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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
1876-1900
Sunflower
Kirvin Community

Date Made: 1876-1900

Sunflower

Creator: Kirvin Community

Location Made: Kirvin, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 88 in. x 99 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Karey Bresenhan notes that this quilt is a Freedom Quilt, traditionally a quilt made for a young man by his female friends--the only quilts made especially for men. Typically they were made for and given to men when they became twenty-one years old and reached their legal majority or when they finis...

25-21-367

KID: 25-21-367
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
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
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
1850-1875
Sugar Loaf
Askey, Annie Doroth...

Date Made: 1850-1875

Sugar Loaf

Creator: Askey, Annie Dorothea Walker Folmer

Location Made: Alabama (AL) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 67 in. x 83 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

According to the owner, the quiltmaker did not work outside the home, and was known as an outstanding homemaker (she scrubbed her white hickory floors with sand) and cook. She made clothing and quilts, she spun cotton and wool thread, crocheted, tatted, weaved, knit, and embroidered. She taught her ...

25-21-355

KID: 25-21-355
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
1976-1999
My Two Loves Quil...
Baaklini, Joy Ann R...

Date Made: 1976-1999

My Two Loves Quilt

Creator: Baaklini, Joy Ann Rose

Location Made: Austin, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique, Other embellishment technique, Mrs. Baaklini has cut each of her pieces to center red and blue flowers in the diamonds of her darkest part and to position individual figures in the diamonds of the lightest part. She has also quilted her two daughters' hand prints into the top corners of the outside border.

Quilt Size: 77 in. x 97 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Joy Ann Baaklini notes: "I have been a weaver, painter, photographer, potter, but none of that 'took.' I can never imagine my life now without quilting. This quilt has brought more than just a cover for my bed; it has changed my whole life. I now am a full-time quilt maker exhibiting quilts al...

25-21-97

KID: 25-21-97
1800-1849
Rising Sun
Barrow, Mrs. Josiah...

Date Made: 1800-1849

Rising Sun

Creator: Barrow, Mrs. Josiah

Location Made: Alabama (AL) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Row of half suns at top for pillows. Twelve full red, green, and white whirling disks are edged with tiny red and yellow triangles and contained within a strong grid of green. Two of the twelve full whirling disks are pieced so that the motif appears to rotate counter clockwise; all others, including the four half disks at the top, rotate clockwise.

Quilt Size: 100 in. x 88 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Print, Solid/plain, calicoes

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Another member of this family owns a quilt made by Harriet E. Barrow Gray (the daughter of the maker of the Rising Sun quilt). Although its pattern is not a Rising Sun, the owner states that appears to be made of the same yellow-green calico that was used in the Rising Sun quilt., Backing is homespu...

25-21-334

KID: 25-21-334
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
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
1876-1900
Princess Feather ...
Berry, Mrs. Andrew ...

Date Made: 1876-1900

Princess Feather variation

Creator: Berry, Mrs. Andrew Jackson

Location Made: Baird, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique

Quilt Size: 82 in. x 86 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Dotted, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quiltmaker is thought to be the second wife of Captain Andrew jackson Berry, who fought in the Texas army at the Battle of San Jacinto in 1836 and in the Confederate army during the Civil War. There is no information about the quiltmaker other than that she and her husband lived in the Baird, Te...

25-21-366

KID: 25-21-366
1976-1999
Longhorns on the ...
Blackstone, Helen G...

Date Made: 1976-1999

Longhorns on the Chisholm Trail

Creator: Blackstone, Helen Gage

Location Made: Austin, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Other embellishment technique, trapunto on Longhorn's horns

Quilt Size: 70 in. x 92 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

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

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quiltmaker has stuffed the horns on her Longhorns to give them dimension and as a reminder of longhorns left on the Chisholm Trail after some cattle died or were killed on the long and difficult trail drives. Mrs. Blackstone has copyrighted her design., Mrs. Blackstone was inspired to make quilt...

25-21-70

KID: 25-21-70
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
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
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
1976-1999
Tribute to the Co...
Branan, Jil Garrett...

Date Made: 1976-1999

Tribute to the Cowhand Quilt

Creator: Branan, Jil Garrett

Location Made: Pampa, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Machine Piecing, Hand Applique, Embroidery, embroidered detail on boots to suggest stitchery found on many cowboy boots

Quilt Size: 53 in. x 53 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Broadcloth, Other, Print, Solid/plain, Other, bandanna fabric in border and used as binding

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The eight quilt squares depict cowboy boots, with embroidery to simulate stitchery on the leather. The star represents the Lone Star state. the plaid and bandanna fabrics suggest the cowboys' bandannas, used as a filter against dust and protection against the sun and cold on trail drives. The lattic...

25-21-85

KID: 25-21-85
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
1950-1975
Lone Star Quilt
Brock, Marguerite E...

Date Made: 1950-1975

Lone Star Quilt

Creator: Brock, Marguerite Evelyn Houston

Location Made: Dalhart, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Machine Piecing

Quilt Size: 88 in. x 88 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

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

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Mrs. Brock comes from a long line of dedicated quilters. The Diamondback Rattlesnake Quilt featured 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, 1986), p. 112-113), was made by her great grand...

25-21-58

KID: 25-21-58
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
1930-1949
New York Beauty
Buske, Hedwig Ferts...

Date Made: 1930-1949

New York Beauty

Creator: Buske, Hedwig Fertsch

Location Made: Shiner, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique, The junction of sashes consists of a spiky, needle-pointed gold star with an appliqued gold center, all pieced into a larger brown star, pieced into a green square.

Quilt Size: 84 in. x 92 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Hedwig Fertsch was the youngest girl of eleven children. Her father died in his thirties, leaving his wife to raise the surviving five boys and four girls. Hedwig married Emil Buske in 1905. Emil bought a cotton gin in Shiner, Texas, which he ran until 1971. It was the last gin in Lavaca County to ...

25-21-24

KID: 25-21-24
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
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
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
1976-1999
Texas Bluebonnet ...
Caudill, Grace Bowm...

Date Made: 1976-1999

Texas Bluebonnet quilt

Creator: Caudill, Grace Bowman Simpson

Location Made: Houston and Greensboro, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Fusible Applique, Embroidery, Each bluebonnet block contains 39 tiny pieces that form the petals of the bluebonnets and its realistic leaves. Stems and leaf details are embroidered. Perfect applique buttonhole stitches are so tiny and close that no raw edges show between stitches.

Quilt Size: 108 in. x 108 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Mrs. Caudill began this quilt while living in Houston, Harris County, Texas; she quilted it in 1981 after moving to Greensboro, North Carolina. , Mrs. Caudill--Grace Simpson (the name by which she is known in the quilt world) has designed at least eighteen patterns, which she lists in her "Quil...

25-21-73

KID: 25-21-73
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
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
1876-1900
Princess Feather
Christian, Bashie S...

Date Made: 1876-1900

Princess Feather

Creator: Christian, Bashie Smith

Location Made: Waco, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique, layered applique

Quilt Size: 60 in. x 60 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

According to the present owner, the quiltmaker often took leaves off of trees to use for her quilt patterns. Additionally, Bashie Christian was quite a talented needleworker--she is remembered for her beautiful tatting and crochet. She also loved flower gardening and always had flowers in the yard a...

25-21-369

KID: 25-21-369
1901-1929
Target Quilt
Clark, Lorah Sasser...

Date Made: 1901-1929

Target Quilt

Creator: Clark, Lorah Sasser

Location Made: Nancy Prairie or Whitesboro, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Foundation Piecing, Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 70 in. x 78 in.

Quilting Techniques: Not quilted

Fabrics: Cotton, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Lorah Sasser was born in Whitesboro, Texas, in 1879. She married James Milton Clark in 1898, and the couple had five children. Lorah started her Target quilt when she was sixteen; she used many fabrics that date from the last quarter of the 19th century, which suggests she kept a well-stocked scrap ...

25-21-13

KID: 25-21-13
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
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
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
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
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
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
1976-1999
My Blue Jean Quil...
Cox, Pearl Glover

Date Made: 1976-1999

My Blue Jean Quilt

Creator: Cox, Pearl Glover

Location Made: Fredericksburg, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique, Embroidery, heavily embroidered in each of 20 Nine Patch blocks

Quilt Size: 83 in. x 103 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Other, Other, Solid/plain, used blue jean demin

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

This is the quiltmaker's first attempt at quilt making. She finished the quilt just in time (two hours before deadline) to enter it into the Gillespie County Fair, where it won first prize and Best of Show, the first of many such awards. , She used denim from her three sons' used blue jeans and spen...

25-21-72

KID: 25-21-72
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
1876-1900
Vase of Roses and...
Davidson, Josie

Date Made: 1876-1900

Vase of Roses and Cherries

Creator: Davidson, Josie

Location Made: Virginia (VA) United States

Contruction: Hand Applique, Embroidery, embroidery stitches create cherry stems

Quilt Size: 84 in. x 84 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

25-21-361

KID: 25-21-361
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
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
1850-1875
Rose of Sharon wi...
Dickerson, Margaret...

Date Made: 1850-1875

Rose of Sharon with Buds

Creator: Dickerson, Margaret Wright

Location Made: Missouri (MO) United States

Contruction: Hand Applique, Other embellishment technique, multi-layered applique; trapunto

Quilt Size: 96 in. x 72 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting, Stuffed work

Fabrics: Cotton, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The Dickersons lived on a farm in Atoka, Texas, in Coleman County. After Margaret Dickerson's husband died she moved to Houston to live with a son and his family. The owner believes that her great grandmother and a sister, Lula Wright, made three quilts, one of which is this Rose of Sharon with Buds...

25-21-349

KID: 25-21-349
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
1976-1999
The Home Place Qu...
Echlin, Naomi Stanl...

Date Made: 1976-1999

The Home Place Quilt

Creator: Echlin, Naomi Stanley

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

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Machine Piecing, Hand Applique, Embroidery, embroidered details on pictorial motif, including barbed wire, people, garden flowers and vegetables, detail in trees etc.

Quilt Size: 44 in. x 66 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Broadcloth, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Mrs. Echlin has a strong background in spinning and weaving. This was her first quilt, made in 1976. Since then, she has taken quilt classes and has continued to quilt. , Based on the quiltmaker's view of the family homestead in the 1940s-1960s., Mrs. Echlin is also an accomplished spinner and weave...

25-21-64

KID: 25-21-64
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
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
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
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
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
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
1930-1949
Lone Star
Gallagher, Wanda Fa...

Date Made: 1930-1949

Lone Star

Creator: Gallagher, Wanda Fae Hanson

Location Made: Jayton, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 72 in. x 76 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

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

Project: Texas Sesquicentenntial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quiltmaker learned to quilt when she was nine years old; she started with a Nine Patch. After that she started a new quilt every year until she married at eighteen. She had five finished quilts and three tops completed for her hope chest by the time of her wedding in 1944. , After making this Lo...

25-21-46

KID: 25-21-46
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
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
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
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
Tribute to the He...
Harris, Annick Thor...

Date Made: 1976-1999

Tribute to the Heroes of the Alamo Quilt

Creator: Harris, Annick Thorr

Location Made: Harker Heights, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Machine Piecing

Quilt Size: 102 in. x 102 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Broadcloth, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

This quilt was Annick Harris's first quilting project. She notes: "I am a real novice quilter since this quilt is my first project ever and the quilting designs could have been more researched and elaborate. I nonetheless tried to find a pattern with something resembling a Fleur de Lys. This ch...

25-21-100

KID: 25-21-100
1976-1999
Texas Wildflowers...
Hartnell-Williams, ...

Date Made: 1976-1999

Texas Wildflowers #1: Bonnets and Brushes Quilt

Creator: Hartnell-Williams, Janet

Location Made: McAllen, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Machine Piecing, Hand Applique

Quilt Size: 51 in. x 61 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Dotted, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

With this quilt, the quiltmaker wished "to capture the wonderful displays of wildflowers seen in Texas." , This is the first of a series of three quilts created by Ms. Hartnell-Williams that depict the natural beauty of Texas Wildflowers., The quiltmaker and her mother Virginia Hartnell we...

25-21-93

KID: 25-21-93
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
1930-1949
When I Put Out to...
Headrick, Felma Gre...

Date Made: 1930-1949

When I Put Out to Sea

Creator: Headrick, Felma Green

Location Made: Georgetown, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Machine Piecing, Hand Applique, Embroidery, Small square at bottom is embroidered S 1/C [seaman first class]; embroidered detail on ocean waves suggests frothing as waves break upon the beach; fabric and stitching detail on seagulls

Quilt Size: 78 in. x 85 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Solid/plain, blue chambray

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Felma Headrick made many quilts to use and to give away. She made this one in memory of her husband, who died in 1946 of service-related injuries. This is an original pictorial quilt design, which, according to Karey Bresenhan, is uncommon for the period. The quilt was made over a period of eighteen...

25-21-52

KID: 25-21-52
1950-1975
Sunburst
Henderson, Lillie A...

Date Made: 1950-1975

Sunburst

Creator: Henderson, Lillie Anna Witt

Location Made: Lubbock, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique

Quilt Size: 74 in. x 87 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Lillie Henderson was commissioned to make a second Sunburst Quilt in about 1987. This quilt became a special gift on the occasion of the 35th wedding anniversary of a couple from Amarillo. , Mrs. Henderson decided to try her hand at quilting when she was in her fifties after her daughter-in-law admi...

25-21-60

KID: 25-21-60
1976-1999
Texas Wildflower ...
Herndon, Mary Ann J...

Date Made: 1976-1999

Texas Wildflower ABCs Quilt

Creator: Herndon, Mary Ann Jackson

Location Made: Houston, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Machine Piecing, Hand Applique, Embroidery, use of hand-dyed fabrics

Quilt Size: 80 in. x 80 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

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

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Mrs. Herndon began quilting in 1979 after attending a meeting of the Houston Quilt Guild and hearing a lecture by Yvonne Porcella. She began her first quilt, an Amish quilt, that year.

25-21-101

KID: 25-21-101