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:

88.0082

Owner's name for the quilt:

3-D Blocks

Names for quilt's pattern in common use:

Block Pattern, Box Pattern, Variegated Diamonds, Shifting Cubes, Baby's Blocks, Building Blocks, Box Upon Box, Cubework, Golden Cubes, Jacob's Ladder, Stairstep Quilt, Disappearing Blocks, Stairs of Illusion, Tumbling Blocks, Steps to the Altar, English T

Brackman # or other source & #:

142b

When was the form filled out?

3/14/1988

Quilt top made by:

Bauman, Amalia

Quilted by:

Bauman, Amalia

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?

Inherited

Where the quilt was made, city:

Monroe

Where the quilt was made, county:

Monroe

Where the quilt was made, state:

Michigan (MI)

Time period:

1901-1929

When was the quilt finished?

1907-14

Quiltmaker's gender:

Female

Quiltmaker's city:

Sandy Creek

Quiltmaker's county:

Lenawee

Quiltmaker's state:

Michigan (MI)

Quiltmaker's maiden name:

Rieger

Quiltmaker's birth date:

12/7/1882

Quiltmaker's date and place of death:

2/18/1960

Quiltmaker's educational background:

Trinity Lutheran School

Quiltmaker's religious affiliation:

Trinity Lutheran

Quiltmaker's occupation:

Housewife

Quiltmaker's father's name:

Rieger, John Adams

Quiltmaker's father's ethnic/tribal background:

German

Quiltmaker's mother's name:

Rieger, Marie Rienhardt

Quiltmaker's mother's ethnic/tribal background:

German

Quiltmaker's marriage date(s):

10/21/1907

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

Bauman, Edward L.

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

German

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

railroad

Number of children:

2

How many of the quiltmaker's children were girls?

2

How wide is the quilt?

70 "

How long is the quilt?

86

Shape of edge:

Straight

Shape of corners:

Straight

Overall color scheme:

Multicolor

Quilt's condition:

Fair/worn

Damage:

Stains

Describe the quilt's layout:

Block pattern

Arrangement of quilt blocks:

Straight

What is the shape of the quilt blocks?

Diamonds

Fiber types used to make the quilt top:

Cotton

Piecing techniques used to make the quilt top:

Machine Piecing

Materials used to make the back:

Cotton

Number of pieces of fabric in the quilt back:

3

How is the binding made?

Back turned to front

What kind of filling is used in the quilt?

Cannot tell

How are the layers held together?

Hand quilting

Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 1:

4

Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 2:

5

Describe the quilting designs used:

Outline/Ditch

Ownership of this quilt is:

Private

Quilt owner's name:

Irene Bauman Kurtz

Quilt owner's city:

Monroe

Quilt owner's county:

Monroe

Quilt owner's state:

Michigan (MI)

How was this quilt acquired?

Inheritance

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