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Tail-of-Benjamin’s-KiU. X2om and. Bfeans,'Cats' airdMitur,:: Caesar’s Crown, Rob Peter to Pay Paul, Dolley Madison Star (stars of every shape and description) -- hundreds of ’em! The names are as fascinating as the quilts.”
“Yes,” drawled the quitter, “it’s an interesting hobby •• but it certainly is time-consuming.”
The quilted bed-cover at Mary Washington House consumed 1200 yards of thread and more than 800 hours of time. It is estimated that there are a third-of-a-million stitches, and a month’s planning to get the design as near a duplicate of the original as possible. The linen center of the bed-cover was hand-painted by the Fredericksburg portrait artist, Keith T. Pitzer. The Mary Washington House bed-cover is not a “quilt, per se,” Miss Bowie explains, saying that Mary Ball Washington probably did not know the American art form of a quilt as we know it, but her illustrious son could have, for patriotic themes were most popular among late 18th century quilts in the new nation. A few of these are now in museums or highly prized in private collections. Several blue-ribbon quilts are in Miss Bowie’s own collection. “I’ve one that took 1400 hours just to quilt,” she says, “and that doesn’t count the hours it took my mother (Mrs. Robert Stringfellow Bowie) to piece it. It is an authentic copy of ‘The Boston Common’.”
A quilt of Miss Bowie’s original design is white-on-white, a history of the Green family. Itv is at “Greenwood,” the home of Mr. and Mrs. Angus M. Green in Culpeper.
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