Nancy wrote on the blog about Dianne’s presentation at FVQG meeting last week.
The quilt she mentioned, that I gave Dianne, is a Redwork quilt and it, along with another quilt made by the same lady and that I also gave to Dianne, has an interesting history. I will try to find a better picture of the quilt, as this one doesn’t show the quilting and fabric as well as it should. I have to go back in my old iPhoto to find a better picture.
Here is the story of how I came into possession of the quilts.
One day in 2003 I received a phone call from a friend who volunteered in the thrift shop at South Burnaby United Church on Grey Avenue. Someone had dropped off two quilts and the staff knew that I was a quilter and thought I should see them. They were given to me and the only hint I had was the name "Mary 1928" in the corner of the Redwork quilt. The second quilt didn't have any information. No one in the thrift shop knew who had dropped the quilts off. I asked the secretary in the church if a note could be put in the Sunday Bulletin asking if the person who dropped them off could contact me. A few days later I received a call from Ida Cooper. She game me the information about her aunt, Mary Bolton, that I put on the label. Ida was downsizing and didn't want to keep the quilts and no one in her family wanted them.
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The chain of events here is pretty astonishing when you think of it. If any one person in the chain did not do their bit to preserve these quilts and value them enough to find out their history and keep it alive we would never know anything about Mary Bolton or her lovely quilts. Special thanks to Colleen, Diane and Nancy for telling us this wonderful story.
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