Quilts of the Animas Museum
Utilitarian Quilts
Utilitarian Quilts
LOG CABIN QUILT - Streak of Lightning Setting
Date: Made before 1936 in Hesperus, southwestern La Plata County
Materials: cotton, linen, silk, velvet, feed sacks in foundation
Techniques: pieced by hand and machine, embroidery
Block pattern: Log Cabin
Maker: Helen Elizabeth Hetherington Isgar
Gift of Joan Isgar Kellogg
Catalog Number: 11.24.2
The earliest evidence of the log cabin pattern is found on the linen wrappings on Egyptian cat mummies! In the 19th century, European archeologists sent these mummies from Egypt back to Europe. Egyptology was a popular pastime in the Victorian era. Perhaps the Log Cabin pattern was a "copycat fad" lasting to present day.