First Congregational Church of Webster Groves

#1 Nine Patch Grace
Pieced early 1900s, quilted 1999-2000

This cotton quilt has seven-inch blocks of mostly reds, blues, grays, and blacks set 6 across and 8 down with 2 ½ inch sashing of various colors set in streak-of-lightning pattern with the same gray print at intersections, 2 ½ inch dark red print border, 2 inch border of individual squares from nine-patch blocks, 6 inch outer border of medium blue print which is also used for the backing. This quilt measures 72″ x 90″

#2 Nine Patch Grace
Pieced early 1900s, quilted 1999

This cotton quilt has seven-inch blocks of mostly blue and gray checks, stripes, and plaids (6 blocks across, 7 down), 2 ½ inch navy sashing with squares from the nine-patch blocks at intersections, 2½ inch border, outer border 7-inch navy with one nine-patch having some red in each of the four comers; pale blue backing. This quilt measures 74″ x 84″

#3 Rose of Sharon or Kentucky Rose
1930s or 1940s – quilted in early 1980s

Appliquéd rose and green quilt on white background with three-inch border of rose print fabric. This quilt measures 80″ x 85.”

 #4 Flower Appliqué – 1920s-1930s
Quilted ca 1970s

On blocks 11 x 13, multiprint lavender petals with yellow center and green stem appliquéd on white, set with green·sashing, darkest green at intersections, two-inch white border, two-inch outer border in green, pale green backing. This cotton quilt measures 78″ x 86″ (cotton/polyester backing?)

#5 Rockhold Quilt: “Hen and Chickens”
or variation of Victory Boat – ca. 1886 1980s

Rose and green geometric 9 inch blocks with inner rose border, outside white border bound in white 70” x 82” cotton backing (probably flour/sugar sacks. Some staining)

#6 Four-Patch Variation “Big Dipper”
Pieced early 1900s, quilted 2003

7 1/4 inch blocks, each of the four squares composed of four triangles in shades of blue, gray, and white. Blocks are set diagonally with two-inch sashing in rose and dark blue, four blocks across and seven down.  Backing has a large center rectangle of the rose fabric with wide borders of the dark blue. This cotton quilt measures 81″ x  87″

#7 Star-of-LeMoyne
Pieced between 1970-1995; quilted 1997

Each ray of eight-point star divided longitudinally using one brown print and one brown-and-white check, white background, sashing of the print 79” x 92” cotton and cotton/polyester?

#8 Flower Garden
ca. 1930s

Green and white with multicolored print  hexagons, measuring 7 ½” with yellow centers, ringed by print row, then solid color row, then white, with small green diamonds for borders between blocks; outer binding white. This twin sized cotton quilt measures 63″ x 89″

#9 & #10  Flower Garden
(Two double bed sized quilts) – Early 1930s

Green, white, and multicolored prints of 9 ½ x 6 ½ cotton hexagons with yellow centers, ringed by solid color, then print, then white, outer binding green. These quilts measure 77″ x 83″

#11 Double Irish Chain
1930s – 1940s

Pink and white solids bordered in raspberry pink. This cotton quilt measures  70 ½”  x  78″

#12 Boston Commons
1920s?

Five panels, eight-inches wide with multi-color prints and bright blue squares as outer pieces all around, seven-inch white panels in between, 3/4 inch blue border. This cotton quilt measures 72” x 82”

#13 Dresden Plate
Pieced 1920s-1930s, quilted 1997

Yellow-orange predominant color (centers of plate, border strip, binding) with multicolor rays, border of rays on all four sides; background white.  This cotton and cotton/polyester (?) quilt measures 73” x 89”