DescriptionThe quilter is Annie R. (Little) Mangumn (1900-1989). She was the great aunt of the owner of the quilt, Lillie Johnson Edwards. Having worked in domestic service all of her life in Columbus, GA, and then in Ohio, Aunt Annie returned to Georgia to help care for her parents circa 1950. Her quilts were made from household fabrics, usually discarded clothes and other household items. This quilt was made from the discarded remnants of satin sheets and pillowcases that my mother, Lavena Williams Johnson (1918-1994) purchased in the early 1980s, miscellaneous cloth, and remnants of Aunt Annie's blue and white floral dress. The dress print is just barely visible. The approximate date when this quilt was made means that Aunt Annie's arthritis would have made hand stitching difficult. This was one of the last quilts Aunt Annie made before her death in 1989. Although some of Aunt Annie's quilts contained batting, most of them did not since the warm Georgia weather did not require that quilts provide the additional warmth of the batting. The small size of the quilt indicates that it was used as a decorative throw rather than as bedding.