QUILT INDEX RECORD

9-6-1606

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:

2025

Quilt's title:

LeMoyne Star

Quilt owner's city:

Stonewall

Quilt owner's state:

Louisiana (LA)

How was this quilt acquired?

Gift

Reasons quilt was made:

Other

Details about why the quilt was made:

As a gift for a child's doll.

Quilt top made by:

Pennywell, Sophia Harmes

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

She died in the early seventies. She was 75 years old. She was constantly quilting and piecing from scraps, and she would give quilts away to friends.

Type of item:

Finished quilt

Sizes, overall width:

24

Sizes, overall length:

24.5

Size of quilt blocks:

4.5 X 4.5

Describe the techniques used to make the quilt top:

Pieced

Pieced quilt type:

Block pattern

Arrangement of quilt blocks:

Straight

Setting:

Separated by plain sashing

Binding:

Straight grain

Number of borders:

4

Describe the borders:

Same Fabric, Single

Top fabric, fiber:

Cotton

Top fabric, design:

Print; Solid/plain

Top fabric, color value:

Multicolor; Dark colors

Backing/lining fiber:

Cotton

Backing/lining, design:

Solid/plain

Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 1:

5

Quilting, color of thread:

Light Blue

Quilting, design:

Other, Outline

Batting:

Cotton

Condition:

Good/moderate use

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

Owner writes, "My friend, Sophia Pennywell made the doll quilt as a gift for my son (P. J. Loftus) and his Jr. doll."

Family/owner's date for quilt:

1945

Who estimated the quilt's date?

Date estimated by Susan Roach

Place made, country:

United States

Copyright holder:

Louisiana Regional Folklife Program