QUILT INDEX RECORD

11-37-5141

Where are the records for this quilt housed?

Massachusetts Quilt Documentation Project - MassQuilts

Who documented this quilt?

Massachusetts Quilt Documentation Project, MassQuilts; New England Quilt Museum Collection

MASS-Quilts ID Number:

2428

Alternate inventory control number:

NEQM# 1988.02

Ownership of this quilt is:

Public Museum, Library or Institution

Quilt owner:

New England Quilt Museum

Quilt owner's city:

Lowell

Quilt owner's state:

Massachusetts (MA)

Quilt owner's county:

Middlesex

Quilt owner's country:

United States

Width:

97.5

Length:

97.5

Quilt's title:

New Hampshire Signature Quilt

Pattern name (maker/owner/historical):

Snowflake

Quilt top made by:

Foster, Carrie

Name of the group that made the quilt:

Friends of Carrie Foster

Quiltmaker's state:

New Hampshire (NH)

Quiltmaker's city:

Henniker

Quiltmaker's country:

United States

Quiltmaker's D.O.B.:

1835

Date of death and location:

1866

Marriage date:

1861

How did owner acquire quilt?

Purchase

Tell the story of how the quilt was obtained:

with funds donated by Patsy Nelson and Sylvia Barrett

Time period:

1850-1875

Do you know if any of the following exist (quiltmaker's diary or letters, patterns for quilt/quilting, photos of quiltmaker, quiltmaker's scrapbook or clippings, quiltmaker's patterns, awards, ribbons, pins, photo of quilt, other, existent?, if so, where)?

Gilbert pg 35

Format:

Finished quilt

Technique, piecing:

Hand Piecing

Sashing width:

2.5" lattice strips

Shape of edge:

T-cutout

Describe the edge:

Four Poster, 22 x 23

Vertical rows, horizontal rows and number of blocks:

6 vertical rows, 5 horizontal rows, 75 + 4 quarter squares blocks

Block shape:

Squares

Block size:

7.25

Fabric fibers:

Cotton

Patterns:

Print

Describe the fibers or fabrics in the quilt top:

plain weave

Predominant colors:

Pink

Quilting:

Hand quilting

Motif design, overall:

Single parallel lines

Describe the quilting designs used:

some diagonal

Quilting stitches per inch, place 1:

7-Jun

Width between quilting lines:

7/8"

Border; technique, fiber, weave, pattern:

Pieced, cotton, plain weave, print, 20 half-squares set in triangles/ 2 corner quarter-squares at top

Binding and edging:

Separate binding applied

Binding; fiber:

Cotton

Binding; weave:

Plain weave

How wide is the binding (measure on the top only)?

1/4"

Binding; pattern:

patterned fabric

Batting:

Cotton

Batting thickness:

Thin

Backing, number of pieces:

4 pieces

Backing, fiber:

Cotton

Backing, predominant color:

Cream

Inscription, type:

Message

Inscription, content:

Carrie F. Foster West Henniker Please accept this quilt, my dear friend to atone for a loss we cannot amend And let troubles pass by fraught with despair And learn with a light heart lie's sorrows to bear.

Inscription, front/back:

on block

Describe where the inscription was found:

in center block

Condition:

Excellent/like new

Condition, damage:

Dirty

Condition, structurally sound?

This quilt is structurally sound.

Pattern name, no. and source:

2880

Pattern name, variations and comments:

Album Block

Related items such as diaries, obituaries, wills, household inventories, or pictures of the quiltmaker:

genealogy available in full record

Date estimated by an antique dealer, quilt historian or appraiser:

1850-1875

What is the width of the binding (measure on the top only)?

less than a half inch

Access and copyright information:

Restricted

Copyright holder:

New England Quilt Museum