Center Diamond quilt of hand pieced cottons. Double border on both diamond and large square. Top uses 14 different prints, including binding (mostly calicoes, but several stripes and checks) and several solid patches. Colors of red, yellow and pink predominate. Back has pieced cotton strips of two blue floral prints of feed sack material. Cotton batting.
Quilting patterns hand stitched with white thread; diamonds on outside double border and a grid throughout center.
Pieced by Frances Keen Binkley (Mrs. Zephaniah Binkley, 1862-1935), a Mennonite woman living near Leola, Upper Leacock Twp. She designed and pieced a quilt for each of her grandchildren but had her daughter-in-law Vera Binkley (wife of son Edgar) and four granddaughters do the quilting. This quilt was made for donor Dorothy Ann Groff. She believes she was in her teens when the quilting was done, thus the late 1930s).
Some color variation in different print runs of calicos, but original.
Object ID
G.03.05.01
Notes
Quilt was featured in "Quilting Traditions" by Trish Herr, 2000 and again in "Amish Quilts of Lanc. Co." by Trish Herr, 2004. Featured in the Dec. 2007 issue of the magazine McCall's Quilting, "The Art of Vintage Quilts"
Place of Origin
Upper Leacock Twp.
Credit
Given in memory of Frances Keen Binkley by Dorothy A. Gr
