QUILT INDEX RECORD

9-6-1600

Who documented this quilt?

Louisiana Quilt Documentation Project

Where are the records for this quilt housed?

Louisiana Regional Folklife Program, Louisiana Tech University

Date data was collected:

9/10/1989

Lousiana Quilt Documentation Project Number:

2020

Quilt's title:

Log Cabin

Quilt owner's city:

Stanley

Quilt owner's state:

Louisiana (LA)

Reasons quilt was made:

Personal enjoyment

Quilt top made by:

Loftus, Elizabeth Sims

Quiltmaker's date of birth:

12/4/1912

Quiltmaker's maiden name:

Sims

Estimated number of quilts made by this quiltmaker:

5-20 quilts

Did the quiltmaker make other quilts? Approximately how many? Where are they?

Learned to quilt from: She learned from her mother and grandmother in the early 1920s. She made at least one quilt when she was 10 years old.

Favorite pattern, piecing preferences, quilting is done with:

Quilting done with: Frame from Ceiling, Baby Doll and Dutch Baby

Reason(s) for quiltmaking:

Necessity

Type of item:

Finished quilt

Sizes, overall width:

73

Sizes, overall length:

76

Size of quilt blocks:

8 X 8

Describe the techniques used to make the quilt top:

Pieced

Pieced quilt type:

Block pattern

Arrangement of quilt blocks:

Straight

Setting:

Side by side

Binding:

Front turned to back; Unfinished/raw edge

Number of borders:

4

Describe the borders:

Single

Top fabric, fiber:

Cotton

Top fabric, design:

Solid/plain; Print

Top fabric, colors:

Blue

Top fabric, color value:

Light or pastel colors; Multicolor

Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 1:

4

Quilting, color of thread:

white

Quilting, design:

Rows

Related items such as diaries, obituaries, wills, household inventories, or pictures of the quiltmaker:

The maker writes, "My grandmother, Mary Sims, ordered a bundle of scraps and cut out squares. I pieced the top ad my grandmother Sims and mother, Berta Sims helped me with the quilting. I was 10 years old but I did quilt on this quilt, being supervised by my mother and grandmother."

Family/owner's date for quilt:

1922

Who estimated the quilt's date?

Date estimated by Susan Roach

Place made, country:

United States

Copyright holder:

Louisiana Regional Folklife Program