Coxcomb
Mary Schafer
Flushing, Genesee County, MI
1968
81" x 94 3/4"
Cotton with polyester filling
1998:53.17
Photo by KEVA, all rights reserved Michigan State University Museum

The pattern, very difficult to appliqué, is derived from a folded paper cutout. It was an original design of Glenna Boyd's, editor of Aunt Kate's Quilting Bee, published during the 1960s.

By Gwen Marston from The Mary Schafer Quilt Collection exhibit catalog.