Mrs. Worthington’s Quilt
- Cotton
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76 x 66.5 in
(193.04 x 168.91 cm)
- Nellie Worthington
Quilt top pieced by Mrs. Nellie Worthington quilted by Lucy Hilty. Antique cotton nine patch squares were pieced by Mrs. Nellie Worthington in blue and white materials. Lucy assembled the quilt and used a very thin cotton batt to replicate the batting of the past. The quilt back is a blue and white cotton print that she turned and sewed by hand to edge the quilt. Between the binding and the nine-patch design there is a wide band of striped white material with thin blue lines. Lucy covered this border with an intricate quilting pattern of generous cables that flow evenly around the corners of the quilt and counter the very sedate design of the nine-patch done by Mrs. Worthington. The blue nine patches were quilted with a climbing flower pattern set within medallions. When the quilt was completed it was featured in a greeting card called “Quilting Bee”. Lucy quilted this in 1980.
Techniques: Machine pieced, hand quilted
Culture: American
Geographic Location: North and Central America, United States
Credit Line: Gift of Rosemary Mucklow, The Lucy Hilty Collection
- Subject Matter: American Victorian Era
- Created: c. 1910
- Inventory Number: 2003.306.005