Name/Title
QuiltEntry/Object ID
2001.0087.0003Description
Quilt: 75" x 68" handstitched, mostly silk, multi-colored varied pattern and printed woven fabric "Grandmother's Flower Garden" pattern quilt top. (See Note at bottom.) Each flower consists of 7 hexagonal shaped pieces, all with off-white centers and the flowers are connected to each other with black silk triangles and diamonds.
Pattern pieces still basted with white thread to paper patterns made from magazine pages, old correspondence, envelopes with postmarks for Milwaukee and Ripon, WI, Chicago Il. dated 1897 and 1898. A piece of brown wrapping paper and an envelope with worn pattern hexagons and 2 photographs of Delia McGill (the quilt maker) give information about her. The photographs show the quilt on her lap.
We know Mrs. McGill was born in 1830 in New York state. She moved to Ripon in 1854. She died in Milwaukee in 1895. She is buried in Ripon in the Charles Whiting lot. Her daughter Jennie married George Sceets. She was a cousin of Frank Whiting. See Charles Whiting family in Pedrick Papers-Vol. "Whi-Wilk." A few of the quilt pieces have some rotting, largely intact and unfaded. Never finished, given a back or had bastings removed. Probably made in 1898.
2016 Note: Pattern believed to be English Patchwork due to small pieces and paper center, not Grandmother's Flower Garden, a 1930s design according to local quilt expert Pat Ehrenberg.
2017 Note: A1213: Added to National Quilt Index 2/4/2017 by WI Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts, Cedarburg, WI.Acquisition
Accession
2001.0087Source or Donor
Gorno, GingerAcquisition Method
GiftLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
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Category 08: Communication ObjectsSearch Terms
Quilt, Bedding, A1213, index, fiber
