The Phoenix Metro documenting team does most of our
Arizona Museums. Recently we have begun
documenting quilts at the Sharlot
Hall Museum in Prescott, Arizona. They have about 80 quilts in their
collection. We completed 20 on our first
visit this week. Members of the Heritage Quilters gave us a hand folding and
sorting the quilts. Many hands make
light work. The Sharlot Hall Museum quilts will
soon be seen on our Arizona page of the Quilt Index.
It was a great day, always fun and educational to see
these quilts up close. One quilt in the
collection, from Sharlot
Mabridth Hall, is this faded and worn red and green
applique. Still a beautiful example. The
Heritage Quilters have reproduced this quilt for the museum and that quilt can
be seen in the governor mansion at the museum.
A member of the American
Quilt Study Group is doing research on early quilts with
borders of vases of flowers. I
have shared this interesting quilt for the research. This kind of connection
and ongoing study, education and research is what makes all the time and effort of
documenting our Arizona quilts worthwhile and very exciting.
