Date Range : Post 1975

Fabric Type and Color : Cotton and poly-cottons in prints and solids. Yellow centers, various prints, green solids, floral print on black for the garden path. Some might be printed feed sack cloth. Batting is poly-fiber fill.

Quilt Size : 75" x 90"

Block Size : 1" on a side of the hexagon

Construction : Pieced by hand. Quilted by hand 5 stitches to the inch "in the ditch," i.e. in the seam lines where hexagons are joined together.

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 : Tag sewn on quilt "Handmade by Ruby Cagle." Consistent placement of light, dark, and medium color prints has created a pleasing overall design .

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 Grandmotherís Flower Garden. At Ruby's death, the family distributed over 100 quilts made by Ruby.