Made up of 85,789 individual pieces, this Flower Basket Petit Point quilt took Grace Snyder 16 months to complete between 1941 and 1942. The pattern is based off a china plate made by the Salem China Company of Ohio. Snyder came to Nebraska with her family in 1885 to homestead on a claim in Custer County acquired through the Homestead Act. She would remain in central and western Nebraska for several years, where she focused on raising her family and creating quilts. She was gifted in several textile arts aside from quilting, including crochet and embroidery. Grace would eventually go on to be inducted into the Quilters Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Nebraska Quilters Hall of Fame. Although Snyder created beautiful quilts that are held in several museum collections, this Flower Basket Petit Point quilt is by far her most famous. The quilt was included in the book The 20th Century’s 100 Best American Quilts. The quilt also won her a top award at the 1944 Nebraska State Fair, while several of her others took home blue ribbons that year. Grace Snyder left an artistic and poetic impact on Nebraska with her quilts and her 1963 autobiography, No Time on My Hands. In that book she wrote, “I wished that I might grow up to make the most beautiful quilts in the world, to marry a cowboy, and to look down on the top of a cloud.”