Farm Life Quilt
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This series includes twenty five 6-inch blocks:
Farm Home
Big Tractor
Old Apple Tree
Well Filled Barn
Faithful Dobbin
Friendly Cow
Sheep
Donkey
Pig in the Sty
Billy the Goat
Loyal Shep
Family Cat
Struttin’ Rooster
Busy Hen
Goose in the Pond
What a Turkey
Barn Pigeons
Greedy Duck
Real Fishin’
Butter From Churn
Farm Flowers
Scarecrow
Harvest Field
Old Oaken Bucket
Farm Music
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This small quilt includes blocks depicting an idealized, Norman Rockwell-like view of rural living – a boy fishing, a woman churning butter, a raggedy scarecrow….
The blocks were originally published as a series in 1930 and 1931 in the Omaha World-Herald newspaper.
Shirley McElderry of Ottumwa, Iowa, finished this wonderful little piece in 1996 using older (completed) blocks she found at a shop in Omaha, Nebraska. Shirley organized the blocks and added the fenced border. Lynne Blackwell machine quilted it. Fabrics are all cottons and quilt measures 60 x 73 inches. About Shirley McElderry.
Back of the Quilt
Pig in the Sty
Billy the Goat
The Family Cat
The Struttin' Rooster
A Busy Hen
What a Turkey
Barn Pidgeons
Faithful Dobbin
Pig in the Sty
Goose in the Pond
What a Turkey
Butter From the Churn
A Harvest Field
The Old Oakin' Bucket
Goose in the Pond
What a Turkey
Real Fishin'
The Scarecrow
A Harvest Field
The Greedy Duck
Barn Pidgeons
The Big Tractor
Farm Home
Real Fishin'
The Scarecrow
Inscription on back
Pattern History
"Whether you live on a farm, in a village, or in a city, you will be charmed with the Farm Life Quilt. Each block pictures some friendly scene or faithful animal and all of them together make a quilt that is interesting and homelike as it is comfortable to use." Ruby Short McKim
Shirley McElderry
"My obsession with quilts began in the mid 1960’s. I had already made several crib quilts when one day a quilt dealer friend showed me a Ruby Short (McKim) “Quaddy Quiltie” crib quilt from about 1918 -- and I was hooked on antique crib quilts. This one I had to keep!
Since then, I have made and collected other crib quilts made with the McKim series published newspaper patterns. And that followed, naturally, into collecting other “kit” crib quilts as well as other folk art” crib quilts created from patterns, pictures, and whatever whimsy struck the quiltmaker.
My collection of crib quilts represents, indeed, a century of childhood."
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