The Ambrose Fire Department
building housed the Centennial Quilt Exhibit.
The quilt displayed in the left side of the doorway was -
Exhibited by R. Melzar Davis,
III
Variation of Pierced Arrow
Cream/Light sage green - 80" x 102"
In the early
1930s my mother, Edith Davis, sewed several quilt tops together
with a treadle machine by the light of a kerosene lamp. These tops
were not completed before her death in 1938.
My sisters, Florence and Lucille, received these uncompleted tops.
Lucille finished several of them giving one to Florence and her
sister, Lorna, and her brother, Richard. One day in the early 1990s
Lucille was showing me some of the beautiful quilts she had made
from those uncompleted tops. She said to me, “If you want one of
these tops for a family quilt, take one and make it yourself!” I
did just that. I completed it in 1995. We have used it since then
as a spread in our guest bedroom in Yuma, Arizona.
The room is furnished with many old prairie pieces from our farm in
Twin Butte Township - including the bed which the quilt covers; an
oak desk that belonged to my grandfather, Ronello M. Davis, Sr.; my
mother’s wedding hat (circa 1917 - red velvet with red feathers);
her kid gloves and her shoes; and an easel upon which the velvet
quilt hangs. |
