QUILT INDEX RECORD

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Who documented this quilt?

Michigan Quilt Project

Where are the records for this quilt housed?

Michigan State University Museum

Michigan Quilt Project Number:

84.0010

Owner's name for the quilt:

Jack's Beanstalk

Names for quilt's pattern in common use:

Pictorial

Biography of the quiltmaker?

Caron had an exhibit of her quilts at the Citizens Bank Gallery, Flint, MI; February 16-March 13, 1987. Author of Contemporary Quilts from Traditional Designs, copyright 1987, P.F. Dutton. Presented with the Third Orrin Hart Award for Historical Preservation by the Flushing Area Historical Society, December 1984, for The Flushing Sesquicentennial Quilt.

When was the form filled out?

1/17/1985

Quilt top made by:

Mosey, Caron Lee

Quilted by:

Mosey, Caron Lee

If you are a relative of the quiltmaker, how are you related? The quiltmaker is my:

Quilt owner

If you are the quilt owner, how did you acquire this quilt?

Received as a gift

Where the quilt was made, city:

Flushing

Where the quilt was made, county:

Genessee

Where the quilt was made, state:

Michigan (MI)

Time period:

1976-1999

When was the quilt finished?

1983

Why was the quilt made?

Gift or presentation

Quiltmaker's gender:

Female

Quiltmaker's city:

Flushing

Quiltmaker's county:

Genesee

Quiltmaker's state:

Michigan (MI)

Quiltmaker's maiden name:

Covert

Quiltmaker's birth date:

1/25/1956

Quiltmaker's educational background:

U-M Flint (presently Junior status), H.S. Grad, Flushing, MI, C.S. Mott Junior College, Olivet College

Quiltmaker's religious affiliation:

Trinity Episcopal Church, Flushing

Quiltmaker's father's name:

Covert, Robert Hayes

Quiltmaker's father's ethnic/tribal background:

English

Quiltmaker's mother's name:

Covert, Betty Ruth Spence

Quiltmaker's mother's ethnic/tribal background:

English

Quiltmaker's spouse's/spouses' and/or partner's/partners' ethnic/tribal background:

English French

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

Furniture refinisher, builder

Number of children:

2

How many of the quiltmaker's children were boys?

2

How did the quiltmaker learn to quilt?

Self-Taught

When did the quiltmaker learn to quilt?

Age 20-29

Other notes on how the quiltmaker learned, and how and why they quilt:

Quilts, for me, are an artistic expression that fulfills my need to "create." Gave quilt to my brother Bob upon graduation, my father upon retirement.

Estimated number of quilts made by this quiltmaker:

5-20 quilts

Does/did the quiltmaker teach quilting?

yes

This is a:

Finished quilt

Shape of edge:

Straight

Shape of corners:

Straight

Quilt's condition:

Excellent/like new

What is inscribed on the quilt?

Caron L. Mosey

What is the date inscribed on the quilt?

copyright 1983 CLM

Method used to make the inscription:

Embroidery

Describe where the inscription was found:

bottom right

Number of quilt blocks:

1

Number of borders:

1

Describe the borders:

plain, solid

Fiber types used to make the quilt top:

Cotton

Applique techniques used to make the quilt top:

Hand Applique

Embellishment techniques used to make the quilt top:

Embroidery

Materials used to make the back:

Cotton

Number of pieces of fabric in the quilt back:

2

How is the binding made?

Straight grain

What kind of filling is used in the quilt?

Polyester

How are the layers held together?

Hand quilting

Quilting designs used, background fills:

Meander

Describe the quilting designs used:

Outline/Ditch

Where did the maker find their pattern?

Commercial/Published source: Pattern

Commercial name of the pattern for the top:

"Jack's Beanstalk" copyright 1983 CLM

Ownership of this quilt is:

Private

Quilt owner's name:

Loren Ansley Mosey

Quilt owner's city:

Flushing

Quilt owner's county:

Genesee

Quilt owner's state:

Michigan (MI)

How was this quilt acquired?

Gift

Access and copyright information:

Restricted

How did the quiltmaker participate in the creation of the quilt?

Made entire quilt

Describe any favorite patterns, tools, etc. used by the quiltmaker:

Many of my quilts are pictorial in nature, not simply geometric patterns repeated over and over. Through these I can "paint" with my needle and create images of things that are important to me, or things made just on a whim.

Copyright holder:

Michigan State University Museum