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Nancy Page Quilt Club - French Bouquet 17

February 18, 1934

Michigan Quilt Project; Donaldson, Beth; Beard, Jackie

Rochester, New York, United States

Nancy Page Quilt Club Bouquet Pattern 17. Published in The Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, New York, February 18, 1934. This pattern was also published as the Old-Time Nosegay under The Detroit News Quilt Club byline in papers in Detroit, Michigan, see 18-121-1531.

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Author; Designer; Owner; Quiltmaker
Donaldson, Beth
Michigan Quilt Project

Donaldson, Beth

Michigan Quilt Project

Lansing; Michigan; United States

Beth Donaldson is a quiltmaker, quilt designer and the Associate Director of the Quilt Index.

artists

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12-51-74
Collection
Florence LaGanke Harris, aka Nancy Pag...

Waldvogel, Merikay

Florence LaGanke Harris, aka Nancy Page

Waldvogel, Merikay

Collection

12-91-838

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12-91-838

specialcolls
1939
Old-Time Nosegay
Gasperik, Mary

Date Made: 1939

Old-Time Nosegay

Creator: Gasperik, Mary

Location Made: Chicago, Illinois (IL) United States

Contruction: Embroidery, Gasperik rearranged the placement of the 12 different Nancy Page bouquets and she angled the placement of her border flowers so that they 'dance' left and right rather than march in the straight up and down order proposed by Nancy Page/Detroit News pattern.

Quilt Size: Unknown x Unknown

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Mary Gasperik Private Collection

It should be noted that the Gasperik quilt is made by appliquéing the bouquet and individual flower commercial blocks onto a whole piece of fabric rather than by assembling the quilt block by block, which is the way newspapers marketed block quilt patterns. She could not have begun this quilt be...

KID: 18-14-78

18-14-78
1935
Spring Bouquet
Geier, Martha Rache...

Date Made: 1935

Spring Bouquet

Creator: Geier, Martha Rachel

Location Made: Detroit, Michigan (MI)

Contruction: Hand Applique, Embroidery

Quilt Size: 80" x 100"

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton

Project: Michigan Quilt Project

I remember my grandmother making this quilt and others that were truly beautiful too. I still have the sewing stand that she sat by while making this quilt. She excelled in all her sewing endeavors whether quilt making or being a seamstress., My grandmother added around the edge a scalloped piece ...

KID: 12-8-3819

12-8-3819