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12-8-8157

Who documented this quilt?

Michigan Quilt Project

Where are the records for this quilt housed?

Michigan State University Museum

Michigan Quilt Project Number:

86.0013

Owner's name for the quilt:

Flower Garden

Biography of the quiltmaker?

The quitler had a sense of history, a sense of family, and a sense of tradition that made making quilts important to her. She has family quilts made by her mother, grandmothers, mother-in-law and her aunts as well as herself. She shows all of them with pride.

When was the form filled out?

1/17/1986

Quilt top made by:

Matthews, Grace Hawkins

Other people who worked on this quilt:

May have had some help from a sister and/or 2 friends.

If you are a relative of the quiltmaker, how are you related? The quiltmaker is my:

Quilt owner

Where the quilt was made, city:

Amity

Where the quilt was made, county:

Clark

Where the quilt was made, state:

Arkansas (AR)

Time period:

1950-1975

When was the quilt started?

1929

When was the quilt finished?

1952

Quiltmaker's gender:

Female

Quiltmaker's city:

Amity

Quiltmaker's county:

Clark

Quiltmaker's state:

Arkansas (AR)

Quiltmaker's maiden name:

Hawkins

Quiltmaker's birth date:

3/3/1906

Quiltmaker's educational background:

Masters degree

Quiltmaker's religious affiliation:

Methodist except for 5 years of her marriage to J.K. Hobbs. Southern Baptists those years.

Quiltmaker's father's name:

Hawkins, Thomas Aaron

Quiltmaker's father's ethnic/tribal background:

English

Quiltmaker's mother's name:

Hayes, Hattie Ella Rucker Hawkins

Quiltmaker's mother's ethnic/tribal background:

English, French, German

Quiltmaker's spouse's/spouses' and/or partner's/partners' ethnic/tribal background:

1. English

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

1. Millright; 2. Mailman

Number of children:

2

How many of the quiltmaker's children were girls?

1

How many of the quiltmaker's children were boys?

1

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

Making quilts seems to have been a family skill and tradition. The quilt provided warmth, beauty, the center of a social time, an opportunity to creatively use left-overs, gifts for special people and a focus for pride.

Does/did the quiltmaker sell quilts?

yes

This is a:

Finished quilt

How wide is the quilt?

82"

How long is the quilt?

86"

Shape of edge:

Straight

Shape of corners:

Rounded

Quilt's condition:

Excellent/like new

Describe the quilt's layout:

Block pattern

Arrangement of quilt blocks:

Straight

Spacing of quilt blocks:

Separated by pieced pattern sashing

Number of borders:

1

Describe the borders:

1 3/8"

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

What color is the back of the quilt?

Yellow

Number of pieces of fabric in the quilt back:

2

How is the binding made?

Bias grain

What kind of filling is used in the quilt?

Polyester

How are the layers held together?

Hand quilting

Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 1:

10

Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 2:

12

Describe the quilting designs used:

Outline/Ditch

Where did the maker get their materials?

Sewing scraps

Describe the sources of the quilt's materials:

The blocks were made from scraps fo dresses (beginning with her first dress in 1929) made for the quilter's daughter and no two are from the same scraps so often family members will identify which dress provided which scraps and any special occasion assoc

Contests entered:

Clark County Fair, Arkedelphia, AR, early 1970s, Blue Ribbon

Ownership of this quilt is:

Private

Quilt owner's name:

Emily Hobbs Wolf

Quilt owner's city:

East Lansing

Quilt owner's county:

Ingham

Quilt owner's state:

Michigan (MI)

Access and copyright information:

Restricted

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

The quilter was pleased with the placement of the colors in the quilt.

Copyright holder:

Michigan State University Museum

Cite this Quilt

Matthews, Grace Hawkin. Flower Garden. 1952. From Michigan State University Museum, Michigan Quilt Project. Published in The Quilt Index, https://quiltindex.org/view/?type=fullrec&kid=12-8-8157. Accessed: 03/29/24