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Collection |
Bonesteel, Georgia |
Object Name |
Quilt, Wall Hanging |
Title |
Three Banners: The Street Where Quilters Live |
Description |
Three horizontal panels, each showing six imaginary houses done in the style of the person named. A brown polka-dot "ground" strip below all of the houses has machine embroidered script names in green thread. The blocks are divided by either blue polka-dot hanging strips or pieced lollipop trees against a blue polka-dot ground. Both trees and dividing strips project above the top edges of the wall hangings and serve as the support mechanism for hanging. The backs are of the brown polka-dot fabric. PANEL A Size: 118" x 20.5" Pat Kyser: An elaborately constructed house with two colors of strips of Aida cloth as the outer walls and roof, with the embroidered words "LOVE". The gable has an appliqued sun with the embroidered word "JOY" above a row of her favorite books with embroidered titles, flanked by beautifully detailed embroidered flowers in pots. The names "Cindy", "Jeff", "Diana" and "Jim" appear on different portions of the house. Single stitch embroidery motifs in hearts depict some of her favorite things: a loaf of bread, Singer sewing machine, typewriter, cup and saucer, Celtic cross with shamrocks, and Christmas tree. These flank a pieced quilt labelled "QUILTS" on all four sides. Two appliqued trees appear behind the house. In the "grass" space below the house is embroidered: "Words and Stitches ... all my quilts tell a story!" An embroidered copyright mark says "Pat Kyser". Toni DeChesere: This block is simply a printed blueprint of a two-story Colonial style house with attached garage, on cream muslin. Bets Ramsey: Double block which opens up book-style from the center of the block, revealing two different houses. The outer house is created in rust and black-and-white fabrics, and probably depicts a traditional brick dwelling with stylized trees and bushes, curving driveway, a blue mailbox and a light print fabric circle of sun or moon in the sky. The vertical stitch line directly through the front door defines the point at which the front panel folds back to show the second house. This house is an international style glass one-story dwelling in a tropical environment with a pool in front, a pink table and umbrella, and an orange sun in the sky. These two houses reflect Bets' Gemini personality. Flavin Glover: Log cabin quilt in brown prints with a red door, yellow window with lace valance, black dormer and chimney, and blue partial log cabins for the sky. Jean Ray Laury: Country-style screen print of four schoolhouses with hearts above the doors and polka-dot backing, arranged in a quadrant style within a brown checkerboard surround. Yvonne Porcella: A brilliantly colored house pieced of horizontal strips for the house and the background, in blues, browns, reds, yellows, and purple, with burgundy shades for the roof and chimney, pale blues to creams for the background, greens for the yard, and a bright red mailbox with Yvonne's name hand-written in ink. PANEL B Size: 119.5" x 20.25" Dixie Haywood: A two story Colonial house with first and second floor porches and chimneys at either end. The house and roof are composed of crazy piecing in shades of brown, with applied tan columns and balustrades, rust driveway on a green printed lawn, and a large crazy pieced tree at one side. Dixie's name is also embroidered to one side of the tree. Virginia Avery: A barn applied to a background printed with three staves of music in black. The barn has a red chimney and flag pole onto which is applied a triangular flapping flag with the written words "Sunday Jazz at Folly Farm" in ink. Helen Kelley: A two story house with twin dormers, steps to the front door, white textured fabric to create a look of siding, embroidery details on the windows and doors, green roof, shutters and door. The house has an attached screened porch made of grey fabric printed with screen texture.The door has a pediment with two steps. On the right is a twining tree hand applied with individual flowers and leaves. Each flower has a center of French knots. Three hand applied bees are around the tree. There are two hand applied tulips at the base of the tree with single stitch embroidery stems and leaves. A center walkway is in cream fabric with embroidery detail. On the left are three hand applied turtles with rust-colored quilting stitches behind each to indicate movement. There is an additional tulip to the side of the walkway. A tall evergreen tree is to the left of the house, with three more tulips. Multiple pieces represent the boughs. A light green ground in front represents grass, and there is a pale blue sky. Helen Kelley signed the block in embroidery in the lower right corner. Fran Soika: A medium blue background against which a brilliantly colored hot air balloon in rainbow colors with an elaborately constructed basket imagined as a house. The basket is tan with embroidered lines suggesting bricks. Large cutouts are bordered in black fabric and indicate the front door and four windows. Two curving sets of grey steps defined with black embroidery flank either side of the basket. Each has a beautifully embroidered wrought iron balustrade in embroidery. A balcony above the basket house also has black railing and embroidered wrought iron work. Three fabric cats with embroidered details in tan, brown and white appear on the steps and balcony. There are white clouds in the sky, two tall green curvilinear bushes on either side of the balloon and a tan mailbox on an embroidered wrought iron base, inscribed in ink "Fran Soika Novelty, Ohio." Jinny Beyer (by Bonesteel): A one story house in dark burgundy with a light burgundy roof, one cream window with four panes is on the left side of the block. A large chimney, the dominant element in the house, is created out of strips of Beyer selvedges and fabrics in burgundies, greens, cream and various blues. The background is a tone on tone cream fabric. The upper right hand corner is a compass-pieced partial sun or moon in dark and medium blues. All fabrics appear to be Beyer fabrics. Chris Wolf Edmonds: Entitled in ink "Pine Hill Farm" and signed on the block with the maker's name. The complex of buildings depicted, as well as the sky and ground, appear to be all hand dyed and painted fabrics. Against a mottled blue sky and diagonally striped green ground are a set of four building shapes in various striped brown fabrics. The vertical more widely striped fabrics are used on the two outer fabrics, which may depict barns, while the center two portions have narrow horizontal stripes, are probably the house and have a different roof line. All roofs are a mottled brownish grey hand dyed fabric. A small dark brown chimney shows on the house and left hand barn has a cupola. There are no doors or windows depicted. All buildings appear to be connected in the manner of New England farms. This block appears to be an exercise in the use of hand dyed and patterned fabric to create perspective. PANEL C Size: 123.5" x 20.25" Georgia J Bonesteel: A single traditional one story house block. The house and chimney are dark coral. The roof is a blue ditsy print, which is also used as the walkway and the block border. There are windows on either side of the door, created with light brown fabric with Georgia J. Bonesteel Designs selvedges. The central door uses the same fabric and is sewn in two pieces lined with coral, which open to reveal a machine stitched detail of a woman seated at a table, possibly sewing, on a light blue background. This stitched detail was added after the banner was created, since it appears on the finished backing. There is a pediment above the door created by bias loose weave cream fabric. The same fabric is used as the ground in front of the house, and there is a light blue sky. Carter Houck: A two story deep pink Victorian house with center gable and circular window. The main floor has center door with a two-over-two square window flanked by two two-over-two long thin windows. The porch as four columns of commercial bias tape and a porch railing of bobbin lace, probably made by hand. The porch has a roof. The second story has a horizontal rectangular framed piece of white Aida cloth with the name "Carter Houck" cross-stitched in medium blue, and two square two-over-two windows. All of the windows are outlined in a narrow commercial decorative trim, and the same trim is used around the Carter Houck name. The porch roof and the house and gable roof have crocheted trim, probably hand done, to represent gingerbread molding. The body of the house is a rose colored velveteen. The windows are a small pink-on-rose print. The roofs and the door are a pink and teal floral print. The house has two chimneys. The structure is applied by machine zigzag stitch in red around the roof and pink around the velvet. The ground is a tiny pink and blue on red floral print which reads as green. On the left is a large tree with machine embroidered detail on the trunk and green thread in irregular curvilinear lines on a cream colored print . The sky is blue. Helen Squire Kaiser: An entirely felt house in the Tudor style. The lower floor and second story gable are cut from coral felt. The majority of the second floor is a steeply pitched grey felt roof with brown chimney. The dormer, background to the half timbered gable, front windows, and side door with porch railing are all cream felt with inked details defining the window panes, shutters, door details including the word "SIX" and porch railing and steps defined in ink. The front of the house has a line of shrubbery cut from green felt. The house is on a cream muslin background. Marjorie Puckett (by Bonesteel): The entire block is irregularly strip pieced in blues, blacks, and reds. The sky and background are in shades of blues, pale greens and gold, mostly in chambrays but with some polka dots. The single story house is in shades of red and the roof is in shades of black, mostly in printed ginghams and florals. The red house portion of the block is completely overlaid with sheer nylon. It has a central door edged in cream lace, and a gable in yellow with three blue flowers and green leaves which are outline quilted. The overlay is applied with a machine zigzag stitch on the two sides. Cheryl Bradkin: This block highlights Seminole piecing. The background is a dark green and the block shows both a house and the garden. In the lower half of the block there is a one story house in pale green with a yellow front door and brown pieced roof. It is flanked by two differently pieced green trees and has two green, blue and pink pieced flower beds flanking the front door. The windows in both the door and the house are pieced with grey frames and blue frames, and are flanked with green shutters. The roof is pieced of four shades of brown half-inch squares. In the upper part of the block is a vegetable garden flanked with flower borders. The vegetable garden has four rows of tiny pieced motifs in light and dark green, black, red and yellow, surrounded by a brown border. The flower borders match those that flank the front door in pink, blue, two shades of green with touches of black. These squares are 1/4". Nancy Halpern (by Bonesteel): This house is impressionistically pieced in a range of teals, pink, rust and blue/grey. The entire house is pieced of half-square triangles and trapezoids. A solid teal front walk leads to the house, which appears to have two gables. There are a variety of fabric types including a brocade and a textured fabric in shades of grey for one roof, four patches of a coral satin, and a medium scale print fussy-cut to highlight birds, butterflies and morning glories. There are two folded flange strips, one in burgundy and one in teal, which define the roof lines. The outer border is a cream on rust print interrupted at two places with inset pieces of the larger floral fabric used in the house. Overall this has a fractured effect representative of her style. |
Provenance |
Georgia Bonesteel says this quilt was made at the height of her TV and travel days. She was very impressed with her peers and all they were doing for the quilt world. As she got to know each of the quilters she imagined in what sort of house they lived, according to their quilt style. The quilt includes 8 TQHF Honorees: Yvonne Porcella, Jinny Beyer, Helen Kelley, Virginia Avery, Carter Houck, Georgia Bonesteel, Bets Ramsey, and Jean Ray Laury. Most of the invited guests made their own blocks. A few blocks were made by Georgia as she imagined their houses to be. Georgia made her own, Marjorie Puckets', Nancy Halpern's and Jinny Beyer's block. Bets Ramsey commented on hers as showing her Gemini personality. This quilt is featured and pictured in "Georgia Bonesteel's Quiltmaking Legacy." Georgia Bonesteel. American Quilter's Society, Paducah, KY, 2004, pgs 6-9. |
Artist |
Bonesteel, Georgia |
Artist Role |
Designer |
People |
Bonesteel, Georgia Avery, Virginia Beyer, Jinny Porcella, Yvonne Kelley, Helen Houck, Carter Ramsey, Bets Laury, Jean Ray |
Object ID |
2018.FIC.024 |