Quilting a Credit Union

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.