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was the catalyst in convinc-
ing her to attend the SOQS
and to begin creating Wish
Upon a Card postcards.
“I made my first card
for The Wish Upon A
Card Program in 2014. In
2015, I received an honor-
able mention, and second
place in 2018 and 2020, and
first place in 2019,” Jasper
explained. “For me just to
have a card selected for fram-
ing feels like a win.”
Longtime fans of SOQS,
Jill Huntington and her
family have attended the
annual show since 1996.
Huntington, a quilter, lives
in Portland with her husband
and four grown kids.
“I made my first quilt
as a wedding gift for my
husband back in 1995.
Serendipitously, I found the
quilt pattern called Autumn
Pines in a book by Jean
Wells, ‘Patchwork Quilts
Made Easy.’ I first learned
about SOQS from Jean’s
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book, which included photos
and information about the
event. It became a must-go-
to, although we missed the
quilt show that year because
my husband and I were hav-
ing a summer wedding on
the second Saturday in July!”
This is the first year
Huntington donated a fabric
Since the beginning, High Desert
Frameworks! in Bend has sponsored the
program and Myrna Dow has matted and
framed cards for auction.
postcard to The Wish Upon
A Card Fundraiser & Fabric
Challenge. She displayed
quilts in the SOQS in 2018
and 2019.
Huntington said, “I
wanted to get involved with
The Wish Upon A Card
Program as a way of con-
tributing to the show and to
the SOQS Scholarship Fund
for the Sisters Outlaws high
school students. Also, I had
never made a fabric post-
card before, so I was eager
to try something new and to
challenge myself to make a
design given a hand-selected
collection of fabrics.”
Huntington’s postcard
design for 2020, “Something
Good in Every Day,” fea-
tures a vase of flowers set on
a neutral background.
She said, “My inspira-
tion came from Kaffe Fassett
designs in which he uses
vases as a motif. In my col-
lection of low-volume fab-
rics, I found a neat fabric
with words on it that seemed
so appropriate for our cur-
rent times. The fabric reads,
‘Every day may not be good,
but there is something good
in every day!’ When I created
the postcard, I centered those
words on the top of the post-
card design.”
The Huntingtons are also
the creative team behind
Huntington Quilt Design
on Instagram, and are mem-
bers of the Portland Modern
Quilt Guild.
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YOUTH
Tolzman said. “We dedicated
the quilt, ‘100 Years Strong,’
This year the theme to all the brave women and
for the virtual SOQS is men from many ethnic
“My Kind of Town,” and backgrounds who fought to
Tolzman’s quilt, “My Kind of legalize the voting rights for
Winter Town,” will be shown women.”
The project took on a
in the East of the Cascade
Quilters Special Exhibit in unifying force. The quilt
the virtual SOQS on July 11. was designed and pieced
There will also be a spe- by Tolzman, Gilda Hunt
cial exhibit by quilters that and Jennifer Cannard. The
live in Central Oregon who appliquéd women on the
are celebrating 100 years of quilt were created by Hunt,
and the fabric photographs
women’s suffrage.
“This quilt was inspired printed by Tolzman. Cannard
by the 100th anniversary cel- did all the sewing and it was
ebrating women’s suffrage,” machine quilted by Tolzman.
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PHOTO BY DIANE TOLZMAN
Jordan became interested in quilting last year at age 5.
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