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A record number of people walked through the doors of the Dolores Community Center Friday and Saturday to see a record number of quilts hanging at the Dolores Mountain Quilters Quilt Show.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was fantastic, the best show ever,\u201d said Terri Hoff, the quilt show chair.<\/p>\n
There was a record number of entries, at about 130 and a record number of people who attended at about 650. The quilt show is put on by the club every two years.<\/p>\n
The last quilt show drew about 400 visitors.<\/p>\n
Bright quilts, beautiful quilts, complicated quilts and cute quilts greeted visitors, but the best part of the show was story behind the quilts.<\/p>\n
Vicky Michaels loves telling the story of her family\u2019s quilt, which won a second-place award for machine applique and is titled \u201cRachelle\u2019s Farm Quilt.\u201d But she can\u2019t do so without getting tears in her eyes.<\/p>\n
Michaels\u2019 mother, Reva Moore, was an avid quilter and made nearly all her 13 children a quilt. She had started a quilt for her youngest daughter, Rachelle, but passed away in 2011, leaving her youngest without a finished quilt.<\/p>\n
Moore was working on the quilt in 2008 and teaching a quilting class. Everyone in the class sewed a block for the quilt that included a farm scene.<\/p>\n
Recently, Michaels and some of her sisters decided to finish the quilt and really wanted to make it special.<\/p>\n
\u201cElaine Brown did a beautiful job in quilting it,\u201d Michaels said.<\/p>\n
Brown took extra time on this quilt because she knew it meant so much and quilted sayings into it that Rachelle\u2019s mother was fond of saying.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2018This too shall pass,\u2019 is my favorite saying my mother would say all the time,\u201d Michaels said.<\/p>\n
Rachelle was in high school when her mom passed away and was in FFA, which is why the quilt has a farm theme.<\/p>\n
Rachelle is in College at Wyoming University, majoring in agriculture. When she was in high school both she and her mother were very much into FFA, Michaels explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe is going to cry when she sees it,\u201d Michaels said.<\/p>\n
At the quilt show, dozens of quilters were seen peering into Rachelle\u2019s quilt and reading the hundreds of sayings stitched onto it.<\/p>\n
Also at the show was Janice Richardson. She had five quilts at the show and did very well when the results came back. She explained how hard it was to piece some of them together, but also how much she loves quilting.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s addictive. It\u2019s better than smoking or drinking or doing drugs,\u201d Richardson laughed.<\/p>\n
The Peoples Choice award went to Elaine Brown for her machine quilting of a rabbit-themed quilt titled \u201cSeeds of Time.\u201d The quilt belongs to Cheryl Kitley.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was so much fun to do,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n
Brown is a professional long arm quilter.<\/p>\n
Peoples Choice
\n BEST OF SHOW
\n Cheryl Kitley, Seeds of Time
\n BED
\n 1ST: Janice Richardson, Thru\u2019 RoseColored Glasses
\n 2ND: Jan Malmstrom Forever Quilts
\n 3RD: Amy Smouse, Dear Jane, You\u2019re a B****
\n LAP
\n 1ST: Kathryn Sehnert, Flutterby Hankies
\n 2ND: Mary Hagrey, Tom\u2019s Trout
\n 3RD: Cindy Foote, Calendula Patterdrop\u2019s Cottage
\n WALL
\n 1ST: Janice Richardson, Aunt Millie\u2019s Garden
\n 2ND: Judy Bryan, Flying Geese All Around
\n 3RD: Carol Dunsworth, Ice Fishing
\n CHILD
\n 1ST: Sheryl Merritt, Tweety Pie
\n 2ND: Diane Weitzenkamp, Bunny Hugs
\n 3RD: Jeanne Miles, Cuddle Quilt
\n ART
\n 1ST: Ila Starks, Horsing Around Monument Valley
\n 2ND: Berry Orr, Wolf
\n 3RD: Terri Hoff, Sunflowers
\n YOUTH
\n 1ST: Lucretia Gray, Stacked Squares
\n 2ND: Arvola Gray, Dolphins at Sunset
\n 3RD: Arvola Gray, Bubbles Overlap
\n OTHER
\n 1ST: LaWana Ferrier, Camping
\n 2ND: Gail Braunn, Sunflower Bag
\n 3RD: Peggy Littlejohn, Play The Sunset Jacket
\n Quilters\u2019 Excellence Awards
\n MOST EXCELLENT
\n Janice Richardson, Thru\u2019 Rose Colored Glasses
\n DESIGN & COLOR
\n 1ST: Janice Richardson, Catch Me If You Can
\n 2ND: Jan Malmstrom, Forever Quilts
\n PIECING
\n 1ST: Janice Richardson, Catch Me If You Can
\n 2ND: Amy Smouse, Dear Jane, You\u2019re a B****
\n 3RD: Cindy Foote, Frightfully Jane
\n APPLIQUE \u2013 MACHINE
\n 1ST: Mary Hagrey, Tom\u2019s Trout
\n 2ND: Vicky Micheal, Rachelle\u2019s Farm Quilt
\n APPLIQUE \u2013 HAND
\n 1ST: Janice Richardson, Thru\u2019 RoseColored Glasses
\n 2ND: Janice Richardson, Aunt Millie\u2019s Garden
\n 3RD: LaWana Ferrier, Camping
\n QUILTING \u2013 MACHINE
\n 1ST: Cheryl Kitley, Seeds of Time
\n 2ND: Pat Schwartzkopf, Hanging Garden
\n 2ND: Judi Swain, Toes In The Sand
\n 3RD: Janice Richardson, Thru\u2019 RoseColored Glasses
\n QUILTING \u2013 HAND
\n 1ST: Kathryn Sehnert, Tea Pot Memories
\n 2ND: Cindy Bradley, Great-Great-Grandmother Sarah Boomer\u2019s Quilt
\n 2ND: Ann Haspels, Drunkard\u2019s Path \u2013 Solomon\u2019s Puzzle
\n 3RD: Mary Hagrey, Tom\u2019s Trout<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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