Wednesday, July 12, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
QUILT SHOW: Variety of
displays were featured
at annual event
Continued from page 1
pages carefully so spectators
could see each unique quilt
with its story told in calligra-
phy on the opposite page.
Men have been participat-
ing in Sisters Outdoor Quilt
Show for more than 10 years.
And the exhibit “Made by
Men” displayed 27 quilts by
male quilters.
Mike Denton, a quil-
ter from Redmond, was on
hand to talk about his love of
quilting.
“I now have a long-arm
business in Redmond sewing
other people’s quilts,” Denton
said.
He began quilting in 2009,
the year he retired.
“I took my first two
classes at the Stitchin’ Post
and took to quilting like a
duck to water,” he said.
Denton has made many
quilts for charitable causes.
Ellen Olson, a quilter from
Ontario, Canada and her two
friends, also from Canada,
were having the time of their
lives looking over every quilt
they could possibly find.
“This is our first time in
Sisters, and we love it. This
show was on my bucket list,”
Olsen said laughing. “We’ve
been here since yesterday and
are trying to see everything in
two days.”
The weather was perfect
— if hot — for the thousands
of people that came from all
50 states and 27 foreign coun-
tries to see the spectacular
display of quilts and as they
meandered up and down the
streets there were distractions
of the musical kind.
The Silverado Quartet
drew a crowd while harmo-
nizing in front of the entry-
way to Sisters Drug & Gift.
“We’re trying to raise
money to go to Northwest
Harmony College in
Washington,” singer Hope
Bridges from Redmond told
The Nugget. “We love sing-
ing music in the barbershop
genre.”
The quartet has been
around since 2008 and sings
for any occasion all around
Central Oregon.
“Next Saturday we’re
singing for the Vietnam vets
at a veteran’s banquet,” she
added.
Quilter Ann Martin hosted
the Quilting Activity Area in
Melvin’s Fir Street Market
parking lot.
“The SOQS supplies us all
the fabric blocks so the kids
get to sew bean bags,” Martin
said.
Martin’s daughter, Jill
Martin, a 15-year-old student
at Ridgeview High School in
Redmond comes from a fam-
ily of quilters and has been
quilting for 11 years.
Jill had two quilts on
display.
“I saw a Wizard of Oz
quilt last year and decided
to quilt one,” she said. “I
designed the pattern myself,
and it wasn’t easy.”
Jill doesn’t keep most of
her quilts. She donates quilts
29
for fundraisers
or gives them
away to friends.
Her brother
Christopher
quilts, and their
dad cuts all the
treads for the
quilts.
C a s c a d e
Avenue was hop-
ping with folks
going in every
direction while
Sisters High
School students
Riley Reece
and Julia Bowe
strummed their
ukuleles for any-
one who’d listen.
“We love to
play,” said Reece.
“We don’t belong
to any group, we
just figure it out
ourselves.”
Many folks
bought tickets for
PHOTO BY GARY MILLER
the 2017 Raffle
Quilt, “A Story of Visitors absorbed all the color.
Stars,” designed
and pieced by
Susan Cobb and quilted by a quilt.” Cobb said. “And
Laurie Simmons.
in every class after that I
Cobb took her first and have learned many new
second quilting class in 2009 techniques.”
at the Stitchin’ Post from
Cobb is eclectic in her
Lawry Thorne.
style: “I have a color sense
“In those two classes I that people recognize, and I
learned everything I needed
See QUILT SHOW on page 30
to know as far as making
Sisters Hometown
Realtors
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
A tribute book to past quilters was on display at The Open Door.
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