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Wednesday, July 18, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Van Gogh quilts adorn Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show
By Jodi Schneider McNamee
Correspondent
Artist Vincent Van Gogh
once said “Color expresses
something in itself. One can’t
do without it; one must make
use of it. What looks beautiful,
really beautiful, is also right.”
L a s t T h u r s d a y, 1 2 0
amazingly vibrant quilts,
all designed to depict Van
Gogh’ paintings, known as
the Cherrywood Quilt chal-
lenge, found their way to
the Community Hall at the
Sisters-Camp Sherman fire
station.
The Van Gogh quilt exhibit
is on display for the 2018
Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show
(SOQS) with SOQS board
member Jeff Omodt at the
helm as host.
L a s t y e a r t h e L i o n
King exhibit presented by
Cherrywood Hand-Dyed
Fabrics traveled the country
with 120 original 20-inch by
20-inch unique quilts using
just two basic colors; black
and gold.
Because of an overwhelm-
ing response to last year’s
exhibit, Omodt booked the
Van Gogh Challenge quilts
for this year’s Sisters Outdoor
Quilt Show.
Some 465 participants
from all over the world took
the Cherrywood Challenge
and designed the quilts with
three blue tones and one
black that would make up 60
to 70 percent of the quilt’s
composition.
As host of the exhibit,
Omodt played his part to the
hilt.
“Last year my plan to put
on a Lion mask as host of the
show morphed into a full-
blown theatrical costume of
Mufasa,” Omodt said. “This
year I’m wearing the Van
Gogh hat, a giant orange
beard, and a huge bandage
over my left ear (Van Gogh
legendarily severed his own
ear).
Entries included hand-
stitched and machine-sewn
quilts, some that were embel-
lished with beads, paint and
other materials.
Cherrywood Fabrics was
created about 25 years ago by
Dawn Hall, who started dye-
ing fabric in her basement and
selling at quilt shows with her
aunt. With the help of dedi-
cated friends and employees
the popularity of this unique
fabric has grown and changed
over the years.
increasing involvement, I had
to try it myself.”
In 2014 Omodt signed up
for Laury Thorns Absolutely
Beginning Quilting and was
hooked.
“It was when I became
interested in how other quilt
shows around the world
worked that I came across
the Cherrywood challenge for
Color expresses the Lion King,” said Omodt.
“And as a board member I
something in itself. One asked the other members what
can’t do without it; one they thought, and they said to
try it.
must make use of it. What
“We landed the Lion
King show and it was awe-
looks beautiful, really some. But since the SOQS is
beautiful, is also right. always free, we needed a way
PHOTO BY JODI SCHNEIDER MCNAMEE
to cover the cost of bringing
— Vincent Van Gogh the show here. Our quilt show Jeff Omodt of Sisters portrays troubled but brilliant artist Vincent
visitors stepped right up with Van Gogh.
donations that helped make it
The Van Gogh quilt exhibit possible.”
We do...
was divided into two collec-
Now in progress for next
tions, the French Gallery and year’s challenge is a theme Alignments, Brakes, Shocks, Struts, CV Joints,
the Dutch Gallery.
based on the musician Prince.
Omodt noted, “Ours is the
U Joints, Axle Shafts, Drivelines, & Tire Siping
French collection, and because
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of the overwhelming number
of entries they split the exhibit
into two groups that are trav-
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