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Friendship Dahlia

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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