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[ 95YH ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Mosaic
Owner: Yvonne Hore  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA QLD -  Date: 1921 - 1940
Story of Quilt: "Circles and Squares" The quilt was commenced by my grandmother who stitched everything by hand because she never owned a sewing machine. My grandmother was very poor. Her husband died when my Mother (eldest daughter) was..."

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[ 287PS ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Quilting as major design element
Owner: Patricia Sheahan  -  Country/Place Created: SHIPBOARD Ireland -  Date: 1881 - 1900
Story of Quilt: "The quilt has not really been used as a quilt for at least sixty years. It is very heavy. My mother used it as a layer between the wire mattress of the double bed and the old kapok mattress so that as a child I saw it when the..."

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[ 380MR ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Suffolk Puff
Owner: Mary Robertson  -  Country/Place Created: ENGLAND -  Date: 1901 - 1920
Story of Quilt: "Following the death of her parents in England Lily Stormer (1899-1963) came to Australia with her brother in 1920. She went first to Sydney and then to Junee where she worked as a house-maid. In 1927 she married and there were 7..."

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[ 573JT ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Frame
Owner: Jillian Towers  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA VIC -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: " Una Kerr was born in Rochdale, England in approximately 1922. She became an orphan as a very young child and went with her two older sisters, to an orphanage in Kendal in the Lake District. The girls were trained in domestic duties..."

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[ 574JT ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Frame
Owner: Jillian Towers  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA VIC -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: " Una Kerr was born in Rochdale, England in approximately 1922. She became an orphan as a very young child and went with her two older sisters, to an orphanage in Kendal in the Lake District. The girls were trained in domestic duties..."

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[ 575JT ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Frame
Owner: Jillian Towers  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA VIC -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: " Una Kerr was born in Rochdale, England in approximately 1922. She became an orphan as a very young child and went with her two older sisters, to an orphanage in Kendal in the Lake District. The girls were trained in domestic duties..."

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[ 694YR ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Utilitarian, Typically Australian, Re-used clothing or blanket
Owner: Yvonne Renfree  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA VIC -  Date: 1921 - 1940
Story of Quilt: "My mother Victoria May Francis (nee Hosking) was orphaned at 18 months of age. Her mother's sister, Mary Studholme took her and three brothers and reared them She herself was a widow / deserted wife? And so they were hard times. ..."

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[ 734MF ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Random, Crazy
Owner: Maria Finlayson  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA Sydney -  Date: 1921 - 1940
Story of Quilt: "My Father (maker's grandson) was in the Boy Scouts, so I suspect the Scout badge on the quilt was his. Margaret Smith was the generation that was devoted to the Royal family and thought of England as the Mother country, though they..."

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[ 757PHM ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Utilitarian, Typically Australian, Re-used clothing or blanket
Owner: Powerhouse Museum  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW -  Date: 1921 - 1940
Story of Quilt: "In August 1984, Dorothy Stevenson wrote: 'The eiderdowns I think were akin to the 'Wagga'. The covers were made of cretonne. The lining was a sheet or calico. Onto this any clean old woollen rag was stitched in layers, to make it..."

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[ 783CN ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Frame
Owner: Charlotte Nattey  -  Country/Place Created: IRELAND Ballycastle -  Date: 1881 - 1900
Story of Quilt: "My great grandmother was a wonderful needlewoman - mind you she did nothing else! She was in a position to have all the staff she required and spent her life indulging her passion! She made beautiful Carrickmacross lace - collars,..."

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