QUILT INDEX RECORD
12-8-336
Who documented this quilt?
Michigan Quilt Project
Where are the records for this quilt housed?
Michigan State University Museum
Michigan Quilt Project Number:
94.0062
Owner's name for the quilt:
Orange and Green Sampler
Quilt top made by:
Rumpf, Lorraine
Quilted by:
Rumpf, Lorraine
If you are the quilt owner, how did you acquire this quilt?
Made the quilt
Where the quilt was made, city:
Montclair
Where the quilt was made, county:
San Bernardino
Where the quilt was made, state:
California (CA)
Time period:
1976-1999
When was the quilt started?
1976-77
When was the quilt finished?
1978
Quiltmaker's gender:
Female
Quiltmaker's city:
Montclair
Quiltmaker's county:
San Bernadino
Quiltmaker's state:
California (CA)
Quiltmaker's maiden name:
Sarvis
Quiltmaker's birth date:
4/25/1921
Quiltmaker's ethnic background/tribal affiliation:
German English
Quiltmaker's educational background:
Edwin Denby High Graduate 1939-June
Quiltmaker's religious affiliation:
Lutheran
Quiltmaker's occupation:
Retired rural postal carrier, U.S. Postal Service
Quiltmaker's father's name:
Sarvis, John Edward
Quiltmaker's father's ethnic/tribal background:
English
Quiltmaker's mother's name:
Sarvis, Dolly Williams
Quiltmaker's mother's ethnic/tribal background:
German
Quiltmaker's spouse's/spouses' and/or partner's/partners' occupation:
Chief Stationary Engineer
Number of children:
2
How many of the quiltmaker's children were girls?
1
How many of the quiltmaker's children were boys?
1
When did the quiltmaker learn to quilt?
Age 20-29
Estimated number of quilts made by this quiltmaker:
5-20 quilts
Does/did the quiltmaker teach quilting?
yes
Does/did the quiltmaker belong to a group? Name of the group?
The Montclair Woman's Club
This is a:
Finished quilt
How wide is the quilt?
65 3/8"
How long is the quilt?
91 3/8"
Shape of edge:
Straight
Quilt's condition:
Excellent/like new
Describe the quilt's layout:
Block pattern
Number of quilt blocks:
24
Size of quilt blocks:
12"
Arrangement of quilt blocks:
Straight
Spacing of quilt blocks:
Separated by plain sashing
Sashing width:
1 1/2"
What is the shape of the quilt blocks?
Sampler
Describe the borders:
2 1/4"
Piecing techniques used to make the quilt top:
Machine Piecing
Materials used to make the back:
Cotton
Number of pieces of fabric in the quilt back:
9
What kind of filling is used in the quilt?
Polyester
How are the layers held together?
Hand quilting
Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 1:
6
Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 2:
7
Publications (including web sites) where this quilt or maker was featured:
Montclair Tribune, Thursday, August 21, 1975, Becoming Popular Again, The art of quilting, By Lynne Locke. From the DAILY REPORT, Ontario-Upland, Calif., Fri., Oct. 12, 1962 C-1; Club Quilters Weave History of Montclair. Club project will show first home, first church and new civic center. Montclair's Entry, 2/21/1963
Ownership of this quilt is:
Private
Quilt owner's name:
Lorraine Sarvis Rumpf
Quilt owner's city:
Montclair
Quilt owner's county:
San Bernardino
Quilt owner's state:
California (CA)
How was this quilt acquired?
Made by owner
Describe anything about the history of the quilt that wasn't already recorded in a previous field:
I removed the top of a card table and bound its frame with strips of sheet so it could be used as a portable frame for demonstration of hand quilting on a frame for my quilting classes. 4 blocks plus sashings were machine pieced and mounted on frame to fill top of frame table. Worked great!
Access and copyright information:
Restricted
Copyright holder:
Michigan State University Museum
Cite this Quilt
Rumpf, Lorrain. Orange and Green Sampler. 1978. From Michigan State University Museum, Michigan Quilt Project. Published in The Quilt Index, https://quiltindex.org/view/?type=fullrec&kid=12-8-336. Accessed: 04/19/24