QUILT - SUNBONNET GIRL

ca. 1930-1940

1993.17.01

As the Depression cast its every darkening shadow, a quilt revival took place across the nation. Quilt-making offered an escape from economic troubles and quilters often used cheery colors to brighten their dreary lives. National and local interest in quilting expanded with the publication of Ruth E. Finley's 1929 boo, Old Patchwork Quilts and the Women Who Made Them. Sewing clubs and quilt guilds formed around Montana where women shared their quilting skills and interests in American quilting tradition and history.

This appliquéd and embroidered Sunbonnet Girl quilt was made by Bess Gross for her newly adopted duaghter, Violet.