Grandma Pollard’s Dresden Plates
This is truly a four generation quilt and a family
treasure!
The Dresden plates in this quilt were made by my
great grandmother, Etta Amanda Dawdy-Pollard (1864-1945) in the late 1930’s to
early 1940’s.
She would create these
plates by hand using scraps of material left from the making of dresses and
aprons for/by my grandmother, Hattie May Hoover-Pollard and my Aunt Marjorie
Pollard. This task kept Etta’s hands
busy while she visited her son, my Grandpa David B. Pollard and his family in
Ridgeville during the summer. Aunt
Marjorie had always intended to complete this quilt but caring for her father
in his later years, knitting for her nieces, nursing at the Welland hospital
and enjoying life with Uncle Lloyd for 6 years, kept her from working on the
quilt.
In 2008, at the age of 88, Aunt Marjorie impeccably
appliqued the plates to muslin blocks. I
added the centre to each plate; then using reproduction fabrics I added sashing
and the border and finally hand quilted it all together to complete the quilt
in 2010. The signature of each quilter
is on the label on the back of the quilt.
This quilt has been on display at the Grimsby
Museum from October 20 to November 17, 2013 in a display of quilts called “The
Art of the Quilt”.
Submitted by
Harriett Pollard-Rynberk
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