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Brick Wall
Quilter Group: Church women of Mechanicsburg Methodist Curch
Period: 1901-1929
Date: 1911-14--est. by church women
Location Made: Mechanicsburg, Illinois (IL) USA
Contributor: Illinois State Museum
ID Number: 1974.13 (746927)
Layout Format: One patch or allover
Quilt Size: 76 x 80
Fabrics: Cotton, Solid/plain
Colors: White, Red
Construction: Machine Piecing, Embroidery, White embroidery on red blocks and red embroidery on white blocks.
Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting
Purpose or Function: Fundraising
Other Notes: According to the Methodist ladies who donated this quilt it was a fundraising project, perhaps to help pay the minister's salary. Apparently each person contributed ($1.00?) to pay for each block. The quilt reminaed in the family of the Hall sisters, who fave it to the church who gave it to the Museum.
Inscription: each brick embroidered with name and place of individual
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