What a beautiful quilt! And so full of history (even if we haven't figured it out). And relevant to me. Last month I (re) found what appears to be a table runner with the initials A M W.... and I thought it had been made by my Grandmother Mary Christabel Wilcox Conner! I wrote a daughter (another Mary Christabel) who is into family history and a cousin and asked them who AMW might have been. Total blanks. I took it out to show some QB friends and, lo! The ornate A (a clear A with frilagree after) turned out to be a C with a lot of frilagree before it, and the M becomes W and the W becomes M. End of disappointment. It is linen based with silk embroidery. Since she had 4 children in the first 5 years of her marriage I'm presuming she made it while waiting to get married. Her father died when she was 18 or so and she taught until she was 30 to provide an income for her mother and 11 siblings!!! She told them from the get-go she would wait until 30 to marry, but then she would. My grandfather traveled around the world on tramp steamers during those years! I love these old historys!!!