Thank God for Aunt Carolyn; you'll see why later in the post...Click on the picture to the right and you'll see a larger version of the photo. Aunt Carolyn replied today with some more information about this quilt. You can bet it's old, and the history we know was touched on in my Thanksgiving blog posting. Turns out there's more. Here is was Aunt Carolyn has to say about it:
"According to what my mother told me, Grandma Anna made it before she was married in March 1906. When your mother and I looked at that quilt when I gave it to them several years back, we discovered two sets of initials: AB and HB. That would be Anna and Helen, sisters. Your mother thinks that the materials perhaps were samples since some of them seem very new.
I had never seen the quilt until about 1988. When Grandpa and Grandma were preparing to move to Milwaukee they had an "attic sale" in order to gear down for a smaller living space. When I talked with my mother following the sale, she told me, among other things, the quilt had not sold. Imagine my surprise that she had such a quilt and had even had tried to sell it.
When I offered to buy it for her $50 selling price, she told me I could have it and brought it with her when they moved here. I didn't want to use such a heirloom on a bed, but did not have a suitable wall to hang it. It was stored in my cedar chest. So I am extremely pleased that Janice now has it on display in her home. This was the only tangible object we had from that grandmother since she died in January 1918. We call her Grandma Anna, to distinguish her from Grandma Daisy, whom my Grandfather married several years after his wife died. Grandma Daisy was the only grandmother I knew on the that side, of course.
I had never seen the quilt until about 1988. When Grandpa and Grandma were preparing to move to Milwaukee they had an "attic sale" in order to gear down for a smaller living space. When I talked with my mother following the sale, she told me, among other things, the quilt had not sold. Imagine my surprise that she had such a quilt and had even had tried to sell it.
When I offered to buy it for her $50 selling price, she told me I could have it and brought it with her when they moved here. I didn't want to use such a heirloom on a bed, but did not have a suitable wall to hang it. It was stored in my cedar chest. So I am extremely pleased that Janice now has it on display in her home. This was the only tangible object we had from that grandmother since she died in January 1918. We call her Grandma Anna, to distinguish her from Grandma Daisy, whom my Grandfather married several years after his wife died. Grandma Daisy was the only grandmother I knew on the that side, of course.
Ask your dad about her sometime. She was very competent as a farm wife, but not a warm fuzzy Grandma."
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