Machine quilted and hand beaded heirloom napkin that was purchased by my grandmother in Italy in 1927.
My maternal grandmother Hazel Alma Smith Ellenberger (1898-1981) married my grandfather Quay Dean Ellenberger (1898-1965) in 1928 at the age of 30. She had always wanted to travel to Europe. My grandfather hated to travel, so he told her she'd better go before they got married, which she did in 1927. This napkin is part of a bridge set (6 napkins and a table cloth) that she very likely purchased in Italy on that trip. Almost 100 years later, I quilted two of these napkins - the previous one for my mother Alice Anne Ellenberger Critchlow (b. 1933) and this one for me.
A special thanks to Cindy Needham and Bethanne Nemesh, whose classes gave me the skills and confidence to create this quilt.
Machine quilted (walking foot and free motion on a domestic machine), hand beaded with hand embellished binding by Sally Anne Critchlow Terris (b. 1957).
Photo: Hazel and Dean Ellenberger in the late 1920s.
Maker: Sally Terris
Quilter: Sally Terris
Year Made: 2021
Owned By: Sally Terris
Size: NA
Shows & Museums: 2021 PIQF New Quilts of Northern California Exhibit; 2022 Road to California; 2022 SCVQA Quilt Show; 2022 Houston International Quilt Festival; 2023 AQS Paducah
Awards: 2022 Road to California - 3rd Place Miniature; 2023 AQS Paducah - Honorable Mention Miniature
