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Mrs. Bill Stagg with state quilt which she made, Pie Town, New Mexico (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 2 older comments, and then…
• Donovan Beeson said:

  www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/pietown.html?c... Great article with the history of Pie Town inspired by these photographs.

• mak1173 said:

  Quilt of State birds?

• pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:

  Photographer Russell Lee: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Lee_(photographer)

• Genevieve Netz said:

  She probably bought the blocks with the designs already stamped on them. Such kits were popular, even through the 1960s. I have a State Flowers quilt my grandmother made from a kit.

• jollywinegums said:

  Nice bed quilt. I like the way the green and red sashing meets in a chequered arrangement between each block. Clearly not this lady's first quilt. Pity the sunlight is so bright that it obscures the detail of the bird blocks. Wonder if her family still has it?'Tis very possible.