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Log Cabin quilt top

Farrell, Elvira Cady

Log Cabin quilt top in pattern variation known as Light and Dark. This unfinished quilt was made using the foundation method, with narrow silk strips basted to a cotton foundation. The quilt maker was Elvira Cady Farrell (1810-1891), the donor?s grandmother.

Crazy quilt

Martin, Mary O'Farrell

Crazy quilt with ornate embroidery and painted designs overall. Many of the fabrics are silk sateen and silk velvet. All fabric pieces are outlined in feather stitch embroidery, and there also are painted floral designs and three-dimensional felt posies. Initials are embroidered on three blocks. The quilt is inscribed on the back with the name of its maker, Mary F. Martin. Born in Ireland, Martin raised a family in Harper, Kansas, after her marriage to Dr. Henry Martin.

Crazy quilt

Crazy quilt featuring elaborate embroidered designs, including a horseshoe, fish, frog, and flowers. Numerous embroidered rings probably indicate it was made for a wedding. It was passed down in the family of Samantha McConnell, whose daughter, Jennie, married George Janes in 1888. The embroidered initials ?GKJ? likely stand for George K. Janes, and ?JM? for Jennie McConnell. Samantha McConnell was born in Pennsylvania in 1843, and moved from Ohio to Kansas with her young family sometime in the 1870s. In the 1880s they settled in Franklin County near the town of Ransomville.

Broken Star quilt

Blue, white and pink cotton quilt in Broken Star pattern, with close and fine quilting overall. The binding is marked with the initials ?M E T? on the back. According to the donor, the quilt belonged to her uncle?s parents, Eugene and Annie Elizabeth Carmichael Metzger. They were married in Missouri in 1880 and moved to Hunter, Mitchell County, Kansas and then later to Lane, Franklin County, Kansas. The quilt may have been part of Annie Metzger?s hope chest.

Crazy quilt

Joynes, Elizabeth Sevier

Crazy quilt made of irregularly shaped dark fabrics, mostly wool. All pieces are outlined in embroidered feather stitching, and each block is embroidered with a different figure, including hearts, flowers, birds, and a child?s hand. There also are two sets of initials, ?MDJ? and ?LBJ.? Backed with brown/tan plaid cotton flannel. Made by Elizabeth Sevier Joynes from pieces of clothing worn by her children, circa 1896. Elizabeth was born in Tennessee in 1860 and married John Gaston Joynes in 1883. They settled in Neosho County, Kansas, and had seven children before John died in 1895.

Courthouse Steps Log Cabin quilt

Williams, Mrs. C.E.

Log Cabin quilt in the Courthouse Steps pattern. Silk fabrics include rep, brocade, and velvet weaves. Binding of black silk rep, and a backing of gold-colored sateen. This quilt came from the home of Adolph and Elizabeth Bauman of Neodesha, and was made about 1890 by Elizabeth?s aunt, Mrs. C.E. Williams, also of Neodesha. The Baumans married in 1887. Adolph?s business interests in Neodesha included a mercantile, the oil industry, and the Neodesha Building and Loan Association.

Crazy quilt

Ashbaugh, Anna S.

Elaborately embroidered Crazy quilt made of irregularly-shaped pieces of silk stitched to a foundation fabric. Blocks are decorated with many embroidered figures, including insects, flowers, rings, wheat, and snowflakes. Edges are decorated with folded triangles of dark red velvet. Machine- and hand-stitching. Quilt was pieced by Ann Ashbaugh as a wedding gift for her nephew and his wife, Claude and Florence Ashbaugh who were married in 1889. Ann was good friends with Ann Sells of the Sells Floto Circus, and at least some of the silks in this quilt came from the elaborate robes worn by the circus elephants.

Wild Rose or Rose of Sharon quilt

Red, green, yellow, and white appliqué quilt. The pattern may be a variation of Wild Rose or Rose of Sharon. Top features four large appliqué medallions, each with eight leafy branches radiating from a central yellow star. Borders have green zigzagging vines with buds. Most of the green fabric has faded to tan or brown, indicating the presence of synthetic dye. Simple quilting includes outline stitching, hearts, and anchors. There are pencil marks for additional unfinished quilting designs.

Applique quilt

Kramer, Maria

Red, green, and white appliqué quilt. Unnamed block pattern features a large 8-lobed red rosette with seven radiating green leaves, a thick green stem, and a red bud on a side shoot. Wide red sashing separates the blocks. Appliqued vines on borders. Red binding is a replacement. Quilted in a grid on blocks, and diagonally on sashing and borders. This quilt was made and used by Maria Kramer of Evansville, Indiana.

Crazy quilt

Haywood, Martha E. Hutchison

Crazy Quilt made up of irregularly shaped cotton and silk fabric pieces assembled around a central blue medallion featuring the embroidered letter "H." Each fabric piece is decorated with featherstitched outline embroidery, and some have painted designs and additional needlework. Pink sateen binding and backing. Tied with pink cotton yarn. The elaborate embroidered ?H? at center stands for ?Haywood.? This quilt was begun in 1888 by Martha Hutchinson Haywood and used as a bedcover in the sod house she shared with her husband, Charles, and their children in Fowler, Kansas. The Haywood cattle brand appears on the quilt, as well as a horse depicting the steed ridden by Charles when Martha first saw him. The embroidered names ?Carl? refer to the Haywoods? eldest son. The "C" may refer to their middle son Clarence, and the quilt also incorporates pieces of a graduation gown worn by their daughter, Nettie. "Ben" was Charles' brother.