QUILT INDEX RECORD

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Who documented this quilt?

Michigan Quilt Project

Where are the records for this quilt housed?

Michigan State University Museum

Michigan Quilt Project Number:

85.0754

Owner's name for the quilt:

Grandmother's Flower Garden

When was the form filled out?

5/17/1985

Quilt top made by:

Hawley, Harriet

Quilted by:

Hawley, Carole Youngs

If you are a relative of the quiltmaker, how are you related? The quiltmaker is my:

Quilt owner

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

Received as a gift

Where the quilt was made, city:

Saranac

Where the quilt was made, county:

Ionia

Where the quilt was made, state:

Michigan (MI)

Time period:

1901-1929

When was the quilt finished?

1984-85

Quiltmaker's gender:

Female

Quiltmaker's city:

Saranac

Quiltmaker's county:

Ionia

Quiltmaker's state:

Michigan (MI)

Quiltmaker's maiden name:

Blough

Quiltmaker's birth date:

8/14/1865

Quiltmaker's date and place of death:

11/25/1936

Quiltmaker's religious affiliation:

Methodist

Quiltmaker's occupation:

Housewife

Quiltmaker's father's name:

Blough, Peter

Quiltmaker's father's ethnic/tribal background:

English

Quiltmaker's mother's name:

Blough, Sarah Taylor

Quiltmaker's mother's ethnic/tribal background:

English

Quiltmaker's spouse's/spouses' and /or partner's/partners' name(s):

Hawley, Gilbert P.

Quiltmaker's spouse's/spouses' and/or partner's/partners' ethnic/tribal background:

English

Quiltmaker's spouse's/spouses' and/or partner's/partners' occupation:

Housewife

Number of children:

8

How many of the quiltmaker's children were girls?

4

How many of the quiltmaker's children were boys?

4

This is a:

Finished quilt

Shape of edge:

Sawtooth

Shape of corners:

Rounded

Quilt's condition:

Excellent/like new

What is inscribed on the quilt?

Carol Hawley

Location of inscription:

on back

Describe the quilt's layout:

Block pattern

Number of quilt blocks:

120

Arrangement of quilt blocks:

Straight

Spacing of quilt blocks:

Separated by pieced pattern sashing

Fiber types used to make the quilt top:

Cotton

Piecing techniques used to make the quilt top:

Hand Piecing

Materials used to make the back:

Cotton

Number of pieces of fabric in the quilt back:

1

How is the binding made?

Bias grain

What kind of filling is used in the quilt?

Polyester

How are the layers held together?

Hand quilting

Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 1:

7

Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 2:

9

Describe the quilting designs used:

Outline/Ditch

Where did the maker get their materials?

Sewing scraps

Person filling out this form is:

Quilt owner

Source of the information on this quilt:

Granddaughter of quiltmaker

Ownership of this quilt is:

Private

Quilt owner's name:

Marie W. Rosecrance

Quilt owner's city:

Ionia

Quilt owner's county:

Ionia

Quilt owner's state:

Michigan (MI)

How was this quilt acquired?

Gift

Tell the story of how the quilt was obtained:

Mrs. Carole (Youngs) Hawley, my 4th cousin by marriage.

Access and copyright information:

Restricted

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

Made entire quilt top

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

printed material was from Harriet Hawley's granddaughters dresses (7 of us at that time)

Copyright holder:

Michigan State University Museum