QUILT INDEX RECORD

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Who documented this quilt?

Louisiana Quilt Documentation Project

Where are the records for this quilt housed?

Louisiana Regional Folklife Program, Louisiana Tech University

Date data was collected:

3/26/2003

Interviewer:

Susan Roach

Lousiana Quilt Documentation Project Number:

451

Quilt's title:

Sunbonnet Sue and Overall Bill

Quilt name or pattern used by family/owner:

None

How was this quilt acquired?

Gift

Reasons quilt was made:

Gift or presentation

Quilt top made by:

Gullege, Mam Maw

Quiltmaker's birthplace, city:

probably Franklin Parish

Quiltmaker's birthplace, state:

Louisiana

Highest education level completed:

College

Quiltmaker's spouse's/spouses' and/or partner's/partners' occupation:

Teacher - Bashem 7th grade

Quiltmaker's ethnicity:

Anglo-American

Number of children:

3

Did the quiltmaker make other quilts? Approximately how many? Where are they?

Location of quiltmaker's death: Franklin Parish LA Learned to quilt from: Mad She had 2 daughters and 1 son.

Type of item:

Finished quilt

Sizes, overall width:

75

Sizes, overall length:

84

Size of quilt blocks:

11 X 11

Sizes, sashing width:

2.75

Describe the techniques used to make the quilt top:

Applique, Combination, Embroidery, Pieced

Pieced quilt type:

Wholecloth

Binding:

Back turned to front

Top fabric, fiber:

Cotton

Top fabric, design:

Print; Solid/plain

Top fabric, colors:

Gold; Yellow

Backing/lining, design:

Solid/plain

How are the layers held together?

Hand quilting

Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 1:

4

Quilting, type of thread:

cotton

Quilting, color of thread:

white

Batting:

Cotton

Condition:

Fair/worn

Related items such as diaries, obituaries, wills, household inventories, or pictures of the quiltmaker:

Granddaughter left it for her to patch/repair - made new. Made quilts for all grandchildren the same year.

Family/owner's date for quilt:

1974

Who estimated the quilt's date?

Date estimated by Susan Roach

Describe the relationship to the quilt's maker:

great-grandmother

Place made, country:

United States

Copyright holder:

Louisiana Regional Folklife Program