QUILT INDEX RECORD

12-8-7964

Who documented this quilt?

Michigan Quilt Project

Where are the records for this quilt housed?

Michigan State University Museum

Michigan Quilt Project Number:

85.1112

Owner's name for the quilt:

Church Steps

Names for quilt's pattern in common use:

Log Cabin, Pineapple/Windmill Blades

Quilt top made by:

Davis, Katherine B.

Quilted by:

Davis, Katherine B.

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?

Purchased the quilt

Where the quilt was made, city:

Roxand Twp.

Where the quilt was made, county:

Eaton

Where the quilt was made, state:

Michigan (MI)

Time period:

1850-1875

When was the quilt finished?

1852

Quiltmaker's gender:

Female

Quiltmaker's country:

United States

Quiltmaker's maiden name:

Austin

This is a:

Finished quilt

How wide is the quilt?

69"

How long is the quilt?

78"

Shape of edge:

Straight

Shape of corners:

Straight

Quilt's condition:

Very good/almost new

Damage:

Wear to edge or binding

What is inscribed on the quilt?

Cotton Pieced Quilt - Colonial Pattern - Church Steps - Pieced about 1852 by Katherine B. Austin Davis at her home in Roxand Township, Eaton Co. in the early Michigan Days when the country was sparsely settled during winter evenings when the country doctor was making distant calls on horseback. This work was done by candlelight was her spinning, knitting and the rough homespun garment making of the 1850s.

Describe where the inscription was found:

attached to front

Describe the quilt's layout:

Block pattern

Number of quilt blocks:

120

Arrangement of quilt blocks:

Straight

Spacing of quilt blocks:

Side by side

Number of borders:

1

Describe the borders:

4 1/2", plain, solid red, 3 sides only

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

How is the binding made?

Bias grain

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:

8

Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 2:

6

Describe the quilting designs used:

Outline/Ditch

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

Contests entered:

Women's International Exhibition, Detroit's Convention Hall, Detroit, MI, 1929

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

Michigan Quilts, fig. 19, p. 29.

Person filling out this form is:

Quilt owner

Ownership of this quilt is:

Private

Quilt owner's name:

Florentine Baril

Quilt owner's city:

Charlevoix

Quilt owner's county:

Charlevoix

Quilt owner's state:

Michigan (MI)

How was this quilt acquired?

Purchase

Tell the story of how the quilt was obtained:

Eaton Co. farm auction, early 1960s

Access and copyright information:

Restricted

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

Made entire quilt

Copyright holder:

Michigan State University Museum