An internet search yielded several vintage state bird patterns: Aunt Martha, Grit, Laura Wheeler, Nadine Bradley and assorted others. No one seemed to know which pattern was sold via Progressive Farmer magazine.
My mother looked through hours of family reunion video. The only quilt images were too fleeting and out of focus to identify a pattern.
Matthis Bird Quilt
In the 1960's, my great uncle Gladston Matthis (A.K.A Uncle Doodle) mail ordered a quilt pattern from Progressive Farmer magazine. The iron transfer embroidery pattern contained 50 state birds. My great grand-mother, Eva Mae Ezzell Matthis, completed this quilt for Doodle. For many years after her passing in 1970, Doodle kept the quilt in his room and would occasionally show it to visitors. In the early to mid 1990's, Doodle hung the quilt up (with nails ~cringe~) in the family room. It was especially enjoyed during the annual family reunion each June.
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