Version 6.01

15 January 2024

David March © 2019

DESCRIPTION OF THE QUILT

Owner: Bruce County Museum and Cultural Centre, Southampton, Ontario, Canada.
Item No 2018.008.001. CRCQ Reference No RG084
Title Culross - World War I Fundraiser.

Size: 48½in by 65½in

Pattern: Signature

Top: Machine stitched in plain dress cotton and calico; laid out as four quadrants separated by wide plain strips forming a large, probably red, cross. Names embroidered in red cotton in each quadrant with each block comprising eight names arranged radially with a further eight names crossing the end of each diagonal. The innermost four blocks form a whole with the title embroidered in a circular manner and the sixteen, presumed, junior workers’ names and a further eight notables names.

Wadding: unknown.

Backing: White calico formed from two pieces.

Finishing: Bound edges, machine and hand sewn with overlapped corners.

Quilting: Hand sewn in white cotton on signature blocks, underlining the names; on the large cross, the quilting is in a 3in grid.

Construction & design: group quilt showing very accomplished embroidery in a well-planned layout.

The innermost blocks include the attribution: “The Junior Workers of Queen Mary’s Needlework Guild, Concession 10 & 12, Bruce Co., Culross, Ontario, Canada 1918.”

There are approximately 344 names although some appear to be repeated.