The Sun Sets on Sunbonnet Sue Seamsters Union Local #500
62" x 78"
Cotton, velvet, polyester batting.
MSU Museum Accession 2001:158.1
Photo by Pearl Yee Wong, all rights reserved by MSU Museum
This quilt was made by a group of quilters in Lawrence who gave themselves
the tongue-in-cheek name "Seamsters Union Local #500." They
"gave into their desires to eliminate the 'goody two-shoes' in their
pasts" and, with a sense of humor, created twenty blocks, each of
which offers a unique way to "do in" Sunbonnet Sue, the bonneted
figure in the popular pattern. Many of the methods of deaths reflect current
and popular culture events of the 1970s.
Excerpted from The Michigan Quilt Project: New Discoveries
by Cathy Dwigans
"Dr. La Fong's Cure
by Bryan Anderson