Go Tell It at the Quilt Show! interview with Kathy Oyen: Grandma's Dresden Plate Quilt
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- 2018-04-03
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This quilt was made by Kathy’s husband’s grandmother, Dena Olsen Oyen before 1953. She gave it to Kathy’s husband for his high school graduation. He was the third grandchild of many and Kathy isn’t sure if the other grandchildren got quilts or not because Grandma didn’t live very long after that. Kathy always kept the quilt on the cedar chest at the end of the bed. When they moved from Kathy’s family farm to her husband’s family farm, there wasn’t room at the end of the bed for the cedar chest so she left it at her mother’s. Years later, they had a house fire that destroyed everything and Kathy forgot that the quilt wasn’t there so she thought it had burned in the fire. A few years later, one of her daughters got the quilt when she went to Madison and then to Michigan when she went to Michigan State. So the quilt came back to her in a U-Haul with the rest of her daughter’s things. The farm that Kathy and her husband lived on was the farm that Dena grew up on. The quilt is a Dresden P
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The Lodi Woman's Club Public Library, the Lodi Valley Quilters Guild, and the Quilt Alliance partnered to record the stories of local quilters and quilts as part of the Go Tell It at the Quilt Show! project. Go Tell It at the Quilt Show! is a project of the nonprofit Quilt Alliance
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Lodi Woman's Club Public Library
- Collection
- Go Tell It At The Quilt Show
- Subjects
- Quilts
Quilting
Quiltmakers
Dresden plate quilts
Quilts--Wisconsin--History
Lodi Valley Quilters Guild
Oyen, Kathy
Oyen, Dena Olsen - Location
- Lodi, Columbia County, Wisconsin
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- moving image
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- Oral historiesVideo recording
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- The Lodi Woman's Club Public Library, the Lodi Valley Quilters Guild, and the Quilt Alliance partnered to record the stories of local quilters and quilts as part of the Go Tell It at the Quilt Show! project. Go Tell It at the Quilt Show! is a project of the nonprofit Quilt Alliance. Go Tell It at the Quilt Show! interview with Kathy Oyen: Grandma's Dresden Plate Quilt. 2018-04-03. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16698coll1/id/44. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- The Lodi Woman's Club Public Library, the Lodi Valley Quilters Guild, and the Quilt Alliance partnered to record the stories of local quilters and quilts as part of the Go Tell It at the Quilt Show! project. Go Tell It at the Quilt Show! is a project of the nonprofit Quilt Alliance, (2018-04-03) Go Tell It at the Quilt Show! interview with Kathy Oyen: Grandma's Dresden Plate Quilt. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16698coll1/id/44
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- The Lodi Woman's Club Public Library, the Lodi Valley Quilters Guild, and the Quilt Alliance partnered to record the stories of local quilters and quilts as part of the Go Tell It at the Quilt Show! project. Go Tell It at the Quilt Show! is a project of the nonprofit Quilt Alliance. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16698coll1/id/44>.