QUILT INDEX RECORD

52-152-545

Where are the records for this quilt housed?

Quilt Alliance

Who documented this quilt?

Quilt Alliance; Inspired By

Quilt Alliance Inventory Number:

67

Quilt Title:

Quasi-Stellar Object

Width:

16 inches

Length:

16 inches

Time period:

2000-2025

Date:

June 1, 2014

Materials:

Commercial cotton fabrics, yli nylon thread, aurifil thread; paper piecing, stitch in the ditch quilting and cable quilting

Quiltmaker:

Connolly, Rita

City:

Bray, Ireland

Artist's Statement:

When I saw Mary McKenzie Caldwell's log cabin quilt the unusual setting really caught my eye. It made me think of the possibility of setting log cabin blocks in a star formation. Each of the logs finished at ¼" I did not want to have dark triangles in the corners so I pieced four dark/light neutral blocks. The blocks were paper-pieced. The quilt was quilted with a walking foot. I used monofilament and Aurifil thread.

Inspiration quilt:
 

 

Caldwell, Mary McKenzie. Log Cabin. 1880-1900. From DAR Museum Permanent Collection.