Pennsylvania Dutch Flower Garden
Mary Schafer and Betty Harriman
1973
Bunceton, Cooper County, Missouri and Flushing, Genesee County, Michigan
Cotton with polyester
81 x 103
MSUM# 1998:53.73
Photo by KEVA, all rights reserved Michigan State University Museum

Betty and Mary both contributed blocks to this quilt. The pattern is from Country Gentlemen magazine, a source of mail order patterns in the 1930s. The border is Mary’s original contribution. Mary had her neighbors sign the quilt blocks.