1800-1849

Lotus Flower

Date Made: 1800-1849

Lotus Flower

Location Made: Bagwell area, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Applique

Quilt Size: 86 1/2 in. x 101 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Broadcloth, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

25-21-336

KID: 25-21-336

1800-1849

Mosaic Star

Hayne, Mary Hopkins...

Date Made: 1800-1849

Mosaic Star

Creator: Hayne, Mary Hopkins

Location Made: United States

Contruction: English template Piecing, Hand Piecing, Hand Applique, Other applique, Other embellishment technique, cut-out bouquets of chintz flowers have been appliqued in each of four corners using broderie perse technique.

Quilt Size: 43 in. x 49 in.

Quilting Techniques: Not quilted

Fabrics: Cotton, Chintz, Checked, Floral, Print, Solid/plain, rainbow roller prints

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Mrs. Mary Hopkins Hayne may have made this quilt in either North or South Carolina, possibly for her first granddaughter, Eliza Fannie Parks. This quilt has been handed down within the family to the present day. Eliza Fannie's daughter, Frances Crockett McKenzie, moved to Texas with her parents in 1...

25-21-333

KID: 25-21-333

1850-1875

Mississippi Beaut...

Shelby, Jane

Date Made: 1850-1875

Mississippi Beauty; Prairie Flower

Creator: Shelby, Jane

Location Made: Mississippi (MS) United States

Contruction: Hand Applique

Quilt Size: 93 in. x 99 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

This quilt was made in Mississippi by Jane Shelby, the housekeeper for William Mayo Connor, the bachelor brother-in-law of the present owner's great granddaughter. Judith Worsley Connor, who lived in the Daingerfield, Texas area in 1849. Mr. Connor and the quiltmaker moved to Daingerfield around 18...

25-21-341

KID: 25-21-341

1850-1875

Feathered Star

Hubbard, Jane Hoard...

Date Made: 1850-1875

Feathered Star

Creator: Hubbard, Jane Hoard

Location Made: Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Use of yellow with red-green combination adds optical effect of a second star.

Quilt Size: 80 in. x 97 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Quiltmaker Jane Hoard seems to have married Robert W. Hubbard sometime after 1837 just before the couple settled in Hill's Prairie in Bastrop County, Texas. Mr. Hubbard had come to Texas as a teenager with a large party from Georgia, including his married older sister Eveline Hubbard Hill. The trip ...

25-21-346

KID: 25-21-346

1850-1875

Texas Star Friend...

Penick, Mollie C.

Date Made: 1850-1875

Texas Star Friendship Quilt

Creator: Penick, Mollie C.

Location Made: Liberty Hill, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique

Quilt Size: 74 in. x 87 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Margaret Johnson did many kinds of needlework, including sewing clothes for her seven children., Appears to be an original design with twelve stars, one for each person who helped the thirteenth person (the recipient) quilt it and who signed it.

25-21-351

KID: 25-21-351

1850-1875

Blazing Star

Denman, Mary

Date Made: 1850-1875

Blazing Star

Creator: Denman, Mary

Location Made: Lufkin, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 69 in. x 82 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Hand-dyed, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

some fabrics are hand dyed

25-21-358

KID: 25-21-358

1850-1875

Trapunto Quilt

Date Made: 1850-1875

Trapunto Quilt

Location Made: West Virginia (WV) United States

Contruction: Handmade knotted fringe on three sides (not at top).

Quilt Size: 75 in. x 77 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting, Stuffed work

Fabrics: Cotton, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quilt's owner is Sue Colly Kreidler, who lives in Texas. She purchased this quilt at an estate sale.

25-21-338

KID: 25-21-338

1850-1875

Whig's Defeat

Worden, Gail C.

Date Made: 1850-1875

Whig's Defeat

Creator: Worden, Gail C.

Location Made: Georgia (GA) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 74 in. x 80 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Hand-dyed, Imported fabrics, most notably the green print used in background and for diamonds in sashing. Home dyed rosy beige is unusual and was probably obtained using red clay in quiltmaker's home state of Georgia.

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Anne Long Tuley stated: "I believe this quilt was made for Gail's wedding with imported fabrics by or for her trip to Texas--It is obvious it was quilted later and I can imagine that she quilted it and thought about home. The quilting is not as fine as the piecing and perhaps that was all she c...

25-21-342

KID: 25-21-342

1850-1875

Sawtooth Star

Parkey, Ruthie Fuga...

Date Made: 1850-1875

Sawtooth Star

Creator: Parkey, Ruthie Fugate

Location Made: Tennessee (TN) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 61 in. x 81 1/2 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Quiltmaker Ruthie Fugate Parkey made this quilt in Claiborne County, Tennessee, probably for her wedding, which was in 1859. She married Milton Green Parkey, and the couple had seven children, five of which were sons, between 1860 and 1873. In 1884, Mr. Parkey and two sons came to Texas to homestead...

25-21-344

KID: 25-21-344

1850-1875

Medallion Quilt

Herring, Nannie Eve...

Date Made: 1850-1875

Medallion Quilt

Creator: Herring, Nannie Everett

Location Made: Mississippi (MS) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 75 in. x 87 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

25-21-357

KID: 25-21-357

1850-1875

Crown of Thorns

Griffin, Virginia C...

Date Made: 1850-1875

Crown of Thorns

Creator: Griffin, Virginia Catherine Sears

Location Made: Whitewright, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Machine Piecing, binding and white strip at top are machine pieced; all else is hand pieced

Quilt Size: 72 in. x 81 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Print, Solid/plain, small pink print fabric binding

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Virginia Catherine, known as Kate, grew up in Whitewright, Texas, which is where her parents settled in 1855, having moved from Alabama by oxcart. Their daughter Kate married John Griffin in 1876. The couple lived in or near Whitewright or Gainseville all their married lives. Kate died tragically in...

25-21-359

KID: 25-21-359

1850-1875

Double Irish Chai...

Spicer, Harriet Sop...

Date Made: 1850-1875

Double Irish Chain

Creator: Spicer, Harriet Sophia Fyler

Location Made: Amboy, New York (NY) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique, Reverse Applique, Embroidery

Quilt Size: 69 in. x 74 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quiltmaker Harriet Sophia Fyler Spicer was born in 1820 in Sullivan, New York. She married in 1848, but eventually separated from her husband; she supported herself and her three children by quilting, weaving, and spinning. She made this quilt as a presentation quilt for her first-born son, Will...

25-21-340

KID: 25-21-340

1850-1875

Rambling Rose

McClanahan, Dorothe...

Date Made: 1850-1875

Rambling Rose

Creator: McClanahan, Dorothea Keyes

Location Made: Lexington, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique

Quilt Size: 105 in. x 96 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Print, Solid/plain, Center of some roses appears to be very tiny print fabric rather than solid

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Dolly McClanahan was born in 1802 in Georgia. She moved with her family to Tennessee, then to Alabama in 1820. In 1846 she and her husband Milton moved to Texas with their eight children. The journey was by covered wagon and took six weeks. Milton, a former Alabama state senator, settled his family ...

25-21-345

KID: 25-21-345

1876-1900

Rocky Glen

Floyd, Mary E. Robe...

Date Made: 1876-1900

Rocky Glen

Creator: Floyd, Mary E. Roberson

Location Made: Tennessee (TN) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 63 1/2 in. x 78 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Hand-dyed, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quiltmaker's granddaughter recalls that her grandmother "spun, wove and dyed and sewed all the family clothing in Tenn[essee]. As a young person I remember seeing the spinning wheel in my grandmother's room and her spinning threads." She also noted "Mary Floyd was a housewife but ...

25-21-362

KID: 25-21-362

1876-1900

Mexican Rose

Armstrong, Mary Ann...

Date Made: 1876-1900

Mexican Rose

Creator: Armstrong, Mary Ann Elizabeth Myers

Location Made: Coleman, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Applique

Quilt Size: 92 in. x 94 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

There is no consensus about when or where this quilt was made. The family believes it was made ca. 1867 and brought to Texas when the quilt maker and her family settled in Coleman, Coleman County, Texas. Karey Bresenhan, who reviewed this quilt in 1985, suggests it was made ca. 1890, which means it ...

25-21-375

KID: 25-21-375

1876-1900

New York Beauty

Chambers-Smith, Mar...

Date Made: 1876-1900

New York Beauty

Creator: Chambers-Smith, Mary E.

Location Made: Pursley Community, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 68 in. x 78 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

This quilt is one of a pair of the same design; the other is made in red and white. The family notes that after her death, when they moved her possessions, they used "old worn-out quilts for packing.", Family notes that quilt maker "was an excellent seamstress but sewed only for the f...

25-21-3

KID: 25-21-3

1876-1900

Sawtooth Star

Rush, Susanah Mote

Date Made: 1876-1900

Sawtooth Star

Creator: Rush, Susanah Mote

Location Made: Ennis, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Other embellishment technique, 13 scarlet squares are pieced at corners and at each junction of four feathered stars.

Quilt Size: 76 in. x 76 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Print, Solid/plain, small strawberry pink print

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

According to the present owners, Susanah Rush and her husband left Ohio "because they were Democrats. Ohio was Republican . . . so they came to Texas." , She taught her daughter Melinda Florence (Flo) Rush Hall to quilt. One of her quilts, a Four Seasons quilt, is featured in Bresenhan, K...

25-21-7

KID: 25-21-7

1876-1900

Harrison Rose

Dickerson, Almeda B...

Date Made: 1876-1900

Harrison Rose

Creator: Dickerson, Almeda Bell

Location Made: Brookeland, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique

Quilt Size: 74 in. x 85 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quiltmaker was related to five of the families who were early settlers in the East Texas area now located within a 25 mile radius of the present location of Sam Rayburn Dam. The Dickersons moved to Texas in 1840 and the Bell family came in 1854. These two families, as well as Letneys, Lowes, and...

25-21-9

KID: 25-21-9

1876-1900

Carpenter's Squar...

Wilson, Martha Harr...

Date Made: 1876-1900

Carpenter's Square

Creator: Wilson, Martha Harriet Kincaid

Location Made: McKinney, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 78 in. x 78 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Print, Solid/plain, indigo blue with tiny print

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Martha Wilson moved to Texas when she was six. As a child she attend a Dame School, a combination nursery school, kindergarten, and first grade, where small children were taught, often by a spinster or a housewife, their alphabet and were instructed in sewing and knitting. Martha married George Wils...

25-21-368

KID: 25-21-368

1876-1900

TEXAS Quilt

Callan, Nancy Rebec...

Date Made: 1876-1900

TEXAS Quilt

Creator: Callan, Nancy Rebecca Dickson

Location Made: Campbell, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique, The stars and all the letters in TEXAS are pieced except for the 12 letters S, which appear to be appliqued. One S is sewn on backward.

Quilt Size: 78 in. x 84 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Nancy Callan was born in Alabama in 1836 and came to Texas at the time of her marriage to George Washington Callan in 1861. She and her husband had nine children by 1879. Her husband died in 1885, leaving her to raise eight of her children and two foster children. She made this TEXAS quilt while &q...

25-21-373

KID: 25-21-373

1876-1900

Indian Feathers

Findley, Mary Jane ...

Date Made: 1876-1900

Indian Feathers

Creator: Findley, Mary Jane Reese

Location Made: Harmony Hill, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 72 in. x 79 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Print, Solid/plain, strawberry print

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quiltmaker also sewed and did embroidery. She was known a "brave, neat, and Christian woman."

25-21-370

KID: 25-21-370

1876-1900

String Star

Turner, Mary P.

Date Made: 1876-1900

String Star

Creator: Turner, Mary P.

Location Made: Marble Falls, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 72 in. x 80 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Mary P. Turner was born in Georgia in 1828; she married George Turner in 1848. Her husband, a veteran of the Mexican War, was later a purchasing agent for the Confederacy. The couple settled for a time in Columbus, Colorado County, and also lived in Austin and Burnet, where Mary Turner made this qui...

25-21-374

KID: 25-21-374

1901-1929

Red Cross Quilt

Stanfield, Anna Cla...

Date Made: 1901-1929

Red Cross Quilt

Creator: Stanfield, Anna Clare Tate

Location Made: Wichita Falls, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique, Reverse Applique

Quilt Size: 85 in. x 78 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Some of the names on this quilt are those of young men who were learning to fly at Call Field, located in Wichita Falls at a time when army aviation was in its infancy. Once Mrs. Stanfield added all the names to this quilt, she donated it to the Red Cross to be sold at auction. The high bidder was a...

25-21-17

KID: 25-21-17

1901-1929

Cut Paper Appliqu...

Watt, Mabel McBurne...

Date Made: 1901-1929

Cut Paper Applique Quilt

Creator: Watt, Mabel McBurnett

Location Made: Roscoe, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Applique

Quilt Size: 72 in. x 81 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Mabel McBurnett Watt, the quilt maker, lived her entire life in Roscoe, Texas. The first load of lumber ever delivered to Nolan County was used to build her parents' home in Roscoe. Mabel and her husband had two sons by the time her first daughter was born. Determined to name their third child "...

25-21-19

KID: 25-21-19

1901-1929

String Scrap Quil...

Hill, Gazzie

Date Made: 1901-1929

String Scrap Quilt

Creator: Hill, Gazzie

Location Made: Smithville, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 69 in. x 82 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Checked, Dotted, Multiple scrap, Print, Printed patchwork, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Quiltmaker Gazzie Hill, the daughter of a slave, was born in 1877 on a farm near La Grange. Her family moved to nearby Smithville while Gazzie was young, and she lived there the remainder of her life, working for and living near the Dr. J. H. E. Powell family for seventy years. Gazzie never married...

25-21-20

KID: 25-21-20

1901-1929

Stars and Stripes...

Myers, Laura Maria ...

Date Made: 1901-1929

Stars and Stripes

Creator: Myers, Laura Maria Ott

Location Made: Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 87 in. x 91 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Dotted, Print, Striped

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Quiltmaker Laura Myers moved to Texas from Louisiana in 1880 along with many members of the Myers family. Laura was pregnant during the nine-week wagon trip. The group reached Eastland, Texas in late June 1880. Less than a month later the couple's first son was born. The present owner of this quilt...

25-21-10

KID: 25-21-10

1901-1929

Postage Stamp Qui...

Whitworth, Rosa Ana...

Date Made: 1901-1929

Postage Stamp Quilt

Creator: Whitworth, Rosa Ana O'Riley

Location Made: Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 64 in. x 74 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Checked, Multiple scrap, Print, Solid/plain, Striped, shirtings, chambreys

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Rosa Ana O'Riley was born in 1875, probably in Kentucky. She married there in 1895. She and husband Charles Andrew Whitworth had five children. Rosa's husband died in a logging accident in 1906; following his death she moved to Texas, settling first near Waxahachie in Ellis County, then with family ...

25-21-14

KID: 25-21-14

1930-1949

Nursery Rhyme Qui...

Cockerell, Margaret...

Date Made: 1930-1949

Nursery Rhyme Quilt

Creator: Cockerell, Margaret Thurmond

Location Made: Abilene, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique, Embroidery, embroidery embellishments on some block nursery rhyme motifs

Quilt Size: 45 in. x 63 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quiltmaker enjoyed needle arts such as embroidery and quilt making. The wife of one of her grandsons owns several pieces of her embroidery, including a large map of the United States with flowers and several birth announcements., Unusual use of deep marine blue rather than pastel for this baby q...

25-21-36

KID: 25-21-36

1930-1949

Tulip Bouquet

Ward, Eunice

Date Made: 1930-1949

Tulip Bouquet

Creator: Ward, Eunice

Location Made: Slaton, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Applique

Quilt Size: 78 1/2 in. x 86 1/2 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Mrs. Ward stated that she started making quilts when "quilts were still a necessity." By the time she had raised six children, she was making special quilts as gifts for her children. She considered herself an artist who worked in fabric., Family recollection is that this Tulip Bouquet was...

25-21-41

KID: 25-21-41

1930-1949

Sunburst

England, Annie Mabe...

Date Made: 1930-1949

Sunburst

Creator: England, Annie Mabel Bridges

Location Made: Luling, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Machine Piecing

Quilt Size: 66 1/2 in. x 88 1/2 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Solid/plain, set is blue grey, almost chambray

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Rosemary England, whose husband's grandmother made this quilt top, received a number of quilt tops from her, all made in the 1940s and early 1950s. She had a number of them quilted in Luling, Texas, by a church group, but she quilted the Sunburst quilt herself., The present quilt owner states that t...

25-21-51

KID: 25-21-51

1930-1949

Pomegranate Quilt...

Bollman, Mary Louis...

Date Made: 1930-1949

Pomegranate Quilt

Creator: Bollman, Mary Louise Hammonds

Location Made: Lockney, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Machine Piecing, Hand Applique

Quilt Size: 79 in. x 79 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Mary Lou Bollman was born near Lockney, Texas, in 1909. At age seven Mary Lou learned to piece a Four Patch. She earned a bachelor's degree from Texas Woman's College (now Texas Wesleyan College). Her courses included a design class where she learned to design a quilt block. Mary Lou made her first ...

25-21-29

KID: 25-21-29

1930-1949

Pine Tree

Jetton, Mary Louise...

Date Made: 1930-1949

Pine Tree

Creator: Jetton, Mary Louise Sansom

Location Made: Mertens, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 73 in. x 85 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Quiltmaker Mary Louise Sansom Jetton quilted out of a sense of tradition and for necessity., The quilt maker made her first quilt, a Nine Patch, in 1894, when she was 21 years old. After she married, the family, according to her granddaughter, "had to have cover, so she made them [quilts] out ...

25-21-31

KID: 25-21-31

1930-1949

Rob Peter to Pay ...

Dunaway, Winnie Jet...

Date Made: 1930-1949

Rob Peter to Pay Paul

Creator: Dunaway, Winnie Jetton

Location Made: Italy, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Cathedral window

Quilt Size: 68 in. x 78 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Winnie Dunaway comes from a family of quilters--both her mother and grandmother quilted, and she has passed her passion and skills, as well as some of her quilts, on to her daughter. Her daughter recalls that in the late 1950s or early 1960s her mother said "I have 20 [quilt] tops. I know you w...

25-21-38

KID: 25-21-38

1930-1949

Touching Stars

Glaeser, Karoline E...

Date Made: 1930-1949

Touching Stars

Creator: Glaeser, Karoline Esmunde Uttech

Location Made: Sabinal, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Other embellishment technique, The row of eight-pointed stars at the quilt top was added in 1963 to lengthen the quilt in response to the great-granddaughter'ss wish to make the quilt "long enough to tuck over pillows."

Quilt Size: 79 in. x 79 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Broadcloth, Multiple scrap, Print, Solid/plain, pieced stars in print; blocks in solid aqua

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

This quilt served as the introduction to quilting for Karey Bresenhan and Nancy O'Bryant Puentes, the two authors of Lone Stars: A Legacy of Texas Quilts, 1836-1936, Vol. I and 1936-1986, Vol. II (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986, 1990) and two of the three founders of the Texas Sesquicentenn...

25-21-43

KID: 25-21-43

1930-1949

Expanded Star

Trueblood, Julia An...

Date Made: 1930-1949

Expanded Star

Creator: Trueblood, Julia Ann Mills

Location Made: Missouri (MO) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 92 in. x 96 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Quiltmaker Julia Ann Mills was born in Iowa in 1872 and moved to Missouri in 1918. The family lived on their own farm, where Mrs. Trueblood made most of the children's clothing, did crocheting and embroidery, and kept a large garden. One of her daughter's favorite memories of her mother was of &quo...

25-21-22

KID: 25-21-22

1930-1949

Spring Bouquet

Carruthers, Bessie ...

Date Made: 1930-1949

Spring Bouquet

Creator: Carruthers, Bessie Evans

Location Made: Crystal City, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Applique, Other embellishment technique, appliqued with very tiny buttonhole stitch

Quilt Size: 76 in. x 88 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quiltmaker was born in 1886 in Marble Falls, Texas; she attended school through the 7th grade. She and her husband had three children and adopted a fourth; but her husband died and left Mrs. Carruthers to raise at least two of them on her own. She worked as a cook and as a seamstress to support ...

25-21-27

KID: 25-21-27

1930-1949

Texas Under Six F...

Cheney, Leila Wilki...

Date Made: 1930-1949

Texas Under Six Flags Quilt

Creator: Cheney, Leila Wilkins

Location Made: Halletsville, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Yo-yo, Made entirely of Yo Yos, an estimated 10,000 of them, organized into a pictorial Texas history motifs. The yo yos vary in size from the size of a quarter to smaller than the size of a dime. The yo yos are tightly packed, giving the quilt a ruffled or rippled appearance.

Quilt Size: 72 in. x 84 in.

Quilting Techniques: Not quilted

Fabrics: Silk, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Leila Wilkins was born in Paris, Texas, in 1891. She graduated from high school in Washington State, and for a time she and her father owned a plantation in Mexico, where, according to her son, "together they fought off outlaws time and time again." Her son recalls his mother as a "wo...

25-21-28

KID: 25-21-28

1930-1949

Airplane Quilt

Bloys, Ophelia Park...

Date Made: 1930-1949

Airplane Quilt

Creator: Bloys, Ophelia Parker

Location Made: Fort Davis, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Embroidery, autographs and numbers on each airplane

Quilt Size: 70 in. x 82 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Each girl who signed the quilt was given a square on which to embroider her name. The quilt was then pieced, backed, and quilted and presented to the bride-to-be at her bridal shower in December 1939. The quiltmaker, the bride's mother, made many quilts, including one her daughter especially prizes:...

25-21-35

KID: 25-21-35

1930-1949

Meadow Daisy

Cooper, Jennie Mari...

Date Made: 1930-1949

Meadow Daisy

Creator: Cooper, Jennie Marie Wilson

Location Made: McKinney, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique

Quilt Size: 81 in. x 92 1/2 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentenntial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

It is probable that the quiltmaker appliqued this quilt while waiting for the birth of her first child and while living at her parent's home in McKinney, Texas. Her daughter was born in December 1943. The quilt has not been used and remains bright. The quiltmaker learned quiltmaking from her mother,...

25-21-44

KID: 25-21-44

1930-1949

String Quilt

Combs, Maude Ada Fr...

Date Made: 1930-1949

String Quilt

Creator: Combs, Maude Ada Franks

Location Made: Wellington, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Foundation Piecing, Machine Piecing, foundation piecing by machine

Quilt Size: 86 in. x 96 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Checked, Dotted, Multiple scrap, Plaid, Print, Solid/plain, Striped, fabrics in the quilt are from several different decades

Project: Texas Sesquicentenntial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

According to the quiltmaker's daughter, Her "mother [the quiltmaker] and a couple of aunts taught her the (then) necessary homemaking "arts," including sewing and needlework. Quilts were made because they were needed, and she constantly had quilts in all stages of construction. She ta...

25-21-45

KID: 25-21-45

1930-1949

Seven Sisters

Bastardo, Tomasita ...

Date Made: 1930-1949

Seven Sisters

Creator: Bastardo, Tomasita Ferro

Location Made: San Angelo, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 73 in. x 87 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Floral, Multiple scrap, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Mrs. Bastardo learned quilting from an aunt and made her first quilt top at age nine. She continued her family's quilting tradition, often with the help of family members, and sold quilts to help support her eight children. Of this quilt, her granddaughter noted "It was hard times and she did n...

25-21-49

KID: 25-21-49

1930-1949

Double Wedding Ri...

Mackey, Lelia Mae S...

Date Made: 1930-1949

Double Wedding Ring

Creator: Mackey, Lelia Mae Smith

Location Made: Uvalde, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 72 in. x 85 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Multiple scrap, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quilt was made on a frame set up in the quiltmaker's dining room. Today it is displayed in the home of one of her grandaughters., The quiltmaker learned to quilt and crochet from her mother; she made lots of tablecloths, doilies, pillowcase trim etc.

25-21-53

KID: 25-21-53

1950-1975

Crossed Canoes

Holland, Retta Booh...

Date Made: 1950-1975

Crossed Canoes

Creator: Holland, Retta Booher

Location Made: Grand Prairie, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Machine Piecing

Quilt Size: 82 in. x 97 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Geometric, Multiple scrap, Novelty, Paisley, Plaid, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Mrs. Holland and her husband operated a small cafe in Grand Prairie. Located nearby was a dress factory that sold a grocery sack of scraps or cut-aways for $1. According to daughter Kathleen McCrady, "It was such fun to get a sack of scraps, for they were prints and solids coordinated. This qui...

25-21-56

KID: 25-21-56

1950-1975

Dresden Plate

Pearce, Ella Wilhel...

Date Made: 1950-1975

Dresden Plate

Creator: Pearce, Ella Wilhelmina Glaeser

Location Made: San Antonio, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique, Other embellishment technique, ruffled edge on all four sides

Quilt Size: 79 in. x 98 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Floral, Multiple scrap, Print, Solid/plain, Striped, Dresden Plate motifs are pieces from a scrapbag of 1930s fabrics.

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The interesting history behind this quilt is described in Bresenhan and Puentes, Lone Stars: A Legacy of Texas Quilts, 1936-1986, p. 93. The quilt was made for and is owned by Nancy O'Bryant Puentes, one of the authors. She recalls its history with this story: "This particular Dresden Plate q...

25-21-63

KID: 25-21-63

1950-1975

Diamond Field

McCrady, Kathleen H...

Date Made: 1950-1975

Diamond Field

Creator: McCrady, Kathleen Holland

Location Made: pieced in Fort Worth; finished in Austin, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 72 in. x 94 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Dotted, Multiple scrap, Plaid, Print, Solid/plain, Striped

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search Winedale Quilt Collection, Kathleen H. McCrady Quilt History Collection, 1890-2001

Kathleen McCrady cut the pieces for this quilt top while living near Fort Riley, Kansas. Her husband was posted there as part of the Texas National Guard, and Mrs. McCrady spent one winter caring for her young child and cutting out pieces for twelve quilts, including this Diamond Field. She pieced t...

25-21-59

KID: 25-21-59

1950-1975

Little Women Quil...

Huegele, Betty

Date Made: 1950-1975

Little Women Quilt

Creator: Huegele, Betty

Location Made: San Antonio, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique, Embroidery, embroidered details some some pictorial motifs

Quilt Size: 78 in. x 94 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Dotted, Floral, Multiple scrap, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Betty Huegele chose this quilt pattern as her first subject because she loves the Little Women story. The quilt is made using a pattern ordered from Ladies Home Journal in 1951. Today Mrs. Huegele makes baby quilts as gifts., The quiltmaker today focues on making baby quilts, which she makes on a ho...

25-21-54

KID: 25-21-54

1950-1975

The Great Eagle Q...

Snyder, Lotta Meeks...

Date Made: 1950-1975

The Great Eagle Quilt

Creator: Snyder, Lotta Meeks

Location Made: Oakwood, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique, Embroidery, embroidered eagle's eye

Quilt Size: 72 in. x 78 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Print, Solid/plain, small red and orange print forms eagle's body

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Mrs. Snyder learned to quilt as a young child from her mother. She lived in New Mexico, and quilts were a necessity since they had no electric blankets. She was twenty years old when she made her first complete quilt; she used a pattern published in a 1930 issue of the Fort Worth Star Telegram. , Lo...

25-21-57

KID: 25-21-57

1976-1999

Crossroads to Tex...

McCrady, Kathleen H...

Date Made: 1976-1999

Crossroads to Texas Quilt

Creator: McCrady, Kathleen Holland

Location Made: Austin, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique, Dimensional applique, Other embellishment technique, "Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1936" is appliqued below inner medallion

Quilt Size: 53 in. x 61 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Broadcloth, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search Winedale Quilt Collection, Kathleen H. McCrady Quilt History Collection, 1890-2001

This quilt is pictured but not described in Bresenhan, Karoline Patterson and Nancy O'Bryant Puentes, Lone Stars: A Legacy of Texas Quilts, Vol. I, 1836-1936 (Austin: University of Texas Press), p. 148. Quiltmaker Kathleen Holland McCrady, a member of the Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, ma...

25-21-25

KID: 25-21-25

1976-1999

Queen's Medallion...

Mullins, Janet Mari...

Date Made: 1976-1999

Queen's Medallion

Creator: Mullins, Janet Marie Scrimshire

Location Made: Fort Worth, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 81 in. x 96 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Mrs. Mullins grew up sleeping under quilts and seeing her mother make them, but she did not begin making quilts until she decided she, too, could make the kinds of quilts featured in the home decor magazines of the 1970s. At forty-three she made her first quilt, a Grandmother's Flower Garden. Today ...

25-21-71

KID: 25-21-71

1976-1999

Orion Quilt

Lehman, Libby Antho...

Date Made: 1976-1999

Orion Quilt

Creator: Lehman, Libby Anthony

Location Made: Houston, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Machine Piecing, strip piecing

Quilt Size: 62 in. x 62 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Cotton or polyester blend, Broadcloth, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Mrs. Lehman made her first quilt, a Trip Around the World, in 1971, at age twenty-four. Since then she has studied with several internationally known teachers, including Jinny Beyer and Nancy Crow, and today considers herself an artist and a professional; she also teaches quilting, sells her quilts,...

25-21-75

KID: 25-21-75

1976-1999

Cherry Ripe Quilt...

Mathews, Laverne No...

Date Made: 1976-1999

Cherry Ripe Quilt

Creator: Mathews, Laverne Noble

Location Made: Orange, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Machine Piecing, Hand Applique, Dimensional applique, stuffed trapunto in vining cherries and quilting designs

Quilt Size: 73 in. x 89 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting, Stuffed work

Fabrics: Cotton, Broadcloth, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The lucky daughter-in-law who received this Cherry Ripe Quilt loved its colors and notes that "You could probably say the colors used in my new house derived from this quilt!" The quiltmaker made her first quilt, a Lone Star, in 1971, when she was "40ish." , Mrs. Mathews has e...

25-21-80

KID: 25-21-80

1976-1999

Live Oak in Sprin...

Hester, Constance T...

Date Made: 1976-1999

Live Oak in Spring Quilt

Creator: Hester, Constance Turner

Location Made: Bryan, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, This quilt is entirely hand pieced; there is no applique work in it.

Quilt Size: 86 in. x 86 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Broadcloth, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

, Quiltmaker is self-taught in the needle arts. Today she designs and sells her patterns, does commissioned quilts, stained glass, and etched glass of her own design.

25-21-86

KID: 25-21-86

1976-1999

Daisy Twists Arou...

Ashbacher, Sally Re...

Date Made: 1976-1999

Daisy Twists Around the Hometown Square Quilt

Creator: Ashbacher, Sally Redman

Location Made: Rowlett, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Machine Piecing

Quilt Size: 80 in. x 80 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Sally Ashbacher has spent a lifetime doing needlework, mostly embroidery, which she perfected at her mother's knee. She progressed from embroidery to clothing sewing, to crewel needlework, to quilting. , The Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt Sally Ashbacher rested under when she was sick with rheuma...

25-21-96

KID: 25-21-96

1976-1999

Freedom to Dream ...

Murphy, Marie Anita...

Date Made: 1976-1999

Freedom to Dream Quilt

Creator: Murphy, Marie Anita Wingate

Location Made: Kountze, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Machine Piecing, Hand Applique, Embroidery

Quilt Size: 72 in. x 72 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Paisley, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Mrs. Murphy's quilt was selected to represent Texas in the Statue of Liberty Centennial quilt contest. Following its selection, she was invited to meet then Texas Governor Mark White, and later she met Vice President George Bush and Mrs. Bush. Along with other state winners, she was invited to New Y...

25-21-104

KID: 25-21-104

1976-1999

Founders' Star Qu...

Patterson, Jewel Pe...

Date Made: 1976-1999

Founders' Star Quilt

Creator: Patterson, Jewel Pearce

Location Made: Houston, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 96 in. x 96 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Broadcloth, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

This quilt was offered as the Grand Prize at the International Quilt Festival in Houston in 1986. Kathleen McCrady, a member of the American International Quilt Association and an award-winning quilter from Austin, Texas, won the quilt. Two years later, in 1988, Mrs. McCrady donated the Founders' St...

25-21-105

KID: 25-21-105

1976-1999

Shiraz Quilt

Cloninger, Judy Par...

Date Made: 1976-1999

Shiraz Quilt

Creator: Cloninger, Judy Parrish

Location Made: Taylor Lake Village, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 69 in. x 96 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Broadcloth, Dotted, Paisley, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Judy Cloninger taught herself to quilt in 1969, and the renewed interest in handcrafts such as quilting in the mid 1970s furnished her "with fabrics, information, and shared enthusiasm." She enjoys the challenge of making intricate quilts such as her Shiraz Quilt, which took her some 2000 ...

25-21-77

KID: 25-21-77

1976-1999

Rose of Sharon Sa...

Lyons, Modena

Date Made: 1976-1999

Rose of Sharon Sampler Quilt

Creator: Lyons, Modena

Location Made: Austin, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique, Embroidery, some embroidery detail on Rose of Sharon motifs

Quilt Size: 98 in. x 104 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Floral, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Kathleen McCrady, an award winning quilter and quilt historian, added the borders with swags and ties and quilted the top to finish the quilt., The Sunday Friends was a group of the Austin Stitchery Guild whose members were primarily interested in quiltmaking. The members were very supportive of one...

25-21-82

KID: 25-21-82

1976-1999

Huntsville's Birt...

Goodin, Mabel

Date Made: 1976-1999

Huntsville's Birthday Quilt

Creator: Goodin, Mabel

Location Made: Huntsville, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique, Embroidery

Quilt Size: 52 in. x 86 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Broadcloth, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

This quilt was finished in time for it to be hung in Huntsville's Sam Houston Museum for the city's birthday festivities on July 12, 1986., Roberta Norris and Iona Andrea, the Center's Arts and Crafts Director, were the only experienced fabric artists who worked on this quilt. The finished quilt too...

25-21-102

KID: 25-21-102

1976-1999

Wild, Wild West Q...

Shults, Willoa Stoc...

Date Made: 1976-1999

Wild, Wild West Quilt

Creator: Shults, Willoa Stockton

Location Made: Boerne, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Applique, Embroidery

Quilt Size: 62 in. x 82 1/2 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Broadcloth, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Mrs. Shults notes this about her design: "The main figure represents the mainstay of Texas symbolism--the cowboy and his faithful companion--the horse. His nemesis--the Indian--is inferred from the arrows. The background represents the terrain of West Texas with the Guadalupe Mountains in the d...

25-21-106

KID: 25-21-106

1976-1999

Juxtaposition: Re...

Axford, Elizabeth J...

Date Made: 1976-1999

Juxtaposition: Red Quilt

Creator: Axford, Elizabeth J.

Location Made: Houston, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Machine Piecing, Strip/string Piecing, Hand Applique

Quilt Size: 48 in. x 64 in.

Quilting Techniques: Machine quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Cotton or polyester blend, Broadcloth, Solid/plain, Striped

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Liz Axford has taken many quilting and fiber arts classes.

25-21-111

KID: 25-21-111