Quilt, “Sampler” and “Strip” patterns

Mary Lucas

About 1980

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Chrome-plated copper drip coffee pot with aluminum interior components. Body of pot is cylindrical, and is impressed at the base with parallel bands, giving the appearance of streamlines. The body has a long tapered spout, and a J-shaped black plastic handle. The circular lid is stamped with a sunburst motif emanating from the center at which a pointed black plastic finial serves as a handle.
Tall glass goblet with a bowl of burgundy-colored glass and bands of speckled, textured light burgundy and white on the exterior, the bowl tapers to a bulbous-shaped element and then to a baluster-like stem of clear glass on a round foot also of clear glass, at the bottom of the bowl a small, clear glass dagger is inserted into it creating a dimple from which a burgundy glass, blood-like drip emerges from the point of entry.
Robbing Peter to Pay Paul quilt
Quilt in the "Strip" or "Bars and Rectangles" pattern pieced of cotton and wool and comprised of strips of brown, blue and black fabric running vertically and pieces of brown, blue, black and green fabric running horizontally interspersed with three strips and one small block of red plaid fabric and one small vertical strip of red fabric in the corner running vertically.