Crazy Quilt

Mary Pillow McClure, Cornersville, Tennessee

About 1900

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Rosecraft Blended basket, shape 234-8"
Velvet jacket and bustle with buttons down front, lace collar and sleeves, beaded flowers and fringe. Stays sewn in.
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Rectangular quilt in the "Sunbonnet Sue" pattern, with navy blue polka-dotted background fabric with light yellow border, upon which a series of Sunbonnet Sues in a variety of cotton calico, some in silhouette against the background, others against a light pink floral piece of fabric, each Sue embroidered with the name of a woman or man, with central inscription: 178 GIRLS/NO TWO/JUST ALIKE/EXCEPT THE/TWINS FIND/THEM. The back of yellow cotton with orange floral pattern and same light yellow border.