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:

96.0097

Quilt's title:

A Celebration of Family

Names for quilt's pattern in common use:

Perkiomen Valley (center medallion and outside border), split 9 Patch.

Quilt top made by:

Vredenburg, Elsie

Quilted by:

Vredenburg, Elsie

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

Made the quilt

Where the quilt was made, city:

Tustin

Where the quilt was made, county:

Osceola

Where the quilt was made, state:

Michigan (MI)

Time period:

1976-1999

When was the quilt started?

1994

When was the quilt finished?

1995

Why was the quilt made?

Reunion

Details about why the quilt was made:

75th Hunsberger Family Reunion

Quiltmaker's gender:

Female

Quiltmaker's city:

Tustin

Quiltmaker's county:

Osceola

Quiltmaker's state:

Michigan (MI)

Quiltmaker's maiden name:

Morris

Quiltmaker's birth date:

12/19/1941

Quiltmaker's ethnic background/tribal affiliation:

North European

Quiltmaker's educational background:

BS in Home Economics Education, MSU, 1963

Quiltmaker's religious affiliation:

United Methodist

Quiltmaker's occupation:

Quilt artist, self employed

Quiltmaker's father's name:

Morris, Ford

Quiltmaker's father's ethnic/tribal background:

Northern European (mostly English and Dutch)

Quiltmaker's mother's name:

Hungsberger, Nettie

Quiltmaker's mother's ethnic/tribal background:

Northern European (mostly English and German) Pennsylvania Dutch

Quiltmaker's marriage date(s):

6/11/1961

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

Vredenburg, Donald

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

Rural mail carrier

Number of children:

3

How many of the quiltmaker's children were girls?

2

How many of the quiltmaker's children were boys?

1

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:

Each grandchild received a quilt for 2nd Christmas, wedding gifts for children, nieces and nephews, special friends.

Estimated number of quilts made by this quiltmaker:

more than 50

Does/did the quiltmaker sell quilts?

yes

Does/did the quiltmaker teach quilting?

yes

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

North Star Quilters, Cadillac, MI

What are the main activities of the group?

Show and tell, making charity quilts, support

This is a:

Finished quilt

How wide is the quilt?

85"

How long is the quilt?

95"

Quilt's condition:

Excellent/like new

What is inscribed on the quilt?

Elsie Vredenburg, 75, Hunsberger Family Reunion 1919-1994

What is the date inscribed on the quilt?

1994/5

Describe the method used to inscribe the quilt:

Pieced blocks

Arrangement of quilt blocks:

Straight

Spacing of quilt blocks:

Side by side

Fiber types used to make the quilt top:

Cotton

Piecing techniques used to make the quilt top:

Machine Piecing

Describe the techniques used to make the quilt top:

Ink drawing/Painting

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:

Back Art with brown bear, pine tree, hills and wheat

What kind of filling is used in the quilt?

Cotton

How are the layers held together?

Machine quilting

Commercial name of the pattern for the top:

House blocks were from another quilter. Perkiomen Valley from "Lest I be Forgotten" by Nancy and Donald Roan

Exhibitions where this quilt was displayed:

Hunsberger Family Reunion, Every year

Contests entered:

Quilters Heritage Celebration , Lancaster, PA, 1996; NQA Show Grand Rapids, MI

Ownership of this quilt is:

Private

Quilt owner's name:

Elsie Irene Morris Vredenburg

Quilt owner's city:

Tustin

Quilt owner's county:

Osceola

Quilt owner's state:

Michigan (MI)

How was this quilt acquired?

Made by owner

Access and copyright information:

Restricted

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

Made entire quilt

If the source helped design the quilt, describe their input:

Designed the pattern

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

Photos were taken at 1994 reunion and also each person signed a strip of fabric which make up the "logs" in the houses. Old photos of grandparents, great grandparents included. Center design on back is family crest. Surrounding it, family pedigree chart has been inked in. Anyone studying this quilt could place each person in their position in the family.

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

Pieced wall hangings with lighthouses or other architecture

Copyright holder:

Michigan State University Museum