Pieced and edged by Mary Magdalene (Mamie) Tagatoff Meimann
St. Anthony, Iowa, 1928
Cotton
Hand quilted, 7 stitches per inch, by Lizzy Flannigan of St. Anthony
Anonymous loan
82 x 75.25 in.
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In the late 1920s, an American quilt revival brought in a new color palette of pastel prints. Quilts made from these fabrics are sometimes referred to as Depression Quilts, since the styles and fabrics continued through the Great Depression. Mamie ordered her fabrics from a catalog, either Montgomery Ward or Sears, Roebuck and Co.
The 1830s Hexagon Mosaic pattern was revived in the 1920s and retitled Grandmother's
Flower Garden, which, according to quilt historian Merikay Waldvogel, was the
most popular pattern of this period and remains so even today. The more distinguished
of these quilts, as seen here, display dynamic edges that model the contour
of the floret pattern. Mamie Meimann pieced the quilt together and took the
quilt to Lizzy Flannigan, an accomplished quilter in St. Anthony. Mamie edged
the quilt herself.
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