Wool with a wool batt surrounding a thin polyester batt to add to pouf of the quilted feathers. Quilt back is lightweight Viyella. Lucy was in raised in a Mennonite family and was inspired by an exhibit of Amish quilts to make this piece. Describing the original quilting design that became her trademark pattern, Hilty wrote, “I designed the boarder, which is similar to, but somewhat different from the Amish quilting. The feather border moves around the quilt in a symmetrical rotation.”

Techniques: machine pieced, hand quilted
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Geographic Location: Central and North America
Credit Line: Gift of Rosemary Mucklow