Catalogue Number:
116
Sale Year:
2015
Item Type:
Colours:
Donor(s):
Mennonite Savings and Credit Union
Quilter(s):
Judy Gascho-Jutzi
Machine Quilted:
yes
Dimensions:
62 x 73
Description:
Appliqued & pieced
In 1964 twenty two people contributed a single dollar into a metal cash box and the Mennonite Savings and Credit Union was born. Fifty years later, the credit union has been commemorated in a quilt with themes of community, mutual aid, faith and finances depicted in colourful visual fibre art.