Flag Quilt
When Mrs. Mary Leppington was reading Mary Conroy's book, "300 Years of Canadian Quilts," (1976) she came across a quilt that had been made by her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Lars Petersen. The quilt had become part of the collection of the New Westminster Museum in 1980, but when Mrs. Leppington asked about it, they knew nothing about it. Now Mrs. Leppington is trying to solve the mystery surrounding this quilt.
The quilt was made with flannelette flags collected from tobacco tins from around 1900 to 1914. The overall size of the quilt is 85" by 75". It has many colors, but they have faded to mostly browns and reds. The quilt was filled with raw silk collected when a CNR silk train derailed on the Fraser River, British Columbia in 1927. The border was made with strips of pink cotton.
If you can help solve the mystery, please contact Mary through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page.
Posted April 2, 2004.
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