QUILT INDEX RECORD
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