Celebrate National Hobby Month: Quilting

Join us for a reception and display of one of the most well known hobbies associated with the Friends of Wood Memorial Library. View the quilts in our collection, some of which have not been on public display in decades.  Interested in starting the quilting group up again?  This is your chance to voice your interest and meet with like minded hobbyists.  Light refreshments will be served to attendees as they explore the connections between the hobby of quilting and the Friends.

The South Windsor Bicentennial Quilt, finished in 1976, which features scenes and buildings from the town’s past.
Click here for detailed descriptions of each square and the name of its maker.

The Long Hill Missionary Circle’s Penny Square Friendship Quilt, made by squares that were embroidered in the early 1890s by residents of the Long Hill section of town.  The squares were kept in the attic of Suzie Lathrop Briggs, one of the stitchers; they had never been pieced together.  In 1977 they were given to The Wood and sewn into a quilt by the Friends of Wood Memorial Library & Museum Quilters.

An 1894 Crazy Quilt which has an Odd Fellow emblem embroidered at its center spelling out “Friendship – Love – Truth.”  It was won in a raffle at the Odd Fellows Convention in Chicago in 1895 by a delegate from Connecticut and later donated to Friends of Wood Memorial Library & Museum.