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Events
Events
February
11-13...........................Stitching Camp at Hooked on Quilting in Fayetteville, TN (p. 5)
April
1-3........................................................Quiltfest at the Rising Sun History Museum (p. 4)
September
8-10.................................Wisconsin Public Television Quilt Expo in Madison, WI (p. 4)
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• Alabama: Dave & Amy Carter, P.O. Box 365, New Market, MD, 21774, 866-825-9217
• Arizona: Barb Stillman & Lolly Konecky, 515 E Carefree Hwy, #1128, Phoenix, AZ 85085, 888-942-8950
• Arkansas: Richard and Lenda Brown, P.O. Bo 32581, Oklahoma City, OK 73123, 405-470-2597
• California & N Nevada: Barb Stillman & Lolly Konecky, 515 E Carefree Hwy, #1128, Phoenix, AZ 85085, 888-942-8950
Colorado: Jan & John Keller, 16755 Oak Brush Loop, Peyton, CO, 80831, 719-749-9797
• Connecticut: Michael Dempsey, 10213 Fanny Brown Road, Raleigh, NC 27603, 919-661-1760
• Delaware: Merle and Gail Taylor, P. O. Box 128, Owens Cross Roads, AL 35763, 888-616-8319
• Florida: Dave & Amy Carter, P.O. Box 365, New Market, MD, 21774, 866-825-9217
• Georgia: Linda Parish, P.O. Box 389, Lexington, GA, 30648, 706-340-1049, 678-641-7728
• Idaho (N): Dee Sleep, 132 W. Hudson Street, Spearfish, SD 57783, 605-722-7028
• Idaho (S) WA & E. OR:Barb Stillman and Lolly Konecky, P. O. Box 84345, Phoenix, AZ, 602-942-8950
• Illinois: Richard and Lenda Brown, P.O. Bo 32581, Oklahoma City, OK 73123, 405-470-2597
• Indiana: Gail & Merle Taylor, P. O. Box 128, Owens Cross Roads, AL 35763, 888-616-8319
Iowa: Linda Glendy, P.O. Box 6, Tama, IA, 52339, 641-751-2619
• Kansas: Cindy Baldwin, 988 9th Ave., McPherson, KS 67460, 866-966-9815
• Kentucky: Chris & Kelly Kennedy, 5804 Whiterose Way, New Market, MD 21774 443-243-1118
• Maine: Gail Hageman, 221 Winslow Rd, Albion, ME 04910, 207-437-2663
• Maryland: Dave & Amy Carter, P.O. Box 365, New Market, MD, 21774, 866-825-9217
• Massachusetts-RI: Michael Dempsey, 10213 Fanny Brown Road, Raleigh, NC 27603, 919-661-1760
Michigan: Bill and Marlene Howell, 3790 Manistee, Saginaw, MI, 48603-3143, 989-793-4211
• Minnesota: Kim and Mickey Keller, 12835 Kiska St. NE, Blaine, MN, 55449, 763-754-1661
• Missouri: Richard and Lenda Brown, P.O. Bo 32581, Oklahoma City, OK 73123, 405-470-2597
• Montana: Dee Sleep, 132 W. Hudson Street, Spearfish, SD 57783, 605-722-7028
• Nebraska: Barb Stillman & Lolly Konecky, 515 E Carefree Hwy, #1128, Phoenix, AZ 85085, 888-942-8950
• Nevada (N): Barb Stillman & Lolly Konecky, 515 E Carefree Hwy, #1128, Phoenix, AZ 85085, 888-942-8950
• Nevada (S): Glena Dunn, 4568 Carol Circle, Las Vegas, NV, 89120, 702-523-1803
New Hampshire: Kathleen Graham, 330 North Road, Deerfield, NH, 03037, 603-463-3703
• New Jersey: Merle and Gail Taylor, P. O. Box 128, Owens Cross Roads, AL 35763, 888-616-8319
New Mexico: Jan & John Keller, 16755 Oak Brush Loop, Peyton, CO, 80831, 719-749-9797
• New York: Dave & Amy Carter, P.O. Box 365, New Market, MD, 21774, 866-825-9217
• N. Carolina: Barb Stillman & Lolly Konecky, 515 E Carefree Hwy, #1128, Phoenix, AZ 85085, 888-942-8950
• North Dakota: Dee Sleep, 132 W. Hudson Street, Spearfish, SD 57783, 605-722-7028
• Ohio: Barb Moore, P. O. Box 37, Cable, OH, 43009 ,937-652-1157
• Oklahoma: Richard and Lenda Brown, P.O. Bo 32581, Oklahoma City, OK 73123, 405-470-2597
• Oregon: Barb Stillman & Lolly Konecky, 515 E Carefree Hwy, #1128, Phoenix, AZ 85085, 888-942-8950
• Pennsylvania: Dave & Amy Carter, PO Box 365, New Market, MD, 21774, 866-825-9217
• Rhode Island: Michael Dempsey, 10213 Fanny Brown Road, Raleigh, NC 27603, 919-661-1760
• S. Carolina: Barb Stillman & Lolly Konecky, 515 E Carefree Hwy, #1128, Phoenix, AZ 85085, 888-942-8950
• South Dakota: Dee Sleep, 132 W. Hudson Street, Spearfish, SD 57783, 605-722-7028
• Tennessee: Chris & Kelly Kennedy, 5804 Whiterose Way, New Market, MD 21774 443-243-1118
• Texas: Richard and Lenda Brown, P.O. Bo 32581, Oklahoma City, OK 73123, 405-470-2597
• Utah: Daniel & Stacy Tueller, 153 S 2050 W, Provo UT 84601, 801-592-8498
• Virginia: Dave & Amy Carter, P.O. Box 365, New Market, MD, 21774, 866-825-9217
• Washington & E. OR & S. ID : Barb Stillman & Lolly Konecky, 515 E Carefree Hwy, #1128, Phoenix, AZ 85085, 888-942-8950
• West Virginia: Dave & Amy Carter, PO Box 365, New Market, MD, 21774, 866-825-9217
• Wisconsin: Scott & Jennifer Hughes, P. O. Box 276, Altoona, WI, 54720, 715-838-9426
• Wyoming: Dee Sleep, 132 W. Hudson Street, Spearfish, SD 57783, 605-722-7028
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Fayetteville - Tennessee
Custom Longarm Quilting
Random Acts
JAN-FEB 2016
Mom & Me
“With a little help from my friends.” The Beatles suggest that is how we get by,
and I must agree. Just this past year, I planned classroom parties, parade floats, and
holiday celebrations. Looking back on those memories, I am relieved those late
nights resulted in fun days for children, and I am filled with appreciation for my
helpers. I was overwhelmed with assistance from my colleagues, friends, and fellow
homeroom moms…and of course my own mother. My creative mom fills her days
with hobbies that reflect her generous nature.
Stamping cards to share with friends and family makes the hours fly by. When I
make cards, I tend to create one design and mass produce it for everyone on my
list. Not my mom. She takes the time and makes the effort to personally create each
card for the receiving individual. Her attention to detail shows up in every craft she
has ever completed, and that is quite a few.
Mom has always been crafty. Another trait she and her friends have in common.
Her ceramics phase consisted of glazing and firing throughout my childhood. Her
friend Carol had her own kiln, and her two sons were like our own brothers. We
played for hours while our moms cleaned and painted their latest creations. Once in
a while, we were allowed to choose a project from the store too. We were always
excited to join them at the table with scrapers and sponges. There is something very
satisfying about sharing your interests with someone who returns your enthusiasm.
Mom was met with that same enthusiasm when she stopped in a quilt store in
Hannibal, Missouri on a road trip. While sightseeing, she spotted a snowman quilt
hanging in the window and thought it would be a welcome addition to her snowman
collection. When she inquired about purchasing it, the shop owner said it was not
for sale, but they did sell all the supplies to make one. She decided right then and
there, “I’m going to make a quilt!” and bought everything but the trim fabric.
She has never made a quilt, but she was ready. She has embroidered and cross
stitched before. She has sewn costumes, curtains, and crib bumpers. She has quilting
in her blood and the quilts from her grandma to prove it. She found a project she
would see through from beginning to end...literally. She held in her hands the
patterns for each letter of the alphabet with correlated Christmas embroidery work.
Visiting with the store owners, she received advice, helpful hints, and gathered
supplies before heading home with her first quilt.
While chatting with an avid quilting friend, Mom shared her plans for her new
project. Something in her voice indicated that she could use some help. She said
that every single quilt square is to be embroidered, and that if she could just get it
started, she would probably finish one a month. Cynthia offered to embroider the
individual pieces. Mom knew Cynthia would carefully stitch each square with
perfection and promptly handed over her assignment.
The next time they visited, the embroidery was finished, and Mom’s quilt was
ready for the next step. Mom said she would make it to the fabric store soon to
make her choice of material. Cynthia gave her a time and date as she continued to
lead her toward completion of her first quilt. When Mom met Cynthia at the Denver
store, she already had a pile of at least ten reds and greens for her to peruse. Mom
gratefully acknowledged her selections but said she had her favorite color purple in
mind. Cynthia said, “Oh, by all means!” They soon found the perfect border fabric,
including another purple trim fabric and the backing. Cynthia suggested someone
to finish the quilting and Mom agreed.
Before she knew it, Mom’s first quilt was finished. She didn’t even have to thread
one needle. And now Mom quilts…with a little help from her friends.
Pieces From My Heart
by Jan Keller
Afoot
When our youngest son Mickey was about to graduate from high school, I
experienced a bit of a midlife crisis. Up until then, from my naive perspective, I held
the arbitrary belief that folks who had school-age children were young; but once
their children were out of school, they automatically became old.
I expressed my quandary to my friend Julie, who, after patiently listening to my
plight, laughed and responded, saying, “Oh Jan, you’re not old, you’ve just been
wrong!” Realizing how wonderful it could be to be wrong, through the years I’ve
appreciated being able to reflect on Julie’s wisdom.
Over the past two years, I’ve had a series of surgeries. To date it’s been three
surgeries
on my
right foot, one on my right wrist and one on my left foot—without
by Sharon
Greve
boring you with the details it will suffice to share that all of the procedures were to
treat arthritis and pain.
The wrist surgery was a snap, but foot surgeries are challenging and debilitating.
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The Dropped Stitch
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and servicewomen. Today knitting
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The common goal of knitting for worldLife
peace
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become
a tradition
support
is like
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unique patchwork of memories, friendships,
It’s our turn now!
joys, and challenges. In each of these books,
Enjoy More of Jan’s Columns
O R D E R H E R B O O K S T O D AY
© 2015 Sharon Greve Contact: [email protected] No reprint without permission.
syndicated columnist Jan Keller is down to
earth and refreshingly transparent as she
opens the door to life’s dreams, triumphs
and struggles in a heart-warming
way that will touch you forever. You’ll
love the way she spins ‘yarns’ that
weave the pieces of a treasured tapestry into a vivid depiction of life and love.
©2015 Maranda K. Jones. Author Maranda K. Jones shares her stories of faith and family through her personal
experiences of growing, teaching, and parenting in a small town. She lives with her husband and their son and
daughters in rural Colorado. She is an elementary school teacher as well as a prolific freelance writer.
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The Tale of a Box from My Closet
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Winter offers powerful lessons that it is a good time to finish up old tasks.
Of course, I’ve also received the last phrase of that sentence in a fortune
cookie.
Whatever the inspiration, I’ll make it my own: It is a good time to finish up old
tasks and to allow the past to settle into the future.
I have a tangible task; it sits before me in a box, waiting patiently as it has for
the last nine years. There is nothing onerous, dreary or disturbing in my box.
There is no lurking regret, sweat-breaking doubt or even intense grief.
There is a beautiful memory, one so heartbreakingly warm that I rarely rewind
the moment. That way, it remains vibrant and alive.
Now I wish to share it with you.
It is mid-August, 2006. Three generations of women sit together in a resident’s
room at an assisted living community. The resident, the oldest at four months shy
of 100 years of age, crochets, as do her daughter and granddaughter.
It is as it has ever been for as long as the daughter and granddaughter can
remember.
Except for the grandmother’s hands. Their efficient rhythm has lost its steady
stamina. There are gentle bursts of energy and then periods of complete rest. The
process repeats itself until the yarn sits still and quiet in her lap.
All of them know that the desire to try remains, but as the saying goes, the flesh is
weak and tired. A rare sadness and passivity creeps into the grandmother’s eyes.
The granddaughter finds a pretty basket in the closet. They ask the grandmother if
she would like to put the yarn there so she can pick it up when she feels more rested.
The grandmother nods with a relieved acceptance, releases the skeins and the partially finished granny square into the basket. 91 years of crocheting comes to an end.
Three weeks later, the grandmother passes peacefully away at the hospital, dying of aplastic anemia, wherein her bone marrow ceased to produce blood cells
and platelets.
The blanket and yarn was packed up and the granddaughter placed it in her
closet with the thought that she and her mother should finish it one day.
She waited to finish it because what she felt from the blanket was the weakening of strength and durability. She knew, naturally, that one day her grandmother
would no longer be living, but somehow it seemed like her hands would forever
be steadily moving.
After a time, whenever the granddaughter saw the box, she still thought of
finishing it one day. But this time, somehow, she even forgot what was in the box.
Which meant it was more than time to complete the blanket.
So on this winter’s day, I open the box. I remove the yarn, whereupon the
square appears lost. I reach out to embrace and reassure it and I find that instead
it comforts me.
During its long hibernation, the atrophy I feared to feel has somehow again
grown into a new, deeper strength. Or, perhaps, time has the same effect on a
blanket as it does on the human heart.
I pick up a crochet hook and I decide to crochet one row to outline my grandmother’s work. And it is then that I know that her work never stopped at all. She
is within every efficient and steady motion of my mother’s and my hands.
The past settles into the future.
It is a good time to finish up old tasks.
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by Kerri Habben
Kerri Habben is a writer, photographer, and crochet instructor living in Raleigh, NC. An
avid crocheter and knitter, she learned these skills from her grandmother and mother. She donates
many of her yarn creations to those in need. Kerri has gathered a decade of essays she is working
to publish. She can be reached at [email protected].
Use this pattern for embroidery, wool applique, punch needle or rug hooking, painted projects or
whatever your imagination can dream up! Reduce or enlarge pattern as desired.
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Over the Teacup
By Janet Young
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TEA - THE HEALTHY DRINK
January is National Hot Tea Month. As seen around the world in many cultures, drinking tea has proven to be beneficial to our health and well-being. So, if
one of your resolutions for the New Year was to develop a healthier lifestyle, then
why not add drinking tea daily to your list. Drinking hot tea contains antioxidants that help reduce the risk of cancer. Green tea, in particular, helps to reduce
cholesterol, and stabilize blood sugar level.
If you are already a tea drinker why not experiment with different types of tea.
For example, instead of a black tea, try a white or green tea. Or, stay in the black
tea family, if that is your tea of choice, but try another flavor such as spicy (ginger) fruity (peach) dessert type tea (chocolate mint). Use loose leaf tea instead of
teabags. You will be amazed by the difference in taste.
To help you get started, why not attend a tea tasting, or go to a tea shop and see
if you can sample a few varieties. The tea expert should be able to help you identify the characteristics and notes of various teas.
Enjoy tea at a teahouse to experience the tea ceremony.
Read a few books about tea, and learn the proper way to prepare it.
Experiment with pairing certain foods with tea, or if you want to be even more
adventuresome try cooking with it. There are cookbooks available to assist you.
Invest in a tea travel mug for tea on the run.
Study after study has shown tea is beneficial to our health, so why not start the
New Year right. EDUCATE yourself about the art of tea. EXPERIMENT until
you find a favorite type and brand. Then ENJOY!
Let’s Drink To Our Health!
–Janet Young, Certified Tea and EtiquetteConsultant, is a founding member of Mid-Atlantic Tea Business Association and freelance writer/national tea presenter. Visit her website at
www.overtheteacup.com.
JAN-FEB 2016
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Directory
Decorating, Entertaining and Living
in the Early American Style
Clarkson, KY..................................................pg 7
Plentiful Peace
The winter months often seem unusually long in New England..But this spectacular
season can bring us the truest of blessings. Winter months often provide us with time for
peaceful contemplation and quiet moments to create a warm home setting that will shelter us from the unpredictable bitter blasts that characterize a classic New England winter.
Harmony at Home
Creating an environment that conveys warmth and solace is rewarding and worthwhile..After the holiday decorations are safely stored away, the backdrop for your
decorating is like a clean canvas awaiting a perfectly painted scene..To achieve harmony
in your room settings, begin with the larger pieces that you absolutely love..Consider
positioning your seating arrangements in a new way for the winter to create cozy spaces
to gather nearer to the fire to share stories of your winter adventures..Give some of your
larger pieces a new purpose..Cupboards can be utilized to create two separate spaces to
make your space look entirely different and blanket chests can be used to create distinct
areas as well..
The Comfort of Color
After all of your larger pieces are in place, consider some of the colorful elements
you have that can add warmth and texture to a room..After a long day out in the cold,
it is so inviting to come home to the beauty of color..Early woven textiles and carefully
arranged oriental rugs lend elements of texture and color that are comforting and warm..
Carefully placed decorative smalls are another way to introduce new color into a room..
Antiques in early paint can be artfully displayed to create a look that is fresh and inviting..New arrangements of your favorite pieces combined with bright and vivid additions
can be soulfully appealing, especially in the winter when our landscape has an absence
of color.
Enhancing your Environment
Taking time to enliven your home environment does give your spirit a true lift..This
winter venture out to some of your favorite shops and think about how you can incorporate some new pieces into your winter displays..Be on the lookout for pieces that can be
used in different ways..Think about adding vibrant hues to your displays to make them
more appealing to the eye..By taking time to arrange your home so that it is an inviting
and warm place to be, you will be providing yourself with a perfect balance to the icy
blasts of the coldest season of the year.
Annice Bradley Rockwell is an educator and owner of Pomfret Antiques. She is currently working on her book, New England Girl. [email protected]
Robin Rock is the owner of Milltown Primitives. www.milltownprimitvesshop.com
Corbin, KY.....................................................pg 7
Fayetteville, TN..............................................pg 5
Mt. Washington, KY ......................................pg 7
Pigeon Forge, TN...........................................pg 6
Quilters..........................................................pg 4
Events....................................................pgs 3 & 4
Classifieds......................................................pg 7
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