Date Range : 1950-1975

Fabric Type and Color : Cotton and some knits in red, navy paisley, brown paisley, denim, blue, beige, and some stripes. Cotton batting.

Quilt Size : 64" x 77"

Block Size : N/A

Construction : Pieced by hand. Quilted by hand in a checkerboard fashion at 5 stitches to the inch showing on the surface.

Quiltmaker : Ruby Green Cagle (b 22 Jan 1915 in Jackson County, d 1996; married Frank Cagle in 1936)

Locale : Cullowhee (Forest Hills), NC

History/Comments : Ruby was the seventh of eleven children born to Estes and Elanora Green. She learned to sew and quilt at an early age. Throughout her life, Ruby loved to make quilts. Everywhere she went she would carry a little bag with scissors, thread, needle, thimble, and quilt pieces. She was an expert at cutting out quilt pieces from material until the only thing left would be strings. Ruby often remarked how she and her mother would sew together small pieces to get a section large enough to make a quilt piece. Her passion was for the old patterns, such as Grandmother's Flower Garden. At Ruby's death, the family distributed over 100 quilts made by Ruby.