Description:
Pieced, cotton quilt in an eight-pointed star pattern made with pink and green printed cotton used for the center star surrounded by a band of white and then a diamond shape in green, on a white ground patterned with small, pink and black-faded-to-brown spots, and bound in a matching off-white cotton; off-white cotton backing; and cotton batting. The quilt came from a branch of the Stebbins family descended from Denis Stebbins (1778-1842) of Deerfield through his son, Lansford Alphonso Stebbins (1805-1864) who married Sara Ames (b.1810) of Leyden in 1829 after the death of his first wife, Elizabeth M. Perry of Leyden. The family moved first to Truxton, NY, and Peoria, Illinois, in 1854. According to Colin Edward Stebbins (1923-2010), the son of Charles Edward Stebbins (b. 1850) and Amelia A. Norris, and grandson of Lansford Stebbins, the quilt, which was known in the family as the "Civil War Era quilt top," was probably pieced by Sarah Ames Stebbins and then quilted by her daughter-in-law Amelia Stebbins later, in the 1930s. The quilting is done in a double chain stitch design with white cotton thread.
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