African-American quilts range widely in appearance and technique from conventional, precisely pieced patterns to the more idiosyncratic patchwork and untutored technique seen in the quilts of Gee's Bend, Alabama. When Eloise Lindsey (1894-1984) created this strip, or "strippy" quilt, she, like the women of Gee's Bend, was motivated by necessity, the availability of materials, and her desire to instill her own sense of beauty into a utilitarian object. Narrow scraps of uncoordinated fabrics (plain and printed flannels, corduroys, stripes, comic strip inspired novelty prints, checks, paisleys, and avant-garde geometrics obtained from dressmaking scraps, remnants ordered through the Sears Roebuck catalog, and recycled feed bags), were first sewn into irregular blocks, then joined into strips, and finally combined to create a quilt top. The resulting patchwork is a blizzard of stripes of random color and size reminiscent of a modern abstract painting. Lindsey lived her entire life in Jasper County, Mississippi, where she raised eight children and performed the myriad duties expected of a farmer's wife, including the production of multiple quilts required for warmth on cold nights. While this colorful patchwork was probably reserved for the main bedroom, other utility quilts were created of recycled feed bags, worn blue jeans, and home-dyed fertilizer sacks stuffed, as in this case, with coarse, homegrown cotton.