Possibly made by Mrs. Lydia Yoder Diener, Arthur, Illinois 
Log Cabin Crib Quilt, 1892
wool and cotton, 41 inches by 45 inches
Illinois Amish Quilt Collection
Illinois State Museum
Quilt sponsored by  Illinois Power

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Log cabin patterns were very popular in the last quarter of the nineteenth century among non-Amish quilters, but there are only three log cabin quilts among the 160 in the Illinois State Museum's collection of Amish quilts. 

New babies were welcomed with crib quilts usually made by their mothers or grandmothers. This crib quilt was probably made by Lydia Yoder, who was born in indiana in 1870 and moved to Illinois when she married Andrew M. Diener in 1891. Her son Menno (b. 1895) was given this quilt when he left home to marry in 1921: however, it was probably the same quilt he slept under as a baby. the family history identifies the maker as Menno's grandmother, Veronica King Diener; however, she died in 1877 in Pennsylvania, and, because of the fabrics used, it is highly unlikely that this quilt was made before 1890.