On this day in 1975, the Scottish pop group the Bay City Rollers made their U.S. debut on the NBC’s variety program Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell (the precursor to the still-running Saturday Night Live). Cosell compared the tartan-clad group to the Beatles, and while they did enjoy a brief success with preteen American fans dressed in plaid, the Rollers soon lost popularity to heartthrobs like Shaun Cassidy and Andy Gibb.
Lillian Hudson Griffin of Monroe, Louisiana machine appliqued and pieced and hand quilted this French Log Cabin, titled “Playing with Plaids on the Courthouse Steps,” in 1998 using plaid and striped fabric she had collected. Griffin documented her quilt in 2001 during the Louisiana Quilt Documentation Project.
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Posted by Amy E. Milne
Executive Director, Quilt Alliance
amy.milne@quiltalliance.org