Art Wall Quilt Exhibit, May 2011 — The Wise Women Quilters

Tuba City Cultural Odyssey    
This fabric project commemorates the youth service trip to Tuba City, Arizona where youth group members worked with Navajo and Hopi students at the Tuba City Boarding School. The First Parish Youth Group created this fabric piece as a fund raising raffle. Each member of the group, including advisors and leaders, designed and created a block using common fabric.
Raffle winner: Andy Winslow, 2011

Robert’s New Hampshire Autumn
I learned this new technique from Ann Loveless, a Michigan quilt artist. This landscape is created using an “impressionist method”. Robert Kinzler took the photograph that I used as a basis for this quilt.

Majestic Sky
I love the majesty of the ocean sky-scape. This impressionist method quilt attempts to capture the beauty and color of the beach at sunrise.
Carolyn Hodges, 2011

Ajitter    This quilt begun long ago, took on a new life when I was advised to cut up the initial quilt squares. This tip came from a quilter who had seen an image of my previous project on line! Wendy Page, 2010

A Circular Garden.    My mom gave me a Joann Fabrics quilt that I adapted, replacing some fabrics, altering the design a bit, and creating my own circular quilting pattern. Machine-pieced; hand-quilted. Thanks to the Wise Women quilters for helping me baste the "sandwich" of top, filler, and backing. Diane Shriver, 2010

Buttoned Up    Note the hand-made buttons used to embellish this quilt. A fun project started at a Ferry Beach “Quilting by the Bay” summer conference. Wendy Page, 2010

Transylvania Twins    First Parish has a special relationship with our sister church in Gagy, Transylvania, in Romania. Babies are a special gift! The arrival of twins to Reverend Gal and Magdolna Zoltan in February 2011 gave rise to this project. These quilts are created for little Emese and her brother, Botond.
Quilt Project Contributors, 2011

The Wise Women meet two Wednesday evenings a month to design and create the annual First Parish Raffle Quilt.  This exhibit showcases some of our individual projects, a youth remembrance quilt, and quilts made for new born twins to Pastor and Mrs. of our sister church in Gage, Romania. For more information about The Wise Women, please contact any of the exhibitors or Wendy Page.

Pictured here: Marilyn Jackson, Sue Gumb, Carolyn Hodges, Sandy King, Louise Strayhorn, Wendy Page, Ann Abbott.
We snapped this photo at the opening of this year's quilt exhibit. Contributors to the quilts not pictured here include: Jan Blodgett, Phyllis Carr, Peggy Gardiner, Anne Goodwin, Pauline Hallee, Leslie Kirwan, Pam Linov, Jean Nagle, Nan Owens, Jo Anne Preston, Bea Shriver, Phyllis Spence, Ella Gardiner Wheeler, Rowan Gardiner Wheeler
Warm thanks to one and all!

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