A patchwork of pieces : an anthology of early quilt stories, 1845-1940

Name/Title

A patchwork of pieces : an anthology of early quilt stories, 1845-1940

Entry/Object ID

PS648.Q55.P38

Description

An anthology of twenty-eight delightful stories that introduces the reader to quilters in other times and other places.

Lexicon

Search Terms

quilting--fiction, quiltmakers--fiction

Legacy Lexicon

Category

Book

Book Details

Author

Cuesta Ray Benberry, Carol Pinney Crabb

Publisher

American Quilter's Society

Place Published

City

Paducah, KY

Date Published

1993

Call No.

PS648.Q55.P38

ISBN

089145800X, 9780891458005

LCCN

93005341

Notes

Length: 359

General Notes

Note Type

Contents

Note

The patchwork quilt / Harriet Farley or Rebecca C. Thompson -- The patch-work quilt / Miss C.M. Sedgwick -- The quilting party / T.S. Arthur -- The quilting at Miss Jones's / Josiah Allen's wife -- Busy bees, stinging bees, feeding the bees : the shadow of Moloch Mountain / Mrs. Jane G. Austin -- Hannah's quilting -- A axident / Josiah Allen's wife -- Grandmother's quilt / Annie E.S. Beard -- The career of a crazy quilt / Dulcie Weir -- An honest soul / Mary E. Wilkins -- A story of a crazy quilt / L.E. Chittenden -- A New England village quilting party in the olden times / Elias Nason -- Ruth's crazy quilt / Sydney Dayre -- Mammy Hester's quilts / Adelaide D. Rollston -- John's mother : the gorgeous quilt and homely socks / Antonia J. Stemple -- Aunt Bina's quilt / Mrs. O.W. Scott -- The best housekeeper in Banbury / Edith Robinson -- The bedquilt / Dorothy Canfield -- Mrs. Hannah / F. Roney Weir -- The "Rose & Lily" quilt / Elsie Singmaster -- Quilt scraps / Louise Platt Hauck -- The Ashley star / Marjorie Hill Allee -- The horoscope / Eliza Calvert Hall -- The quilt-of-the-cloth-of-gold / Annie McQueen -- What Letty's quilt told / Bessie M. Barker -- Missouri rose / Martha Cheavens -- The blazing star / MacKinlay Kantor -- The orange quilt / Della T. Lutes.