Columbia Bicentennial Quilt
Designed by Hazel Rossl
Columbia, SC
1986
Gift of Logan Lap Quilters
McKissick Museum Collection 2012.08.01
The 1960s back-to-the-land movement, along with the 1976 American bicentennial and women’s movement, sparked the late 20th century quiltmaking revival. This quilt participates in that renewed tradition of women collaborating to produce a quilt as a visual marker of a historic moment in their community. Designed by Hazel Ross and stitched by members of the Logan Lap Quilters of Columbia, SC, this block-style quilt depicts landscapes, buildings, and businesses of Columbia and the surrounding area – the Congaree River, Riverbanks Zoo, State Capitol, and Longstreet Theatre. The Logan Lap Quilters have been meeting and creating fabric-based projects for over thirty years. With over sixty members, the guild meets every month and has special events throughout the year. They organize several special quilt projects, including making quilts for the Ronald McDonald House and quilted isolette covers for the Palmetto Health Richland Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Blazing Star
Fannie Elizabeth Wilson
Abbeville County, SC
1875
Gift of William and Elizabeth Brooks
Coxcomb Variation
Sarah Edith Coleman Colvin (1856-1930)
Fairfield County, SC
1880
Gift of Edith E. Adams in memory of Mary Colvin Adams and Eva Colvin
Logan Lap Quilters 2012.08.01
This City of Columbia Bicentennial Quilt was made in 1986 by members of the Logan Lap Quilters of Metropolitan Columbia. Quilters participating in the project included Pat Harwell, Hazel Ross (designed the quilt), Sylvia Picknell, and Mildred Murray. The Logan Lap Quilters have been meeting and creating fabric-based projects for over thirty years. With over sixty members, the guild meets every month and has special events throughout the year. They organize several special quilt projects, including making quilts for the Ronald McDonald House and quilted isolette covers for the Palmetto Health Richland Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.