 There's history here. And here. There's history there. History is everywhere. Welcome you here. I have a we're going to do a traditional old Bedturning it's called. This is Linda Allison and this is Margaret Rambo and They are all members of our Sisqa's Henry's lady and Roe Valley a so we have a team effort going on here Okay, the very first quilt is not a 1930s vintage quilt it's 1980s and I did it on purpose so you can see the drastic change in our color scheme that come through and The yellow is the cheddar cheese You'll see red is the turkey red and then we have one on here. That's called secondary morning and If a lady lost her husband for the first year she would wear black second year she would wear kind of a grayish black or a print with a gray and That was also a signal that she was now available Because she was wearing her secondary morning, so it's morning not like good morning, but morning boohoo that type of morning morning cloth this little quilt the blocks were all given to the Jacksonville Museum quilters and they Put it together and hand quilted it and it's just exquisite hand quilting then it was published in a book It was published in a quilting magazine and The date on this magazine was 87. I believe 91 close and The setting you would have put it together on the diagonal so we took us a while to figure out But how that went but anyway after all those years that quilt got put together It was it was really phenomenal It's it's flying gaze and Square in a square is what the middle part would have been you can come up later and look at the pictures, too. Yeah. Yeah We usually use For our authority Barbara Brockman's encyclopedia of quilt patterns that helps us the most in identifying some of the blocks and patterns So I may reference her now and then she is Fabulous she goes into museums and really does a good job of documentation The next is some bonnet Sue and There is hardly a person alive who doesn't know who Sue is Is there anyone here that doesn't know a Sue or has seen a Sue in their whole life? Yeah, yeah, or maybe got one as a child She is probably the most well-known ambassador for the quilting world and Yes, our air has popular Sue quilts. This quilt was made in the 30s and the hand quilting is exquisite There are 30 sews and every single hat band is different So whoever made it and I didn't make it Really use their imagination because there's no two bonnets alike the next sue Another sue they're all marching to the left. Do you suppose the Quilter was left-handed don't know but they're all marching to the left and The hand quilting on this one is 12 stitches to the inch and The front and the back background are all flower sacks And that's one reason I brought the flower sack feed sack collections because in the 30s They used a lot of feed sack Okay This next son bonnet Sue This just broke my heart there's no two sews alike, but the reason it broke my heart was a Lady came by at one of the antique fairs where we were sharing quilting and she said Would you like to buy this and I just thought you know It's your quilt and her grandmother made it for her as a child in the background is little chickens It is the cutest quilt But she said no, I need the money worse than I need the quilt So it came to live with me and I love it But my heart's still broken because I like to see a family keep their quilt in the background of the It would be the pink fabric. They're little baby chickens And there's a little dress up here with little chickens on it too a little tauts chickens popular But you have to have a rooster if you're going to have these hands, you know, so the rooster came This next one is called star flower the pattern was designed by Ann or She's very famous in our period of time She did a lot of geometric things like Squares and then hooked them all together. That was her style. She was also famous Lockport if any of you have heard of Lockport, I think there's a famous Model 8 parts house there. I've been to Lockport, but Lockport also manufactured batting for the quilters and patterns and and or Published through them. That's where she Star flower It's a 1930 designed by and or now at the very top If you want to relax your arms just a bit and show the top up here is What's called a whisker guard and Under here that the quilter sewed it on to feed sack And that's because the men's whiskers were so oily and it just ruined your quilt And you put that many hours on a quilt and then have some man drippiest oily beard on there So anyway, it's called a whisker guard and We'll let you put that oh one more thing I want to tell you though this binding on this quilt is Called knife edge so they brought the back which is all feedsack by the way and the top and Poked them together and then often use a knife to get it straight. So it's called a knife edge Binding so they didn't sew a separate piece of fabric on that one Now my Vanna whites they get to sit down a minute because I'm going to talk over here about the feedsack display Many of the feed sacks up here on the top still have their labels on there and the housewife would send the mister down to the feed store or Wherever they were able to get them I went with my daddy when I was a little girl and mama would haul her out Be sure to get for that match Because she make a dress from it and from that dress then there was leftovers for me address And there was dolly clothes dresses and I love feed sacks because they were fun So I got to help him and they were hundred pound sacks and they were piled high and Of course the ones that match were at the bottom so the young man at the store had to put them all down and home we'd go with our four matching feed sacks and I often got to pick out one that was just for me that wasn't that mama had it was mine and But that made it really special Now not all feed sacks are rough Some are made out of fine percale But the only real way you can tell it's a feed sack is you're going to have to See how it was stitched and this one here has the holes if you held it up to the light Or if you find one and a store That still has the string attached And you know and this little machine right here is called a chain Stitcher and that's what they would have stitched it and This little machine belongs to Margaret Rambo here and there's a little sign about all about it so you can come up and read but it's a cute little machine and They worked really hard those little machines and they just did the chain stitch so you could pull out the string So this one here is cute. It's It's child Many of them were fashioned Holy they were still available into the mid 60s. So feed sacks were very popular for making Underwear for children oftentimes you get boys underwear that said self-rising and Because the label never The labels never washed out. They didn't wash out. They were stuck there, you know, so um These little guys up here are string holders right up here and Out of their little behind pocket, they would poke their string down in there and I brought this board They would make a whole bedspread out of the string. They saved they saved everything There wasn't any waste at all. It was everything was used and of course there were many quilts that were I've got a board up here So you guys can come up and touch you can feel some are finer and some are really rough like burlap almost But anyway, you come up and enjoy Let me see if I've got anything different here miss Hazel This is Hazel and she's wearing it. Am I too far? Oops, I'll get on this side. I can pull it more. Okay, I Don't want to come on Just the thought of being on television scares a person to death my gosh Hazel here. She is very our heir. She's pals around with me but this is the dress made out of feed sack and her little buttons were sewn on with the string and We're not real sure. This is our vintage. It could be The 20s or the 40s the sleeve isn't quite right. So those of you that are really good at professional Diagnosis of what we wore Let me know if you think it is but it could be let's put it that way. It could be I guess I'm ready for my Venice to get back to duty This one here is you could order these blocks to embroidery and they would send the fabric and The thread and everything everything was sent to you as a package deal and The quilting on this one is just lovely. It's really pretty isn't it? The next one is a very similar. It's called a morning glory summer quilt. There's no baddie in it So they would put that over And again they ordered those blocks and they came with their fabric and everything and They put them together. It was just lovely This one here is the same. It was ordered all one piece and I believe it was something like I was looking for my note that I had on it like three dollars and something for The package deal on that, but you paid a little bit extra to order your thread Here it is. I'll read it to you It's out of a 1928 the very same morning glory top and It is You can kind of rest your arms if you're getting those poor girls. I know it's hard Unbleached sheeting is what they call it on here A close-even weave and a creamy tint of this material makes it ideal for this type of needlework So it was three dollars and twenty five cents Now you could order curtains and a dresser scarf And a fringe to go on this Evidently I didn't end up with the fringe But I found it in the 1928 Frederick Herschner Incorporated Chicago, Illinois And it's it's identical to to what it is. Okay, the next one is a single morning glory and the Purple and bubblegum pink and These blocks are all hand-piece and this is just a top so it hasn't been quilted yet It's something in my future. Maybe Sometimes though, I just like to see when Things are all hand-pieceed. I like to look at the back and I don't want to quilt it because Part of the joy is somebody spent a lot of hours making that Okay Yes It's a bittersweet story our oldest son was killed and he loved morning glories and his so his wife And I we have a thing about morning glories. So whenever I see a morning glory. I'm very interested in now this is called colonial lady and The binding came from the back to the front when they made this one So she just left enough fabric and folded it right to the front And that's unusual to how we do it today. We usually make a separate binding Do I have a lot of quilters in the group? Good. Good. Good. Good. Good So, you know what? I'm I'm not just talking to myself Okay, I Know it's fun, isn't it? It's fun The next one is called glorify nine patch and I Absolutely love it. It's our colors with a scalloped edge and It's just pretty it's very 30s So if your little model a went home to its little model a house, you would have this on your little model a bed And that has a beautiful bubblegum backing on it They do My husband says I have the best insulated house in all of Jacksonville This is called Dresden plate and the little alternate block in the middle is pink and green which is very much our colors and It was hand-peaced and hand-quilted and I love the little edging going around the whole edge of the border It's very very pretty This next quilt is called a double wedding ring and the blocks were given to the Jacksonville Museum quilters to put together and it was from the 30s and the Jacksonville Museum quilters then hand-quilted it and They also made a pillow top to go over your pillows that are are Made, you know to match but it's really really pretty and Double wedding ring. There's a few pins here and there in it I've placed the pins there because they forgot to quilt that part So I have to go back and get it one of these days But the quilting is exquisite. This was a group effort quilt Quilting and I can usually tell if a quilt's been quilted by one person or a group This is a really hard one to tell on because they were all just such good quilters that This is one of my very favorites and I wish it was I Wish it was brighter for you Grandmother's tulips and the binding comes from the back to the front on that one It is sweet. I'm not sure if it's like a hundred percent cotton because it feels real Like a little sheen to it. It's just really different. Isn't that pretty? No, it's original. Yeah, it is No, it's not faded Delicate so sweet Mm-hmm I know I know I know Back in the old days, they did not have the rotary cutters like we have and they usually made their template out of cardboard or something They were just really good at it and I have example. Well, one example. I'll just share with you right now Where did I put it? Oh, it's over behind Linda. That's a grandmother's flower garden. That's hand pieced So they would have put each little piece together And it's called what we call Y seams They would have left the fourth of an inch on each hand so they could join it to the next one and They go on and on and on for hours. I mean, maybe they're Evening work by candle you just don't know what kind of light they had but it takes me that hoop Takes me three hours to hand quilt just that hoop and there's 70 flowers on there And I'm hand quilting it for a friend and there's Phenomenal quilting on some of these quilts and my quilting isn't even that good And it's less much less than some of these gals that are doing 12 stitches to the inch I mean it'd be a tiny perfect But in order to answer your question It it was a labor of love because if I've seen somewhere They didn't sew them Accurately together and then you get a mass at the end because it grows and it gets really roughly and I've got a couple of Those that I keep for education purposes to show people what happens when they're Not laid out flat and you don't sew the seam right the next one is called Magnolia blossom And the binding on this one matches the little print inside Isn't that pretty? This one here I found in the magazine to Barbara Brockman, but it was in Needlecraft magazine 1930 the pattern and It's called all hands around And it's definitely our air it's Marley and This one's heavier. They've got a little heavier batting in it. It's To keep you warm. I know isn't that something? She noticed that that that pattern continued to the border this one here the border is called streak of lightning and This was made In the 30s and I was out for a walk one day in Jacksonville and there was an estate sale and I had no money I was walking my dog, but I went in to look and here was this gorgeous quilt and I said how much and and I said empty pockets and Will you go home and get it and we'll save it for you? Well, they know everybody knows me there So that guy came I Won't tell you how much I paid for it because you'll all go oh But anyway, it wasn't very much and I can't believe that it wasn't swiped away the first two days of the sale I got there on the last day So it was meant to come and live with me. I think I Rolled them. I'll tell talk about that a little bit later. This one here is called double X It's turkey red and the binding is sewn on with an old treadle machine And I can usually tell if it's treadle or regular. It's a treadle. It's tighter than tighter than anything and Turkey red is turkey from the country turkey. It's not a Double X And now that could be many other names. I need to tell you if I give a name There are other names because the locality youth that you lived they may be named it differently than So it would be Yeah, they're not for in the car. No, they're not no this next quill is Made for me by a friend her name is Nancy Hines and She wanted you guys to see what 30s reproduction fabric looks like so this is This is what we're doing now and if you look at the fabrics closely. There's a lot of the same colors Muted in there that we had for our model a so And Scotty dogs are so popular in the 30s. They were on a lot of things so It says here that that the vent whites get to sit down again I'm so glad there's a script because I wouldn't make it without it. I Wanted to share with you some of the quilts hanging around the room today This one here is called Table Rock Local artist What did you guys to see this one because when you're out and about in our area if some of you went to the Crater Rock Museum is that happening already or tomorrow? Look off in the distance and you'll see crater or a cable rock and The our local artist Evelyn Brian Williams she designed all the flowers Well, lo and behold The third one down on the left is called Redbells and What happened is the Gentner family Mr. Gentner he studied these rare flowers from the university and he said that is not That's a fritillaria So the fritillaria was put on the endangered species of course the quilters don't know this they're doing Redbells They didn't know how famous they were going to be but anyway The fritillaria is is listed as an endangered species by the US Fish and Wildlife Service in 1999 and the city of Jacksonville has set aside over 300 acres of habitat for getting their eye fritillaria Well, my children used to go through the woods our house backs up to the woods And we'd have a bouquet for Sunday morning of fritillaria sitting on the church snack table, you know for for the reception room after church and Nobody told them they couldn't pick them and I didn't know they shouldn't pick them in But now I guess you'd get fine a nice hefty charge if you're messing with them But anyway, I thought that was kind of cool so we've had different this quilt gets out in the community a lot because We just had a recent speaker who talked about the rogue Indian battle and on that whole treaty and they used the quilt and then we had another talk about the flowers the wildflowers on table rock and Others will come and talk about Landmarks of the area rocks or whatever so the quilt gets out to the community and this quilt is owned by The Jackson County genealogy library and the Jacksonville Museum quilters gave their historical quilts to the genealogy library And they built a special Sort of like these things that they these alcoves they have here in the room And the quilts are rolled Put in a Like a bin they're rolled covered with muslin hundred percent muslin the quilts can breathe and They're rolled so you don't get that quilters cross from folding over and over and I'll talk about that in a little bit Any questions about this guy if not I'll move on the other quilts over here are Next to Linda is and was it 2008 we did that Margaret Margaret and I Decided to make a quilt for the raffle room when we had the Northwest meet here so we worked and worked and I did the cars with the etgy jet ink ink jet printer ba-ba-ba my Santa right and Margaret get all the stars and then we got together in our little place with our featherweight sewing machines and We sewed up a storm. Anyway It came time to draw the ticket on the quilt and My husband put one ticket in the pot and he won the quilt well Another another group from our Northwest regional group drew the ticket and another one was the odds So there was no hanky-panky. But anyway, that's Jerry's quilt first thing he wanted to do was trade it with a man for an engine So anyway, it's fond memories and my friend she machine-colded it with Ooga all around the border so we thought we should bring it back out Margaret and I said goodbye to it because we'd worked so hard on it and we said goodbye And we know it was coming back and Now we have very many dear friends on that quilt that there are no longer with us and so it's really special I think it was a God thing that that we got the quilt now the last little quilt down there is Someone in our committee for this meet ask if I could do a quilt that would represent Oregon and I thought about Crater Lake because we all love to see Crater Lake and Phoebe is a little 28 faton that belong to belongs to Eileen and Dick Mace and They would go up to Crater Lake a lot and so I had Rick black Take their pictures out of the car where they're sitting And so I could just get the car and then I went to the builder's supply So I could enlarge the pattern and so on my design wall at home in my quilting room and on the big window there Hung Phoebe for quite some time. She's not as detailed as the real Phoebe, but you get the point real real quick One man told me I was one spoke short, but I'm often more than one spoke short Anyway, there is a little lad sitting in Phoebe and he's watching the bears I think he's more interested in watching the tri Ford motorplane flying over But anyway, that is a replica of a real vintage Postcard from Crater Lake that had Lindbergh flying over and the couple waving and they had no Faton in it. So I didn't think it was worth the price. You know, it didn't have a car Anyway, you're welcome to buy tickets. There'll be someone here today that loved to sell you ticket on that So, let me see. Where are we girls the Vanna whites get to hold the quilts up again When blown tulips Marie Webster design Marie started a mail order business and also was editor for the ladies home journal She also wrote quilts their story and how to make them First book published on quilting. This quilt was probably a kit. I would guess This one came by me Quite accidentally there was a girl who was going off to college and her mother won it in a raffle and she said I would just love if you buy this quilt from me so I could take the money to college so I felt like I did a good deed and and When blown tulips Resides now with me This next quilt is called Catherine Kellogg's grandmother's flower garden Catherine went to out to Gold Hill and in those days they were called. They weren't called yard sales in those days. It was like a Church-rumming sale is what it was and she bought this top so she came and brought it to me. It's all hand-pissed and She said I'd like to have it hand-quilted now And I'll pay you for it. And I said, you know Catherine. I do not know how to hand-quilt, but I'm learning Can I use it for my? Practice piece. She said oh sure so home. It went with me and Grandmother's fire garden traditionally hand-quilted is is You echo each little cell Around each one So I got it done finally The border or the binding is the interesting part it scoops and scoops and scoops and scoops around And how in the world do you put a binding on? I'm so new at this I don't know what I'm doing. So I cut it on the bias. Thank goodness, but I did it double bias So that's like a rope going around there. Well, I didn't know any different So took it to Catherine. She put it on her bed Catherine's daughter came to visit and Catherine's daughter owns a quilt shop back east and she said mother Where did you get this quilt? Oh my friend? She quilted it for me She wouldn't let me charge her pay her because she's learning The daughter said her mother down and she said mother That quilt needs to go back to that lady anybody that puts that much work in a quilt needs to have it So Catherine gave it back to me for my birthday Which was December 29th and I let her have it for the whole year on her spare bed because she could have had it longer she's past now and What a thoughtful daughter. I think daughter either it was pretty bad if she wanted to get rid of it or I Don't know but anyway, that was that was it. Okay. We're now to Maggie's dressed in plate Maggie's my granddaughter and we were over visiting with a friend the other day and the friend brought this out She said Maggie you might as well start a quilt collection like your grandma It needs a lot of repairs and it does But it's dressed in plate and Maggie's an artist so she has already drawn this beautiful oil painting of this and Made some fabrics of her own and it's just you know really encouraged her and it's our air So I asked her if I could have it for today. She said sure grandma This next one is another summer quilt. That means no batting Lots of sewing machine sewing on it But it's still very pretty and I think it's going to date us 20s 30s Not not just our air because there's a lot of dark prints in there and We were more the 30s. We're we're happier. We're come out of a depression and we want to we want happy in the 30s, so So I'm pretty sure that's It's a little pegged fence On the end, I think we'd call it. It's really different This one's got many names, but I chose to call it Joseph's coat It's a home art pattern hand-pieceed and hand quilted and the binding back to the front and The back of this one is very interesting. It's got some oriental look to it. So it could be as Early as about 33 when Sears had that big contest because they had oriental things and then the quilters Started doing everything oriental after that. It was quite so I can't be sure on that one this one here is has a lot of Devon Shire cloth in it and here's an advertisement I found for the Devon Shire cloth It was rugged and it shows pictures a little kid sliding down the banister And it was expressly made to stand hardware. This is a tide quilt is Made utility they call this a utility quilt So it keep you warm, but it's our colors and It's our Devon Shire cloth So it's our period Someone talked earlier about Taking care of your quilts. How do I care? At home I have the rollers system and I roll them up and cover them and I don't let light get to them light Quilts are just like us. They have to breathe and not too much light You'll see a beautiful example of a quilt and they've had it on a bed and one whole side is sun bleached You know and you'll see that in stores but if you find Don't give up on a quilt just because it has the quilters crossed but when you fold it in half and fold it in half and it sits for 20 years then when you open it out you're going to have this they call it the quilters cross and Fabric has a memory so it's going to remember that and it stays there forever And it won't come out so rolling is ideal and one of the things we've been doing recently is we're folding our quilts Diagonally so even if it's not square you can kind of square it up a little bit and then fold over corner to corner and keep going And stuff it in a cotton pillowcase if that's what you have and then refold them once or twice a year so it's got new lines to Memorize it's not the quilters cross so that works If it depends on what your rod is on my rod I have a Little piece of batting Slit on my rod some rods are just metal. There isn't anything coming off Yeah, I'm rolling them on a metal rod and It works great and we do that at the genealogy library too. They're all on a wrap Yeah You there's slot there's slotted on I have two boards going up the wall With with slots in them so you'd stack them down the wall But you need to have a big room for that. That's another thing that really works well is if you have a spare bedroom One of the quilters Judy Matheson she came up and stayed with me in Jacksonville Then I told her I may be coming down to her place and she said oh I gotta get the quilts off the guest bed because she can't have me until they're removed But it's really healthy for them to lay flat on a bed It's another good way to preserve them they are Wonderful to have they're also Kind of a chore because you got to keep keep them nice and take care of them and They're a textile they can you know fade away, you know dredge or whatever Crazy quilts are notorious for the dyes that they had in those early days and they just there's nothing left They're just they disintegrate in your hands. This is the other thing you don't want to do ever Store them in plastic Suck the air out now. I brought all of these in plastic bags today because of the ring, but I'm not leaving them in there But this is one lady asked me Can I just Put all my quilts and they only take up a little bit of room, but Like I said, the quilts need to breathe just like we do and this has chemicals in it. That's really bad for the fabric Oh, it's not Not good Okay, there's the handout I think this is the conclusion Yeah, yeah Yeah, that's it