QUILT INDEX RECORD

12-8-6973

Who documented this quilt?

Michigan Quilt Project

Where are the records for this quilt housed?

Michigan State University Museum

Michigan Quilt Project Number:

85.0838

Quilt's title:

A Michigan Upper Penninsula Regional Quilt

When was the form filled out?

8/17/1986

Name of the group that made the quilt:

Marquette County Quilters,

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:

Marquette

Where the quilt was made, county:

Marquette

Where the quilt was made, state:

Michigan (MI)

Time period:

1976-1999

When was the quilt finished?

1982

Why was the quilt made?

Challenge or Contest entry

Details about why the quilt was made:

This quilt was the result of a quilt block contest. The quilt was made by the Marquette County Quilters to highlight our TV Station Image Campaign, "Upper Michigan Someplace Special."

Quilt is presently used as:

Artwork/wall hanging

Describe present uses of the quilt:

It has been on display at the station (WLUC-TV6) since its creation

Quiltmaker's gender:

Group

Quiltmaker's city:

Marquette

Quiltmaker's county:

Marquette

Quiltmaker's state:

Michigan (MI)

This is a:

Finished quilt

How wide is the quilt?

65"

How long is the quilt?

54"

Shape of edge:

Straight

Shape of corners:

Straight

Quilt's condition:

Excellent/like new

Describe the type of inscription:

Title

What is inscribed on the quilt?

"Upper Michigan, Someplace Special - by the people of Upper Michigan and the Marquette County Quilters - 1982."

What is the date inscribed on the quilt?

1982

Location of inscription:

on back

Number of quilt blocks:

12

Size of quilt blocks:

11"

Arrangement of quilt blocks:

Straight

Spacing of quilt blocks:

Separated by plain sashing

Sashing width:

2"

Number of borders:

4

Describe the borders:

7", 7", 6 1/2"

Applique techniques used to make the quilt top:

Hand Applique

Describe the techniques used to make the quilt top:

Open/Dimensional work

Materials used to make the back:

Cotton or polyester blend

Number of pieces of fabric in the quilt back:

1

How is the binding made?

Straight grain

What kind of filling is used in the quilt?

Polyester

Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 1:

5

Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 2:

6

Quilting designs used, overall motifs:

Clamshell

Describe the quilting designs used:

Outline/Ditch

Where did the maker get their materials?

Purchased new

Where did the maker find their pattern?

Original to maker

Exhibitions where this quilt was displayed:

Michigan Quilts: A Celebration of 150 Years of Textile Tradition, Lansing, MI, September 13, 1987-January 30, 1988, Michigan Historical Museum

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

Mining Journal. Michigan Quilter's by Betty Boyink. Michigan Quilts (1987) book, figure 206, page 131.

Person filling out this form is:

Quilt owner

Ownership of this quilt is:

Private

Quilt owner's name:

Marquette County Quilters

Quilt owner's city:

Marquette

Quilt owner's county:

Marquette

Quilt owner's state:

Michigan (MI)

How was this quilt acquired?

Gift

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:

Each square depicts an aspect of life and history of Upper Michigan. Blocks depict the following images: (1) Lady's Slipper flower; (2) cabin or "camp" in pine forest; (3) eight-pointed star with daisy center; (4) distlefink - Pennsylvania Dutch design; (5) recipe for pasty with steaming trapunto pasty; (6) sailboat; (7) priest - Father Jacques Marquette; (8) milk bottle building - Asselin's dairy; (9) trillium flower; (10) black pine with moon behind them; (11) the men, women, and children of the Upper Pennisula; and (12) lumberjack riding a log on a log run.

Copyright holder:

Michigan State University Museum