OF MINIATURE AMISH QUILTS
Dorothy G. Bosselman was a wife, mother, artist, volunteer at the New England Quilt Museum and member of its Board of Directors. In the 1970’s, she lived in Ohio and first became interested in the Amish people and their quilts. In 1990 she was guest curator of an exhibit of Amish quilts at NEQM. Many of the quilts exhibited were borrowed directly from the Amish people she met on her extensive travels to Amish communities from Oklahoma to Ontario and in between.
Because she was limited to 30 quilts for the exhibit, she began making miniature replicas of Amish quilts seen in quilt books. Dorothy hand quilted some of the miniatures and enlisted the help of many friends and fellow museum volunteers to quilt the others.
They are arranged in order from simple patterns to more complex patterns.
Dorothy passed away in 2000. In 2009, her husband Gus donated the miniature quilt collection to the New England Quilt Museum.