Description of Top
Purplish brown evening star pieced quilt (90" x 87"). Quilt top is cotton. Fabric patterns are printed and include floral and geometric motif. There are 256 full blocks (128 pieced in evening star pattern, 128 alternate plain blocks). Set is 16 x 16. Block orientation is straight. Quilt has one pieced, plain border of variable width

Quilt Back
Quilt back is muslin in 3 pieces

Quilting
Hand stitched @ 7 stitches per inch, heavy quilting, medium to large fineness of stitches. Quilting pattern is all over and filler quilting. Cross hatch used in alternate plain blocks, diagonal in patterned blocks.

Finishing
Edges are straight, corners square. Self bound, backing brought to front.

Condition
Moderate binding area wear, dye fading, stains, fabric deterioration.

Miscellaneous
SC notes that two blocks on border row are deliberate mistakes (are made "inside out") to protect against "evil eye." She states that "one often finds this switching of parts of one block, in the old quilts." SC also notes that her mother called this pattern: "Star of Many Points," but in the Midwest it is called "Evening Star."

Descriptive data collected by Elizabeth Hoffman and Shannon Myers, January 2001