QUILT INDEX RECORD

12-8-2793

Who documented this quilt?

Michigan Quilt Project

Where are the records for this quilt housed?

Michigan State University Museum

Michigan Quilt Project Number:

99.0178

Owner's name for the quilt:

Schoolhouse and Pine Tree

Name of the group that made the quilt:

Heikkenen School 7th and 8th grade students

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:

Toivola

Where the quilt was made, county:

Houghton

Where the quilt was made, state:

Michigan (MI)

Time period:

1976-1999

When was the quilt started?

4/1994

When was the quilt finished?

5/1994

Details about why the quilt was made:

A gift to their teacher, Mr. Feldhusen.

Quiltmaker's gender:

Group

Quiltmaker's city:

Toivola

Quiltmaker's county:

Houghton

Quiltmaker's state:

Michigan (MI)

How did the quiltmaker learn to quilt?

From Class

This is a:

Finished quilt

Quilt's condition:

Excellent/like new

What is the date inscribed on the quilt?

1994

Describe the quilt's layout:

Block pattern

Arrangement of quilt blocks:

Straight

Fiber types used to make the quilt top:

Cotton

Materials used to make the back:

Cotton

Number of pieces of fabric in the quilt back:

1

What kind of filling is used in the quilt?

Polyester

How are the layers held together?

Machine quilting

Describe the quilting designs used:

Outline/Ditch

Where did the maker find their pattern?

Commercial/Published source: Book

Commercial name of the pattern for the top:

Carol Doak's Paper Piecing

Person filling out this form is:

Quilt owner

Ownership of this quilt is:

Private

Quilt owner's name:

Henry Feldhusen

Quilt owner's city:

Toivola

Quilt owner's county:

Houghton

Quilt owner's state:

Michigan (MI)

How was this quilt acquired?

Gift

Describe anything about the history of the quilt that wasn't already recorded in a previous field:

This is a two room schoolhouse, Mr. Feldhusen teaches 4th-8th grade. When the teacher, Henry Feldhusen saw the school house block in Carol Doak's Paper Piecing book he requested it because he said it looked like Heikkenen School. The kids drafted patterns on graph paper so they could enlarge and reduce. We used sewing machines which was a first for many. After they made the blocks for Mr. Feldhusens quilt they drafted other blocks and made more blocks. Our incentive was that they get to do the project in place of their math class, because there was so much math involved in this project. This quilt took approx. 12 days

Access and copyright information:

Restricted

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

Made entire quilt

Copyright holder:

Michigan State University Museum