Entry panel

 

From left to right: Doily, Wreath of Roses, and Celestial Compass Rose Quilts

 

From left to right: Inner Border Pattern, Broken Lone Star, and Little Women Quilts.

 

From left to right: Alphabet and Nine-Patch Variation Quilts.

 

From left to right: Yo-Yo and Nine Patch and Doily Quilts.

 

From left to right: Fruit Basket, Farm Life, and Inner Border Pattern Quilts.

 

From left to right: Triangle and Diamond Version of Grandmother's Flower Garden Quilts.

 

Foreground: Eight Point Pieced Lone Star Quilt

 

Exhibit overview.

 

From left to right: Old Glory top and Morning Glory Quilt.

 

Group viewing State Bird and Flower Quilt.

 

Farm Life Quilt
1930
Designed by Ruby Short McKim
Made by Hattie Eulia Baker Smith, Ida Lorena Langley Candler and Gladys Smith Sandler in Dallas, Texas
Gift of Judy Miller for the Charles Ragan Candler Family
TTU-H2022-012-002
This quilt was made for Charles Candler (b. Oct 1, 1925, d. June 16, 1980) by Hattie Eulia Baker Smith (b. April 25, 1872, m. Aug. 1890, d. Dec. 24, 1953) and Ida Lorena Langley Candler (b. July 3, 1874, m Nov. 20, 1892, d. Oct. 14, 1943), his grandmothers, and his mother Gladys Smith Candler (b. April 28, 1903, m. July 6, 1924, d. Jan. 21, 1980). The women worked to create this quilt, from a relatively new pattern, by Ruby Short McKim at Hattie’s house at 1336 South Caldwell, Dallas, Texas.

 

Image of Charles Candler at about the time this quilt was made for him.

 

C 1930
Designed by Anne Champe Orr
Gift of Sandra Archer (Mrs. Michael)
TTU-H2022-079-001
Anne Orr (1869-1946) was a successful magazine editor, needlework designer and pattern retailer based in Nashville, Tennessee. She contributed to the Colonial Revival style which was popular at the time. The pattern for this quilt was published in the January 1939 issue of Good Housekeeping magazine. The pattern features her signature design using one-inch square blocks in different colors to create the floral inner border.

 

C 1930
Made by Pearl Shannon Harmon and Minnie Shannon of Amherst, Texas
Gift of Lesa Darlene Weaver Hennigh (Mrs. Wesley)
TTU-H2023-008-016
The Lone Star quilt pattern is difficult to make, and this Broken Lone Star version is even more difficult. Pearl Shannon Harmon (b. 1892, m 1920, d. 1983) and Minnie Shannon (b. 1896, d. 1970) may have purchased the fabric for this quilt at one of the two fabric stores in Littlefield, Texas, or the department store in Amherst, Texas.

 

The makers of this quilt Pearl and Minnie with their younger sister Eva, circa 1900.

 

1932
Made by Mary Harral Webb
Gift of Ms. Kris and Ms. Kathy Keesling
TTU-H2024-024-004
This quilt was made by Mary Harral Webb for her daughter Pearl and her husband Roy Peterson as a wedding gift in Hale Center, Texas, where she ran the Webb Hotel. It is embroidered “From Mama to Pearl and Roy 1932.”

 

Mary Harral and David F. Webb, likely at the time of their wedding.

 

Trip Around the World Blocks Quilt
1936 Made by a quiltmaker in Crane, Texas
Gift of Mary Marcom Vines (Mrs. Darrell)
TTU-H2018-068-005
Louetta DeVilibiss Vines (Mrs. Perry O. "Slim") paid a professional quilt maker in Crane, Texas $3.00 to make this quilt to give to her older sister, Leta DeVilibiss (Aunt Toy) as a thank you for her assistance during the birth of Darrell Vines in 1936. Dr. Darrell Vines went onto become a professor in the Whitacre College of Engineering at Texas Tech University.

 

Diamond Version of Grandmother’s Flower Garden Quilt
C 1937
Made by the women of the Backman Family
Gift of Leslie Sholten (Mrs. William)
TTU-H2018-009-001
This quilt was made by the Bachman family as in Bachman Lake, Dallas in exchange for payment for medical services from Dr. Giles, the grandfather of the donor. His daughter, Anne Giles Kimbrough (Mrs. Arch P.) accompanied her mother when she took the fabric to the Bachman women to make this and another set of quilts. Mrs. Kimbrough preserved both the quilts and the story. This quilt was donated from her estate by her daughter. Bachman Lake is at the northern edge of Love Field, where Southwest Airlines lands.

 

Old Glory Quilt Top
1937
Designed by Mary Erchenbrack (1910-1992)
Gift of Larry and Kathryn Bernstein, TTU-H2022-009-001
The maker of this quilt top is unknown, but possibly from Fort Smith, Arkansas, which is featured near the top. Mary Erchenbrack’s pattern design was syndicated in newspapers. Known primarily as a ceramist and sculptress, early in her artistic career she dabbled in quilt design. As far as is known today, this is the only quilt that Mary designed.

 

Pie Town Quilt
1938
Theora Baugh Craig
Gift of John and Sue Bunton
TTU-H2020-009-001
Theora Craig (1887-1980, Mrs. Harmon L.) made this quilt in Pie Town, New Mexico where her husband had bought a half-interest in the town for “one dollar of good and lawful money and other good and valuable consideration" in 1924. He went on to become Pie Town’s leading citizen. He owned the mercantile store, a Chevron service station and garage, a café and a pinto bean warehouse. The bean warehouse provided local homesteaders a way to market their crops. Mr. Craig helped these families struggling through the Depression by selling land below market value and by making loans with no collateral and no interest.

Having been deserted by her first husband in Texas, Theora went west with her two small daughters, eventually to cook for cowboys at the W Bar Ranch. There she met Craig, and in 1924 they were married, he promising her that, if she stuck with him, “and would live on potatoes and beans like the rest of the ranchers,” they’d make a little money. Much of that money came after Craig’s acquisition of the store whose pies gave the settlement its name. Theora and her daughters continued the culinary tradition by turning out up to fifty apple, cherry, or raisin pies a day.

 

Theora and H. L. Craig at home in Pie Town.

 

Fruit Basket Quilt
1939
Designed by Ruby Short McKim first published in 1932
Probably made by Rebecca Elizabeth Skeen Sawyer
Gift of Mr. Arthur Flache
TTU-H2022-045-001
As with other Ruby Short McKim designs, the pattern for this quilt was syndicated in newspapers across the country. It is probable that the maker saw the pattern in the Terry County Herald, which was the local newspaper in Brownfield. It is now the Brownfield News. Rebecca and her husband Monroe Sawyer lived on a ranch in the Brownfield, Texas area from 1902-1912, moved to a farm west of Brownfield, and lived there from 1912 until the late 1930s/early 1940s. They were living in town in Brownfield when Monroe died in 1941. It is likely that Rebecca had more time to quilt once they moved to town.

 

Rebecca Skeen Flache (1868-1949) of Brownfield

 

Star Bouquet Quilt
C 1940
Made by sisters Leila and Esther (Essie) Anderson
Gift of Dr. Hugh Anderson
TTU-H2016-036-005
This quilt in a popular traditional star pattern was made in Anson in Fisher County, Texas by the aunts of the donor.

 

Essie (1878-1964) and Leila (1874-1961) Anderson of Anson, Texas.

 

Basket Medallion Quilt
1940s
Made by Ona Cleo “Cleo” Woodward Onstott (Mrs. Prentiss)
Gift of Bonnie Jonas Aycock (Mrs. Robert Rex)
TTH-H2016-051-009
Cleo Onstott (1899-1983) made this quilt in Idalou, Texas in a unique, fresh style for the 1940s.

 

Cleo Onstott of Idalou, Texas.

 

Morning Glory Quilt
C 1940s
Gift of Sue Reich
TTU-H2024-007-001
The Taylor Bedding Company of Taylor, Texas promoted this quilt pattern in its corporate how-to quilt-making booklets. The company promised that “you’ll feel glorious in the morning” if you sleep on their morning glory mattress. This Morning Glory quilt pattern is unique to this Texas company in the same way the Mountain Mist quilt patterns on their batting wrappers were unique to the Stearns & Foster company.

 

Cover of Taylor Bedding Company quilt booklet showing Morning Glory pattern.

 

State Bird and Flower Quilt
C 1950
Made by Jewel Dee Merriman Clark
Gift of Mrs. Edward Goebel (Amy)
TTU-H2021-101-001
Many variations of quilts have been made over the years. Jewel Dee Merriman Clark (1914-2003) made this quilt from an Aunt Martha hot iron transfer pattern in Midland, Texas. Her son-in-law built a quilting frame so that the women could work within their tiny 500 square foot home. The frame could be lifted to the ceiling via pulleys and ropes when the women were not working on it. This quilt was one that Jewel put into a hope chest for her daughter Sheryl Lynn Clark to take into her marriage to John W. Buntin, III in 1971.

 

Jewel Dee Merriman Clark (1914-2003)

 

Jewel's daughter Sheryl Lynn Clark on the day of her wedding to John Buntin, III in 1971.

 

Triangle Quilt
C 1970
Made by Rosella Engeleiter Derge
Gift of Ms. Judy Pesetski
TTU-H2018-069-001
This was made by Rose Engeleiter Derge (1925-2021, Mrs. Melvin) in Hartford, Wisconsin. Many of the fabrics are double knit, making for a very heavy quilt. She gave this to her daughter for Christmas in 1980. This quilt is constructed by cutting a square, laying a piece of batting on the wrong side and folding it on the diagonal wrong sides together to get a triangle shape. Then the triangles were whip stitched together on all sides to adjacent triangles. Rose frequently worked on her sewing projects in the dining room where her daughter Judy also did her homework.

 

Rose with her daughter Judy in 1979 in Whitewater, Wisconsin.

 

Little Women Appliquéd Quilt
1972
Made by Ruth N. Miller Hake (Mrs. William)
Gift of Robberta (Bobbi) Robbins (Mrs. Bobby)
TTU-H2019-063-001
The patterns for this quilt were designed by Marion Cheever Whiteside Newton (1902-1965) and first published in Ladies Home Journal in 1950 and reprinted in Good Housekeeping Needlecraft in 1981. Ruth Hake (1911-1996) lived in York Haven, Pennsylvania when she made this quilt. She regularly entered her quilts in the East Berlin and Historic York County quilt competitions where she often won Best of Show ribbons. Ruth was a busy farm woman who held offices in the Society of Farm Women of Pennsylvania, but she quilted each and every evening.

 

Ruth Hake in 1965.

 

C 1988
Made by Edith Owen and her granddaughter Stacy Clinton
Gift of Dr. Stacy Clinton
TTU-H2023-061-002
This quilt was made in Lubbock, Texas, through a joint effort of Edith Owen (1919-2001) and her granddaughter Stacy Clinton. Stacy began embroidering each block with embroidery thread, but her grandmother thought that if they were going to get the quilt made in a reasonable time, Stacy should switch to using liquid embroidery to create the blocks. Each block features a different state with its state flower, state bird, the year it was founded, the shape of the state and its number as it joined the Union.

 

Edith Owen with Dr. Stacy Clinton in December 2000.

 

Doily Quilt
C early 1990s
Doilies made by Alpha Marie Nash Craig and quilt made by Betty Jane McDonald Winner Peak
Gift of Mr. William Alex Winner
TTU-H2020-064-001
As part of the late 20th century quilting revival, Betty Jane McDonald Winner Peak (1926-2003, Mrs. William) took her grandmother’s doilies and incorporated them as the major design detail in this quilt. Alpha Marie Nash Craig (1879-1970, Mrs. Fred Elias) was a determined woman. When her husband said she could not have a root cellar for her canning, she dug a little each day as he was out farming and then scattered the dirt among the chickens until she had her cellar.

 

Alpha Marie Nash Craig with Husband at 50th Wedding Anniversary Celebration.

 

Betty Jane McDonald Winner Peak.

 

Wreath of Roses Appliquéd Quilt
1997-2001
Made by Jane Newberry
Gift of Jane Newberry
TTU-H2021-007-001
Jane Newbery of Forney, Texas, hand appliquéd and hand quilted this quilt in the Wreath of Roses pattern designed by Marie Webster (1859-1956), who was a prominent quilt designer in the early 20th century, focusing particularly on the appliqué method. This quilt was featured in the Ladies Home Journal magazine of October 1915. It took Jane four years to make this quilt which she gave to her daughter as a wedding gift in May 2001. The quilt won the Best Hand Quilting award and third place in 2018 at the Terrel Heritage Jubilee Quilt Show.

 

Jane Newberry with her quilt and its ribbons at the Terrel Heritage Jubilee Quilt Show in 2018.

 

Celestial Compass Rose Quilt
2009
Made by Pat Connally
Gift of Dale Connally
TTU-H2024-028-001
This quilt was made and quilted by Pat Connally (1951-2023, Mrs. Dale)) of Midland, Texas. She used a combination of several quilt patterns, drafting them into one quilt. This quilt was used for several years in quilting magazines to advertise for the Machine Quilter’s Showcase Quilt Show.

 

Pat Connally with her first place showing at the Midland Quilt Show with Celestial Compass Rose.

 

Yo-Yo and Nine Patch Quilt
2013
Made by Linda Fisher
Gift of Linda Fisher, (Mrs. Charles)
TTU-H2016-015-010
This quilt won third place in the 2014 Ogallala Quilter’s Society Festival in Dimmit, Texas. Linda Fisher is a prolific Lubbock area quilter who has taught many people to quilt. She combines traditional quilt piecing of simple blocks with other techniques, creating a traditional-art quilt hybrid that is unique. Here Linda added yo-yos and buttons to create appliquéd motifs in the alternate blocks and along the border, elevating the simple Nine-Patch black and white blocks.

 

Linda Fisher

 

Eight Point Pieced Lone Star Quilt
2014
Made by Joyce Massey
Gift of Mrs. C. G. Massey (Joyce)
TTU-H2023-004-001
Joyce Massey’s legacy of prize-winning quilts at both the annual Dallas Quilt Celebration and the State Fair of Texas is extraordinary. Mrs. Massey of Dallas demonstrated quilting for years during the Fair. When asked how she would like to be remembered, Joyce said, as “Somebody that enjoyed life and never took 'you can’t do that' to heart. Everybody is different and if you want to do something you need to at least try.”

 

Joyce Massey in her quilting studio, December 2022.

 

Floor, Palace of the Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes Quilt
2017
Made by Pat Connally
Gift of Dale Connally
TTU-H2024-028-003
Pat Connally drafted, pieced, appliquéd and quilted this original design which was inspired by the floor tiles in a palace located in Greece. The quilt won Best of Show and First place in the Large Pieced category at two different quilt shows as well as Best Machine Quilting. Mrs. Connally (1951-2023) was an active member of the Midland Quilt Guild and showed her quilts at the Ogallala Quilt Festival.

 

Pat Connally with the Floor, Palace of the Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes Quilt.

 

Nine-Patch Variation Baby Quilt
1947
Made by Iris Jane Williams
Gift of Julie Limerick Hite
TTU-H2022-046-001
Jane Williams (1933-2013) made this baby quilt in North Liberty, Indiana for her niece Julie Limerick. The photo shows Julie as a flower girl at Jane’s wedding to Mr. Dearing in 1956.

 

Williams Dearing Wedding June 17, 1956.

 

Satin Baby Quilt
1949
Gift of Linda Fisher (Mrs. Charles)
TTU-H2016-015-011
This baby quilt was given when Linda Fisher was born. In the 1940s this type of satin wholecloth quilt was popular.

 

Linda Fisher, as a baby, being held by her mother, Margaret Leatha Wilson Timmons.

 

Alphabet Quilt
C 1959
Made by Martha Alma Smith Baker
Gift of Ms. Lorelyn Lewis
TTU-H2022-075-003
Alma Smith Baker made this quilt from a pattern from the Nancy Page Quilt Club that was syndicated in the local newspaper. The design was created by Florence la Ganke under the pen name of Nancy Page. She wanted only 24 blocks to make the quilt even, so discarded the letters X and Z because she thought it difficult to find objects that started with those letters. Often these patterns were run in the women’s section of the newspaper and sometimes on 25 consecutive Saturdays. This quilt was designed to fit a junior size bed.

 

Family photo (circa 1961) showing Billy Baker cutting the cake and the maker of the Alphabet Quilt, his grandmother Martha Alma Smith Baker, on the right.