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1. PQ.1991.001.060 - Quilt, Block

   This quilt is machine pieced of solid, striped, checked, flowered, and geometric fabrics in blue, yellow, and pink. The batting is polyester. The binding is the backing folded to the top with mitered corners. The quilt is hand quilted overall with the Baptist fan pattern, using white cotton thread. The stitching is uneven at about 4 stitches to the inch. The backing is machine pieced of off-white cotton thread. The quilt kit was purchased f...

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2. PQ.1991.001.064 - Quilt, Crazy

   This quilt is hand pieced of solid fabics in red, blue, and green, with a dark green border. The quilt also has embroidery with cotton embroidery threads. There is no batting. The binding is the backing folded to the top with mitered corners. The quilt is tied. The backing is machine pieced dark green velvet fabric. Each quilt block is signed by the maker with grey embroidery thread. The quilt is also signed "Colorado Crazy Quilters Club."...

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3. PQ.1991.001.067 - Quilt, Block

   Tobacco Flag Quilt; predominant colors: red, yellow, green, blue with rose colored twill cottong backing fabric. Made up of varying sized tobacco premiums. The Colorado Quilt Council, in documenting this quilt, described tobacco flags as "premiums given to tobacco users circa 1915 or earlier." These premiums generally used as the subject flags from countries around the world. Many quiltmakers collected the flags and made quilts from them. Th...

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4. PQ.1991.001.068 - Quilt, Block

   This quilt is machine pieced of solid, striped, flowered and geometic fabrics in blue, black, and pink. The batting is polyester. The binding is the backing folded to the front and attached by hand with mitered corners. The quilt is hand quilted around the pattern pieces and in geometric patterns, using white cotton/polyester thread. The stitching is even 7 to the inch. The backing is machine pieced pink and white print polished cotton fabric...

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5. PQ.1991.001.069 - Quilt, Block

   This quilt is hand and machine pieced of solid and geometric fabrics in purple, green, and white, with lavendar sashing and lavendar and white borders. The quilt is also embroidered, and depicts 12 different flowers. The batting is polyester. The edges are Prairie Points in a lavendar print fabric attached by hand. The quilt is hand quilted with a grid pattern in the blocks and diamonds in the borders, using white cotton/polyester thread. The...

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6. PQ.1991.001.071 - Quilt, Block

   This quilt is hand embroidered in red on white fabric with historic buildings, people, animals and other objects. The batting is polyester. The binding is the top folded to the back with mitered corners. The quilt is hand quilted with a Baptist fan pattern in the center and cross hatch in the borders, using white cotton thread. The stitching is even 5 to 6 stitches to the inch. The backing is machine pieced white polyester fabric. "Mary" ...

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7. PQ.1991.001.072 - Quilt, Block

   This quilt is machine pieced of solid fabrics in yellow and off-white, with gold sashing and off-white and gold borders. Each off-white block has embroidered on it a wildflower and a Bible verse. The batting is polyester. The binding is the backing folded to the front and hand attached with mitered corners. The quilt is hand quilted with swags, bows, tulip vine, and paisley shapes, using off-white cotton thread. The stitching is uneven at 3 t...

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8. PQ.1991.001.073 - Quilt, Block

   This quilt is hand pieced of solid, checked, and geometric fabrics in red, blue, and gray, with red border. The batting is polyester. The binding is hand and machine attached red purchased bias tape. The quilt is hand quilted around the pattern pieces, with flowers in the plain blocks, and diamonds in the border, using white cotton thread. The stitching is even 6 stitches to the inch. The backing is machine pieced pink and white print cotton...

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9. PQ.1991.001.074 - Quilt, Block

   This quilt is hand and machine pieced of solid red and green cotton fabrics with red and green borders. The batting is polyester. The binding is folded over from the top with mitered corners. The quilt is hand quilted around the pattern pieces and has floral, cable, clamshell, and sunburst quilting designs in the plain blocks and the borders. The quilting is even at 6 stitches to the inch, done with white cotton/polyester thread. The backin...

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10. PQ.1991.001.075 - Quilt, Block

    This quilt is hand and machine pieced of solid, flowered, and geometric fabrics in red, blue, and off-white with a blue border. The batting is polyester. The binding is the backing folded to the front and hand attached with mitered corners. The quilt is hand quilted around the pattern pieces, with crosshatching in the solid blocks and border. The stitching is even at 6 stitches, done with white cotton/polyester thread. The backing is machine...

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11. PQ.1991.001.077 - Quilt, Block

    This quilt is machine pieced of solid and floral fabrics in black, tan, and pink. The batting is wool. The binding is the backing folded to the front with mitered corners. The quilt is tied with pink wool yarn. The backing is machine pieced tan cotton and linen fabric. The fabrics were from garments owned by Eugenia Mitchell's mother and sisters. The backing is said to be nun's veiling from Scotland. The quilt was used for 30 winters and wa...

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12. PQ.1991.001.079 - Quilt, Block

    This quilt is hand pieced of solid red, green, and white fabrics, with white and green borders. The batting is cotton. The binding is hand and machine attached red cotton fabric cut on the bias with mitered corners. The quilt is hand quilted with geometrics and clamshells, and fans in the border. The original quilting is 10 stitches to the inch in white cotton thread, and the repairs are 6 stitches to the inch in red thread. The backing is ha...

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13. PQ.1991.001.080 - Quilt, Block

    This quilt is hand pieced of solid and geometric fabrics in red and white. The batting is cotton. The binding is hand attached striped cotton with mitered and rounded corners. The quilt is hand quilted overall in diagonal patterns. The quilting is uneven at 3 to 5 stitches to the inch, using white cotton thread. The backing is hand pieced white cotton.

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14. PQ.1991.001.081 - Quilt, Block

    This quilt is hand and machine pieced of solid, plaid, checked, and geometric fabrics in red and blue, with a red and maroon border. The batting is polyester. The binding is the backing folded to the front and hand attached with mitered corners. The quilt is hand quilted around the pattern pieces and in the border with swag patterns. The quilting is uneven at 7 stitches to the inch, done with white cotton/polyester thread. The backing is mach...

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15. PQ.1991.001.082 - Quilt, Block

    This quilt is hand and machine pieced of solid and flowered fabrics in yellow and pink. The batting is a sheet blanket. The binding is purchased pink cotton bias tape with rounded corners. The quilt is hand quilted around the pattern pieces and with a floral motif in the bows and the corner blocks. The quilting is even at 5 to 6 stitches to the inch, using white cotton thread. The backing is pink cotton wholecloth.

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16. PQ.1991.001.083 - Quilt, Block

    This sampler quilt is an original design with a pictorial depiction of the Hiwan Homestead in Evergreen, CO, surrounded by sampler quilt blocks. RMQM founder Eugenia Mitchell designed and made this quilt and reportedly used it to teach others to quilt. She used the sampler blocks as the basis for the lessons. This quilt, one of several in the collection, is an exceptional example of the folk art of Eugenia Mitchell.

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17. PQ.1991.001.084 - Quilt, Block

    This quilt is machine pieced of red and white fabrics with a red border. The batting is polyester. The binding is the backing folded to the front with mitered corners. The quilt is hand quilted around the pattern pieces with teepees, fish, bows and arrows, deer, buffalo, and other animals, and with diamonds in the border. The quilting is uneven at 3 to 4 stitches to the inch, done with white cotton thread. The backing is machine pieced floral...

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18. PQ.1991.001.085 - Quilt, Other

    This award-winning quilt is wholecloth of solid blue fabric with appliqued white tatting and doilies. The batting is polyester. The binding is Prairie Points in blue fabric. The quilt is hand quilted in vines and diamond patterns. The quilting is uneven at 3 to 4 stitches to the inch, done with white cotton thread. The backing is machine pieced blue cotton/polylester fabric. Embroidered in white cotton on the top front and top backing is "E...

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19. PQ.1991.001.086 - Quilt, Block

    This quilt is machine pieced of solid fabrics in yellow and white, with yellow borders. In each white block is a hand-painted flower with a girl's face. The batting is a sheet blanket. The binding is hand and machine attached fabric with straight corners. The quilt is hand quilted with cables, geometrics, and floral patterns in the background, the solid blocks and the border. The quilting is even at 5 stitches to the inch, done in white cotton/...

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20. PQ.1991.001.087 - Quilt, Block

    This quilt is machine pieced of solid and flowered fabrics in yellow, purple, and brown, with a brown border. The batting is polyester. The binding is the top folded to the back and hand attached with mitered corners. The quilt is hand quilted around the pattern pieces and in the plain blocks with cross hatching. The quilting is uneven at 4 to 5 stitches to the inch, done with white cotton thread. The backing is machine pieced maroon and whi...

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