Midsomer Quilting of Chilcompton present this exhibition.
Members met at the Village Hall at 1.30pm on 13th December to go to the Quilt Exhibition. Weather Ok - slight worry about roadworks in Radstock.Fascinating true and poignant story of the history of a hexagonal silk quilt displayed at the exhibition:
This is the story by the owner: She says this quilt was made by my great grandmother, who was born Anna Maria Cradock, near Hemington, on 6th February, 1836. In 1856 she married my great-grandfather, John Edgell, in Hemington, two and a half miles from the museum. In 1760 they moved to Foxcote Farm where they had three sons and two daughters, of whom my grandmother, also called Anna, was the only one to marry.
Grandmother was the youngest of the children and was only 11 when her mother
died. We believe this is why my great-grandmother’s quilt was unfinished
and was stored (together with her wedding dress) in the large wooden chest that
has housed it for the past 130 years.
This is the story by the owner: She says this quilt was made by my great grandmother, who was born Anna Maria Cradock, near Hemington, on 6th February, 1836. In 1856 she married my great-grandfather, John Edgell, in Hemington, two and a half miles from the museum. In 1760 they moved to Foxcote Farm where they had three sons and two daughters, of whom my grandmother, also called Anna, was the only one to marry.
Grandmother was the youngest of the children and was only 11 when her mother
died. We believe this is why my great-grandmother’s quilt was unfinished
and was stored (together with her wedding dress) in the large wooden chest that
has housed it for the past 130 years.
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