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12-8-9014

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:

98.0001

Quilt's title:

Eternal Promises

Names for quilt's pattern in common use:

Watercolor pieced pictorial

Quilt top made by:

LeValley, Nancy

Quilted by:

LeValley, Nancy

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

Made the quilt

Where the quilt was made, city:

Traverse City

Where the quilt was made, county:

Grand Traverse

Where the quilt was made, state:

Michigan (MI)

Time period:

1976-1999

When was the quilt started?

1995

When was the quilt finished?

1998

Details about why the quilt was made:

It was begun to "practise" water color quilting process and became a major grief therapy project

Quiltmaker's gender:

Female

Quiltmaker's city:

Traverse City

Quiltmaker's county:

Grand Traverse

Quiltmaker's state:

Michigan (MI)

Quiltmaker's maiden name:

Covert

Quiltmaker's birth date:

7/3/1934

Quiltmaker's ethnic background/tribal affiliation:

Caucasian, Irish, English, German, white

Quiltmaker's educational background:

Grade school, High school, 2 years college certifications

Quiltmaker's religious affiliation:

United Methodist

Quiltmaker's occupation:

Retired music education piano teacher

Quiltmaker's father's name:

Covert, Paul H.

Quiltmaker's father's ethnic/tribal background:

Irish

Quiltmaker's mother's name:

Clark, Earline M. Stockwell Covert Turney

Quiltmaker's mother's ethnic/tribal background:

English Scottish

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

retired

Number of children:

3

How many of the quiltmaker's children were boys?

3

When did the quiltmaker learn to quilt?

Age 11-19

Estimated number of quilts made by this quiltmaker:

5-20 quilts

Does/did the quiltmaker belong to a group? Name of the group?

Rumpled Quilts Kin Guild

Where does/did the group meet?

Interlochen, Michigan

What are the main activities of the group?

Quilt show every other year, quilt raffle, seminars

This is a:

Finished quilt

How wide is the quilt?

72"

How long is the quilt?

72"

Shape of edge:

Straight

Overall color scheme:

Bright or primary colors

Quilt's condition:

Excellent/like new

Arrangement of quilt blocks:

Straight

Spacing of quilt blocks:

Side by side

Number of borders:

2

Fiber types used to make the quilt top:

Cotton

Piecing techniques used to make the quilt top:

Machine Piecing

Materials used to make the back:

Cotton

Number of pieces of fabric in the quilt back:

2

What kind of filling is used in the quilt?

Cotton

How are the layers held together?

Hand quilting

Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 1:

8

Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 2:

10

Where did the maker find their pattern?

Commercial/Published source: Book

Describe the source of the pattern:

I looked at a picture in a quilting book - followed the directions up to a point then adapted to fabrics I had or obtained. My measurements are different from the original, but the design is similar to the one in the book.

Commercial name of the pattern for the top:

Adapted from Watercolor Quilts by Magaret & Slusser

Exhibitions where this quilt was displayed:

St. Francis Retreat Center, Dewitt, MI, Feb 1996, Gallery; Weber Center, Oct 1997, April 1998; Asbury UMC, Traverse City, April 1998- present

Ownership of this quilt is:

Private

Quilt owner's name:

Nancy LeValley

Quilt owner's city:

Traverse City

Quilt owner's county:

Grand Traverse

Quilt owner's state:

Michigan (MI)

How was this quilt acquired?

Made by owner

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

The longer I worked on the project the more it taught me about the possibilities and meanings of the design elements. "Della" at a store in Salt Lake City gave invaluable help in measuring and putting on the borders & basting top to back. Karen St. Hagen from Genessee, Idaho was very helpful in my choices of quilting pattern. Deb Yazbeck taught elements of water color quilting and helped put on the binding.

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

Cite this Quilt

LeValley, Nanc. Eternal Promises. 1998. From Michigan State University Museum, Michigan Quilt Project; Quilts and Health. Published in The Quilt Index, https://quiltindex.org/view/?type=fullrec&kid=12-8-9014. Accessed: 03/28/24