Go Tell It at the Quilt Show! interview with Michelle Fitzgerald: Grandmother's Quilt #2
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- 2018-04-03
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Michelle also found this quilt in her grandmother Margaret's (Pearl) closet after her grandmother passed away in 1995. This quilt was probably made between 1932 and 1936. She determined this because her grandmother's name on the quilt is Margaret and she switched to using the name Pearl after her marriage. Margaret's youngest sister's name is on the quilt and was born in 1932. Michelle's mother, Margaret's daughter, was born in 1936 . She thinks the quilt was made a bee or another family gathering. She lived on the Ray Hollow Road in Arena Wisconsin at that time. The quilt is made with feed sacks as the background and 28 colorful octagonal "squares" made of pretty printed fabric. Each octagon is has a signature embroidered in floss from her grandmother, grandmother's 4 sisters, great-grandmother and other friends. The quilt was in poor shape when she found it and the background material was fracturing. One of the squares was in bad shape, She was able to match the fabric and create
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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
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- Recollection Wisconsin
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- Lodi Woman's Club Public Library
- Collection
- Go Tell It At The Quilt Show
- Subjects
- Quilts
Quilting
Quiltmakers
Quilts--Wisconsin--History
Lodi Valley Quilters Guild
Family quilt
Octagon
Fitzgerald, Michelle - Location
- Lodi, Columbia County, Wisconsin
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- moving image
- Format
- 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 Michelle Fitzgerald: Grandmother's Quilt #2. 2018-04-03. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16698coll1/id/5. (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 Michelle Fitzgerald: Grandmother's Quilt #2. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16698coll1/id/5
- MLA 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. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16698coll1/id/5>.