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Sheboygan County Quilt Museum

 

I grew up in Eastern Pennsylvania where the Amish and the German Brethren farm folk had a long tradition of making patchwork quilts.
 My grandmother spent many afternoons with the other ladies of the church's Ladies Aid Society around a quilt frame hand sewing the elaborate stitch work.
 We used quilts at home in everyday life.

 

A quilt frame such as this was found in many homes.

 

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A quilting group, Ladies Aid Society, at the German Baptist Brethren church
(Eastern Pennsylvania about 1950)
Grandmother: Susie Keller Royer (second on left)
Grandmother: Clara Frysinger (third on right)


Historic Family Quilts

 

Log Cabin Barn Raising

 

my mother's handwriting

 

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Rudy Keller 1839 - 1919 on right

My Great Grandmother

Married July 4, 1861 by Rev. S. R. Boyer

The Brethren Church would not allow flowery wall paper in her house (white wash only)
so she used quilts for flowery expression

More Information

 

detail

 

My Grandmother Susie Keller's girlhood practice Crazy Quilt

 

reverse


 

Later in life We became interested in the designs created in Middle America rural patchwork quilts, and started collecting a few.
My wife, Marlene, Museum Curator, shows them in the:

Marlene Edith Roeseler Collection


 

 More recently We have attended semi-annual quilt auctions held by Amish schools in Central Wisconsin.

the Amish Quilts we use on our bed

 

Peacocks

 

detail of peacocks

 

Postage Stamp

 

postage stamp detail

 

Stars over Georgetown Path

 

detail of Star


the Quilt Museum

Dr. Galen R Frysinger, Fund Director              galenfry@peopleandplaces.us

Collection Curator                                 marlene@peopleandplaces.us