by Quilt Alliance | Dec 20, 2013 | On this Day in History Quilts series
On this day in 1957, Elvis Presley received his first draft notice for the United States Army. He had just purchased his Memphis, Tennessee mansion, “Graceland,” and took one deferment while he finished working on the movie “King Creole” before being sworn in as an army private on March 28, 1958. Elvis spent 6 months in basic training and then served 18 months in Company D, 32nd Tank Battalion, 3rd Armor Corps in Friedberg, Germany, before being discharged on March 2, 1960. Emma R. Davis of Huntington, West Virginia hand made this red, white and blue Original Military Design quilt in 1945 for her grandson who was in the service in World War II. Davis, who had one daughter, was a homemaker from Pennsylvania who owned a grocery store chain. One of Davis’s relatives documented the quilt during the West Virginia Heritage Quilt Search in 1992. View this quilt on The Quilt Index to find out! Read more about its history, design and construction. Be sure to use the zoom tool for a detailed view or click the “See full record” link to see a larger image and all the data entered about that quilt. Source: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/elvis-presley-is-drafted Posted by Amy E. Milne Executive Director, Quilt Alliance…
by Quilt Alliance | Dec 19, 2013 | On this Day in History Quilts series
On this day in 1917, the National Hockey League opened its first season with Montreal beating Ottawa and Toronto. Lily Hockey, Edith Waterhouse and Olive Sagendorf hand pieced this Scrap YoYo Quilt between 1930-1949 in Guernsey, Channel Island in the United Kingdom. The quilt was documented by its owner during the Connecticut Quilt Search Project. View this quilt on The Quilt Index to find out! Read more about its history, design and construction. Be sure to use the zoom tool for a detailed view or click the “See full record” link to see a larger image and all the data entered about that quilt. Source: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/national-hockey-league-nhl-opens-its-first-season Posted by Amy E. Milne Executive Director, Quilt Alliance…
by Quilt Alliance | Dec 18, 2013 | On this Day in History Quilts series
On this day in 1976, American-born artist Man Ray (born Emmanuael Radnitzky) died in Paris at the age of 86. Man Ray is best known for his aveante-garde fashion and portrait photography, but he considered himself primarily a painter. He was part of the Dada and Surrealist movements and like his contemporary, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray was interested in depicting movement in figures. Ann Johnston of Lake Oswego, Oregon, made this quilt, titled “Shock Waves,” in 1996. It is hand-dyed and embellished and machine pieced and quilted. Johnston donated the quilt to the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum for the “Rooted in Tradition: Art Quilts from the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum” collection. A note on design in this Quilt Index record reads: “random lines: straight and curved, emphasizing line and movement, heavy amount.” View this quilt on The Quilt Index to find out! Read more about its history, design and construction. Be sure to use the zoom tool for a detailed view or click the “See full record” link to see a larger image and all the data entered about that quilt. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Ray Posted by Amy E. Milne Executive Director, Quilt Alliance…
by Quilt Alliance | Dec 17, 2013 | On this Day in History Quilts series
On this day in 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Ohio natives Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first successful flight of a gasoline-powered, propeller-driven biplane. The first flight lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet. The Wright’s day job back in Dayton, Ohio was building, selling and repairing bicycles. This Lone Star quilt was pieced by [unknown first name] Smith and quilted by Margaret Shuping from Dayton, Ohio in the 1940’s. The current owner of the quilt documented the quilt during the North Carolina Quilt Project in Hendersonville, N.C. in 1985. View this quilt on The Quilt Index to find out! Read more about its history, design and construction. Be sure to use the zoom tool for a detailed view or click the “See full record” link to see a larger image and all the data entered about that quilt. Source: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-airplane-flies Posted by Amy E. Milne Executive Director, Quilt Alliance…
by Quilt Alliance | Dec 16, 2013 | On this Day in History Quilts series
On this day in 1773, a group of colonists in Massachusetts posing as Mohawk Indians boarded three British tea ships and dumped 342 chests of tea, worth around $18,000, into Boston Harbor. The demonstration, now known as the Boston Tea Party, protested the British Parliament’s Tea Act, which allowed the East India Company to pay very low taxes and monopolize tea sales in the colonies. This “Ohio Star with Sashing” was hand pieced and hand quilted by an unknown quilter in 1796 in Cape May, New Jersey. “The former owner of the quilt was Clara Bohm, a Cape May City school principal. She received it from a descendant of the original family, along with a note attributing it with a date of 1797.” The quilt was documented in 1990 by its owner during the Heritage Quilt Project of New Jersey, Inc. View this quilt on The Quilt Index to find out! Read more about its history, design and construction. Be sure to use the zoom tool for a detailed view or click the “See full record” link to see a larger image and all the data entered about that quilt. Source: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-boston-tea-party Posted by Amy E. Milne Executive Director, Quilt Alliance…
