Dear Jane Quilt

Textile

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Ripon Historical Society

Name/Title

Dear Jane Quilt

Description

Quilt

Context

The name of Ehrenberg's quilt featured here comes from the original quilt maker, Jane Stickle, who lived during the Civil War in Shaftsbury, Vermont. Many quilters took on the challenge of reproducingthis quilt after it was drafted into blocks and published in a book in 1996. The quilters became known as "Janeiacs." Ehrenberg chose Civil War reproduction fabrics of browns, pink, blue, purple, red, and manyshades of beige. The total number of individual pieces in this quilt is 5,602! (There are 169 squares measuring 4.5 inches. There are fifty-two outside triangle shaped cones around the perimeter of the quilt. The four unique corner blocks total 225 pieces.)

Made/Created

Artist

Pat Ehrenberg

Date made

circa 2018

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Quilt

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Needlework

Nomenclature Class

Art

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Cultural/Historical Context

Label

Ehrenberg has been an avid quilter for almost forty years. A native of Ripon, her mother first introduced her to sewing at the age of twelve. She gives credit to her art and home economic teachers at Ripon High School, Sue Moler, Cindy Ebert, and Margaret Klapperich, for helping to develop her artistic and creative skills. As a prominent quilt artist her artwork has been featured throughout the world. This includes at the Smithsonian Folk Life Festival in Washington D.C. and the People's Day Festival in Chiba, Japan. For thirty years she has taught traditional quilting to all ages through adult education classes at Moraine Park Technical College, at various quilt shops and at other venues. Ehrenberg also lectures on historical quilt topics to quilt guilds, museums, libraries, and more. She was recentlyfeatured onWisconsin Public Television's program "Treasured Quilts of Wisconsin." She hasalso been a keynotespeaker at the Quilt Expo in Madison. Ehrenberg is a Heritage Skilled Artist with the Wisconsin Arts Board.