QUILT INDEX RECORD
12-8-143
Who documented this quilt?
Michigan Quilt Project
Where are the records for this quilt housed?
Michigan State University Museum
Michigan Quilt Project Number:
93.0024
Quilt's title:
The Kimball House Bicentennial Quilt
Name of the group that made the quilt:
Kimball Quilters
If you are a relative of the quiltmaker, how are you related? The quiltmaker is my:
Quilt owner
If you are the quilt owner, how did you acquire this quilt?
Received as a gift
Where the quilt was made, city:
Battle Creek
Where the quilt was made, county:
Calhoun
Where the quilt was made, state:
Michigan (MI)
Time period:
1976-1999
When was the quilt started?
1976
When was the quilt finished?
1976
Why was the quilt made?
Commemorative
Details about why the quilt was made:
Historical Society of Battle Creek, 200th birthday of America
Quilt is presently used as:
Museum collection
Quiltmaker's gender:
Group
Quiltmaker's city:
Battle Creek
Quiltmaker's county:
Calhoun
Quiltmaker's state:
Michigan (MI)
Does/did the quiltmaker belong to a group? Name of the group?
1. Post Cereal, Marjorie Jones
This is a:
Finished quilt
How wide is the quilt?
6' 10"
How long is the quilt?
8' 1"
Quilt's condition:
Excellent/like new
What is inscribed on the quilt?
1. Post Cereal, Marjorie Jones. 2. Barn Building, Elva Burrill. 3. Willard Library, Adele Minges. 4. McCamly Park, Miriam W. Conley. 5. The Oak Openings, Bernice White. 6. Kingman Museum, Marguerite Angood. 7. Fireplugs, Janet Lee Detweiler and Amy Clark. 8. The First Schoolhouse, Dorothy Haskell. 9. Kimball House, Alice Dean. 10. Music, Patricia Payson. 11. Transportation, Roberta Bailey. 12. Merritt Homestead, Pearl Dyer and Maude Higden. 13. Dr. Kellogg and The Towers, Janet Detweiler. 14. Attic Archeologist, Stella Dickerman. 15. The John W. Bailey Park, Ava Edwards. 16. The Trolley Car, Alice Davis. 17. Irving Park Lagoon, Marilyn Lapham. 18. The Kellogg Company, Betty Hopper. 19. Kellogg Community College, Millie Payne. 20. The Mall, Julia Purring. 21. The Verona Mill, Effa Hoyt. 22. Gaguae Lake, Martha Stocker. 23. Barney's Tavern, Shirley Hoeksema. 24. The Civic Theater, Lou Dyckman. 25. Sojourner Truth, Mattye Vest. 26.The Churches of Battle Creek, Delzella Townsend. 27. Old Downtown, Helen Jean Haynes. 28. The Battle Creek Civic Art Center, Sadie Bauer. 29. The City Hall of 1882, Rene Clark. 30. The Undergound Railway, Patty Sykes.
What is the date inscribed on the quilt?
1976
Describe where the inscription was found:
top
Describe the quilt's layout:
Block pattern
Number of quilt blocks:
30
Sashing width:
6" 4, 1/2"W
Describe the borders:
2"
Fiber types used to make the quilt top:
Cotton
Piecing techniques used to make the quilt top:
Machine Piecing
Applique techniques used to make the quilt top:
Hand Applique
Embellishment techniques used to make the quilt top:
Embroidery
Materials used to make the back:
Cotton
Number of pieces of fabric in the quilt back:
1
What kind of filling is used in the quilt?
Polyester
How are the layers held together?
Hand quilting
Related items such as diaries, obituaries, wills, household inventories, or pictures of the quiltmaker:
Sketch and book explaning each block and its meaning.
Person filling out this form is:
Quilt owner
Ownership of this quilt is:
Public-Other
Quilt owner's name:
Battle Creek Historical Society
Quilt owner's city:
Battle Creek
Quilt owner's county:
Calhoun
Quilt owner's state:
Michigan (MI)
How was this quilt acquired?
Gift
Describe anything about the history of the quilt that wasn't already recorded in a previous field:
The Kimball House Museum Bicentennial Quilt has been an experience involving the challenges of design, applique, embroidery and quilting. It started an idea and a hope. The first meeting of interested people was held on February 12, 1976. General plans were made and subjects for the blocks were suggested. At the next meeting the blocks were chosen and at a third one, materials were available and help offered. From then on each person worked independently, though help and extra materials were available at Kimball House on Tuesdays. By summer the blocks, or "patches," were ready and Millie Payne put them together in the red framework. The old quilting frames were taken from Kimball House to Alice Dean's home. There the filling and backing were basted to the pieced top, then the quilt was rolled on the frames. Thereafter, once a week, the designers met to quilt their blocks. This proved to be a more tedious task than expected but nine new people came in to help. Our number ranged from three to nine people. One day we had both an eighty-year old and a great grandmother quilting. All workers have signed the quilt, the designers in their own blocks. Now the quilt hangs proudly on the frame made by Don Hanna. We who have worked happily together hope that you will enjoy our effort.
Access and copyright information:
Restricted
How did the quiltmaker participate in the creation of the quilt?
Made entire quilt
Copyright holder:
Michigan State University Museum
Cite this Quilt
;. The Kimball House Bicentennial Quilt. 1976. From Michigan State University Museum, Michigan Quilt Project. Published in The Quilt Index, https://quiltindex.org/view/?type=fullrec&kid=12-8-143. Accessed: 11/02/24