Quilt by Annie Caroline Teagarden Garner
(1869-1950)
The West Virginia project saw the best quilts. See Annie Garner at Quilt Index.
Her diagonal pieced design above has been puzzling me for years.
At a quilt day in Wheeling in 1992 they saw three of Annie's
quilts, all made with the same late-19th century solid cottons.
But quite different styles.
Annie probably made these about 1890 when she was about 20.
She married John Garner (1863-1941) in 1888 and had four children. They
farmed in Wetzel County.
I color corrected the Quilt Index photos and squared them up a little.
Classic Southern quilts at the turn of the 20th century---solid fabrics, not very colorfast.
It's nice to see one woman's work as a group.
This quilt seems to be a one-of-a-kind design.
It took me a ridiculously long time to figure out the repeat.
But here is the block. Annie set the blocks in a strip and then put the strip on the diagonal.
And she staggered the repeat in a half-drop design.
Which makes it hard to figure out.
But now that I have I feel quite smart.
Not quite as smart as Annie, however.
Some family information from Find-a-Grave
Wetzel County is on the Ohio River just east of Ohio
New Martinsville is the county seat, where Annie is buried.