Roanoke Valley, Virginia
Our lovely models were Mary Lou Lumsden, Cathy Fandel and Kathy Wickham. Thanks to them, and to Linda Green for her able management of the show. Thanks again to Nancy Farris for sharing her creations and for her generosity to our guild. (click on a picture to start gallery view.)
Betty Tyree and her team of stitchers has been working on large strippy scrap quilts for charity in the last few months. Here’s the latest batch.
Betty Tyree alerted us to Bonnie Hunter’s appearance on The Quilt Show. You can watch free through Saturday:
http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2014/05/free-to-my-readers-watch-my-episode-1410.html
You’ll have to register for The Quilt Show; she explains in the link above about that.
(Sorry for the rather short notice; I just got back in town from vacation.)
July 30, 1927 – April 1, 2014
I caught Angie in the spotlight for the first in a continuing column on our members; shown here with her prize winning whole cloth entry at the Salem Fair.
After 40 years working for a CPA firm she left the work world and took up quilting. She’d been doing hand work such as embroidery, knitting, needlepoint and crochet, but had never done anything in the quilting area beyond collecting patterns and magazines.
A general beginner class at a local quilt shop started her off. She continued with other classes; many through our guild. Most of her 100 quilts became gifts of comfort and kindness. For a while she presented a quilt to each new baby in her church, but her fellow Presbyterians proved too passionate for her. She created many quilts for the Good Samaritan Hospice, for our guild’s comfort quilts project, and made double knit single bed quilts for transient men at the City Rescue Mission.
Her favorite project was teaching hand piecing to 10 and 11 year olds at the Presbyterian Community Center in the after-school program for “at risk” youngsters. Four of an original 10 completed their quilts. After hand piecing them, Angie made the sandwiches & turned them. Then each girl tied them to complete the project. Angie made “Hand Quilted by..” labels for each girl with their name and age. Their obvious pride made it clear she’d made a real difference in their lives.
She’s one of the Crazy 8’s; currently comprised of Joanne Kling, Claire Barton, Sallie Powers, Nancy Ratner, Ann Weaver, Dianne Bragg, Wanda Nawrocki, and Angie. In January they begin a new project — single bed quilts for the women/children facility at City Rescue Mission.
She does all her assembly with a sewing machine, but enjoys hand quilting whole cloth quilts even though hand problems force her to limit her time. She shifted away from using a large frame to an 18” hoop which she can use from the recliner. She gets smaller stitches with a size 12 between, but usually uses a 10 because the 12’s break so easily. She saves her back by thread basting with the quilt sandwich on a pair of banquet tables raised about 6”.
— Susan Kraterfield
Our 2005 & 2007 shows had lots of lucious work by Angie. Do click on the pictures to get more detail.
Thanks to Susan Kraterfield and her helpers for running the “French Roses” or “Rosey Posey” block kit exchange. Thanks to Heather French for providing patterns for everyone, asking only that we display our completed projects for Show&Tell. We look forward to seeing the many beautiful and fun quilts!
Each month more completed Posies arrive in show n tell. Here’s what we’ve collected so far..
Here is a tutorial for Betty’s new string piecing charity project:
While the technology challenged is working on her tutorial the following are some websites that have tutorials with good information. Remember the sizes have been changed ((to protect the innocent), sorry Dragnet pun) to fit the templates that I had available. If everything goes well info should be done by this weekend complete with pictures and supplies needed.
Thanks for your help in creating these amazing charity quilts .
Betty Ann
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