Quilt No.794JS - Jill Scheetz
Description:
Quilt made from 'blue bags' joined as small squares in rows. Approximately 180 blue bags in total. There is a frill around all sides.
History:
The blue bags were collected by Elizabeth Jackson Cox (born Ellis) who made them into a table cloth which she later gave to her grand-daughter, Jill Scheetz. Jill made it into a quilt to use on her children's cots. It is not used now.
Story:
Elizabeth Jackson Cox was born at Docker's Plains Vic. in 1895 and died in 1985. She collected the blue bags over a very long period. Elizabeth Cox was the maternal grandmother of the present owner.
'Blue Bags' were small squares of a fine open weave cotton containing knobs of an ultramarine mixture. They were dunked in the rinsing water at the end of a wash to make clothes and household linen look brighter.
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