QUILT INDEX RECORD
29-24-2932
Where are the records for this quilt housed?
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Who documented this quilt?
Nebraska Quilt Project (Lincoln Quilters Guild)
Nebraska Quilt Project Number:
2429
When was the form filled out?
8/28/87 Wahoo
Names for quilt's pattern in common use:
Friendship Dahlia
Brackman # or other source & #:
A37.915
How long is the quilt?
83 inches
Time period:
1930-1949
When was the quilt started?
1939
When was the quilt finished?
1940
Date estimated by an antique dealer, quilt historian or appraiser:
1935
Who estimated the quilt's date?
Date estimated by NQP committee member, corrected later if deemed appropriate by UNL graduate student researcher in consultation with Patricia Crews.
Further information concerning dates:
Date estimated.
Fiber types used to make the quilt top:
Wool
How are the layers held together?
Hand quilting
Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 1:
6.5 stitches per inch
Quilt top made by:
Anderson, Signa U. Magnuson
Where the quilt was made, county:
Saunders
Where the quilt was made, state:
Nebraska (NE)
Where the quilt was made, country:
United States
Describe anything about the history of the quilt that wasn't already recorded in a previous field:
Quilt maker also quilted it.; Quilt pieced by one person
Why was the quilt made?
Other
Details about why the quilt was made:
Made for special person, Other
Quiltmaker's birth date:
1875
Quiltmaker's date and place of death:
1969
Quiltmaker's ethnic background/tribal affiliation:
Swedish; Unknown
Quiltmaker's educational background:
Grade School
Quiltmaker's religious affiliation:
Lutheran
Quiltmaker's occupation:
Nurse
How did the quiltmaker learn to quilt?
Other
Copyright holder:
Contact Archives and Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries for image use
Cite this Quilt
Anderson, Signa U. Magnuso. Friendship Dahlia. 1940. From University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Nebraska Quilt Project (Lincoln Quilters Guild). Published in The Quilt Index, https://quiltindex.org/view/?type=fullrec&kid=29-24-2932. Accessed: 03/29/24