QUILT INDEX RECORD

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Who documented this quilt?

Michigan Quilt Project

Where are the records for this quilt housed?

Michigan State University Museum

Michigan Quilt Project Number:

87.0019

Owner's name for the quilt:

Pickle Dish

When was the form filled out?

1/15/1987

Quilt top made by:

Bus, Bonnie C.

Quilted by:

Bus, Bonnie C.

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

Made the quilt

Where the quilt was made, city:

Haslett

Where the quilt was made, county:

Ingham

Where the quilt was made, state:

Michigan (MI)

Time period:

1976-1999

When was the quilt started?

1982

When was the quilt finished?

1984

Quiltmaker's gender:

Female

Quiltmaker's city:

Lansing

Quiltmaker's county:

Ingham

Quiltmaker's state:

Michigan (MI)

Quiltmaker's maiden name:

Cummings

Quiltmaker's birth date:

1/28/1947

In which kind of environment did the quiltmaker live?

Urban

Quiltmaker's educational background:

A.D. Nursing and other college courses

Quiltmaker's occupation:

R.N.

Quiltmaker's father's name:

Cummings, Sherman R.

Quiltmaker's father's ethnic/tribal background:

Scottish English

Quiltmaker's mother's name:

Cummings, Shirley May Murray

Quiltmaker's mother's ethnic/tribal background:

French Cuban English

Quiltmaker's marriage date(s):

1/29/1980

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

Bus, Andre Dirk

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

Dutch English

How did the quiltmaker learn to quilt?

From Class

When did the quiltmaker learn to quilt?

Age 20-29

Estimated number of quilts made by this quiltmaker:

5-20 quilts

Does/did the quiltmaker belong to a group? Name of the group?

Capitol City Quilt Guild

Where does/did the group meet?

Lansing, MI

This is a:

Finished quilt

How wide is the quilt?

81"

How long is the quilt?

86 1/2"

Shape of edge:

Straight

Shape of corners:

Straight

Quilt's condition:

Excellent/like new

Describe the quilt's layout:

Block pattern

Arrangement of quilt blocks:

Straight

What is the shape of the quilt blocks?

Squares

Number of borders:

4

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

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

Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 1:

10

Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 2:

12

Describe the quilting designs used:

Decorating circles birds, roses, leaves, zig zag, Scallops

Where did the maker find their pattern?

Commercial/Published source: Magazine

Commercial name of the pattern for the top:

Quilter's Newsletter Magazine

Exhibitions where this quilt was displayed:

Michigan Quilts: A Celebration of 150 Years of Textile Tradition, East Lansing, MI, September 12-November 1, 1987, Kresge Art Museum, MSU

Contests entered:

Great Lakes Biennial Quilt Show, Mt. Pleasant, MI, 1984 , 2nd place, mixed techniques

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

Michigan Quilts 150 Years of Textile Tradition, page 157, figure 256.

Ownership of this quilt is:

Private

Quilt owner's name:

Bonnie C. Bus

Quilt owner's city:

Lansing

Quilt owner's county:

Ingham

Quilt owner's state:

Michigan (MI)

How was this quilt acquired?

Made by owner

Access and copyright information:

Restricted

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

Made entire quilt

Who photographed this quilt?

Peter Glendinning

Copyright holder:

Michigan State University Museum