Quilt No.1099ND - Nancy Dunlap
Owner:
Nancy Dunlap
Location:
WA Country
Maker
Maker:
Margaret Doran
Made in
USA
Patterms
Date:
1921 - 1940
Description:
Grandmother's flower garden pattern. All cottons with plain centres to 'flowers' then row of prints and outer row of plains. One hexagon flower has been repaired. Scalloped edges bound with yellow. Hand quilting around the hexagons. The backing is cream cotton and the padding is thin cotton. 2140 x 1780mm.
History:
The quilt was made by Margaret Doran in Illinois USA in the 1930s. It then passed to her grand-daughter Rosanne Wold and is now owned by Nancy Dunlap whose husband Keith is the great grandson of the maker.
Nancy Dunlap with the quilt.
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