Quilt No.757PHM - Powerhouse Museum

"In August 1984, Dorothy Stevenson wrote: 'The eiderdowns I think were agin to the 'Wagga'. The covers were made of cretonne. The lining was a sheet or calico. Onto this any clean old woollen rag was stitched in layers, to make it thick and warm. The three I remember were for the big oak cot in my parents' room. The cretonne was in different shades of pink, blue flowers, and a very bright green. Then the two eiderdowns my sister and I had. These were quilted with quite big stitches, so were easy to undo to wash.' "
"In May 1985 she wrote: 'My Mother cooked, sewed, made jam, darned the winter clothing. She loved children. Her family was her life. She moved many times in the early years of her marriage. Often to very poor housing but it was always turned into a home. Nothing was ever thrown out, she had a use for everything. She taught her children to fend for themselves. Her son learnt to knit, sew and cook just the same as the girls. She made her own clothes. At this she was self taught. She nursed her father in the last months of his life (1955). She often sang and whistled as she did the daily jobs and always trapped rabbits when she lived in the bush. And always had a flower and vegetable garden.
"Kit had seven brothers and one sister who was the youngest. Kit was the middle one. Kit my mother lived life to the full. She knew how to laugh, how to love and how to cry. St Peters cathedral Armidale was full of mourners for her funeral. She was well loved.' " [PHM]