QUILT INDEX RECORD

12-8-8851

Who documented this quilt?

Michigan Quilt Project; Flushing Area Historical Museum Collection and Cultural Center

Where are the records for this quilt housed?

Michigan State University Museum

Michigan Quilt Project Number:

85.0149

Quilt's title:

Flushing Sesquicentennial Quilt

Names for quilt's pattern in common use:

Celebration Picture Quilt

Biography of the quiltmaker?

Caron had an exhibit of her quilts at the Citizens Bank Gallery, Flint, MI; February 16-March 13, 1987. Author of Contemporary Quilts from Traditional Designs, copyright 1987, P.F. Dutton. Presented with the Third Orrin Hart Award for Historical Preservation by the Flushing Area Historical Society, December 1984, for The Flushing Sesquicentennial Quilt.

When was the form filled out?

2/15/1985

Quilt top made by:

Mosey, Caron Lee

Quilted by:

Mosey, Caron Lee

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

Received as a gift

Where the quilt was made, city:

Flushing

Where the quilt was made, county:

Genesee

Where the quilt was made, state:

Michigan (MI)

Time period:

1976-1999

When was the quilt started?

August 1983

When was the quilt finished?

11/1984

Why was the quilt made?

Fundraising

Details about why the quilt was made:

For the Depot Restoration Project, Flushing's Sesquicentennial year

Quilt is presently used as:

Museum collection

Describe present uses of the quilt:

After completing the quilt, it was presented to the society for a permanent place in the Depot Museum, where it will remain on permanent display once the museum is completed.

Quiltmaker's gender:

Female

Quiltmaker's city:

Flushing

Quiltmaker's county:

Genesee

Quiltmaker's state:

Michigan (MI)

Quiltmaker's maiden name:

Covert

Quiltmaker's birth date:

1/25/1956

Quiltmaker's educational background:

U-M Flint (presently Junior status), H.S. Grad, Flushing, MI, C.S. Mott Junior College, Olivet College

Quiltmaker's religious affiliation:

Trinity Episcopal Church, Flushing

Quiltmaker's father's name:

Covert, Robert Hayes

Quiltmaker's father's ethnic/tribal background:

English

Quiltmaker's mother's name:

Covert, Betty Ruth Spence

Quiltmaker's mother's ethnic/tribal background:

English

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

Mosey, Jr., Neil Dean

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

English French

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

Furniture refinisher, builder

Number of children:

2

How many of the quiltmaker's children were boys?

2

How did the quiltmaker learn to quilt?

Self-Taught

When did the quiltmaker learn to quilt?

Age 20-29

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

Quilts, for me, are an artistic expression that fulfills my need to "create." Gave quilt to my brother Bob upon graduation, my father upon retirement.

Estimated number of quilts made by this quiltmaker:

5-20 quilts

Does/did the quiltmaker teach quilting?

yes

This is a:

Finished quilt

How wide is the quilt?

81"

How long is the quilt?

77"

Shape of edge:

Straight

Shape of corners:

Straight

What color is the quilt?

Beige or Tan

Quilt's condition:

Excellent/like new

What is inscribed on the quilt?

Caron L Mosey, She gathered signatures on the quilt as a donation for the Society, raising over $1,200.00 in the process.

What is the date inscribed on the quilt?

1984

Method used to make the inscription:

Embroidery

Describe where the inscription was found:

top

Arrangement of quilt blocks:

Straight

Spacing of quilt blocks:

Side by side

Number of borders:

2

Describe the borders:

4", 9 3/4"

Fiber types used to make the quilt top:

Cotton

Piecing techniques used to make the quilt top:

Hand Piecing

Applique techniques used to make the quilt top:

Hand Applique

Embellishment techniques used to make the quilt top:

Embroidery

Materials used to make the back:

Cotton

Number of pieces of fabric in the quilt back:

1

What kind of filling is used in the quilt?

Polyester

Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 1:

13

Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 2:

13

Quilting designs used, background fills:

Grid/crosshatch

Describe the quilting designs used:

Outline/Ditch

Features or notes about the quilt's appearance, materials, or construction:

Earth tones

Where did the maker find their pattern?

Original to maker

Exhibitions where this quilt was displayed:

Quilted Art: One Woman Exhibition, Flint, MI, 1984, Uof M

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

Flushing Observer. The Flushing quilt will also be featured in the book America's Pictorial Quilts, by Caron L. Mosey, being published by the American Quilter's Society. The book is due out in the Fall of 1985 and will feature both new and old pictorial quilts.

Person filling out this form is:

Quilt owner

Ownership of this quilt is:

Public-Other

Quilt owner's name:

Flushing Area Historical Museum and Cultural Center

Quilt owner's city:

Flushing

Quilt owner's county:

Genesee

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:

The center portion of the quilt features buildings and scenes from Flushing's past, including the old High School (now the Junior High), the old bridge, the Mill, West Side School, First Presbyterian Church (now the community center) and of course, the depot.

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

Many of my quilts are pictorial in nature, not simply geometric patterns repeated over and over. Through these I can "paint" with my needle and create images of things that are important to me, or things made just on a whim.

Copyright holder:

Michigan State University Museum