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:

85.0477

Owner's name for the quilt:

Schoolhouse

When was the form filled out?

2/12/1985

Name of the group that made the quilt:

Hands All Around guilt group, a local organization composed of 20 women and local merchants.

If this quilt was made by a group, describe activities the group engaged in:

20 women members do only hand sewing

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

Quilt owner

Where the quilt was made, city:

Northville

Where the quilt was made, county:

Wayne

Where the quilt was made, state:

Michigan (MI)

Time period:

1976-1999

When was the quilt finished?

April 1984

Why was the quilt made?

Fundraising

Details about why the quilt was made:

Tickets were sold for $1 each by the members of $1200 in tickets were sold. The income went to the Northville Historical Society.

Quiltmaker's gender:

Group

Quiltmaker's city:

Northville

Quiltmaker's county:

Wayne

Quiltmaker's state:

Michigan (MI)

Does/did the quiltmaker belong to a group? Name of the group?

Members include, Sheryl Bryan, Mary Bandyke, Sandra Dobbs, Diane Carter, Mary Jane Brugeman, Kathy Lorraine-Omar, Carole Jean Stockhausen, Kimberly Schumaker (Kuykendall), Kathleen Boonstra, Genoviate (Genny) Butski, Joanne Brock,

This is a:

Finished quilt

How wide is the quilt?

60"

How long is the quilt?

72"

Shape of edge:

Straight

Shape of corners:

Straight

Quilt's condition:

Excellent/like new

Describe the quilt's layout:

Block pattern

Number of quilt blocks:

35

Arrangement of quilt blocks:

Straight

Spacing of quilt blocks:

Alternating with plain squares

Number of borders:

1

Describe the borders:

4 1/2"

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:

1

How is the binding made?

Bias grain

What kind of filling is used in the quilt?

Cotton or polyester blend

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:

10

Describe the quilting designs used:

Outline/Ditch

Where did the maker find their pattern?

Another quilt

Commercial name of the pattern for the top:

Redrafted from Quilt Engagement Calendar 1984 by Mary Menghini

Exhibitions where this quilt was displayed:

Northville Public Library, Northville, MI, 1 month prior to the drawing; Northville Fourth of July parade, then at Mill Race (Northville's Historical Village) festivities on the same date

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

July 1,1984, Northville Record, p2c. Included in the article is a published photo of quilt taken by Fecht.

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

Each member of the Hands All Around Group filled out a Form A: Quilters Information and can be found in the file

Person filling out this form is:

Quilt owner

Ownership of this quilt is:

Private

Quilt owner's name:

Marge Davis

Quilt owner's city:

Northville

Quilt owner's county:

Wayne

Quilt owner's state:

Michigan (MI)

Access and copyright information:

Restricted

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

Scrap material was chosen by each woman to work with; cut out by each individual woman using a drafted pattern (made by Marilyn Menghini); each piece of muslin used was precut and distributed to, individual schoolhouses were pieced then given back to the group ladies by who sewed the blocks and sashing together. The quilt was then passed from woman to woman to quilt their own block as they saw fit.

Copyright holder:

Michigan State University Museum