Valentine Treat

 

This cut-paper heart quilt was documented by the Arizona project in the 1980s.

The Turkey red print indicates it was made before 1860 or so. The

documenters thought perhaps 1850-1875.

The woman who brought the quilt to be recorded was the great-niece of a Kearney, New Jersey woman Katherine Lloyd Foster. The niece recalled that her mother acquired it from Katherine in the early 1950s. It's unlikely that Katherine who seems to have died after 1960 was the maker.

82" x 86"

An over-all picture with some Photoshopping

https://quiltindex.org//view/?type=fullrec&kid=38-36-2604

Without more genealogical information we haven't a clue as to who made it, but Katherine's mother Mary Foster was from Ireland, a place where you are likely to see heart-shaped appliques. That tradition was also common in the New York/Connecticut/New Jersey area.