pretty seriously worn.

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Quilt 233

Hexagon, Honeycomb, Mosaic c. 1970 71x83 Description: Fabrics: Threads: Construction: hand pieced Condition: good condition Written Information on Tag: Splendid work, honeycomb hexagon, hand pieced, c. 1950

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rema rks : Hexagons are not easy to fit together and they can go sideways in a hurry. This 1980's calico would brighten up any cabin in a dark woods. The quilter may have belonged to a "trading circle" where small scraps were exchanged with quilters, even in far away states, to gain even greater variety.

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Quilt 234

Crazy Quilt quilt top c. 1910 68x21 Description: quilt top, many fabrics Fabrics: cotton poly, wool Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced Condition: fading, worn, no binding, puckering, all damage slight Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Not for the faint hearted who need some order. This is pure chaos from the four trumpets in the four corners. But carefully and patiently embroider-stitched at every seam.

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Quilt 235

Lone Star c. 1986 70x86 Description: white whole cloth, printed pieces in star, feather wreath quiltings, cheater cloth binding, beautifully pieced and quilted Fabrics: cotton, some polyester Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, hand quilted, feather wreath quilting Condition: great condition Written Information on Tag: "Nova", Maker: anonymous, origin: Meigs County, Ohio, date: 1986, new, superb quilting with a unique, exciting, pulsating star. About 200 hours of quilting!

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Large Texas star, multi-color print. Accented circles, black and white prints. Nova, from Meigs County, Ohio. Mixed modern fabrics. Corners are feather wreath quiltings. Very unusual white fabric with black spots in it used to accent the points in the star. We didn't see polka dot fabrics in quilts often. Oh, how they do stand out. This is a show stealer...look for it at the famous web site quilt dealer's offerings.

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Quilt 236

Scrap Quilt c. 1950 67x49 Description: blocks different sizes with strips, down home, blocks alternate horizontal and vertical Fabrics: cotton, some polyester Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, tied, binding hand sewn, done with care, light filler, maybe a sheet used as a foundation for sew strips Condition: great condition Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Is a scrap quilt and the scraps are all cut in slices...like bread slicesâ&#x20AC;Śan inch high and maybe eight or ten inches long. They've been put together to make blocks. Makes it nice, but it's a tied quilt. Very thin, maybe not anything between the quilt.

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Quilt 238

Log Cabin c. 1950 93x77 Description: uneven Fabrics: variety Threads: Construction: machine pieced Condition: great condition Written Information on Tag:

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Quilt 239

Dresden Plate c. 1945 blocks, c. 1970 finished 72x86 Description: block background, whites vary in brightness, older blocks, newer border and backing, never used, never washed Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, tied with cotton Condition: stains, discolored or dyes ran Written Information on Tag: Dresden Plate, never used nor laundered, Maker: Louise Johnson, origin: Morgan County, Ohio, date: the top was pieced c. 1940-1950. As Ms. Johnson became more and more crippled with arthritis she had to shift from quilting quilts to tying quilts. She added a larger border to this quilt top and tied it during the 70's when she, herself was 70.

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: This is a combination of an old top that's had a wide border added to it. It is a tied quilt. My story says that I know...I either met her or I was given the story by someone who said that she had been a fine quilter and then arthritis set in and she had to tie from then on. But it's a Dresden Plate and she has put the Dresden Plate pieces...all different kinds of fabric...I see 1930's fabric in there, maybe some 20's but I certainly see those pink flowers...that was my childhood...pink 30's...on muslin, so those pieces were added to with this white border on the outside, but all of those pieces, the Dresden (Continued on page 190)

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Plate was put on by a sewing machine that wasn't very well adjusted and it has all kinds of raggedy sewing around the edges which makes it almost look like it was intentional to... it was set for way too fine a stitch and it didn't do very well with the thread so it's kind of...you have to have a sense of humor when you look at this and see a Dresden Plate with the squares completed with appliquĂŠ...machine appliquĂŠ does not rate very high with very many people. Let's be generous to whatever people had to use and the time they had to make...it's still a very colorful Dresden Plate. With all kind of pink ties of pink yarn.

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Quilt 240

Four Star Block c. 1930 81x64 Description: variety of print and solid stars with black diamonds, thicker cotton batting Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted Condition: worn, stains Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: I almost want to go into maybe..I wonder if this was made by a man? It is just very coarsely made, and what a strong statement. Now, in my childhood, and in some of my going to quilt symposiumsâ&#x20AC;Śhow broad it was over the country that you did not put black in a quilt...it would bring death to the family and the quilt maker and this person had never heard of it and wanted black and it is a black and red muslin statement with black pinwheels or black diamonds all the way through it. I'm looking at the fabric...it looks 20's to me...not sure...I see a little bit of pink there that could be 30's but this is pretty old, rugged, 1910 fabric in it. The borders...I was told that every border adds $50 to the value of the quilt...that was by somebody sewing quilts of course...and this has one, two, three, four borders and strings hanging out...didn't tie the strings...and three of those borders are quilted and they're quilted by somebody who probably tied flies for trout fishing because those are giant (Continued on page 192)

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stitches...kind of interesting...so they went saddle stitching...alright, they made a quilt with saddle stitching. Then the last one is sewn to the backing, on the machine, with a great big long stitch and they said "So there," when they finished that. It has some bad problems but it might appeal to somebody. You might want to hang that one in the local saloon. I see this one has a piece ripped out of one of the edges...I'm sorry about that...that could've been caught on a bedspring, could've been picked up by the edge and brought...of course a piece of black that shows the pretty thick batting inside. That's not...that's old batting in there. Sorry that this has a little bit of wear on that. Oh, I see I wrote a story on this...would make you wonder why my sisters would still speak to me. Oh, four of us went to Warm Springs, Virginia, for a get together after we were in our 60's and 70's years old and of course we parked the car to go to something and there's a yard sale and I have to pick up this quilt for $5.00. I'm not sorry I bought it.

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Quilt 241

Nine Patch c. 1945 75x62 Description: yellows, blues, pinks, with sashing, thin sheeting batting Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, machine quilted Condition: fading, discolored or dyes ran, open seams, quilting threads broken Written Information on Tag: Thrifty quilt, machine quilted c. 1932; never used

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Is a machine quilted, thinâ&#x20AC;Ś probably a cotton sheet lining in between or just another sheet. Pattern quilt. Nothing exciting about this quilt. It has a pattern and has all kinds of different scraps used. Bound by machine. The backing is kind of a sateen. About 1932. Never used and never washed. And not too large either.

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Quilt 242

Checkers unknown 68x81 Description: black, golds and tans Fabrics: wool, corduroy, canvas Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, hand quilted Condition: fading, disintegration of fabric, tears or holes, wear to edge or binding Written Information on Tag: Heavy, quilted comfort, winter weight, washable (front loader is best), double bed size, part wool, dry low heat or line, c. 1935, made in Ohio

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Is a heavy quilted comfort. It's a patterned comfort with great blocks of different colors and it is hand-quilted and it's got corduroy in it and it's got almost heavy, coarse burlap, and very heavy coat-like fabrics in it. And it's designed nicely with how the colors are...the corduroy and the black. And the quilting is utilitarian...somewhere on some of the...and it's thick. It has probably another quilt in it or....I think maybe heavy cotton batting.

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Quilt 243

Autumn Leaf c. 1990 81x65 Description: colorful, pink border, pink floral print sashing, new used, not washed Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, hand quilted, unusual pattern of quilting on wide borders Condition: great condition, pencil or pen marking lines Written Information on Tag:

Mary’s Remarks: Autumn leaf. Made out of all kinds of fabrics that have no resemblance whatever to autumn leaves now. Each with a green stem. Nicely appliquéd on to the patchwork leaf. Oh gracious…lined…sashing is a pink floral print. Nice big wide border at the end is pink and the pencil marks are still there with an unusual kind of pattern of quilting. Pretty inexpert quilting. It's new backing. New white. K-Mart backing. That's a contemporary...eww...some of those fabrics look like...army. But that's a new contemporary quilt with rounded corners.

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Quilt 244

Squares, Hit or Miss, Hairpin Catcher c. 1940 87x58 Description: blues and pinks, uneven pattern, feedsacks, may have used old fabrics from clothes, aprons, and shirts Fabrics: cotton, feed sack Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, machine pieced, hand quilted Condition: fading, some small stains, tears or holes, distortion or shrinkage Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Pretty old quilt. I think maybe I see some feed sack in it. It's patterned with solid blue squares and then floral prints. Pretty thinâ&#x20AC;Śit may not have anything in between the top and the backing and it's got solid prints from top to bottom. I don't believe that can be called a pattern. That is squared pieces together...but they're all geometric...all lined up nice in orderly.

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Quilt 245

Puss In The Corner c. 1870 67x69 Description: reds and blues, brown flower print backing, very faded, possibly centennial quilt Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, machine pieced, tied, w/ double embroidery thread Condition: fading, discolored or dye run, disintegration of fabric, uneven batting Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: Is puzzling to me. It's a tied, medium-weight quilt. Lots of ties...multi-colored tie of white and brown mixed together. You see lots of white curly-cues. There is a pattern to this...but I can't see because it's on the bottom. I see part of the pattern has been patched. Lots of blues and lots of red so it's basically and red and blue quilt. Again, the age...look at the back of it...when you see fabric like this...they didn't buy the white single to use for quilt backing...that just hadn't happened yet. Which makes me think that this could easily be in the 1800's. Where would you get backing like that that you wouldn't...and I need to look more at this. I can see more of it now and the quilt gets more complicated. There's a dark blue with white stars in it that's used to perk this up and all of the corners...star corners...so a little red corners too...red around the stars. This is quite an intricate quilting pattern and it...the binding shows burnt, but it's not worn through. I think that this has possibilities. The blue is outlined in a brown plaid...that came from trousers or a shirt or something...that doesn't quite set off the blue. But I think a red, white and blue has a few cross-set of charms in the center of the blocks. I think that might be just a quite interesting quilt with a funny little white and brown ties.

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Quilt 246

Tulip Appliqué c. 1950 93x78 Description: purple tulips appliqué, on point with alternate purple blocks with quilted ornate flower patterns, border has purple tulips, kit quilt, perhaps original border design, muslin back Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand appliquéd, hand quilted, 10-12 sts/inch Condition: fold marks, thin batting, light stains and fold marks on back Written Information on Tag:

Mary’s Remarks: I'm speechless….with looking at the quilting on this quilt. It is just incredible…ten stitches to the inch. It's a little bit of a boring pattern. I think it was a quilt kit and I wished…I had an opportunity once and missed out on getting a reproduction of the Cincinnati firm that made the cotton filler for quilts and I think they still make out of orlon or nylon or Dacron..whatever they're doing now...Mountain Mist, maybe...and into the quilt business in the 50's...maybe before the quilt kit business and I think that this could be. I look at this on the border and I see where somebody has drawn in pencil the place where the stems and the sleeves and the blossoms of this flower is supposed to go. I only see that on the edges, I don't see that up in the body of the quilt, but it (Continued on page 199)

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has many, many squares with this same flower in it and they're spaced apart with highly quilted ornate flower patterns, blocks in between. I don't think it's ever been washed. I think it's pretty much bigger...it may be 50's but it's barely...I don't know...are those quilt kits vintage now...when they turned them out by...I don't think this woman originated or got it from a neighbor. It is magnificent quilting for one in that aspect. I almost like the back better than I like the front. It's not particularly good material on the back which makes me think that it was a quilt kit maybe, but the quilting shows up on the back and when it gets washed it's going to show up ever more..it will be gorgeous.

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Quilt 247

Eight Point Design, Lone Star, Star Design, Texas Star, Tippecanoe and Tyler Too, Texas, Eastern Star, Eight Point Star, Shoofly, Star c. 1930 79x67 Description: blue and white, with sashing Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand pieced, machine pieced, hand quilted Condition: fading, worn, stains, fold marks, wear to edge or binding Written Information on Tag:

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: I think this has been stored in a cedar chest or maybe a plastic bag. But it has just a little bit of that discoloration that comes...that's really hard to getâ&#x20AC;Śwe were taught by the cedar chest companies to store our valuables in cedar chests before we knew that cedar has the acid in it that discolors and then eventually eats on to the fabric and just ruins. I've had a crusade in any time that I was giving a program for any kind of quilting club or farmer's wives club or anything to say don't put your quilts in a cedar chest. They did float down the Ohio River and saved a number in the '37 flood...they began to pull cedar chests out of the river and try to get the quilts back to the people who owned them. But this one has a mark that just looks to me like it was folded where the cedar...now that can come out with some bleaching. I'm not going to say anything about Clorox. I've ruined too many quilts with that, but some bleaching will take out generally this cedar chest discoloration. It is a very, very thin, probably (Continued on page 201)

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cotton on the inside and it's...all of the patches are lovely blue stripes. All the color work is pale blue. It's fading now...some of which was faded when they used it...but somebody was into making a blue and white quilt, very faded, and it may be saved or it may be that you just have to look at it with glasses that don't see the cedar chest damage.

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Quilt 248

Rose Dream, Endless Chain, True Lover's Knot, Broken Square, Martha, Lover's Knot, Lover's Bowtie c. 1940 86x71 Description: pink and white with prairie points border, pink thread for by the piece quilting, pink backing Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: hand and machine pieced, hand quilted Condition: fading, a few stains, uneven batting, large fade mark on backing Written Information on Tag: Very long "Code Pink", prairie points all around, stains

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remarks: This is what I call "Code Pink" quilt. A really strong pink and white quilt and the quilter had the confidence to use pink thread for quilting and her stitches are just beautifully even and it's a little heavier than general quilting thread. But it does add...you can see these pink quilted outlining every piece...every piece is outlined...sewn together by machine, but the next piece is outlined which makes a little pink road that goes down in between every...she put points on the outside...I don't know if these are called prairie points...but putting points out on a nicely done finished edge is not the easiest thing to do. This one has been used and probably needs to be sun bleached. Still has considerable character to it.

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Quilt 250

Rail Fence c. 1991 88x68 Description: pink and yellow with prairie points border Fabrics: cotton Threads: cotton Construction: machine pieced, hand quilted Condition: great condition, one tiny spot on top, spots on back Written Information on Tag: "Fence Rail" with "prairie points" border, created by Wanda Hartley Butts; Jackson County, WV 1991

Mary’s Remarks: I know I met the woman who made this. Again this is the homemaker's club… I keep giving it a new name…in Jackson County. They have the show at Ripley every year and I seem to go a great many years. She won an award on this quilt for her quilting, I believe. I had somebody say "That's not hand-quilted, that's machine-quilted." But no, that is hand quilting on that quilt. She made points to go all around but they're not the genuine prairie points, I don't know. But the pattern is called "Fence Rail" and climbs up all the way through...and it's a color that a lot of women liked to put together...pink and yellow...with the various flower prints in it. I think that this has never been washed. I know it's never been used. I think it's still in very good condition. It was like this when it was bought. If you like it, or if those are the colors you (Continued on page 204)

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can deal with, this is a new, good quilt. Jackson County. Wanda Hartley Butts....I'm glad I got her name. 1991...that would have to be one of the last quilts....that's the last time I went to that quilt show...the homemaker's show...a signature quilt fundraiser...that I bought and gave to the Historical Society of West Virginia and it's in one of the books called "West Virginia Quilts." And they took a picture of this as one of the outstanding examples of the signature quilts that was sold to save the churches during the depression. Everybody paid so much...50 cents...to get their name sewn in a quilt and then it was raffled off and money they raised put a new roof on the church to save it through the Great Depression. I got that at that homemaker's show...maybe the last time I went.

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12" squares (65) ............................................................................................................. 70 Anna's Choice Quilt (212) ............................................................................................ 163 Antique AppliquĂŠ (175) ................................................................................................ 143 Apples (33)..................................................................................................................... 35 Autumn Leaf (243) ....................................................................................................... 195 Baby Quilt (217) .......................................................................................................... 168 Big Dipper, Yankee Puzzle, Hour Glass, Envelope Quilt, The Whirling Blade, Bow Ties, Pork and Beans (84) ................................................................................. 89 Big Dipper, Yankee Puzzle, Hour Glass, Envelope Quilt, The Whirling Blade, Bow Ties, Pork and Beans (156) ............................................................................. 127 Bow Tie (31) .................................................................................................................. 32 Bow Tie Quilt (218) ..................................................................................................... 169 Brickwall, Brickwork (147) .......................................................................................... 116 Broken Dishes (18) ......................................................................................................... 19 Broken Dishes/Tumbling Triangles (24) ......................................................................... 26 Butterfly At The Cross, Simple Sue, Algonquin Charm (1) ............................................... 1 Caesar's Crown, Grecian Star, Whirling Wheel (155) ................................................... 126 Calendar Quilt (56) ......................................................................................................... 62 Carpenter's Wheel (15) ................................................................................................... 15 Checkerboard (32) .......................................................................................................... 34 Checkers (242) ............................................................................................................. 194 Children's Delight (195) ............................................................................................... 154 Connecticut Star quilt top (6) ............................................................................................ 6 Contained Crazy Quilt (37)............................................................................................. 40 Crazy Quilt (8) ................................................................................................................. 8 Crazy Quilt (14) ............................................................................................................. 14 Crazy Quilt (38) ............................................................................................................. 42 Crazy Quilt (57) ............................................................................................................. 63 Crazy Quilt (71) ............................................................................................................. 76 Crazy Quilt (79) ............................................................................................................. 83 Crazy Quilt (98) ........................................................................................................... 103 Crazy Quilt (145) ......................................................................................................... 114 Crazy Quilt (160) ......................................................................................................... 130 Crazy Quilt (171) ......................................................................................................... 140 Crazy Quilt (176) ......................................................................................................... 144 Crazy Quilt (199) ......................................................................................................... 158 Crazy Quilt (216) ......................................................................................................... 167 Crazy Quilt quilt top (54) ............................................................................................... 60 Crazy Quilt quilt top (58) ............................................................................................... 64 Crazy Quilt quilt top (144)............................................................................................ 113 Crazy Quilt quilt top (149)............................................................................................ 118

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Crazy Quilt quilt top (150) ............................................................................................ 119 Crazy Quilt quilt top (214) ............................................................................................ 165 Crazy Quilt quilt top (234) ............................................................................................ 185 Crazy Quilt quilt top/coverlet (146) .............................................................................. 115 Cross variant (40) ........................................................................................................... 44 Crown of Thorns (169) ................................................................................................. 139 Depression, Streak O' Lightening, Zig Zag, Old Garden Wall (231) .............................. 182 Devil's Puzzle/Crosses (179) ......................................................................................... 148 Diamonds quilt top (51) .................................................................................................. 56 Double Nine Patch, Fundamental Nine Patch, Single Irish Chain (225)......................... 176 Double Nine Patch, Fundamental Nine Patch, Single Irish Chain (78) ............................ 82 Double T, T Square (164) ............................................................................................. 134 Double Wedding Ring (229) ......................................................................................... 180 Double Wedding Ring (93) ............................................................................................. 98 Double Wrench, Wrench, Monkey Wrench (45) ............................................................. 49 Double Wrench, Wrench, Monkey Wrench (49) ............................................................. 54 Dresden Plate (25) .......................................................................................................... 28 Dresden Plate (60) .......................................................................................................... 66 Dresden Plate (94) .......................................................................................................... 99 Dresden Plate (239) ...................................................................................................... 189 Dresden Plate variation (83) ........................................................................................... 88 Eight Point Design, Lone Star, Star Design, Texas Star, Tippecanoe and Tyler Too, Texas, Eastern Star, Eight Point Star, Shoofly, Star (3) ....................................... 3 Eight Point Design, Lone Star, Star Design, Texas Star, Tippecanoe and Tyler Too, Texas, Eastern Star, Eight Point Star, Shoofly, Star (247) ............................... 200 Embroidered Baskets (158)........................................................................................... 128 Endless Stairs, London Stairs, Endless Stair, Winding Stairway (202) .......................... 161 Feathered Star (11) ......................................................................................................... 10 Fiesta Bow Tie (154) .................................................................................................... 125 Floral Appliqué (41) ....................................................................................................... 45 Floral Appliqué (44) ....................................................................................................... 48 Floral Appliqué (148) ................................................................................................... 117 Floral Appliqué (153) ................................................................................................... 123 Flowered Appliqué (88) .................................................................................................. 93 Flutter Wheel, Windmill, Pin Wheels, Clover Leaf (194) .............................................. 153 Flying Goose (20) ........................................................................................................... 22 Four Star Block (240) ................................................................................................... 191 French Bouquet, Bride's Bouquet, Flower Garden (211) ............................................... 162 Friendship Ring, Dresden Plate, Aster (162) ................................................................. 132 Fruit Basket (165) ......................................................................................................... 135 Garden Basket with Tulips (161) .................................................................................. 131

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Garden Medallion, Magic Vine variation (140) ............................................................. 109 Grandmother's Fan (23) .................................................................................................. 25 Grandmother's Fan (61) .................................................................................................. 67 Grandmother's Flower Garden, Hexagon (95) ............................................................... 100 Hearts & Gizzards, Pierrot's Pom Pom, Snowball, Tennessee Snowball, Springtime Blossoms, Windmill, Dutch Windmill, Dutch Rose, Lover's Knot, Heart & Flowers, Morning Glory, Wheel of Fortune, Primrose (100) ...................... 105 Hearts & Gizzards, Pierrot's Pom Pom, Snowball, Tennessee Snowball, Springtime Blossoms, Windmill, Dutch Windmill, Dutch Rose, Lover's Knot, Heart & Flowers, Morning Glory, Wheel of Fortune, Primrose (198) ...................... 157 Hexagon, Honeycomb, Mosaic (233) ............................................................................ 184 Home Queen, Rocky Road To California (201) ............................................................ 160 Hourglass, Triangle Combination (47) ............................................................................ 51 Improved Nine Patch, Circle Upon Circle, Four Leaf Clover, Nine Patch Variation, Bailey Nine Patch (66) ............................................................................. 71 Joseph's Coat, Peeled Orange (86) .................................................................................. 91 Lattice, A Quilt of Variety, The Quint Five Quilt (228) ................................................ 179 Log Cabin (22) ............................................................................................................... 24 Log Cabin (59) ............................................................................................................... 65 Log Cabin (115) ........................................................................................................... 108 Log Cabin (152) ........................................................................................................... 122 Log Cabin (238) ........................................................................................................... 188 Log Cabin Crazy quilt top (46) ....................................................................................... 50 Lone Star (235) ............................................................................................................ 186 Lone Star, Star of The East, Blazing Star, Star of Stars (74)............................................ 79 Love Ring (72) ............................................................................................................... 78 Mariner's Compass (64) .................................................................................................. 68 Mola Cutwork Quilt (142) ............................................................................................ 111 Mosaic #9, Windmill, Water Wheel, Watermill, Sugarbowl, Old Crow, Fly, Pinwheel, Broken Wheel (53) ................................................................................... 58 Mosaic #9, Windmill, Water Wheel, Watermill, Sugarbowl, Old Crow, Fly, Pinwheel, Broken Wheel (220) ............................................................................... 171 Mosaic PW #1, Flying Crow, Ohio Star (180) .............................................................. 149 New Jersey, Log Cabin (226) ....................................................................................... 177 Nine Patch (12) .............................................................................................................. 12 Nine Patch (17) .............................................................................................................. 18 Nine Patch (43) .............................................................................................................. 47 Nine Patch (50) .............................................................................................................. 55 Nine Patch (70) .............................................................................................................. 75 Nine Patch (97) ............................................................................................................ 102 Nine Patch (172) .......................................................................................................... 141

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Nine Patch (241) ........................................................................................................... 193 Nine Patch Chain (7) ........................................................................................................ 7 Nine Patch quilt top (223) ............................................................................................. 174 Nine Patch with Flying Geese (36) ................................................................................. 39 Nine Patch, Checkerboard Design (166) ....................................................................... 136 Nine Patch, Checkerboard Design (224) ....................................................................... 175 Nine Patch, Checkerboard Design quilt top (221) ......................................................... 172 Nine Patch, Checkerboard Design quilt top (222) ......................................................... 173 Nine Patch, Checkerboard Design/ Square in a Square (42) ............................................ 46 no pattern (30) ................................................................................................................ 31 Ocean Wave, Waves of The Ocean, Odds and Ends, Octagon, Odd Fellows Quilt (219) ................................................................................................. 170 Octagon Block (213) .................................................................................................... 164 Ohio Star, Eight Point Design, Lone Star, Star Design, Texas Star, Tippecanoe and Tyler Too, Texas, Eastern Star, Eight Point Star, Star (19) ................................. 20 Painted flowers (163) .................................................................................................... 133 Patchwork Quilt (232) .................................................................................................. 183 Patchwork squares (87)................................................................................................... 92 Patience Nine Patch, Easy Quilt (168) .......................................................................... 138 Pineapple (5) .................................................................................................................... 5 Pinwheel quilt top (173) ............................................................................................... 142 Postage Stamp variation (111) ...................................................................................... 107 Primrose Path (34) .......................................................................................................... 36 Puritan Star Quilt, Star of LeMoyne, Lemon Star, Diamond Design, The Star, Eastern Star, Idaho Star, Hanging Diamonds, Diamond (77) ..................................... 81 Puss In The Corner (245) .............................................................................................. 197 Rail Fence (4) ................................................................................................................... 4 Rail Fence (250) ........................................................................................................... 203 Rainbow Quilt (92) ......................................................................................................... 97 Red Spades Appliquéd (82) ............................................................................................ 87 Rose Dream, Endless Chain, True Lover's Knot, Broken Square, Martha, Lover's Knot, Lover's Bowtie (9) ................................................................................ 9 Rose Dream, Endless Chain, True Lover's Knot, Broken Square, Martha, Lover's Knot, Lover's Bowtie (248) ........................................................................ 202 Roses in Baskets with Butterfly Appliqué (48)................................................................ 52 Scrap Quilt (236) .......................................................................................................... 187 Shadows, Rainbow Block, Roman Stripes (35) ............................................................... 37 Shoo Fly, The Eight-Cornered Box, Fence Row, Simplicity (90) .................................... 94 Shoo Fly, The Eight-Cornered Box, Fence Row, Simplicity (193) ................................ 152 Snowball (96) ............................................................................................................... 101 Snowball Trip Around the World (191) ........................................................................ 150

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Snowball, Virginia Snowball, Four Point (55) ................................................................ 61 Squares and Oblongs, Geometric Block - variation (196).............................................. 155 squares and triangles (215) ........................................................................................... 166 Squares on Squares/Medallion (167) ............................................................................ 137 Squares, Hit or Miss, Hairpin Catcher (244) ................................................................. 196 Star Bouquet Quilt, Morning Star (143) ........................................................................ 112 Sunbonnet Sue (91) ........................................................................................................ 96 Sunbonnet Sue (227) .................................................................................................... 178 The Colorado Quilt (2) ..................................................................................................... 2 The Sunflower, Queen of The May, Chinese Star (197) ................................................ 156 Thrifty variation (39) ...................................................................................................... 43 Thrifty variation/Nine-patch (27) .................................................................................... 29 Trip Around The World (16) .......................................................................................... 17 Trip Around the World (28) ............................................................................................ 30 Trip Around the World - hexagon (200) ....................................................................... 159 Trip Around the World - hexagon (75) ........................................................................... 80 Trip Around The World, Ninety Nine Times Around The World, Postage Stamp, Rainbow (68) ................................................................................................ 73 Trip Around The World, Ninety Nine Times Around The World, Postage Stamp, Rainbow (141) ............................................................................................ 110 Triple Irish Chain variation/crosses (21) ......................................................................... 23 Tulip Appliqué (85) ........................................................................................................ 90 Tulip Appliqué (246) .................................................................................................... 198 Tumbling Blocks, Stairstep Quilt (192) ........................................................................ 151 Vertical flag (151) ........................................................................................................ 120 Victorian Crazy Quilt (69) .............................................................................................. 74 Wanderer's Quilt, Drunkard's Path, Wonder of the World, Robbing Peter to Pay Paul, Solomon's Puzzle, Drunkard's Trail, Old Maid's Puzzle, Endless Trail (52) ............... 57 Wanderer's Quilt, Drunkard's Path, Wonder of the World, Robbing Peter to Pay Paul, Solomon's Puzzle, Drunkard's Trail, Old Maid's Puzzle, Endless Trail (159) .......... 129 Wedding Ring, Crown of Thorns (13) ............................................................................ 13 Winding Ways, Nashville, Wheel of Mystery, Robbing Peter to Pay Paul, Kaleidoscope (230) ................................................................................................. 181 Windmill, Whirligig (67) ................................................................................................ 72 Wool Bricks, Brickwall, Brickwork (81) ........................................................................ 85 Wool Bricks, Brickwall, Brickwork quilt top (177) ....................................................... 145 Wool Bricks, Brickwall, Brickwork quilt top (178) ....................................................... 146 Yo-Yo Quilt (99) .......................................................................................................... 104

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