QUILT INDEX RECORD
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