1800-1849

Album "My Sweet S...

Martha Ann Knowles

Date Made: 1800-1849

Album "My Sweet Sister Emma"

Creator: Martha Ann Knowles

Location Made: Darby, Pennsylvania United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Other novelty technique

Quilt Size: 109 inches x 107 inches

Fabrics: Cotton, Print

Project: Signature Quilt Project Public Submission

"From M.A. Knowles; To her sweet sister Emma. Darby--1843."

KID: 2-33-64

2-33-64

1800-1849

Album Patch

Date Made: 1800-1849

Album Patch

Location Made: Concord, Pennsylvania United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 77 inches x 83-1/2 inches

Fabrics: Cotton, Checked, Geometric, Multiple scrap, Plaid, Print, Striped

Project: Signature Quilt Project Public Submission

Mary Pollard was born in 1808 in Massachusetts. She lived much of her early life in Concord, New Hampshire After she married Calvin W. Tolford in 1831, the family moved to Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, close enough to Concord to return for frequent visits. In 1845 the Tolford family, including daug...

KID: 2-33-19

2-33-19

1850-1875

Rolling Stone Sig...

Unkown, Quiltmaker

Date Made: 1850-1875

Rolling Stone Signature Quilt

Creator: Unkown, Quiltmaker

Location Made: Pennsylvania United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 92 inches x 105 inches

Fabrics: Cotton

Project: Signature Quilt Project Public Submission

According to census information, Cawley has identified Matilda Person as a 21 year old residing in Upper Milford with her farmer father whose property was worth $6,000 dollars. Cawley's "research of the names inscribed on the Lehigh County fraktur quilts is available at the library of the L...

KID: 2-33-39

2-33-39

Timespan

Quaker Album Quil...

Friends, neighbors,...

Date Made: Timespan

Quaker Album Quilt

Creator: Friends, neighbors, relatives of the Ebenezer Wright family

Location Made: Quaker Street, New York United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique, The blocks that alternate with the Chimney Sweep blocks all have appliqued flowers or wreaths, except for one. Near the center of the quilt is a block with am applieqed two-story house between two emboidered trees, and a small animal in the foreground.

Quilt Size: 80 inches x 89 inches

Fabrics: Cotton

Project: Signature Quilt Project Public Submission

Locations writteen beneath the signatures are from two states, New York and Massachusetts. The New York towns named are Quaker Street, Duanesburgh, Albany, Schenectady, Schoharie, Knox, Madison and Norton Hll. All of these towns except the last two are within a short distane from each other where t...

KID: 2-33-27

2-33-27

1850-1875

New York Signatur...

Date Made: 1850-1875

New York Signature Quilt

Location Made: possibly within one of the five Boroughs of New York City, New York United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Machine Piecing

Quilt Size: 80 inches x 92 inches

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

Project: Signature Quilt Project Public Submission

In March 2008 a descendant of the Weightman family on this quilt got in touch with me as a result of the 2000 article I posted on RootsWeb. She has now helped me connect 27 people on this quilt to whom she is related by blood or marriage. She feels that everyone on the quilt is somehow related by bl...

KID: 2-33-24

2-33-24

1850-1875

Album

Unknown, Quiltmaker...

Date Made: 1850-1875

Album

Creator: Unknown, Quiltmaker

Location Made: Possibly made in Brooklyn, New York

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique, Embroidery

Quilt Size: 83.5 inches x 83.8 inches

Fabrics: Cotton

Project: Signature Quilt Project Public Submission

Purchased from Jewett-Berdan in 2007. Jewett-Berdan notes that the quilt descended in her husband's family and was made for a member of the Harris family. , This album quilt has very charming block designs that vary in their skill level. The differences in skill seem to indicate that there were seve...

KID: 2-33-40

2-33-40

Album

Unknown, Quiltmaker...

Album

Creator: Unknown, Quiltmaker

Location Made: New York

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique

Quilt Size: 71 inches x 87 inches

Fabrics: Cotton

Project: Signature Quilt Project Public Submission

This quilt was previously owned by collectors Sara Rhodes Dillow and Byron Dillow, M.D. of Fremont, Nebraska. The International Quilt Study Center received the quilt in 2008, from the estate of Sara and Byron Dillow, M.D.

KID: 2-33-38

2-33-38

Timespan

Susan Sylvester's...

Sylvester, Susan Ev...

Date Made: Timespan

Susan Sylvester's 1903 Redwork Signature Hemmed Top

Creator: Sylvester, Susan Eva (Dunham) (1856-1925)

Location Made: Deer Isle, Maine United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Machine Piecing, Embroidery, The quiltmaker was presented with 45 blocks of two different initial sizes. She skillfully arranged them so that she used the smaller ones in units of 4 to make a full-size block or she added muslin to all sides to make a full-size block to achieve a total of 36 full-size blocks which she could arrange six by six to make a square quilt top. She then covered her seams with red floss herringbone stitch to add additional interest to the quilt top. She treated the edges the same. They were brought over twice from the front to the back and edgestitched very close to the fold by machine with very small stitches. The back, with the underside of the embroidery was left as is.

Quilt Size: 75 inches x 75 inches

Fabrics: Cotton, Solid/plain, one block appears to be a handkerchief

Project: Signature Quilt Project Public Submission

Linda Billings inherited the quilt top from her paternal grandmother Vida (Brown) Sylvester (1888-1977), who found it in her mother-in-law Susan E. (Dunham) Sylvester’s house "when Vida was living there." Linda doesn't know when Vida lived in the house. When Susan died at age 70 in 9 Au...

KID: 2-33-61

2-33-61

1901-1929

Friendship Quilt

Neighbors and frien...

Date Made: 1901-1929

Friendship Quilt

Creator: Neighbors and friends of Nell Andrews Adams

Location Made: Porterville, Maine United States

Contruction: Machine Piecing, Blanket, buttonhole, or other decorative applique stitch, Hand Applique, Embroidery

Quilt Size: 63 inches x 68 inches

Fabrics: Cotton, Checked, Plaid, Solid/plain, Striped

Project: Signature Quilt Project Public Submission

Nell Adams moved with her family from near Hammon, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma to California in 1923. In 1924, her former neighbors in Oklahoma made and signed the blocks as an anniversary gift to Nell Adams and her husband, Richard. Nell Adams joined the blocks and quilted the quilt in Portervill...

KID: 2-33-46

2-33-46

Timespan

Embroidered frien...

Date Made: Timespan

Embroidered friendship quilt

Location Made: Florida United States

Contruction: Machine Piecing, Embroidery

Quilt Size: 66" x 77"

Fabrics: Solid/plain

Project: Signature Quilt Project Public Submission

Each participant added their location: Chloride, AZ Pueblo, CO Crawfordsville, OR Welch, WV Medicine Bow, WY San Francisco, CA Kansas City, MO Gerlach, NV Rosedale, KS Tacoma, WA Iowa City, IA Miner, MT Beach, ND Madill, OK Christopher, IL Beatrice, NE Detroit, MI Berlin, WI Regin...

KID: 2-33-4

2-33-4

1901-1929

Embroidered signa...

Unknown, Quiltmaker...

Date Made: 1901-1929

Embroidered signature (summer) quilt

Creator: Unknown, Quiltmaker

Location Made: Florida

Contruction: Machine Piecing, Embroidery

Quilt Size: 65"top plus 17" ruffle added to each side x 75" plus 17" ruffle added to bottom only

Fabrics: Cotton, Solid/plain

Project: Signature Quilt Project Public Submission

One of two purchased in Ocala, FL antique store. One block has a name from Leesburg, FL which is about 30 miles south of Ocala. I would guess that is the person who collected the blocks and put them together into these two quilts.

KID: 2-33-6

2-33-6

1930-1949

Alice Lane Quilt

Date Made: 1930-1949

Alice Lane Quilt

Location Made: Detroit, Michigan, Florida United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 72 1/4" x 83"

Fabrics: Cotton, Floral, Geometric, Print

Project: Signature Quilt Project Public Submission

The quilt was owned by Alice Lane and when she passed away, it was inherited by Vivian Rybolt, the younger of her two daughters. Vivian passed the quilt on to the eldest of her two daughters, Betty Ann MacDowell (nee Rybolt). Betty gave the quilt to her eldest daughter, Marsha MacDowell, on the oc...

KID: 2-33-13

2-33-13

1930-1949

Grandmother's Fan...

Unknown, Quiltmaker...

Date Made: 1930-1949

Grandmother's Fan

Creator: Unknown, Quiltmaker

Location Made: Florida United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique, Embroidery

Quilt Size: 72 1/2" x 78 1/2"

Fabrics: Cotton

Project: Signature Quilt Project Public Submission

KID: 2-33-18

2-33-18

1930-1949

Sunbonnet Sue

Unknown, Quiltmaker...

Date Made: 1930-1949

Sunbonnet Sue

Creator: Unknown, Quiltmaker

Location Made: Florida

Contruction: Embroidery

Quilt Size: 64 inches x 88 inches

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

Project: Signature Quilt Project Public Submission

The quilt was purchased from the Kalona Antique Company in 2002.

KID: 2-33-25

2-33-25

Timespan

Missouri Friendsh...

Catherine Noll Litw...

Date Made: Timespan

Missouri Friendship Star

Creator: Catherine Noll Litwinow

Location Made: Milan, Missouri; Sullivan, Missouri; Bettendorf, Iowa, Missouri United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 64 inches x 90 inchs

Fabrics: Cotton, 1950 dress prints

Project: Signature Quilt Project Public Submission

A box of blocks was given to Catherine after her maternal grandmoher was moved to Odebolt Nursing home. Marie Noll, daughter of Minnie and mother of Catherine, thought that Jennie Reed worked at the Milan, Missouri feed store. The Mt. Vernon Club could have been a Sullivan, MIssouri, Farm Bureau ...

KID: 2-33-23

2-33-23

1976-1999

Double Friendship...

Nimble Thimbles sit...

Date Made: 1976-1999

Double Friendship Sampler

Creator: Nimble Thimbles sit and sew group

Location Made: Bettendorf, Iowa United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 71 inches x 92 inches

Fabrics: Cotton

Project: Signature Quilt Project Public Submission

The month before being hostess, the Nimble Thimbles club members cut out their blocks using fabric brought by the next hostess. Next month members brought the blocks back. The St. John's United Methodist quilters did the quilting at the Parish house.

KID: 2-33-22

2-33-22

Timespan

Sixty Years of Re...

Rose, Scarlett

Date Made: Timespan

Sixty Years of Remembrances

Creator: Rose, Scarlett

Location Made: Anderson, California United States

Contruction: Machine Piecing, Blanket, buttonhole, or other decorative applique stitch, Hand Applique, Embroidery

Quilt Size: 94 inches x 94 inches

Fabrics: Cotton or polyester blend, Floral, Geometric, Multiple scrap, Novelty, Solid/plain

Project: Signature Quilt Project Public Submission; California Heritage Quilt Project

My grandmother passed away in 1983 and I inherited several trunks that included a couple of her quilts, a stack of appliqued blocks and lots of fabric scraps. I made a double bed sized quilt, that I machine pieced and hand quilted, from the best of the appliqued blocks and I used this quilt on my be...

KID: 2-33-12

2-33-12

1992

Golden Friendship...

Alexander, Winifred...

Date Made: 1992

Golden Friendship

Creator: Alexander, Winifred Margaret Waters

Location Made: Lopez Island, Washington (WA) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Machine Piecing, Embroidery, Ink drawing

Quilt Size: 65 1/2" x 67 1/2"

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Other, Batiks (for contemporary quilts), Conversation Prints, Floral, Multiple scrap, Paisley, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Signature Quilt Project Public Submission

KID: 2-33-50

2-33-50

1976-1999

Friendship Sample...

Quilters Network

Date Made: 1976-1999

Friendship Sampler

Creator: Quilters Network

Location Made: Lopez Island, Washington United States

Contruction: One of the blocks from Australia is named on the block itself - Cooktown Orchid. It is the only applique block and it is done in the stain-glass method. The Dresdan Plate block has a yo-yo appliqued in the center of the Dresdan Plate.

Quilt Size: 45 inches x 57 1/2 inches

Project: Signature Quilt Project Public Submission

Wini (my mother-in-law) was always a voracious correspondent.(I have 30 years of correspondence from Wini archived in 4 binders.) Getting into quilting only whet her appetite further. Quilters were a natural and ready-made group of potential correspodents. In 1985 her name appeared in Quilters New...

KID: 2-33-55

2-33-55

Timespan

A Garden of Frien...

Rose, Scarlett

Date Made: Timespan

A Garden of Friends

Creator: Rose, Scarlett

Location Made: Anderson, Washington

Contruction: Machine Piecing, Painting

Quilt Size: 84 inches x 96 inches

Fabrics: Cotton, Cotton or polyester blend, Multiple scrap

Project: Signature Quilt Project Public Submission; California Heritage Quilt Project

The signature blocks were exchanged at an event held in Yreka, CA in October of 1990. A tour group of English quilters were making their way across the USA, picking up American quilters as they travelled. Scarlett drove up to Yreka with members of her local guild, the Quilter's Sew-Ciety of Redding,...

KID: 2-33-14

2-33-14

Love to Wini

Anderson, Marilyn; ...

Love to Wini

Creator: Anderson, Marilyn; Buvs, Jane M.; Dunn, Ann; Haner, Bernice; Hastings, Ann; Henlan, Tess; Montague, Hazel; Musgrove, Mary Ann; Newell, Ruth; Steiner, Linda; Teter, Georgia; Tresner, Mary Lou; Voskuilch, Ada; Wynn, Sylvia

Location Made: Washington United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Machine Piecing, Blanket, buttonhole, or other decorative applique stitch, Hand Applique, Attachments (beading, charms, buttons, etc), Two blocks are simply a large sqaure of floral fabric with a large heart machine quilted in the center of the block.

Quilt Size: 51.5 inches x 51.5 inches

Fabrics: Cotton, Floral, Multiple scrap, Novelty, Print

Project: Signature Quilt Project Public Submission

I am still trying to learn who actually put the blocks together as a quilt after eachindividual made their block. Wini was a founding member of the Northwest Quilting Connection here in Washington State, a past President and their newsletter editor for almsot 13 years.

KID: 2-33-7

2-33-7

2000-2025

Enchanted Quilter...

Enchanted Quilters ...

Date Made: 2000-2025

Enchanted Quilters Friendship Quilt

Creator: Enchanted Quilters of Lopez Island

Location Made: Lopez Island, Washington United States

Contruction: Machine Piecing, Blanket, buttonhole, or other decorative applique stitch, Hand Applique, Attachments (beading, charms, buttons, etc), Other embellishment technique

Quilt Size: 51 inches or 117 centimeters x 62.5 inches or 146 centimeters

Fabrics: Cotton, Print, lace

Project: Signature Quilt Project Public Submission

This is one of five Friendship Signature quilts made for my mother-in-law that I inherited in August 1999 when she passed away. Wini was born in Yakima, WA and grew up in Seattle., I am in the process of gathering data on each of the women who made a block for this quilt now that I live on Lopez Isl...

KID: 2-33-8

2-33-8

1976-1999

Calico Cathy's Ch...

Litwinow, Catherine...

Date Made: 1976-1999

Calico Cathy's Christmas

Creator: Litwinow, Catherine

Location Made: Iowa United States

Contruction: Blanket, buttonhole, or other decorative applique stitch, Hand Applique, Attachments (beading, charms, buttons, etc), Embroidery, Other embellishment technique

Quilt Size: 78 inches x 90 inches

Fabrics: Cotton, Silk, Floral, Geometric, Multiple scrap, Novelty, Plaid, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Signature Quilt Project Public Submission

Blocks were raffled at Iowa Quilter's Guild November 1996 at Ottumwa, Iowa. Blocks won by Kathie Anderson and Shirlee Peteron were given to Catherine Litwinow. Catherine asked others to make blocks for her. Blocks were set together at the Mississippi Valley Fair in 1998.

KID: 2-33-26

2-33-26

2000-2025

Friendship Cake S...

Hardt, Georgia Blan...

Date Made: 2000-2025

Friendship Cake Stands

Creator: Hardt, Georgia Blanton; Just Folks Quilt'n Stitch Group

Location Made: Tulsa, Ohio United States

Contruction: Machine Piecing, Embroidery, Ink drawing

Quilt Size: 51.5 inches x 80 inches

Fabrics: Cotton, Floral, Print, Civil War reproduction fabrics

Project: Signature Quilt Project Public Submission

The blocks were made for Hardt by her friends., Quiltmaker was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma in 1945 to George and Euorah Blanton. Received a BS from Oklahoma State University and became a school librarian. Married Charles Lee Hardt, a civil engineer, in 1964.

KID: 2-33-11

2-33-11

1976-1999

Branches of a Tre...

Rose, Scarlett

Date Made: 1976-1999

Branches of a Tree Upon Which Friendship Blooms

Creator: Rose, Scarlett

Location Made: Anderson, California United States

Contruction: Machine Piecing, Hand Applique, Other novelty technique, Attachments (beading, charms, buttons, etc)

Quilt Size: 78 inches x 93 inches

Fabrics: Cotton, Floral, Geometric, Multiple scrap, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Signature Quilt Project Public Submission; California Heritage Quilt Project

This quilt was made from the signature blocks exchanged at the second retreat organized by Laurie Short of Redding, California. Because each person made four blocks for each of the other people attending, there were a large number of blocks to put together in one quilt. Scarlett was inspired to t...

KID: 2-33-37

2-33-37

1976-1999

Stargazing

Rose, Scarlett; Qui...

Date Made: 1976-1999

Stargazing

Creator: Rose, Scarlett; Quilter's Sew-Ciety of Redding, CA

Location Made: Anderson, California United States

Contruction: Machine Piecing, Attachments (beading, charms, buttons, etc)

Quilt Size: 92 x 92

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

Project: Signature Quilt Project Public Submission; California Heritage Quilt Project

When Scarlett joined the Quilter's Sew-Ciety of Redding, California in January of 1983, she wanted to participate in the friendship blocks that members were talking about making for each other. The first person who asked for friendship blocks was Carrie Minor and her Rooster quilt top is currently i...

KID: 2-33-35

2-33-35