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Wednesday, July 8, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper “Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show”
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By Jodi Schneider
Correspondent
Since 2007, quilters who
participate in the Sisters
Outdoor Quilt Show have
turned their talents to help-
ing others.
The W ish Upon A
Card Fundraiser & Fabric
Challenge started as a part-
nership with the St. Charles
Foundation/Wendy’s Wish
(Wendy’s Wish disbanded
in 2015). The Wish Upon
A Card Program contin-
ued, with proceeds support-
ing the SOQS Scholarship
Program benefiting Sisters
High School students.
Quilters from all over the
United States and instruc-
tors of Quilter’s Affair, an
educational workshop pro-
gram that happens during
the five days that precede
the SOQS, donate stun-
ning fabric postcards — and
some take part in the Fabric
Challenge, using fabrics
donated by Robert Kaufman
fabrics. Fabric postcards
begin with basic guidelines
and can be as creative as the
artist wants to be.
The fabric postcards that
the instructors from Quilters
Affair and winners of the
challenge craft are framed
and/or matted and are auc-
tioned during Quilter’s
Affair. Additionally, non-
framed cards are also avail-
able for purchase.
This year, SOQS will
be posting these miniature
pieces of artwork online for
sale on their website. There
will be over 250 cards avail-
able for purchase. Wish
Cards arrive in the mail for
SOQS from all over the
United States, and they have
over 70 quilters taking part
this year.
Since the beginning,
High Desert Frameworks!
in Bend has sponsored the
program and Myrna Dow
has matted and framed cards
for auction.
Dawn Boyd, SOQS
executive director, said,
“This year, we are excited to
not only have High Desert
Frameworks! helping once
again, but we are also wel-
coming Clearwater Gallery
and Wildflower Studios to
our Wish Team of framers/
sponsors.”
Since 2015 Kathy Jasper,
a Beaverton resident, has vol-
unteered for SOQS; no job
too small. In 2017 she added
The Wish Upon a Card
Fundraiser to her many vol-
unteer positions at the show.
Jasper noted, “ When
I signed up as a volun-
teer for the quilt show and
met Ginny Hall and Kathy
Miller and all the other vol-
unteers, they made me feel
like we had been friends for-
ever and I’ve been involved
ever since. I take a vacation
from my job during the week
of the Quilter’s Affair and
have volunteered for Wish
Upon a Card sales during
the Quilter’s Affair and the
day of the quilt show. I am
fortunate that the company
that I work for will pay qual-
ified charitable organizations
for the hours that we volun-
teer. All my time spent mak-
ing cards is also part of the
time I can claim. So, I try to
stay busy to maximize what I
can earn for SOQS.”
Jasper has also been quilt-
ing for 15 years.
She added, “I was curi-
ous about quilting, but I
had determined that I didn’t
have the space in my house.
But after my partner got
me a fancy sewing machine
for my birthday, I experi-
mented with a baby quilt for
PHOTO COURTESY SISTERS OUTDOOR QUILT SHOW
Happy Town 2020 by Kristin Shields.
PHOTO COURTESY SOQS
a neighbor. After the first
quilt, I was hooked.”
Jasper’s friend, Marion
Shimoda, who was the
featured fiber artist in
Clearwater Gallery in 2018,
See WISH on page 23
All 2020 participants who donated
fabric postcards to this year’s Wish Upon
a Card program had their name entered
to win a one-of-a-kind fabric postcard
created and signed by Jean Wells
(and graciously matted and framed by
High Desert Frameworks! of Bend).
Looking forward to a
SOQS
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bright and colorful
quilt show next year.
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