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:

00.0242

Owner's name for the quilt:

Seven Sisters

Biography of the quiltmaker?

She was a great needlpoint artist.

Quilt top made by:

Gibbons, Pauline

Quilted by:

Gibbons, Pauline

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?

Inherited

Where the quilt was made, city:

Detroit

Where the quilt was made, county:

Wayne

Where the quilt was made, state:

Michigan (MI)

Time period:

1930-1949

When was the quilt finished?

ca. 1930s

Quiltmaker's gender:

Female

Quiltmaker's city:

Waterford

Quiltmaker's county:

Oakland

Quiltmaker's state:

Michigan (MI)

Quiltmaker's maiden name:

Jacques

Quiltmaker's birth date:

1/29/1897

Quiltmaker's date and place of death:

1990

Quiltmaker's ethnic background/tribal affiliation:

Irish French Canadian

Quiltmaker's educational background:

Business School after 8th grade

Quiltmaker's religious affiliation:

Roman Catholic

Quiltmaker's occupation:

Executive Secretary, G.M.

Quiltmaker's father's name:

Jacques, Frank

Quiltmaker's father's ethnic/tribal background:

French Canadian

Quiltmaker's mother's name:

Thompson, Jennie

Quiltmaker's mother's ethnic/tribal background:

Irish Canadian

Quiltmaker's marriage date(s):

1919

Quiltmaker's spouse's/spouses' and /or partner's/partners' name(s):

Gibbons, Roy

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

Real Estate Broker

Number of children:

4

How many of the quiltmaker's children were girls?

4

How did the quiltmaker learn to quilt?

From Relative

When did the quiltmaker learn to quilt?

Under 10 years of age

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

She only made 7 quilts and then decided she didn't like quilting.

Estimated number of quilts made by this quiltmaker:

5-20 quilts

This is a:

Finished quilt

How wide is the quilt?

64"

How long is the quilt?

77"

Quilt's condition:

Very good/almost new

Describe the quilt's layout:

Block pattern

Number of quilt blocks:

252 stars

Fiber types used to make the quilt top:

Cotton

Piecing techniques used to make the quilt top:

Hand Piecing

Materials used to make the back:

Cotton

Number of pieces of fabric in the quilt back:

2

What kind of filling is used in the quilt?

Cotton

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:

6

Publications (including web sites) where this quilt or maker was featured:

Photos of quilter

Person filling out this form is:

Quilt owner

Ownership of this quilt is:

Private

Quilt owner's name:

Susan M. Bieri

Quilt owner's city:

Ortonville

Quilt owner's county:

Oakland

Quilt owner's state:

Michigan (MI)

How was this quilt acquired?

Inheritance

Tell the story of how the quilt was obtained:

Made for her daughter Elizabeth on her death passed to daughter Patricia (Betty's sister) on her death passed to Susan Bieri (Patricia's daughter). Susan says, "This is one of my most treasured possessions."

Access and copyright information:

Restricted

Copyright holder:

Michigan State University Museum