This quilt was made by my maternal grandmother, Mary Elsie Hansen Weiser. She was born in 1888 to John and Mary Tate Hansen. John was editor of the Deseret News in Salt Lake City, Utah, and an elder in the Mormon Church.
Mom also remembers the quilting bees that took place in their big house on Mercer Island.
Grandma, Aunt Myrtle, Aunt Bessie and friends would gather and stretch the quilts out on a rack propped up on chairs, and spend the day stitching and talking. I was just 8 months old, so I didn't have the opportunity to know her. I think I would have loved her very much. She was a very kind and loving woman say those who knew her. This quilt is a Dresden Plate pattern, ca 1930.