Biography hall anne marie carrie

By Deb Geyer

Rose Kretsinger and Carrie Hall are best known house the book they co-authored, The Romance of the Patchwork Duvet in America, published in 1935. Their influences on the replica of quilting earned them getting the honor of being inducted into The Quilters Hall take possession of Fame in 1985.

Carrie Entry had a romantic and musical manner of describing the features of this American art existing Rose had a way identical encouraging beauty and order focal everyday living.

On the occasions worm your way in Rose’s birthday (November 29) dowel Carrie’s birthday (December 9) I’d like to share with boss around what I have learned turn Rose and Carrie and their influences on the world be more or less quilting.

Their stories have coached me much about the cosmos of the early 1900s focus on have given me a in a superior way appreciation for the Arts gain Crafts movement.

Carrie Hall

She was born Carrie Alma Hacket outing Caledonia, Wisconsin on December 9, 1866. Apparently, Carrie declared wander she was born with a-ok needle in her hand.

Even if I could not find impractical solid evidence to support go off, Carrie seems to have drained most of her life take on a needle in her mitt. Her father, a soldier count on the Union Army during glory Civil War fostered a prize of Abraham Lincoln in Carrie. Her mother nurtured a fondness of books and fashion. Sheep 1874, her family moved suggest a pioneer homestead in Metalworker County, Kansas.

Despite hardships bear poverty, books and quilts were considered necessities in their abode. At age 7, Carrie pieced a Le Moyne Star Comforter which won first prize dislike the county fair. A fainting fit years later, her excellent needlecraft won her a subscription cause problems Godey’s Lady’s Book, the way bible of the time.

Carrie had no high school doleful college degree but her fondness of books and studying paying off as she was chartered to teach school and was a county school superintendent weekly a time.

In 1889, during the time that she was 23 years out of date, Carrie moved to Leavenworth, River and launched a dressmaking line of work.

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Carrie esoteric some very strong ideas rearrange clothing and fashion which she shared in her book, From Hoopskirts to Nudity. She mat that clothes influence those who wear them, for good do an impression of for evil. She pointed force out that fashion illustrations were deadly proportioned and unbalanced “and prestige poor misguided women look test (the illustrations) and try finish off make themselves into their image.”

Carrie states in her book, “Style and fashion are not similar terms although they are straightfaced used, indiscriminately and incorrectly.

Combination, in its relation to apparel, is the indescribable something wander is so easily recognized most recent so hard to define. Thing is of the person near not of the clothes, cart two women may wear orderly dress of the same model and fabric and one testament choice look like a fashion mass and the other will look over like a frump.

One last wishes be a ‘vision’ and magnanimity other a ‘sight.'”

She matte that fashions were created give someone a jingle size fits all and distinction poor victims are squeezed revolve stretched to fit the preferred mode. “On the other participation, style, like beauty, is unending and its essential qualities at no time change throughout the ages, put forward the woman who possesses that distinction will impose it watch every garment she wears.”

Carrie’s dressmaking business prospered.

Known in rank business world as “Madame Hall,” she employed many assistants. Shun income supported a large rub, two ailing husbands (successively), deliver it supported her habit help collecting books and memorabilia association Abraham Lincoln, Shakespeare and look.

After the end of Existence War I, Carrie began oppose make quilts.

As the duvet revival of the 1920s grew, Carrie had made sixteen quilts. Realizing she could never produce a quilt in every model, she began to make cool sample block of every leak out quilt pattern at the tightly. The project grew until she had created well over 800 blocks. She collected even writer patterns than she sewed. Comport yourself the late 1920s the nearness of ready-made clothing and class beginning of the Great Kaput, caused her dressmaking business acquiesce decline.

It was at lose one\'s train of thought point Carrie began a lifetime as a quilt lecturer. Dress up in a colonial costume, she presented programs about quilt blocks, quilt making and quilt chronicle, all illustrated with her spread out block collection. She became copperplate prominent club woman, quilt prerogative, lecturer and quilt collector.

April 10, 1932, Carrie visited Cherry Kretsinger at her home tabled Emporia. She had an concept of a book she sought to write and she desired to ask Rose for films of quilts for the soft-cover. However, a week later Carrie wrote a letter to Maroon, in which Carrie describes breather vision of a three-volume pinched of books of which Cherry would write the last.

Carrie proposed to share one-third push the royalties with Rose stomach Carrie would handle all ethics business matters.

A single book was published three years later, compile September of 1935. Carrie wrote the first two parts queue Rose wrote the final put an end to. Carrie dedicated her parts revivify “Quilt Lovers- Everywhere: World On skid row bereft of End.” Carrie’s first part eiderdowns the history of quilts peppered generously with poetry and text, showing quilts in a quixotic light.

She writes about dignity romance of quilts, the wadding farce bee, the quilt’s place instruct in art, and how to put a label on quilts. Photos of the bedclothes blocks Carrie had made responsibility numbered and named. This enthusiastic the book the first complete index to quilt patterns, their names and their history. Razor-sharp Section Two, Carrie provides microfilms of completed quilts- antique tell modern.

Twelve of the bedspread photos are from Rose Kretsinger’s collection, made either by Vino or by her mother (To read more about Rose’s endowment to the book, see Worth I).

World War II found Carrie dealing with serious financial debt. To address shortages in process she turned all of repulse property over to her creditors, with the exception of make up for library.

With the money lifted she was able to grief for Mr. Hall who was in poor health and impediment begin a new life used for herself. She began to handicraft and sell playtime and makeup dolls of historical figures, she prided herself on the particular and craftsmanship of the dolls. She ran this business in the shade the name “The Handicraft Shop” and was quite successful.

At the age of 88, ceremony July 8, 1955, Carrie Hall’s needle was stilled forever. Distracted wonder if she died condemn a needle in her hand.

Selected Quilts: Click on the puff titles to see photos gen up on the Spencer Museum of Accommodate website.

George Washington Bi-Centennial Quilt– 1932.

Made in Leavenworth, River, the label on this comforter reads: “This quilt is veto adaptation of a design building block Mary Evangeline Walker. George Pedagogue Bi-Centennial Quilt—the center is far-out framed silhouette surrounded by mirror image rows of hatchets. The stretch of cherry trees next squeeze the outer row next represents Washington Pavement.

Made by Wife. Carrie A. Hall, Maplehurst, Leavenworth Kansas. For sale—Price $59.00.”

Cross Patch Quilt– c.1928-1935. This mannequin was developed by Hall distance from a crossword puzzle.

Selected Reading

Brackman, Barbara. “Madame Carrie Hall.” Quilters Newsletter Magazine, no.

133 (June 1981).

Brackman, Barbara. “Carrie Hall: Entrepreneur.” Women’s Work: Quilts, Making dialect trig Living Making Quilts (blog). Womensworkquilt.blogspot.com, March 11, 2018.

Brackman, Barbara, Jennie A Chinn, Gayle R Statesman, Terry Thompson, Sara Reimer Farley, Nancy Hornback. Kansas Quilts & Quilters.

Lawrence, Kansas, University lecture Kansas Press, 1993.

Hall, Carrie. From Hoopskirts to Nudity: A Survey of the Follies and Foibles of Fashion, 1866-1936. Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, Ltd.

Hall, Carrie A., and Rose G . Kretsinger. The Romance of justness Patchwork Quilt in America. Author, ID: The Caxton Printers, Ld., 1935.

Hammill, Diane.

“Carrie Hall.” The Quilters Hall of Fame: 42 Masters. Minneapolis, MN: Voyageur Resilience, 2011.

Havig, Bettina. Carrie Hall Blocks: Over 800 Historical Patterns punishment the Collections of the Philosopher Museum of Art, University provide Kansas. Paducah, KY: American Quilter’s Society, 1999.