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Pansy Hollis has been the chairman of the quilt show
for the last 6 Cheese Festivals.
Joyce Lucas, chairman of
this year's festival, asked Pansy to make a quilt out of
Cheese Festival t-shirts to be used as a fundraiser for
this year's event.
Pansy chose 20 Rat Race
t-shirts to make an 80 by 75 inch quilt. The quilt
should be quilted and ready to display at this year's Chamber
of Commerce Banquet on April 3rd.
Pansy remarked that as
she made the quilt, it kind of made her sad to think
that Watonga didn't have Dick Smith to draw t-shirt
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It took me more
than 20 years, nearly 25, I reckon, in the evenings after supper
when the children were all put to bed.
My whole life is in that quilt . . . All my joys and all my
sorrows are stitched into those little pieces,
I tremble sometimes when I remember what that quilt knows about
me.
When I’m gone, ain’t nobody goin’ to think o’ the floors I’ve
swept . . .
But when one of my grandchildren or great-grandchildren sees one
o’ these quilts, they’ll think of Aunt Jane,
and wherever I am then, I’ll know I’m not forgotten.
(these things said of the grandmothers quilt pattern, by one
quilter)
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here's a winner from
2003
Poppy Seed Chicken
Margie
Laubach
2 pkg. wild rice (cooked according to pkg.)
10 - 12 chicken breast (whole or cut up)
2 cans cream of chicken soup
1 cup sour cream
8 oz. grated montery jack cheese
1 1/2 tbsp. poppy seed
Topping: 2 rolls of Ritz crackers (crushed), 1
1/2 sticks butter, 1 1/2 tbsp. poppy seed. Put wild rice on
bottom of 9 x 13 pan, layer chicken next, combine soup, sour
cream, cheese and poppy seed and cover chick, add topping the
last 15 minutes of bake time.
Bake 40 - 45 min. at 350 degrees, serves 10 - 12
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Pansy started quilting 20 years ago
and has produced at least 200 quilts since then.
| Pansy teaches
quilting to Mrs. Lettkemen's 2nd grade class
each year. This last year she helped them
make an Oklahoma Centennial quilt. Because
of the quilt, the 2nd graders were invited to
the state capitol by Senator Ron Justice for a
tour of the capitol and the governor's mansion.
Pansy teaches
quilting classes at the local library and vo-tech
school, as well. |
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Traditions
Revived
Quilting popularity decreased through the ’50s and ’60s. People saw
little value in quilting, especially when they considered how
inexpensive bedding had become. Quilts were banished to the attic or the
basement.
But then, in the late 1960s, spurred on by the
back-to-nature viewpoint of a new generation, quilting began to take on
new meaning.
Resources for quilters were scarce. Old, yellowed
patterns were dug out of boxes and were used with combinations of
polyester and double knit.
Quilter’s Newsletter magazine issued a
quilt contest to celebrate the up coming centennial event. Ad publishers
and manufacturers devoting their energies toward creating more
publications, developing new lines of 100% cotton fabrics, and inventing
the most revolutionary tool of all--the rotary cutter--and quilting
hasn’t been the same since!
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No matter how simple or
traditional a pattern, the effect of a quilt is still absolutely
original because no two people handle fabric and color the same way. |
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Have you ever given any thought to what goes in to
the making of those wonderfully warm covers that our
grate grandmothers & aunts made. In the 1700& 1800s
these covers were made of whole pieces of fabric
then stuffed with raw wool or raw cotton, sometimes
they were coverings for older wool blankets or other
well worn quilts, fabric was hard to come by at that
time. At a later time the quilts were pieced then
quilted at quilting bees held by the women while the
men raised a barn for their a fellow farmer.
Families would travel miles to do these things for
each other. Today quilts are made as air looms to be
passed down in our families as gifts for friends.
They are forms of art, & things of beauty to be
displayed as well as for our beds. They are still
hard work & lovingly made.
At
the quilt show you will see the beauty & hard work
that has gone into each one of the approximant 100
quilts displayed from near & far. There will be a
drawing for one of these beauties so get your
tickets. It could be you that wins it.
I
have been privileged to hear stories of young girls
& boys learning to quilt while setting under the
quilting frames watching the stitches form the
designs on the underside of a quilt being done by
their grand mothers & her quilting friends.& of
mothers & grandmothers capturing their geese ,
holding them in their aprons while plucking the
feathers & down from the breast to use as stuffing
for a warm winter quilt that had been pieced
together from out grown clothing & other scraps of
cloth. Of boys & girls standing by the frames
keeping the needles of the ladies that were quilting
threaded. All the while watching & learning. There
are many stories to be told on the subject of
quilting & all are ever so interesting. Do your self
a favor, don’t miss the quilt show’
Quotes from quilters
of years past
I made quilts as
fast as I could to keep my family warm, and as
pretty as I could to keep my heart from breaking.
from a pioneer woman’s diary
At the
quilting bee, one might have learned . . . how to
bring up babies; how to mend a cracked teapot; how
to take out grease from brocade; how to reconcile
absolute decrees with free will; how to make five
yards of cloth answer the purpose of six; and how to
put down the democratic part
Modern Times
The 1920s are
known for prosperity and change. Women achieved the
right to vote, and modern technology--electricity,
gas, and water lines--liberated them from household
chores. Women pieced quilts for enjoyment, more than
from necessity. At the same time, magazines and
newspapers began to publish quilting patterns. They
fueled women’s drive to quilt. Magazines
It took me more than 20 years, nearly 25, I reckon,
in the evenings after supper when the children were
all put to bed. My whole life is in that quilt . . .
All my joys and all my sorrows are stitched into
those little pieces, I tremble sometimes when I
remember what that quilt knows about me. When I’m
gone, ain’t nobody goin’ to think o’ the floors I’ve
swept . . . But when one of my grandchildren or
great-grandchildren sees one o’ these quilts,
they’ll think of Aunt Jane, and wherever I am then,
I’ll know I’m not forgotten.( these things said of
the grandmothers quilt pattern, by one quilter)
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