Name/Title
Variable StarEntry/Object ID
1997.001.002Description
This quilt features a total of 99 blocks, with 30 eight-pointed stars set in alternating plain blocks. It was made using scrap fabric, including solids, stripes, prints, plaids, and checks. Pieced multi-color and multi-print scrap quilt of pieced star blocks.
There is no border. There is a straight line binding, turned inside. The batting is a thick cotton.
The quilt is tied with gold-colored cotton and it is not quilted. A pink "J" is embroidered at the top.Context
Mary Spitzer Etter of Harrisonburg, Virginia donated her family's entire quilt collection to the Virginia Quilt Museum in 1997. The collection contained 27 quilts, most of which were made by Mary's aunts, the Spitzer sisters. Their names were Sarah Josephine Spitzer (Walters), Margaret Melinda Spitzer (Jones), and Ellen Rebecca Spitzer. It is unknown if the other two Spitzer sisters, Hannah Spitzer (Brown) and Jane Spitzer (Evers), did much quilting. Of the quilts completed by the Spitzer sisters, there is a single initial embroidered on the front of quilt to mark who made each quilt. Ellen Spitzer's daughter, Irene, also completed three pieces of the collection. Some of the quilts contain blocks were done by Mabel Spitzer, Mary's mother. These blocks were then quilted by either Berta or Effie Long, Mabel's neighbors. There are a few quilts not made by a Spitzer, yet they were still made by relatives of the Spitzer family.Collection
Permanent CollectionAcquisition
Accession
1997.001Source or Donor
Mary Spitzer EtterNotes
Donated Feb. 23, 1997Made/Created
Artist
Sarah Ann Josephine Spitzer WaltersDate made
circa 1890Place
* Untyped Place
Rockingham County, VirginiaInscription/Signature/Marks
Location
TopTranscription
"J"Material/Technique
EmbroideredDimensions
Dimension Description
Overall Quilt DimensionsWidth
82 inLength
93 inDimension Description
Individual Block DimensionsWidth
8-1/2 inLength
8-1/2 inCondition
Overall Condition
Very GoodNotes
No wear
