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

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

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

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

1850-1875

Rails through the...

Williams, Ellen Pri...

Date Made: 1850-1875

Rails through the Mountains

Creator: Williams, Ellen Priscilla Miller

Location Made: Kentucky (KY) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Very complex piecing in fan-shaped corners, elaborate sashing, and use of some 2,544 small triangles.

Quilt Size: 69 in. x 89 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quiltmaker made each of her six children a woolen coverlet. According to the family, "She reared and sheared the sheep, carded the wool, spun it into thread, and wove coverlets, all while rearing her family."

25-21-354

KID: 25-21-354

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

1976-1999

Texas Star of Ind...

Weisheit, Marge

Date Made: 1976-1999

Texas Star of Independence Quilt

Creator: Weisheit, Marge

Location Made: Houston, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique

Quilt Size: 98 in. x 98 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The "Tiny Texas Star" fabric is from a collection of historical prints designed by Texas artist and Chi Omega Ann Eppright. This fabric inspired Chi Omega Quilt Chairman Loine Kauachi, who created this quilt's design. The quilt was pieced, appliqued, and stenciled by members of Chi Omega A...

25-21-98

KID: 25-21-98

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

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

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

1901-1929

White-Work quilt

Wagner, N.

Date Made: 1901-1929

White-Work quilt

Creator: Wagner, N.

Location Made: Calvert, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, stuffed work throughout

Quilt Size: 72 in. x 78 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quiltmaker's family came to Texas in the early 1800s. Some of the family settled in the Houston area.

25-21-12

KID: 25-21-12

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#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

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

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

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

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

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

1930-1949

Railroad Crossing...

Smither, Ruby Bates...

Date Made: 1930-1949

Railroad Crossing

Creator: Smither, Ruby Bates

Location Made: Mabank, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Foundation Piecing, Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 68 in. x 84 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

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

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The present owner of this quilt states that her Aunt Ruby Smither "always loved to sew and she and her mother made several beautiful quilts in the 1920s and early 1930s before she married." She noted that this was the "last quilt made by her when she married" in 1932. , Quilt fea...

25-21-48

KID: 25-21-48

1901-1929

Pinwheel Star

Smith, Paralee Hamb...

Date Made: 1901-1929

Pinwheel Star

Creator: Smith, Paralee Hambleton

Location Made: Brazos, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 63 in. x 76 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Print, Solid/plain, Other, 2 kinds of white fabric used

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Paralee Hambleton was born in 1872 in Missouri. Her father was a saloon owner who took his family west in a covered wagon. They stopped first in Palo Pinto County, Texas, then moved on to Weatherford. The eldest daughter, Paralee--the quilt maker--left school in the fifth grade to help care for her ...

25-21-18

KID: 25-21-18

1876-1900

Sawtooth Variatio...

Slater, Margaret Ca...

Date Made: 1876-1900

Sawtooth Variation

Creator: Slater, Margaret Cameron

Location Made: Jeromesville, Ohio (OH) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, precise hand piecing of 3,584 individual sawtooth triangles

Quilt Size: 80 in. x 89 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

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

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The present owner was the first great grandchild in her family. When she was only 17 months old, her parents took her to Ohio so that her great grandmother, the quiltmaker, could meet her first great grandchild. , Quiltmaker taught school before she married. She made the family's clothing and did so...

25-21-365

KID: 25-21-365

1976-1999

Sesquicentennial ...

Sibley, Marilyn McA...

Date Made: 1976-1999

Sesquicentennial Medallion Quilt

Creator: Sibley, Marilyn McAdams

Location Made: Houston, Texas (TX) United States

Quilt Size: 75 in. x 84 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

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

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Dr. Sibley purchased the striped fabric for this quilt some time before she made the quilt. As she began her project she discovered just how much fabric it takes to match and miter striped to turn corners in quilts. By the time she needed more of the striped fabric, her store had sold out. "Thu...

25-21-107

KID: 25-21-107

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

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

1976-1999

Tulips for Tiffan...

Schorfheide, Cherry...

Date Made: 1976-1999

Tulips for Tiffany

Creator: Schorfheide, Cherry Faulkner Crain

Location Made: Texarkana, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, inner frames of medallion set on point

Quilt Size: 82 in. x 88 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quiltmaker used her husband's great great grandmother's quilting frame, dating from 1855, to make this quilt. The quilting frame was given to her by her husband as a wedding gift., This quiltmaker's parents died when she was young, and she was brought up by an Aunt who was a Home Demonstration A...

25-21-89

KID: 25-21-89

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

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

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

1976-1999

Strawberry

Royal, Betty Peace

Date Made: 1976-1999

Strawberry

Creator: Royal, Betty Peace

Location Made: Plainview, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique, Embroidery, embroidery on strawberries, including veins on leaves and French knots on the berries for realism

Quilt Size: 74 in. x 93 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton or polyester blend, Broadcloth

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Mrs. Royal saves this quilt for exhibition at quilt shows.

25-21-66

KID: 25-21-66

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

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

1976-1999

Prickly Pear

Perryman, Minnie Dy...

Date Made: 1976-1999

Prickly Pear

Creator: Perryman, Minnie Dyson

Location Made: Purmela, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Applique

Quilt Size: 78 in. x 78 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Mrs. Perryman first saw the Prickly Pear pattern in 1983 when she was visiting her niece in Arkansas. "The original quilt from which my pattern came was a wedding gift to my niece's father-in-law's grandparents in 1840.", Mrs. Perryman based her Prickly Pear quilt on a pattern she first sa...

25-21-87

KID: 25-21-87

1800-1849

Love Apple

Perrin, Ambrosia Ja...

Date Made: 1800-1849

Love Apple

Creator: Perrin, Ambrosia Jane Smith

Location Made: Chillicothe, Missouri (MO) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique

Quilt Size: 98 in. x 82 1/2

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Broadcloth, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

This quilt was made by Ambrosia Jame Smith, age seventeen, just before her marriage. According to family history, her fiance drafted the pattern for Ambrosia's quilt and also drew the quilting patterns. Ambrosia Smith married Cary Allen Perrin in Missouri in 1849; the couple moved to Texas in 1898, ...

25-21-337

KID: 25-21-337

1930-1949

Roosevelt Rose

Pennington, Annie M...

Date Made: 1930-1949

Roosevelt Rose

Creator: Pennington, Annie McGlasson

Location Made: Abilene, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Applique, Dimensional applique, Yo-yo, Yo-Yos and puffs used for flowers

Quilt Size: 86 in. x 88 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Sateen, Other, Floral, Multiple scrap, Print, Solid/plain, black cotton sateen; bias fold tape used for stems and vining that creates central medallion

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quiltmaker made this quilt in 1939-40, when Franklin D. Roosevelt was president. According to the family, the quiltmaker's husband was a life-long Democrat (the family called him a "brass collar Democrat") and a strong supporter of the President. Nearly forty years separate the making ...

25-21-37

KID: 25-21-37

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

Pansy quilt

Patterson, Thelma J...

Date Made: 1930-1949

Pansy quilt

Creator: Patterson, Thelma Jetton

Location Made: Hillsboro, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Applique

Quilt Size: 77 in. x 87 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quiltmaker's niece states that Mrs. Patterson's husband was the manager of a grocery store, and with his long hours away from home, she used the time to make this quilt. The quiltmaker never entered her quilts in contests. But in 1984, her niece entered this Pansy Quilt in a Dallas quilt show, w...

25-21-30

KID: 25-21-30

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

1930-1949

Lover's Knot

Patterson, Myrtle A...

Date Made: 1930-1949

Lover's Knot

Creator: Patterson, Myrtle Augusta Loomis

Location Made: Gilmer, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 78 in. x 88 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

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

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Mrs. Patterson quilted for years with the ladies of her church. When she died, she did not specifically bequeath her quilts, and her only surviving son, believing that his niece "would want all new things when she got married," took all of Mrs. Patterson's quilts to the poor section of tow...

25-21-40

KID: 25-21-40

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

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

1976-1999

Stained Glass Qui...

Parker, Vivian Osie...

Date Made: 1976-1999

Stained Glass Quilt

Creator: Parker, Vivian Osie Hobbs

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

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Machine Piecing, Hand Applique, Brown "leading" in this quilt has been pieced between the "glass panels," not appliqued, as is typically done.

Quilt Size: 83 in. x 84 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

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

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Mrs. Parker's Stained Glass Quilt was a blue-ribbon winner at the Texas State Fair and hung in the invitation show "Stained Glass Connection" in Lexington, KY., All materials are chintz; "leading" is dark brown, not black. This type of quilt was especially popular in the late 197...

25-21-81

KID: 25-21-81

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

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

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

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

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

Wild Goose Chase

Means, Margaret E. ...

Date Made: 1850-1875

Wild Goose Chase

Creator: Means, Margaret E. Aiken Cody

Location Made: Jackson, Georgia (GA) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Orderly quilt with 21 pieced blocks, each containing 166 small triangles, alternating with heavily quilted white blocks. he brown triangles are pieced in each block to link with those in other blocks, giving the quilt an overall grid look.

Quilt Size: 86 1/2 in. x 74 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quiltmaker made this quilt for her marriage to T. W. Cody in 1874. The couple had one daughter, Carrie, in 1876, prior to leaving Jackson, Georgia, for Lampasas, Texas. Mrs. Cody was widowed, then married a second time, to Ruben Lee Means, with whom she had four children by 1899. In 1901 the fam...

25-21-356

KID: 25-21-356

1976-1999

Yellow Rose of Te...

McKay, Donoene

Date Made: 1976-1999

Yellow Rose of Texas Quilt

Creator: McKay, Donoene

Location Made: Gilmer, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Machine Piecing

Quilt Size: 66 in. x 80 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Broadcloth, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

After Mrs. McKay made this Yellow Rose of Texas quilt, she entered it in the American International Quilt Association's judged show, held each fall in Houston at the International Quilt Festival. Because she had quilted the rose design and tacked the background, the quilt hung unevenly, a fact point...

25-21-103

KID: 25-21-103

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

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

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

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

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

1876-1900

Tree of Life

Mason, Mary Jane Ja...

Date Made: 1876-1900

Tree of Life

Creator: Mason, Mary Jane Jackson

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

Contruction: Hand Applique, Embroidery, embroidery used to create thin stems on branches holding berries

Quilt Size: 80 in. x 74 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Mary Jane Jackson Mason had at least five children.

25-21-360

KID: 25-21-360