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Dutch Doll; Sunbonnet Baby

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QUILT INDEX RECORD

9-6-364

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:

5/31/1997

Interviewer:

Susan Roach

Lousiana Quilt Documentation Project Number:

672

Quilt's title:

Dutch Doll

Quilt owner's city:

Hico

Quilt owner's state:

Louisiana (LA)

Quilt name or pattern used by family/owner:

Sunbonnet Baby

How was this quilt acquired?

Inheritance

Quilt top made by:

Roach, Frances

Quilted by:

Roach, Nell

Quiltmaker's ethnicity:

Anglo-American

Estimated number of quilts made by this quiltmaker:

more than 50

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

Learned to quilt from: She learned to quilt traditionally in Lincoln Parish from her family when she was a child. Other quilts by the quiltmaker: She probably made over 100 quilts. She preferred to quilt with cottons, scraps, and feed sack material.

Favorite pattern, piecing preferences, quilting is done with:

probably the double wedding ring

Type of item:

Finished quilt

Sizes, overall width:

58.5

Sizes, overall length:

78

Describe the techniques used to make the quilt top:

Applique, Combination, Pieced

Binding:

Unfinished/raw edge

Brackman ID#:

47.14

Number of borders:

4

Describe the borders:

#NAME?

Top fabric, fiber:

Cotton

Top fabric, colors:

Gold; Green; Pink; Red; White; Yellow

How are the layers held together?

Hand quilting

Quilting, design:

By the Piece, Floral/Scroll

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

My grandmother, Frances Roach, made the blocks in the 1930s and my mother put them together and quilted them several years after my grandmother's death. Block were made 1930's, it was quilted 1989.

Family/owner's date for quilt:

1989

Who estimated the quilt's date?

Date estimated by Susan Roach

Place made, country:

United States

Copyright holder:

Louisiana Regional Folklife Program

Cite this Quilt

Roach, France. Dutch Doll. From Louisiana Regional Folklife Program, Louisiana Tech University, Louisiana Quilt Documentation Project. Published in The Quilt Index, https://quiltindex.org/view/?type=fullrec&kid=9-6-364. Accessed: 03/29/24