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Artist	Deerfield Methodist Church
Title	Grandmother's Fan
Additional Information	The women of Deerfield United Methodist Church have made quilts for a number of years to raise money for church projects. They prefer traditional quilt patterns and invest much time in hand quilting. One member provides a wooden frame for the project while different ladies donate cloth, batting, and thread. Week-end quilting bees are popular. In 2009, the quilters entered the Library's quilting contest to donate the purchase money to the Church's Benevolence Fund, which are administered to help families with emergency needs. Grandmother's Fan: The pattern was copied from a book by Georgia Bonesteel, whose UNC-TV Lap Quilting program has been on the air since 1979. Grandmother's Fan is a variation of the Dresden plate. The Fan motif was popularized in the 1880s and 1890s with America's increased contact with Japan. The fabric was donated by a long-time quilter to resemble fabrics used in her mother's quilts circa 1930. The stitch pattern is the fan pattern, sometimes called the Appalachian Stitch. The pattern was sketched with chalk and string, as was the method in the earlier days of quilting. Quilt description: size 57" x 75" fans are multiple prints on white background hand-quilting with machine pieced
size (WxH)	57x75
Provenance	2009 Traditional Quilt Competition Purchase
Date Created	2009
Date Acquired	2009
Media	cotton
Location in BLIC	Special Collections 4th floor

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