On February 19, 2010, Dr. Hazeldean Meyers paid us a visit with her prize winning quilt. A member of the Manatee Patchworkers Quilt Guild, Dr. Meyers appears in the photo above with her quilt that won Best of Show at the Manatee Convention Center earlier that month.In preparation for her visit, we read "A Quilt is Something Human" from the Foxfire Books. In January we had attended the Amish-Mennonite Quilt Auction to benefit Haiti and became very interested in quilting (and in Amish-Mennonite culture as well).
During her visit, we learned so much about this traditional sewing art and how modern technology is used to expedite parts of the process. We even got to try our hand at quilting our own small pieces. Thank you, Hazeldean for sharing this special art with us.
For more photos of the prizewinning quilt and for more information about quilting, visit: http://www.manateepatchworkers.org/
Way to go, gals!!!
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