The James Collection also includes one-of-a-kind Crazy quilts. Not only is this one constructed in less fancy materials (it is primary made of workaday woolen fabrics), it is also covered in embroidered Bible quotations. Perhaps most notable of all, we know from its provenance that it was made for Frances Willard, president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and advocate for women's voting rights, by her mother.

Pattern: 
Crazy
Maker: 
Mary T.H. Willard
Circa
1889
Made in
Evanston
Illinois
United States
92
75.5
Ardis and Robert James Collection
1997.007.0318