Quilt No.936HS - Helen Sparkman
2250 x 2000mm
This hexagon quilt top was made by Clara Pitt in South Australia in the 1960s. It is now owned by Helen Sparkman who is the great neice of Clara May Pitt.
"Clara made many quilts, mainly during the 1950s and 1960s, not out of need but because of her love of patchwork. Her quilts were mainly Hexagons and Suffolk Puffs. Clara was a single lady who had five neices and a nephew, and quite a number of great neices and nephews. As each quilt was completed it was presented to a family member. These family members now cherish her gifts, even though all have often smiled and queried her fabric selection, placement, neatness and her continual use of white thread over the years. Clara was over 80 years of age when she made her last quilt (Hexagons of course!) for a private Museum."
[Helen Sparkman Dec. 2000]
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