Quilt
Period1986
Place MadeKeyport area, New Jersey, U.S.A.
MediumCotton
Dimensions90 × 78 in. (228.6 × 198.1 cm)
ClassificationsQuilts and Coverlets
Credit LineGift of Elizabeth Errickson Walling, 2009
Object number2025.506
DescriptionA hand pieced and quilted Dresden Fan pattern variation, straight set with no sashing, 10 by 11 blocks. Each block includes two fan wedges comprised of a wide variety of pastel and bright printed cottons, with one pink and one blue solid cotton corner wedge, set opposite each other on the block. The blocks are arranged to form a diagonal meander path pattern. Hand quilting in large stitches is both in outline and central circle pattern. Plain white cotton backing and thin cotton batting, with pale blue narrow cotton binding. The quilt is signed "D. G. / 1986" in the upper right corner on the back of the quilt.NotesDonor Elizabeth M. Errickson Walling (1932-2019) was a lifelong Keyport resident. Mrs. Walling worked as a teacher in the East Keyport School for more than forty years. Her father, Edward Errickson (1902-1993) was a Raritan Bay fisherman. Her mother, Theresa "Tressa" C. Shin Errickson, made most of the clothes for her daughters Betty Jane and Elizabeth. Elizabeth Walling noted that the quilts she donated to the Historical Association were all made by a Keyport neighbor, but did not recall the name. Several of the quilts in the donation were embroidered with the initials "D. G." Research is ongoing to identify this unknown but extremely talented Keyport quiltmaker. According to Mrs. Walling, the quiltmaker was an elderly neighbor who had been quilting for many years.
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