
QUILT INDEX RECORD
40-38-1651
Where are the records for this quilt housed?
Oregon Quilt Project
Who documented this quilt?
Oregon Quilt Project
OQP ID#
2019.DS.SP.36
Site
Sisters, OR - Stitchin' Post
Date data collected:
03-09-2019
Quilt Title
"Log Cabin" (Straight Furrow var.)
Choose whether the quilt is owned by a person (private) or a museum or public collection.
Private
Owner's Name
Shoulders, Suzette DeCourcey
City
Bend
State
Oregon (OR)
County
Deshutes
Country
United States
Quilt name or pattern used by family/owner.
Log Cabin
How was quilt acquired by owner? Use ctrl + click to choose more than one.
Purchase
Occasion, date, person inherited from, etc:
I bought this beauty for $200 at the Sisters Habitat Thrift Shop in July of 2015.
Any additional stories or notes about the quilt's history or ownership? You may also put "Who will inherit this quilt?" in this field.
I hope to give this quilt to a museum.
Type of Object: Choose the best description for the quilt being documented.
Finished quilt
Overall Size: (in inches, to the nearest 1/2") Overall:width
84"
Overall Size: (in inches, to the nearest 1/2") Overal: length
84"
Block Size: width x length
9¼" x 9¼"
Block Pattern Name:
Log Cabin
BB# or other #:
BB# 2573
Borders: _1 _2 _3 _more than 3
2
Width: (in inches, to the nearest 1/2") _1 _2 _3 _____other
1st Border = 2½" Pink 2nd Border = 7¼" Medium dark Print
Quilt Layout Format: (choose one) Choose the best description for the layout (or set) of the quilt.
Block pattern
This field only applies to quilts with a block format. Choose the best description for how the quilt blocks are set together. Sashings are strips of fabric that separate the quilt blocks from one another.
Side by side
Shape of Edge: (choose one)
Straight
Predominate Colors: Use ctrl + click to choose more than one.
Brown; Coral; Pink
Overall Color Value: Use ctrl + click to choose more than one.
Multicolor
Quilt-Specific Colors: (check all that apply) Use ctrl + click to choose more than one.
Butterscotch; Chocolate Brown or Hershey Brown; Chrome Yellow; Double Pink; Lancaster Blue; Madder Brown
Describe any colors used in the quilt not previously described.
Bubblegum Pink; Purple (fugitive)
Damage to Quilt: (check all that apply) Use ctrl + click to choose more than one.
Disintegration of fabric; Stains
Overall Condition:
Very good/almost new
Approximate date of estimation: (as mm-dd-yyyy or c.yyyy, e.g. c.1965).
c.1870's
By Whom (OQP member):
MBC
Date Time Frame:
1850-1875
Quilt Top Materials and Construction: Fibers types in Top: (check all that apply) Use ctrl + click to choose more than one.
Cotton
Fabric types in Top: (check all that apply) Use ctrl + click to choose more than one.
Muslin
Fabric patterns, styles or prints used: (check all that apply) Use ctrl + click to choose more than one.
Checked; Dotted; Floral; Geometric; Mourning Prints; Multiple scrap; Print; Striped
Quilt Top Construction--Piecing techniques: Use ctrl + click to choose more than one.
Foundation Piecing; Hand Piecing
Quilting Description: Techniques Used: Use ctrl + click to choose more than one.
Hand quilting
Number of stitches per inch
5-6
Thread Type
Cotton
Thread color
Brown
Width between Quilting Quilting is: _dense _medium _sparse
¾" Dense Quilting
Overall Pattern Design: Use ctrl + click to choose more than one.
In-the-ditch; Single parallel lines
Binding (check all that apply) Use ctrl + click to choose more than one.
Front turned to back; Hand sewn
Width of Binding
less than a half inch
Specific Width of Binding: (measurement to nearest 1/16")
¼"
Quilt Batting Materials Used: (choose one)
Wool
Batting Loft:
Thin
Quilt Back Materials & Construction (check all that apply) Use ctrl + click to choose more than one.
Cotton
If you chose Other, please describe the fiber used in the quilt back.
Strip pieced - reversible
Predominate Color of Backing: (check 3 max.) Use ctrl + click to choose more than one.
Brown
Number of pieces in quilt back
Multiple
Width of pieces (nearest 1/2")
5½" ; 8"
Description of Back: Use ctrl + click to choose more than one.
Reversible
Photo Credit:
K. Yee
Source of Quilt's Materials: (check all that apply) Use ctrl + click to choose more than one.
Old clothes; Sewing scraps; Unknown
Quilt Top Pattern Source: Use ctrl + click to choose more than one.
Public domain/traditional pattern
Quilt Design Pattern Source: (check all that apply) Use ctrl + click to choose more than one.
Public domain
Details
Cite this Quilt
"Log Cabin" (Straight Furrow var.). 1850-1875. From Oregon Quilt Project, Oregon Quilt Project. Published in The Quilt Index, https://quiltindex.org/view/?type=fullrec&kid=40-38-1651. Accessed: 06/27/22