Brought to the museum 60 years ago, the Jane Stickle quilt is only shown for a short time each year due to the fragility of the fabric. The Jane Stickle Quilt is comprised of 169 five-inch blocks, each in different patterns, containing a remarkable total of 5,602 pieces surrounded by a unique scalloped border. The Stickle quilt, with its dizzying array of printed cloth patterns and individual block designs, surely embodies this idea of quilt as art,â said Jamie Franklin, curator of the Bennington Museum. Jane Stickle was born Jane Blakely on April 8, 1817 in Shaftsbury, Vermont.

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