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33-29-79

Description of quilt:

This Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt won a $10.00 Mail Order House prize.

Essay:

The 1933 Sears National Quilt Contest was announced in January 1933 with a deadline of May 15, 1933. Over 24,000 quilts were entered at local Sears stores or sent to one of 10 regional mail order houses. Quilts were judged at each site with the top three winners moving onto the next round. Finally just 30 quilts reached the final judging held at the Sears Pavilion on the 1933 Chicago World's Fair site. This quilt won a $10.00 Mail Order House prize. Her competition (Margaret Rogers Caden) went on to win the Chicago Regional First Prize and the Grand National Prize.

Where are the records for this quilt housed?

Merikay Waldvogel Legacy Project

Who documented this quilt?

Merikay Waldvogel Legacy Project; Sears Quilt Contest 1933 Chicago World's Fair

Merikay Waldvogel Legacy Project Number:

237

Person filling out this form is:

Relative of quiltmaker

When was the form filled out?

March 2010

Choose the best description of the source to the quilt:

Quilt owner

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

Inherited

Who helped you fill out the form?

Waldvogel

This is a:

Finished quilt

Quilt's title:

Grandmother's Flower Garden

Names for quilt's pattern in common use:

Grandmother's Flower Garden

Overall color scheme:

Bright or primary colors

Type of inscription:

Date; Single

What is inscribed on the quilt?

Gladys Wyse Maack 1933

What is the date inscribed on the quilt?

1933

Method used to make the inscription:

Other

Describe the method used to inscribe the quilt:

Cross-Stitched

Location of inscription:

other

Describe where the inscription was found:

On front at right edge

Time period:

1930-1949

When was the quilt finished?

1933

Describe the quilt's layout:

Block pattern

Fiber types used to make the quilt top:

Cotton

Fabric styles used in the quilt top:

Floral; Geometric; Solid/plain

Piecing techniques used to make the quilt top:

Hand Piecing

How are the layers held together?

Hand quilting

Quilting designs used, overall motifs:

Outline

Quilt top made by:

Maack, Gladys Cecilia

Quilted by:

Maack, Gladys Cecilia

Where the quilt was made, city:

Harvard

Where the quilt was made, state:

Illinois (IL)

Where the quilt was made, country:

United States

Quilt is presently used as:

Keepsake/memento

Where did the maker find their pattern?

Commercial/Published source: Pattern

Contests entered:

Sears National Quilt Contest, 1933 Chicago World's Fair. Winner: Mail Order $10 Prize/Chicago Regional Round.

Publications (including web sites) where this quilt or maker was featured:

Merikay Waldvogel and Barbara Brackman. Patchwork Souvenirs of the 1933 World's Fair (Nashville, TN: Rutledge Hill Press, 1993), 111.

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

Blue Ribbon with metal holder.

Ownership of this quilt is:

Private

Quilt owner's country:

United States

Quiltmaker's maiden name:

Wyse

Quiltmaker's gender:

Female

Quiltmaker's birth date:

1912

Quiltmaker's date and place of death:

02-1981

In which kind of environment did the quiltmaker live?

Rural

Quiltmaker's city:

Harvard

Quiltmaker's state:

Illinois (IL)

Quiltmaker's country:

United States

Any other notes or stories about the quiltmaker:

According to the quilt owner, who is the maker's niece, Gladys Maack was born on a dairy farm, worked as a cosmetologist most of her life in Rockford, Illinois.

Who photographed this quilt?

Julia Zgliniec

Access and copyright information:

Restricted

Copyright holder:

Julia Zgliniec

Cite this Quilt

Maack, Gladys Cecili. Grandmother's Flower Garden. 1933. From Merikay Waldvogel Legacy Project, Merikay Waldvogel Legacy Project; Sears Quilt Contest 1933 Chicago World's Fair. Published in The Quilt Index, https://quiltindex.org/view/?type=fullrec&kid=33-29-79. Accessed: 03/29/24