Quilt Making at the Freeport Nursing Home

Photograph

Pejepscot History Center

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2003.546c.3504

Description

A color photograph of three people working on a patchwork quilt. They are identified as Debbie Billantoni (left), Grace Ciccone (middle), and Delbart Smith (right). They are all sat at the end of a table with the quilt laid out flat working on the edge. The pieces featured are floral and shades of blue in the same pattern expanding from a single white floral patch outward. This photo was published in the Times Record on 09/27/1988.

Collection

Times Record

Lexicon

Search Terms

Times Record, Quilt

Exhibitions

Exhibition

Labor of Love: Creating Art and Community

Notes

Quilt making came into popularity in the United States in the late-17th century and early years of the 18th century, gaining hobby status throughout the 19th and 20th centuries when it became more accessible to the masses. The two residents of the Freeport Nursing Home, Freeport, ME are pictured here completing a blue and floral patchwork quilt for the annual fall festival, alongside a nurses' aide. Arts and crafts have countless benefits for seniors in assisted living, from socializing to allowing them to feel a sense of control in an often isolating time of life.