Hattie R. Conley Atkinson, Fairfield, Illinois
Grandmother's Flower Garden, circa 1930 
cotton, 71 inches by 87 inches 
Illinois State Museum collection
Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sam Atkinson, McLeansboro, IL. (1987.45.4)

This arrangement of hexagons is a typical Grandmother's Flower Garden pattern of the 1930s. The green diamonds around each large block form stepping stones or a path through the garden. 

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Hattie R. Conley Atkinson was born in Clay, Illinois, on December 2, 1877, the daughter of Jasper Conley, a Civil War veteran and farmer and his wife Nancy A. Doton Conley. Hattie married a farmer named James W. Atkinson. She died in 1959. Mrs. Atkinson also made the Double Wedding Ring quilt featured in this quilt Web unit.