Marie's Quilts: abt 1998

Showing posts with label abt 1998. Show all posts

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Saturday, June 21, 2008

There are squares, stars, tumbling blocks, broken stars, and diamonds; three colors of light blue, 3 colors of dark blue and maroon. "I cut and matched and sewed for such a long time that when I got most of the blocks and diamonds together, I put it in a box for several years. When I took it out of the box, I had forgotten how it was to go together. What a puzzle! But I'm happy with how it turned out."

This is just a sampling of the many quilts Marie has produced and been responsible for being produced. She has given her family and others dozens of baby quilts, camp quilts, and bedding quilts. Ten or more years ago she was called as the quilting specialist in her ward. At that time she organized a program of weekly quilting. Many women began coming, materials were donated, and teaching happened. At first, they quilted for each other, but soon other quilts were made. Marie decided that these quilts needed to be used for a good purpose and began sending them to the humanitarian center. She served faithfully until January 2008, when the original Bear Lake Ward was split and everyone was released from their callings. At that time, Garden City's mayor, Ken Hansen, asked Marie to continue making humanitarian quilts using the city's Convention Center. The women participating in the humanitarian quilting efforts have continued making from five to twelve quilts each week. In 2007 the women made and delivered 370 quilts to the humanitarian center and have made a tremendous start this year. All fabric, batting, yarn, tacks, stands, thread, clamps, etc. are donated. It seems whenever the group starts to get low in some of these items, more are donated.

Because Marie gets the tops and backs ready for each Tuesday's quilting, and she actually puts on the quilts each Monday morning, then binds many of these quilted items the rest of the week, she has not spent as much time these last ten years making her own tops and quilts. She still manages to squeeze in a few pieced quilts of her own as she spends her time at the cutting table and sewing machine.

Marie not only loves quilts and immerses herself in working on them, she is also known as the town's flower lady. Each spring she tills the soil in her flower beds and plants seeds. She weeds, waters, and talks to her plants. Each summer her garden becomes a fantastic display of color and beauty. Hundreds of people drive by just to admire the flowers and smell the wonderful fragrance they produce.

Her home and yard are featured in a painting, puzzle and tin painted by Eric Dowdle. It is also pictured in a book called " Bear Lake -- Life in a Lakeside Town" written by Charlie Sheehan . The most frequently asked question posed at the Visitor's Bureau as people are coming into the area is "How do we find the house with all the flowers?"

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Grandma's Flower Garden

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Log Cabin -- Variation

Featured Post

Butterflies (Embroidered by Anita -- Hand Quilted by Marie)

Links

Blog Archive