QUILT INDEX RECORD

52-152-516

Where are the records for this quilt housed?

Quilt Alliance

Who documented this quilt?

Quilt Alliance; Inspired By

Quilt Alliance Inventory Number:

41

Quilt Title:

Monkey See - Monkey Do

Width:

16 inches

Length:

16 inches

Time period:

2000-2025

Date:

June 1, 2014

Materials:

"Socky" cotton fabrics by Windham Fabrics, machine pieced, machine quilted

Quiltmaker:

Campbell, Phyllis

City:

Rockford

State:

Illinois

Artist's Statement:

Browsing the Illinois section in the Quilt Index, I came upon Anna Yoder's Monkey Wrench Quilt, c.1900. That quilt was the inspiration for my "Monkey See – Monkey Do"entry for the Quilt Alliance's contest. I chose sock monkey fabrics because the home of the original sock monkey is my hometown, Rockford, Illinois! In 1800, the Nelson Knitting Company created the machine that produced the red heeled socks of which sock monkey dolls are made, and treasured.

Inspiration quilt:
 

 

Yoder, Anna Swartzentruber. Monkey Wrench Medallion. ca. 1900. From Illinois State Museum.