Starry Crazy

Detail of a crazy quilt dated 1901

Collection of the Sharlot Hall Museum in Arizona

The white cat and pink squirrel catch your eye but there's 

also a representation of a Grand Army of the Republic badge.

Grand Army of the Republic Badge

And a lot of stars....

Was it a G.A.R. quilt?

Also: symbols often seen on crazy quilts like cranes and shoes

and chickens.

And bulldogs, but a lot of stars.

The Arizona Quilt Project recorded this star-spangled quilt.

                                    

Sharlot Mabridth Hall (1870-1943)

 

I thought Sharlot Hall was a place but I see it's a woman. Journalist Sharlot Hall saved a place, the Arizona Governor's Mansion now named for her, the Sharlot Hall Museum

And they own the quilt.