QUILT INDEX RECORD

9-6-714

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:

10/1/2004

Interviewer:

Susan Roach

Lousiana Quilt Documentation Project Number:

1048

Quilt owner's city:

Jonesboro

Quilt owner's state:

Louisiana (LA)

Quilt name or pattern used by family/owner:

Hit and Miss

How was this quilt acquired?

Inheritance

Reasons quilt was made:

Personal enjoyment

Quilt top made by:

Barnes, Frances Cumile Peevy

Quiltmaker's occupation:

bookkeeper, family store

Quiltmaker's birthplace, city:

Jackson Parish

Quiltmaker's birthplace, state:

Louisiana

Highest education level completed:

High School

Quiltmaker's spouse's/spouses' name(s):

James Preston Barnes

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

Store owner, farmer

Quiltmaker's maiden name:

Peevy

Quiltmaker's ethnicity:

Anglo-Scotch-Irish

Number of children:

6

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

Location of quiltmaker's death: Jackson Parish LA Learned to quilt from: Quilting was learned from her mother, Sarah Ann Johnston Peevy among family members

Favorite pattern, piecing preferences, quilting is done with:

Quilting done with: Frame from Ceiling

Reason(s) for quiltmaking:

Gifts; Necessity; Pleasure

Type of item:

Finished quilt

Sizes, overall width:

74.5

Sizes, overall length:

78

Size of quilt blocks:

5 X 3.25

Quilt type, applique:

Hand Applique; Machine Applique; Blanket, buttonhole, or other decorative applique stitch

Describe the techniques used to make the quilt top:

Pieced

Pieced quilt type:

Block pattern

Arrangement of quilt blocks:

Straight

Setting:

Side by side

Binding:

Back turned to front; Hand sewn

Brackman ID#:

131a

Number of borders:

2

Describe the borders:

Different Fabric, Multiple

Top fabric, fiber:

Wool

Top fabric, design:

Print; Solid/plain

Top fabric, colors:

Black; Gray

Top fabric, color value:

Dark colors

Backing/lining fiber:

Cotton

Backing/lining, design:

Print

How are the layers held together?

Hand quilting

Quilting, design:

Other, crazy quilting stitches

Condition:

Fair/worn

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

Owner's great-grandmother owned a mechantile store, quily may be store's suit samples.

Family/owner's date for quilt:

1880

Who estimated the quilt's date?

Date estimated by Susan Roach

Describe embellishment materials or techniques:

feather stitch

Describe the relationship to the quilt's maker:

great grandmother

Place made, country:

United States

Copyright holder:

Louisiana Regional Folklife Program