1976-1999

#44 Quilt

Studstill, Pamela

Date Made: 1976-1999

#44 Quilt

Creator: Studstill, Pamela

Location Made: Pipe Creek, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Machine Piecing, Painting, cotton fabrics are painted with acrylic paints before cutting

Quilt Size: 64 in. x 54 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Other, the quiltmaker painted the fabrics before cutting and piecing

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Pam Studstill is an important contemporary fiber artist who has twice won the National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship (1983, 1988). Her work has won Best of Show in Quilt National., Pam Studstill is represented by a crafts gallery in Atlanta. According to the manager, Ms. Studstill's ...

25-21-90

KID: 25-21-90

1976-1999

#70 Quilt

Studstill, Pamela

Date Made: 1976-1999

#70 Quilt

Creator: Studstill, Pamela

Location Made: Pipe Creek, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Machine Piecing, Strip/string Piecing, Painting, hand-painted fabrics

Quilt Size: 89 in. x 61 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Pam Studstill lives in a small town in Texas and collaborates with her mother on some quilts. Her works are in many corporate collections.

25-21-112

KID: 25-21-112

1976-1999

A Texas Sesquicen...

Fugua, Susan

Date Made: 1976-1999

A Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt

Creator: Fugua, Susan

Location Made: Dallas, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Machine Piecing, Hand Applique, Embroidery, embroidered details on many design motifs

Quilt Size: 100 in. x 114 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Other members of the Quilter's Guild of Dallas who worked on this project were Camille Reagan, Sandy Rex, Virginia Reynolds, Dorothy Richards, Karen Roossien, Polly Schafer, Susie Skelton, Jean Smith, Linda Smith, Mary Smith, La Trelle Sommers, Sara Steel, Liz Tyler, Jo Valenti, Tricia Van Buskirk, ...

25-21-88

KID: 25-21-88

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

1976-1999

Amish Paint Quilt...

Herndon, Mary Ann J...

Date Made: 1976-1999

Amish Paint Quilt

Creator: Herndon, Mary Ann Jackson

Location Made: Houston, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Machine Piecing

Quilt Size: 72 in. x 72 in.

Fabrics: Cotton, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Mary Ann Herndon took up quilting around 1979 after hearing Yvonne Porcella speak at her guild.

25-21-110

KID: 25-21-110

1976-1999

An American Sampl...

Young, Lynn Lewis

Date Made: 1976-1999

An American Sampler Quilt

Creator: Young, Lynn Lewis

Location Made: Houston, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Machine Piecing, Hand Applique, Embroidery, Other embellishment technique, trapunto

Quilt Size: 78 in. x 78 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Floral, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

While working in the cancer research field, Lynn Young began taking quilting classes as a source of relief and relaxation. With respect to her "An American Sampler," Lynn Young states that she "was aiming for workmanship of the highest heirloom quality and a setting for the blocks whi...

25-21-94

KID: 25-21-94

1850-1875

Ark and Dove

Russell, Harriet Lu...

Date Made: 1850-1875

Ark and Dove

Creator: Russell, Harriet Lucinda Acker McDavid

Location Made: Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique, Embroidery, one dove of the 25 large doves has its eye and eyebrow made by embroidery; all other eyes on the doves are simply circles buttonhole stitched down.

Quilt Size: 70 in. x 86 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quiltmaker named her daughter Annie, but family history states that she was so busy caring for wounded Confederate soldiers that she didn't take time to give her daughter a full name. Annie was eventually named Annie Eugenia Florence McDavid at the request of one of the wounded soldiers "wh...

25-21-348

KID: 25-21-348

1976-1999

Autumn Leaves

Vail, Thelma Franci...

Date Made: 1976-1999

Autumn Leaves

Creator: Vail, Thelma Francis

Location Made: North Richland Hills, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique

Quilt Size: 80 in. x 84 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Checked, Floral, Multiple scrap, Print, Solid/plain, leaves are from 1930s print fabrics

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Mrs. Vail cut the leaves for this quilt in 1937, marked it for appliquing in the mid 1940s when she saw the same pattern on another quilt, and finished it with a group of quilting church friends in 1978., Mrs. Vail, a minister's wife for some forty-six years, sees quilting as a creative outlet and &...

25-21-69

KID: 25-21-69

1930-1949

Basket of Flowers...

Gee, Emmaline Nanni...

Date Made: 1930-1949

Basket of Flowers

Creator: Gee, Emmaline Nannine Fischer

Location Made: Houston, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Applique, Embroidery, green embroidered details on vases, leaves and buds

Quilt Size: 72 in. x 87 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Mrs. Gee made this quilt from a kit she purchased from Foley's in Houston. The quiltmaker made a quilt of this pattern for her sister and another one for her mother. She had Pauline Galloway quilt both tops. , Mrs. Gee made her first complete quilt in about 1987 when she was seventy-three.

25-21-42

KID: 25-21-42

1850-1875

Basket of Flowers...

Prothro, Mary Ridle...

Date Made: 1850-1875

Basket of Flowers Chintz Applique

Creator: Prothro, Mary Ridley Mims

Location Made: Georgia (GA) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique, Chintz applique quilt constructed using broderie perse technique.

Quilt Size: 87 in. x 87 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Chintz, Floral, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The present quilt owner, Ruth Eleanor Young Huddle, recalls first seeing this quilt when she was thirteen years old; it was 1927, the year of her grandmother's death. The quilt was left to her aunt, who in turn handed it down to her as a symbol of the perseverance of the women in the family.

25-21-335

KID: 25-21-335

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

1930-1949

Blazing Star

Mercer, Armenda (Mi...

Date Made: 1930-1949

Blazing Star

Creator: Mercer, Armenda (Minnie) Elizabeth Eeds

Location Made: Gonzales, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 70 in. x 90 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

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

Project: Texas Sesquicentenntial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Quiltmaker Minnie Mercer lost her mother as a young child and was taught quilting by her older sister and other relatives., quilting backing is of pieced white muslin, similar to tea towels of the era

25-21-47

KID: 25-21-47

1850-1875

Bleeding Heart

Beck, Elizabeth Win...

Date Made: 1850-1875

Bleeding Heart

Creator: Beck, Elizabeth Winfrey Harrison Denton

Location Made: Kentucky (KY) United States

Contruction: Hand Applique

Quilt Size: 102 in. x 86 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quilt owner stated that this quilt was made by her grandmother for her trousseau and that "It was so beautifully made no one could have done it with little ones underfoot." Quiltmaker Elizabeth Winfrey Harrison married twice and had seven children. When she died in 1871 at age forty-o...

25-21-339

KID: 25-21-339

1976-1999

Bright Morning St...

Buttery, Vickie Lyn...

Date Made: 1976-1999

Bright Morning Star

Creator: Buttery, Vickie Lynn Perino Milton

Location Made: El Paso, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Machine Piecing, Hand Applique

Quilt Size: 84 in. x 84 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

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

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quiltmaker has deliberately placed "mistake" into her quilt in order to prove the saying that "only God is perfect.", Mrs. Buttery likes the creative excitement that quilting brings.

25-21-67

KID: 25-21-67

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

1976-1999

Celebration--Nina...

Anthony, Catherine ...

Date Made: 1976-1999

Celebration--Nina Quilt

Creator: Anthony, Catherine Henry

Location Made: Houston, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Machine Piecing, Hand Applique

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

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

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Mrs. Anthony is a self-taught quilt maker whose skills she has perhaps passed on to her daughter Libby Anthony Lehman, also a well-known maker of contemporary and dramatic quilts., Mrs. Anthony has had no formal art training and began her quiltmaking with traditional patterns. She furthered her skil...

25-21-76

KID: 25-21-76

1901-1929

Cherry Quilt

Stone, Levina Thoma...

Date Made: 1901-1929

Cherry Quilt

Creator: Stone, Levina Thomas

Location Made: Five Points Community near Lamesa, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique, Dimensional applique, 1200 stuffed cherries, each perfectly round

Quilt Size: 68 in. x 82 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Levina Thomas was born in Tennessee in 1872; she married in 1888 and was widowed in 1922, after which she went to live with her eldest son and his family in Dawson County, which is where she made this quilt. The quilt maker's granddaughter notes that her grandmother lived in a cotton-growing area du...

25-21-21

KID: 25-21-21

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

ca. 1938

Cobweb

Towler, Prunella Bo...

Date Made: ca. 1938

Cobweb

Creator: Towler, Prunella Bowmer

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

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 64 in. x 72 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

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

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Quiltmaker Prunella Towler was taughter to quilt by her mother and made her first quilt as a child., scrap bag quilt, The quilt maker's mother taught her to quilt as a child. Her first quilt was probably a Nine Patch.

25-21-34

KID: 25-21-34

1976-1999

Country Cousins Q...

Wahrmund, Peggy Sti...

Date Made: 1976-1999

Country Cousins Quilt

Creator: Wahrmund, Peggy Stieler

Location Made: Fredericksburg, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Applique, Embroidery, Other embellishment technique, quiltmaker calls her technique "enhanced applique," by which she means cutting freehand all the pieces to create the details in this quilt, arranging all the quilt pieces in layers, then quilting all the layers in one process.

Quilt Size: 62 in. x 84 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

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

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Mrs. Wahrmund was formerly a weaver but started quilting in 1971 when she developed an allergy to wool. She turned to quilting as an outlet for her artistic expression, and has chosen the environment and lifestyle of the Texas Hill country and her Texas ranch for inspiration for this quilt and other...

25-21-92

KID: 25-21-92

1876-1900

Crazy Quilt

McCauley, Annie T.

Date Made: 1876-1900

Crazy Quilt

Creator: McCauley, Annie T.

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

Contruction: Foundation Piecing, Hand Piecing, Machine Piecing, Blanket, buttonhole, or other decorative applique stitch, Embroidery, Other embellishment technique, decorative briar stitching around each fabric and around each of the nine blocks

Quilt Size: 58 in. x 58 in.

Quilting Techniques: Not quilted

Fabrics: Silk, Other, Solid/plain, Other, moire silks, ribbons

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The initials A. T. in the quilt must refer to Annie T., the quiltmaker. Presumably T. stands for her maiden name.

25-21-6

KID: 25-21-6

1901-1929

Crazy Quilt

Florence, Julia Sav...

Date Made: 1901-1929

Crazy Quilt

Creator: Florence, Julia Savannah Beaty

Location Made: Mesquite, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Machine Piecing, Embroidery, Blocks are pieced together then embroidered with designs and figures that record quiltmaker's family history.

Quilt Size: 82 1/2 in. x 70 1/2 in.

Quilting Techniques: Not quilted

Fabrics: Wool, Multiple scrap, Solid/plain, men's woolen suit fabrics; probably from sample books (evidence of holes and glue in corners of blocks)

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Julia Savannah Beaty was born in 1850 in Arkansas and orphaned at age four. She was reared by a family in Grand Saline in Van Zandt County, Texas, where she met and married David Walker Florence in 1866. The couple established a homestead in Mesquite in 1871, two years before the town was even plat...

25-21-15

KID: 25-21-15

1876-1900

Crazy Quilt

Brown, Sue Dee Grai...

Date Made: 1876-1900

Crazy Quilt

Creator: Brown, Sue Dee Grainger

Location Made: Houston, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Blanket, buttonhole, or other decorative applique stitch, Embroidery, Painting, Other embellishment technique, pieced commemorative ribbons; hand painted figure; embroidered sashing and sashing in different colors; elaborate edge

Quilt Size: 69 in. x 71 in.

Quilting Techniques: Not quilted

Fabrics: Silk, Other, Velvet, Multiple scrap, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

It is possible Mrs. Brown made this quilt as a wedding quilt for her marriage, which was either in 1887 or 1888. Her husband's initially are featured in the quilt's center block. Her granddaughter remembers her grandmother as doing a lot of needlework; she owns a table cloth and napkins that her gr...

25-21-372

KID: 25-21-372

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

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

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

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

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

Dancing Stars

Hufnagel, Connie Sa...

Date Made: 1976-1999

Dancing Stars

Creator: Hufnagel, Connie Saggert

Location Made: Austin, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 88 in. x 90 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Broadcloth, Floral, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quiltmaker's work has been recognized nationally through publications and exhibitions. Connie Hufnagel made this quilt as a fund-raising quilt for the fund-raising raffle at the American International Quilt Association Show, 1983., Connie Hufnagel states that she always collected fabric and foun...

25-21-79

KID: 25-21-79

none

Democrat Rose

Smyth, Mrs. Joseph ...

Date Made: none

Democrat Rose

Creator: Smyth, Mrs. Joseph Grigsby

Location Made: Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Applique, Gathering/ruching, Other embellishment technique, Roses on this quilt, both large and small, are constructed by ruching; the heavily stuffed roses stand up almost 3/4 in. above the quilt surface.

Quilt Size: 70 in. x 83 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The present owners of this quilt believe it was made in East Texas. The quiltmaker's husband, Joseph Grisby Smyth, was the son of George W. Smyth, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. Joseph Smyth was born in Jasper County, Texas, in 1847 and married Mrs. Smyth in 1868. The couple had ...

25-21-350

KID: 25-21-350

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

1876-1900

Diamondback Rattl...

Bristol, Jemima Elv...

Date Made: 1876-1900

Diamondback Rattlesnake

Creator: Bristol, Jemima Elvira Johnson

Location Made: McKinney, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 70 in. x 73 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Hand-dyed, Print, Solid/plain, coarsely woven cotton

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

As the mother of nine children, Jemima Bristol made clothes for her family as well as straw mattresses for family to sleep on. She raised chickens, pigs, and cows and kept a garden that included beans, potatoes, "and everything else [she] could to help feed the family." Her husband Willia...

25-21-5

KID: 25-21-5

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

1876-1900

Double Wedding Ri...

Sweeten, Lola Demet...

Date Made: 1876-1900

Double Wedding Ring

Creator: Sweeten, Lola Demetia

Location Made: Cleveland, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 65 in. x 76 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, hand dyed green; indigo blue

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Quilt maker Lola Sweeten came to Texas in 1896. She was the wife of a farmer and the mother of seven children. She made all the clothing for the family as well as working in the fields. She also crocheted and made doilies. The present owner of the quilt notes that Lola Sweeten "was a quiet, re...

25-21-376

KID: 25-21-376

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

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

1930-1949

Evening Star

Lightfoot, Fannie T...

Date Made: 1930-1949

Evening Star

Creator: Lightfoot, Fannie Tennessee Watts

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

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 71 in. x 88 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

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

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Fannie Lightfoot was married at fourteen, raised twelve children, helped run a cotton farm, and was responsible for all the family's food and clothing. Her daughters remember their mother as "always at the sewing machine." She spent many evening and winters quilting, and her daughter-in-la...

25-21-33

KID: 25-21-33

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

1876-1900

Family Tree Quilt...

Roberson, J. B.

Date Made: 1876-1900

Family Tree Quilt

Creator: Roberson, J. B.

Location Made: Cleburne, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Embroidery, family tree is machine stitched embroidery

Quilt Size: 82 in. x 63 in.

Quilting Techniques: Machine quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quilt lists the names of family members: father, mother, children, and grandchildren. The December 20th date suggests that J. B. Roberson made this quilt for his wife as a Christmas gift. At the bottom of the quilt he credits his brother-in-law J.W. Mills, who held the bulk of the quilt for him ...

25-21-4

KID: 25-21-4

1950-1975

Fan Quilt

Gallagher, Merle Bl...

Date Made: 1950-1975

Fan Quilt

Creator: Gallagher, Merle Blanche Ellerbe

Location Made: Kermit, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Machine Piecing

Quilt Size: 58 in. x 70 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

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

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Today this quilt is owned by granddaughter Linda Gallagher Joiner, who helped quilt it in 1974. , The quiltmaker's daughter-in-law sent her scraps for this quilt , Merle Gallagher was always busy with her hands, often with crochet. She sewed for herself, her daughters, and her grandchildren. She was...

25-21-55

KID: 25-21-55

1876-1900

Feather Star

Daugherty, Lillie A...

Date Made: 1876-1900

Feather Star

Creator: Daugherty, Lillie Ann McBee

Location Made: Gainesville, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 67 in. x 79 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Conversation Prints, Multiple scrap, Print, Solid/plain, fabrics in this quilt probably gathered between 1875 and 1900.

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Lillie McBee was born in Tennessee in 1877. She came to Texas when she was four and grew up in Gainesville, where she finished high school. She married in 1900 and in 1906 moved with her family to Moore County, settling in the Middle Well Community. She moved again in 1914, to Dumas, Texas. Lillie D...

25-21-11

KID: 25-21-11

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

Feathered Star

Keith, Cynthia Jane...

Date Made: 1850-1875

Feathered Star

Creator: Keith, Cynthia Jane Campbell

Location Made: Dublin, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Machine Piecing

Quilt Size: 67 in. x 84 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Dotted, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quiltmaker was married in Texas in 1837 when she was twenty-five years old. In 1839, her husband was a veteran of the Texas Revolution and was awarded land in Red River County. The couple reared 15 children, one of whom was killed by Indians in 1864.

25-21-343

KID: 25-21-343

1976-1999

Flying X (As in T...

Collins, Karen Loui...

Date Made: 1976-1999

Flying X (As in TeXas) Quilt

Creator: Collins, Karen Louise Sikes

Location Made: Midland, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, deliberate error in quilt (see upper left)

Quilt Size: 96 in. x 100 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

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

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

This quilt contains an intentional mistake in the piecing--it symbolizes, says the quilt maker, "the one old sorehead who also came to Texas along with the millions of wonderful people.", This quilter wants to carry on the tradition of her quilter ancestors. For a time, Mrs. Collins and he...

25-21-99

KID: 25-21-99

1976-1999

Folk Life Festiva...

Greater San Antonio...

Date Made: 1976-1999

Folk Life Festival Poster Quilt

Creator: Greater San Antonio Quilt Guild

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

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Machine Piecing, Hand Applique, Painting, Small details on the flags are painted.

Quilt Size: 90 in. x 90 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

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

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

This quilt was made by members of the Greater San Antonio Quilt Guild in 1983 under the direction of Institute of Texan Cultures board member Beverly Orbelo. It was made to commemorate the 1983 Folklife Festival and was inspired by a poster designed specifically for the Festival by artist Christophe...

25-21-78

KID: 25-21-78

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

1930-1949

Four Seasons Quil...

Hall, Melinda Flore...

Date Made: 1930-1949

Four Seasons Quilt

Creator: Hall, Melinda Florence Rush

Location Made: Bovina, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique

Quilt Size: 84 in. x 85 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Quiltmaker Melinda Hall over came huge odds in her life. As a young woman in poor health, she was told by the family doctor that it was unlikely she would live past 40 years; she lived to be 97. She and her husband also had four children, but none lived past its first birthday. In 1915, Melinda Hall...

25-21-23

KID: 25-21-23

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; Quilts and Human Rights

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

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

1976-1999

Honeymoon Album Q...

Boehme, Lorraine Au...

Date Made: 1976-1999

Honeymoon Album Quilt

Creator: Boehme, Lorraine Austin

Location Made: Sugar Land, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Machine Piecing, Hand Applique, Embroidery, embroidered detail in some blocks

Quilt Size: 104 in. x 90 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

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

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Based on Mrs. Boehme's experience as a beginning quilter who undertook a major quilt project, she recommends that other beginners join a bee and get some expert advice. "I failed to do this," she notes, "and subsequently the quilting and applique stitching leave much to be desired. A ...

25-21-84

KID: 25-21-84

1976-1999

Houses, Barns, an...

Fowlkes, Shirley An...

Date Made: 1976-1999

Houses, Barns, and Churches Quilt

Creator: Fowlkes, Shirley Ann Godbold

Location Made: Dallas, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Machine Piecing, Hand Applique, Embroidery, Other embellishment technique, each block is double matted in plain brown border, then black border; embroidered detail on each structure

Quilt Size: 96 in. x 104 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

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

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quiltmaker chose to make a memory quilt of buildings because they have played such a major role in her life. The quilt was designed to be displayed on a wall rather than used on a bed., Mrs. Fowlkes made her first quilt--a Sampler--in 1981 and is now a consistent winner at fairs and shows. She t...

25-21-83

KID: 25-21-83

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

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

1976-1999

Indian Quilt

Wolfe, Ruby Greer

Date Made: 1976-1999

Indian Quilt

Creator: Wolfe, Ruby Greer

Location Made: Lampasas, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Machine Piecing

Quilt Size: 58 in. x 66 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton or polyester blend, Silk, Novelty, center medallion is a silk bandanna featuring a print of an American Indian in full regalia

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Mrs. Wolfe quilted a bit for necessity as a young child, then stopped quilting once married and raising a family of four children. She picked quilting back up around 1976 and now makes about two quilts per year.

25-21-109

KID: 25-21-109

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

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

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

1876-1900

Log Cabin, Barn R...

Patterson, Rebecca ...

Date Made: 1876-1900

Log Cabin, Barn Raising variation

Creator: Patterson, Rebecca Hooker

Location Made: Mississippi (MS) United States

Contruction: Foundation Piecing, Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 68 1/4 in. x 82 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Rebecca Patterson was an accomplished needleworker. She made clothing and taught her daughters to do the same.

25-21-8

KID: 25-21-8

1976-1999

Log Cabin, Barn R...

Tilley, Etta Speck

Date Made: 1976-1999

Log Cabin, Barn Raising variation

Creator: Tilley, Etta Speck

Location Made: Elm Mott, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Machine Piecing

Quilt Size: 94 in. x 110 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

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

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Became interested in quilts and quilting when she saw a neighbor make a Dutch Doll quilt. She asked for the pattern and made her own Dutch Doll in 1926, at age fourteen. Mrs. Tilley has continued to quilt all her life, finishing two quilts each year. She gives most away, though she has sold a few.

25-21-68

KID: 25-21-68

1850-1875

Log Cabin, Courth...

Moore, Martha Virgi...

Date Made: 1850-1875

Log Cabin, Courthouse Steps

Creator: Moore, Martha Virginia Morris

Location Made: Florence, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Foundation Piecing, Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 64 in. x 74 in.

Quilting Techniques: Not quilted

Fabrics: Wool, Other, Velvet

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quiltmaker was known as an expert needleworker, as were her two daughters.

25-21-352

KID: 25-21-352