Fancy Quilts 1880-1920s
By the 1880s industry made manufactured bedding more available to average households. Women's magazines helped popularize the fancy quilt art form encouraging women to create small decorative quilts for the parlor using fancy silk scraps and printed ribbons.
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Catherine Bush Gwine's Crazy (work) Quilt
1900 2149.1
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Mathilda Anderson's Pineapple Quilt
1900-1930 2393
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Straight Set Log Cabin
Ca. 1920 1483.6
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Minta Taylor Ireland's Crazy Quilt Kimono
1927 3746.1
Below are quilts already sponsored by these terrific MAC supporters!
Katie Gifford's Crazy Quilt with Red Border
Ca. 1890 2133.2
Underwritten by "The Board of Directors"
Mary Jane Brukart, Pat Jankowski, Jayne Steffens
Ida Walker's Spokane Interstate Fair First Premium Quilt
1900 2212
Underwritten by
Larry and Linda Milsow
Katie Gifford's Crazy Quilt with Triangle Border
Ca. 1890 2133.3
Underwritten by
Mary Collins Murphy
Cigar Band Quilt
1900-1925 2962.339
Underwritten by
Roger and Mary Joan Hahn
Mrs George Creighton's Straight Furrow
Ca. 1890 1120.1
Underwritten by
Philip and Carol Thayer
The Walla Walla Bordello Quilt
1890s 3747.1
Underwritten by Gregory and Catharine Roth, as a Christmas gift to honor some more respectable but no less enterprising women: Augusta Prince, Charlotte Hitchcock, Sarah Prince, Virginia Prince, Jarri Prince, Ildiko Roth, and Margaret Roth-Warren (a Whitman Greek).
Katie Gifford's Log Cabin Quilt with Triangle Border
Ca. 1890 2133.1
Underwritten by
Karen Gendron and Dean Kiefer
Eudora Parker Mead's Crazy Quilt
1900 4127.1
Underwritten by
Laura Thayer, Marsha Rooney
and Phyllis Luiten
Courthouse Steps Log Cabin
1900 2173.1
Underwritten by
Scott and Lisa Taylor
1909 Seattle World's Exposition Day Ribbon Quilt
2173.2
Underwritten by
Helen Armstrong
In memory of vivacious Renee Anne Stearnes
Fancy Quilts
