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A Yooper Year

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LadyGator
A Yooper Year - Now hanging in a Sr. Citizens assisted living dining room - This quilt was adapted to reflect the year's weather and activities here in the uppper peninsula of Michigan. Our winters are longer, our spring comes in two stages; mud and then the flowers. We included autumn and deer season. We added buttons to make a manger scene in the front yard. As Christians, we wanted to include Jesus's birthday and found the perfect buttons of Mary, Jesus and Joseph. We added as many buttons and decorative threads as we could find on this raw edge appliqued quilt. Buttons included: shamrocks, hearts kites, chickens, stars, bats. The quilter went wild and added very creative and heavy quilting. There are so many designs she put in, this quilt draws the viewer in. The border fabric we thought was perfect since those 2 story homes reflect the homes of the captains of copper mining days here.

Added: Aug 14, 2007

 

Name of Pattern or Block Strolling the Block
Owned By Holly Caspary
Name of Maker Joyce Fletcher Menard & Linda Vollwerth
Name of Quilter Cindy Goodreau
Year Made 2004
Year Made is: Certain
Located in City Houghton
Located in State MI
Located in Country US
Condition of Quilt Mint
Design Source Adapted Original Design
Design Source - Based On a quilt shown on Simply Quilts web page
Design Source - Published In Strolling the Around the Block
Design Source - Description Now hanging in a Sr. Citizens assisted living dining room - This quilt was adapted to reflect the year's weather and activities here in the uppper peninsula of Michigan. Our winters are longer, our spring comes in two stages; mud and then the flowers. We included autumn and deer season. We added buttons to make a manger scene in the front yard. As Christians, we wanted to include Jesus's birthday and found the perfect buttons of Mary, Jesus and Joseph.

We added as many buttons and decorative threads as we could find on this raw edge appliqued quilt. Buttons included: shamrocks, hearts kites, chickens, stars, bats. The quilter went wild and added very creative and heavy quilting. There are so many designs she put in, this quilt draws the viewer in. The border fabric we thought was perfect since those 2 story homes reflect the homes of the captains of copper mining days here.
Genre Art Quilt
Quilt Type Wall Quilt
Quilt Width 57
Quilt Height 72
Measurement In: Inches
Fabric Used 100% Commercial Cotton
Construction Technique Applique
Piecing By None
Applique by Machine
Types of Quilting Machine Quilted
Embellishments Buttons, Beads, Hand Embroidery, Machine Embroidery, Other
Embellishments - Other Desc. fabric paint, machine embroidery appliques

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