QUILT INDEX RECORD

54-159-197

Where are the records for this quilt housed?

Museum of Texas Tech University

Who documented this quilt?

Museum of Texas Tech University Collection

If this quilt is owned by a museum, enter the accession number:

2019-082-023

This is a:

Finished quilt

Names for quilt's pattern in common use:

Self-Portrait

What colors is the quilt?

Blue; Red; Green; Brown; Purple; Orange; Black; White; Gray

Describe any colors not included in the other color fields:

Peach

Type of inscription:

Message

What is inscribed on the quilt?

time, yoga, home, travel, cabi-, music, family

Time period:

2000-2025

Date estimated by an antique dealer, quilt historian or appraiser:

2008

Describe the quilt's layout:

Nontraditional or art

Number of quilt blocks:

1

Arrangement of quilt blocks:

Straight

Describe the borders:

The border is a blue, purple, green, and orange watercolor print.

Fiber types used to make the quilt top:

Cotton

Describe embellishment materials or techniques:

Metal hearts used as earrings and a pendant. Pins include sewing machine, a heart with a name on it, a doctor’s bag and stethoscope, a gold pin, a wooden (instrument) pin, a red, white, and blue square pin, a small white square pin (with something on?), a cowboy hat pin, a Mardi Gras mask with purple, yellow, and green ribbon pin, a pink cancer pin, a red apple pin, a gold circle with rainbow thread tied around it pin, a gold ribbon with a purple circle dangling pin, a gold (?) pin, a windmill with Lubbock at the bottom pin, and a gold elephant pin.

Features or notes about the quilt's appearance, materials, or construction:

Blue self-portrait quilt. The border is a blue, purple, green, and orange watercolor print. At the corner and on the right side, there is a portrait of the maker, Linda Fisher. On the quilt, she has short brown hair, green eyes with glasses frames, and metal hearts sewn on as earrings. She's wearing a metal heart as a pendant on a necklace and a green striped long sleeve with a multicolored checkered vest. Pinned on the vest with an Ogallala pin is a red OQS volunteer ribbon. The background is tie-dye squares, some with words sewn onto them. The words written: time on the middle top, yoga on the top right middle, home on the fourth row left, travel on the fourth-row middle left, “cabi-” on the fourth-row middle, music on the fifth row left, and family on the bottom left corner. (Try to see the other words later.) Near the top left corner to top of the fourth row, there is organza material pinned onto the quilt with various pins. The pins are a sewing machine pin, a heart pin with a name on it, a doctor’s bag and stethoscope pin, a gold (?) pin, a wooden (instrument) pin, a red, white, and blue square pin, a small white square pin (with something on?), a cowboy hat pin, a Mardi Gras mask with purple, yellow, and green ribbon pin, a pink cancer pin, a red apple pin, a gold circle with rainbow thread tied around it pin, a gold ribbon with a purple circle dangling pin, a gold (?) pin, a windmill with Lubbock at the bottom pin, and a gold elephant pin.

Where the quilt was made, country:

United States

Ownership of this quilt is:

Public Museum, Library or Institution

Quilt owner's name:

Museum of Texas Tech University

Quilt owner's city:

Lubbock

Quilt owner's state:

Texas (TX)

Quilt owner's country:

United States

Quilt top made by:

Fisher, Linda

Any other notes or stories about the quiltmaker:

Linda Fisher was a prolific quilter beginning with her first quilt as an adult beginning in 1994 and continuing through the present (2019). She taught many people in West Texas to quilt. She was a member of the Lubbock day quilt guild (The South Plains Quilt Guild) and the Caprock Art Quilters. She loved to take old blocks and finish quilts and to put her own artistic twist on traditional quilt patterns.

Access and copyright information:

Restricted

Copyright holder:

Museum of Texas Tech University, all rights reserved