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Sears Quilt Contest 04: Second and Third Place Winners in Regional Rounds

The list of 30 winners and their home towns was published in the January 1934 Sears Roebuck & Co. catalog.

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Iris
Flora Sexton Wade
Knoxville, Knox County, Kentucky
1933
Private Collection

Second Place Winner in the Atlanta Regional. Iris appliqué quilt made from an Anne Orr Studio kit quilt.

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Garden Bouquet
Grace May Bentley
New Haven, Connecticut
1933
Private Collection

Second Place Winner in the Boston Regional. This Garden Bouquet quilt was made from a Nancy Page Quilt Club design by Florence LaGanke that appeared in newspapers in 1931-1932.

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Delectable Mountains
Frieda Plume
Evanston, Illinois
1933
Private Collection

Delectable Mountains, a pieced pattern made by Frieda Plume won third Place in the National Round.

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Bleeding Hearts
Frances Klemenz
Louisville, Kentucky
1933
Private Collection

This quilt "Bleeding Hearts" by Frances Klemenz was one of only 30 quilts that reached the final round of judging at the Sears Pavilion at the World's Fair site as a result of it winning 1st place at a local Sears store in Louisville, KY and winning third place in the Chicago regional round.

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Louisiana Rose
Celia Pardue Hyde
Crowley, Louisiana
1933
Private Collection

This quilt "Louisiana Rose" by Celia Pardue Hyde of Crowley Louisiana won second prize in the Dallas regional contest and was shown at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair after the national round judging. Although this quilt did not receive one of the top national prizes, it received extensive publicity through national newspaper accounts. It was also chosen by Sears to be included in a book of the prize winning patterns.

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Bowl of Flowers
Lois Hobgood Crowell, Fay Underwood
Paluxy, Texas
1933
Private Collection

This quilt made by Lois Hobgood Crowell won third prize at the Dallas regional round and was shown at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. The quiltmaker told us, "I was teaching school in Paluxy, a little village in Texas. There wasn't much to do for entertainment. When the Sears catalog came with the contest announcement, although I'd never made a quilt, I said to myself, 'Well I can do anything anybody else can' and I told my friend 'I'm gong to enter that contest.' She said, 'You can't do that' but I said 'had two hands, don't I?' My girlfriend Florence Underwood helped me stitch on it and we sent it to the mail order house in Dallas. In the summer they sent me a letter and said I'd won and there were two checks inside so I gave the smaller check to my girl friend and with the bigger one I bought a cedar chest to keep the quilt in. That was a lot of money at that time."

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Acorn
C. W. Veasy
Idaho Falls, Idaho
1933
Private Collection

Appliqué quilt in traditional design and layout won third place in the Kansas City region.

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Yellow Rose
Carrie Walker
Selma, California
c1933
Private Collection

Carrie Walker of Selma, California won 2nd place in the Los Angeles region. Where is her quilt?

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Sears Building
Rosetta Scott
Prescott, Arizona
1933
Private Collection

Third place winner of the Los Angeles round, Rosetta Scott of Prescott, AZ made a commemorative quilt focusing on the Sears Building at the 1933 Fair.

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Feathered Star
Isabel Hughes
Linn Grove, Iowa
1933
Private Collection

This quilt won Second Place in the Minneapolis regional round and was exhibited at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. This Feathered Star pattern was published by Hubert Ver Mehren for his Home Art Studio quilt pattern line. The quilt first appeared in 1932 in the booklet (name?)

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New York Beauty
Rose Tekippe, and her mother Mrs. Fred Tekippe and the Twelve Faithful Quilters
Fort Atkinson, Iowas
1932
Private Collection

This quilt won 3rd place at the Minneapolis Regional Round. The family of quilters sent in 3 quilts by the mother and her 2 daughters, but her daughter Rose's quilt was the only one that won.

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Century of Progress
Edna Beatrice Leitzel
Hummel's Wharf, Pennsylvania
1933
Private Collection

One of only two Century of Progress quilts to reach the final round at the Sears Pavilion at the Chicago World's Fair.

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Autumn Leaves
Edith Snyder
Buffalo, New York
1933
Private Collection

This quilt in Anne Orr design won third place at the Philadelphia region and was exhibited during the 1933 Chicago World's Fair at the Sears Pavilion.

Merikay Waldvogel
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