QUILT INDEX RECORD

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Who documented this quilt?

Michigan Quilt Project; Quilts and Health

Where are the records for this quilt housed?

Michigan State University Museum

Michigan Quilt Project Number:

91.0016

Owner's name for the quilt:

Shoo Fly

Brackman # or other source & #:

1645

Quilt top made by:

Starr, Clinton

Quilted by:

Starr, Clinton; Starr, Ida

If you are the quilt owner, how did you acquire this quilt?

Inherited

Where the quilt was made, city:

Battle Creek

Where the quilt was made, county:

Calhoun

Where the quilt was made, state:

Michigan (MI)

When was the quilt started?

1930

When was the quilt finished?

1979

Why was the quilt made?

Therapy

Details about why the quilt was made:

This is a picture of my Mother, Ida Starr, re-quilting in 1979, a quilt made by my father, Clinton Starr, in the mid 1930s, while recovering from a severe case of tuberculosis in American Legion Hospital, Battle Creek, Mich.

Quiltmaker's gender:

Male

Quiltmaker's city:

Snover

Quiltmaker's county:

Sanilac

Quiltmaker's state:

Michigan (MI)

Number of children:

1

How many of the quiltmaker's children were girls?

1

When did the quiltmaker learn to quilt?

After an illness

This is a:

Finished quilt

Damage:

Distortion or shrinkage

Describe the repairs:

requilted and filled 1979

Describe the quilt's layout:

Block pattern

Arrangement of quilt blocks:

Straight

Spacing of quilt blocks:

Alternating with plain squares

Fiber types used to make the quilt top:

Cotton

Fabric styles used in the quilt top:

Feedsack

Piecing techniques used to make the quilt top:

Hand Piecing

What kind of filling is used in the quilt?

Polyester

How are the layers held together?

Hand quilting

Describe the sources of the quilt's materials:

Mother bought the blue cottons out of our meager earnings and the white is home bleached feed sacks.

Publications (including web sites) where this quilt or maker was featured:

Photograph in file has this on the back: Mrs. Clinton Starr, Snover, Mich, (Sanilac Co.) quilting a quilt made by my father, Clinton Starr, while a patient at American Legion Hospital, Battle Creek, MI while recovering from severe T.B.

Ownership of this quilt is:

Private

Quilt owner's name:

Phyllis E. Miller

Quilt owner's city:

Beaverton

Quilt owner's county:

Gladwin

Quilt owner's state:

Michigan (MI)

How was this quilt acquired?

Inheritance

Tell the story of how the quilt was obtained:

Clinton Starr (maker) Ida Starr (wife and restorer) Phyllis E. (Starr) Miller (daughter)

Describe anything about the history of the quilt that wasn't already recorded in a previous field:

Dad was tired of doing some of the crafts they offered at the hospital and asked Mother to send hem material to made a quilt. He would be in his mid thirties, at the time. He had spent several years in the hospital, because REST was the most suggested cure at that time.

Access and copyright information:

Restricted

How did the quiltmaker participate in the creation of the quilt?

Made entire quilt

Copyright holder:

Michigan State University Museum