Get out your sunbonnet

The women who quilt on Fridays are hopeful.  Sun comes through the school house windows making our space delightfully warm. It also helps us see the stitches we make, the patterns we follow.  The old overhead lights in the school house aren’t the best and there’s discussion about replacing them.  What would be economical as well as provide the best lighting for quilting through long Montana winters?

But today most things look possible. The sun helps.  Yes, there’s still snow outside but it is not nearly as deep, and walking to the school house from the parking lot is so much easier than it was a month ago.  There are times when it seems a video of these women might convey more of what they do to support the Historical Village than a blog.  Our quilters slogging through snow on a frigid Friday morning, the pile of boots and coats accumulating at the door as everyone sits down to quilt would certainly be a piece of the footage.

This past Friday some of us didn’t even wear coats as it seems just possibly we are on the verge of Spring.  There was talk about the fundraiser we held at the Trego Civic Center a few weeks back and appreciation for everyone who came out to support that.  There was talk about the book sale we will have during Eureka’s Rendezvous.  There was talk about the work that needs to be done over the summer, possible repairs, painting, etc.  And, of course, there was talk about the beautiful quilts we are working on.  One belongs to a friend of Sally’s, pieced from fabric the woman’s mother-in-law saved from her children’s clothes, fabric that was put away in the 1950s and now is being finished into a quilt to be used.

The other quilt (as we usually have two going) was pieced by a woman in Oklahoma.  The design and fabric are by Kaffe Fassett, a name most of us didn’t know but now we do. A man who obviously has quite the eye for colors and designs and the ability to put these together in amazing ways.  We muse whether he might want us to hand quilt one of his own quilts as we all believe hand quilting lends such a different feel. We see he’s doing quilt events at a museum in England this month and wonder if he might enjoy Eureka in the summer, perhaps for the Quilt Show on August 3rd.  There is a mixture of laughter and excitement.  The group doesn’t have expectations for fame but there is always thoughts about how to spread the word about the Historical Village and our work.

 

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