Child’s Petticoat

Alabama

About 1880

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Unknown pattern, serrated squares, brown backing.
Colorful quilt in the "Everybody" or "Sampler" pattern comprised of a semi-grid of quilt blocks in a variety of traditional patterns, mostly geometric and with a central star made of pastel-colored fabrics, in one corner a block with a mule and in another a large blue and yellow star, the lining plain white and made from textiles from St. Joseph’s Hospital.
Tall glass wine goblet with a shallow bowl of burgundy glass, the exterior of speckled light burgundy and white glass, the long stem, likewise with a white exterior, in the form of a stylized female without arms and with the two legs joining to form the lower portion of the stem, the round foot of clear glass, a burgundy glass "drip" emerges from the lip of the goblet and runs down the exterior of the bowl and stem to the female form where it divides into two drips.
Chain quilt.