QUILT INDEX RECORD

9-6-1108

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:

6/5/1988

Lousiana Quilt Documentation Project Number:

1498

Quilt's title:

Sunflower

Quilt owner's city:

Ruston

Quilt owner's state:

Louisiana (LA)

How was this quilt acquired?

Made by owner

Quilt top made by:

Jowers, Pearl Causey

Quiltmaker's date of birth:

6/8/1909

Estimated number of quilts made by this quiltmaker:

20-50 quilts

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

Learned to quilt from: Learned as a teenager in 1920's from mother.

Major influences on quiltmaking?

Personal taste, prefer traditional patterns.

Favorite pattern, piecing preferences, quilting is done with:

Quilting done with: Frame on Stand, Double Wedding Ring

Reason(s) for quiltmaking:

Pleasure

Type of item:

Finished quilt

Sizes, overall width:

72

Sizes, overall length:

80.25

Size of quilt blocks:

16.5 X 16.5

Sizes, sashing width:

2

Describe the techniques used to make the quilt top:

Pieced

Binding:

Bias grain; Hand sewn

Top fabric, fiber:

Cotton

Top fabric, colors:

Black; Gray; Pink; Red; White

Top fabric, color value:

Multicolor

Backing/lining fiber:

Cotton

Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 1:

5

Quilting, color of thread:

white

Quilting, design:

Other, In the Ditch

Condition:

Excellent/like new

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

Pieced on scraps of paper-completed when maker was a teenager.

Family/owner's date for quilt:

1924

Who estimated the quilt's date?

Date estimated by Susan Roach

Place made, country:

United States

Copyright holder:

Louisiana Regional Folklife Program