Like other "vernacular" Crazy quilts, this Canadian example is mostly made of everyday wool and cotton fabrics. The small fabric "strings" were sewn onto foundation blocks and the overall size of the quilt suggests it was used as a functional bed cover rather than as decoration.

Collection of the Textile Museum of Canada

Pattern: 
Crazy quilt
Maker: 
Maker unidentified
Circa
1900
1930
Made in
New Brunswick
Canada
79
77
Textile Museum of Canada, Gift of Peter and Robin Leighton in memory of Marilynn R.S. Leighton
T2006.39.5