Introducing Mother's Quilt
from The Chester County Criswell Quilt
This friendship quilt has been in my collection for a few years. It hasn't received a lot of attention. I don't even have a good photo of the whole quilt, it's quite large. I call it Mother's Quilt because there are not one but two blocks that say "Mother"; the second one has the date 1936.
I spent two days on Ancestry.com and I now know a lot more about the quilt and its makers. I found the majority of names in the 1930 census for Richland Township, Clarion County, Pennsylvania. Very conveniently, most of ...
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