Name/Title
QuiltEntry/Object ID
2005.43.1Description
Quilt entitled "The Constitution--Freedom's Shelter" made by members of the Thursday Bee, quilted on the front in cursive is "Constitution of/ the United States/ September 1787," uses a contemporary approach to traditional patterns--center is a Nine Patch in an abstract design representing the Appalachian region with its mountains and valleys/rivers and bottomlands/urban-suburban-rural areas/industrial growth and decline, center block is framed with blue and brown "logs" and is in the position of the "hearth and home" block in the Log Cabin pattern, backing made of seven panels of cotton feed sacks (florals, figures, abstracts), fabric dyed with natural dyes of the 1787 period (by Jim Liles), quilted in blue, brown and white thread, typed cloth tag on lower left back reads: "THE CONSTITUTION--FREEDOM'S SHELTER/ Original Design: Linda Claussen/ Centerpiece Quilting: Eva Earle Kent/ Natural Dyeing Techniques circa 1787: Jim Liles/ Backing: Various Patterned Cotton Feed Sacks/ Contributors: Thursday Bee--Smoky Mountain Quilters/ of Tennessee; Sandy Cartwright, Becky Harriss,/ Ginger Neusel, Lessie Werner, Joyce Tennery,/ Joan Rozek, Betty Thacker and Mary Farmer./ Completed: May 1987," 70"l x 70"w.Collection
Linda Claussen and the Thursday Bee Quilt CollectionAcquisition
Notes
Gift of the Thursday Bee of the Smoky Mountain Quilters of Tennessee, in memory of Eva Earle Kent and Jim LilesMade/Created
Artist
Thursday Bee of the Smoky Mountain Quilters of TennesseeNotes
Date: 1987/05