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:

96.0048

Owner's name for the quilt:

English Rose

Names for quilt's pattern in common use:

Rose of Sharon

Quilt top made by:

Drake, Rhoda Stanton

Quilted by:

Drake, Rhoda Stanton

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:

Breckenridge

Where the quilt was made, county:

Gratiot

Where the quilt was made, state:

Michigan (MI)

Time period:

1901-1929

When was the quilt started?

1925

When was the quilt finished?

3/25/1927

Quiltmaker's gender:

Female

Quiltmaker's city:

Breckenridge

Quiltmaker's county:

Gratiot

Quiltmaker's state:

Michigan (MI)

Quiltmaker's maiden name:

Waggoner

Quiltmaker's birth date:

1878

Quiltmaker's date and place of death:

1955

Quiltmaker's ethnic background/tribal affiliation:

Pennsylvania Dutch

Quiltmaker's educational background:

Breckenridge High School, Yerrington College, St. Louis, MI

Quiltmaker's religious affiliation:

United Methodist

Quiltmaker's occupation:

Housewife and mother, embroidery and other fancy work

Quiltmaker's father's name:

Waggoner, Lemuel

Quiltmaker's father's ethnic/tribal background:

Pennsylvania Dutch

Quiltmaker's mother's name:

Stanton, Mary Jane

Quiltmaker's mother's ethnic/tribal background:

Pennsylvania Dutch

Quiltmaker's marriage date(s):

3/25/1902

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

Drake, Wilke M.

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

Physician and surgeon

Number of children:

1

How many of the quiltmaker's children were girls?

1

How did the quiltmaker learn to quilt?

From Relative

When did the quiltmaker learn to quilt?

Age 11-19

Why does the quiltmaker quilt?

Gifts

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

During the Depression and during the war (WWII) gave quilts to younger woman in Sunday school class who married.

Does/did the quiltmaker sell quilts?

no

Does/did the quiltmaker teach quilting?

only informally

Where does/did the group meet?

At the Methodist Church in Breckenridge

This is a:

Finished quilt

How wide is the quilt?

67 1/2"

How long is the quilt?

81 1/2"

Quilt's condition:

Excellent/like new

Damage:

Stains

Describe the quilt's layout:

Block pattern

Number of quilt blocks:

20

Arrangement of quilt blocks:

Straight

Spacing of quilt blocks:

Separated by plain sashing

Fiber types used to make the quilt top:

Cotton

Piecing techniques used to make the quilt top:

Hand Piecing

Embellishment techniques used to make the quilt top:

Photography/ photo transfer

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:

5

Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 2:

5 1/2

Describe the quilting designs used:

Outline/Ditch

Describe the source of the pattern:

Commercial (book, magazine, etc.)

Commercial name of the pattern for the top:

The "Pink" English Rose came out "The War of Roses", the English "Lancasters" had the rose and the yorks the rose. Rhoda made it for her husband's English ancestry.

Exhibitions where this quilt was displayed:

Muskegon County Museum, Muskegon, MI; Muskegon Lakeside Methodist Church; Howe Memorial Library, Breckenridge; Great Lake Regional Herb Society Symposium, Hillsdale; Shelby, White Lake & Montague, MI; House Tours, from 1973 to present; Poetry Society of Michigan & Canada. Visitors of the Poetry Society of this state were on tour. During Michigan Week in May, annually on the day of the Mayor Exchange Day. Village officials and visitors have been out since 1975 with two exceptions: two years they were unable to set up a mayor exchange day. Old School & Village Reunion. Held in August, biannually and later upon request. Muskegon Writers; Muskegon Women's Literature and Drama Department; Church Groups;Methodist Women's Society; Rachel Circle; Mary Martha Circle; Two youth groups; New membership groups; Questors Collectors on home tours 1973-1996

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

Photo of quilt collector

Ownership of this quilt is:

Private

Quilt owner's name:

Margaret Drake Elliott

Quilt owner's city:

Breckenridge

Quilt owner's county:

Gratiot

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:

Rhoda frowned on machine work on her quilts (She did them all by hand). Because this quilt was machine bound and the stitches are 5 to the inch instead of 8-8 1/2, we think someone else quilted it.

Access and copyright information:

Restricted

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

Made entire quilt top

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

Rhoda frowned on machine work on her quilts (She did them all by hand).

Describe any unique traditions, quilting related customs, beliefs, songs or rhymes used by the quiltmaker:

Pennsylvania Dutch girl could make her bridal quilt after she had 12 in her hope chest

Copyright holder:

Michigan State University Museum