1930 - 1937, Stella Miles McDevitt's "Grandmother's Flower Garden" Quilt Top
date: label: date made
content: 1930 - 1940
name: label: maker
content: McDevitt, Stella Katherine Miles
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Quilt top (unfinished) pieced with hexagons in “Grandmother’s Flower Garden” pattern. Pink and white solids frame hexagons pieced from many different printed and plain cotton fabrics, some flour or feed sack fabrics, and a few rayons. Thirty-six blocks, set 6 x 6 with a pink “path.” Hexagons are 1 ¾” across individually. Hand sewn except for dark pink half blocks (machine sewn) used to fill out the short edges by a later quilter. No batting, backing or binding. Made by donor's grandmother, Stella Katherine Miles McDevitt, who lived in Walnut and Marshall, North Carolina.The donor is not sure exactly where Stella lived when the quilt top was made, but thinks it's safe to say it was in Madison County.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Quilting
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Textiles
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Deborah Potter
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0047.01
label: accession number
content: 2016.0047
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0047.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quilt top
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabrics, cotton, rayon (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: pieced (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 77 in x 67 in; 196 cm x 170 cm