QUILT INDEX RECORD

12-8-7099

Who documented this quilt?

Michigan Quilt Project; Dearborn Historical Museum Collection

Where are the records for this quilt housed?

Michigan State University Museum

Michigan Quilt Project Number:

85.1260

Quilt's title:

Children's Bicentennial Quilt

When was the form filled out?

7/24/1985

Name of the group that made the quilt:

Junior Historians of the Dearborn Historical Museum

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

Received as a gift

Where the quilt was made, city:

Dearborn

Where the quilt was made, county:

Wayne

Where the quilt was made, state:

Michigan (MI)

Time period:

1976-1999

When was the quilt started?

1975

When was the quilt finished?

1976

Why was the quilt made?

Commemorative

Quilt is presently used as:

Museum collection

Quiltmaker's gender:

Group

Quiltmaker's city:

Dearborn

Quiltmaker's county:

Wayne

Quiltmaker's state:

Michigan (MI)

This is a:

Finished quilt

How wide is the quilt?

67"

How long is the quilt?

93"

Shape of edge:

Straight

Quilt's condition:

Excellent/like new

Describe the quilt's layout:

Block pattern

Number of quilt blocks:

96

Arrangement of quilt blocks:

Straight

Piecing techniques used to make the quilt top:

Machine Piecing

Embellishment techniques used to make the quilt top:

Embroidery

How are the layers held together?

Tied or tufted

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

Uncoverings - A Legacy of Dearborn Quilmakers, by Margaret Malanyn, p.55.

Ownership of this quilt is:

Public-Other

Quilt owner's name:

Dearborn Historical Museum

Quilt owner's city:

Dearborn

Quilt owner's county:

Wayne

Quilt owner's state:

Michigan (MI)

How was this quilt acquired?

Gift

Tell the story of how the quilt was obtained:

1976 Bicentennial

Access and copyright information:

Restricted

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

Made entire quilt

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

DHM curators Tara Gnau and Mary MacDonald selected and sketched local scenes and historic figures on individual fabric blocks. The Jr. Historians took the blocks home and created their own embroidery stitches to complete the blocks. The finished quilt blocks were then sewn together by one of the girls on an antique sewing machine at DHM.

Copyright holder:

Michigan State University Museum