PATCHWORK QUILT UNFINISHED.
c. 1890 - 1894Multi-coloured and some patterned octagonal cloth patches stitched together by hand using English method of the cloth is folded over templates of heavy blotting paper. Many of these templates are part of the quilt & remain visible on back. Quilt rectangular in shape and unfinished at one end.
This quilt was started by Mrs Francis Fretwell in c1890 and was worked on by her daughter-in-law Mary in the early 1900s, who then passed it onto her own daughter-in-law Isobel in c1940. In 1984 Isobel donated the unfinished quilt to History House.
Mrs Francis Fretwell gifted the started quilt to her daughter in-law Mary, who had married her son William. William and Mary immigrated to Western Australia and settled in the Kelmscott area in c1912. One of the things they brought with them from England was the quilt.
In 1940 their son Henry, who was born in Kelmscott in 1915, married Isobel Hall. Isobel was born in England in 1918 and with her parents Herbert and Elsie, immigrated to Western Australia in 1927. Henry and Isobel most of their life living on their orchard in Roleystone with their family.
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