Wednesday, November 11, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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Black Butte Ranch quilt show
By Jodi Schneider
Correspondent
This past summer East of
the Cascades Quilt (EOCQ)
guild member Susan Cobb
and other guild members
yearned to have a special
exhibit on the 100th year
anniversary of the ratifica-
tion of the 19th Amendment
on August 18, 2020. Ed and
Kathi Beacham, owners
of Beacham Clock Co. in
Sisters, were happy to be of
assistance and 14 quilts were
displayed August 14-21,
2020. The quilts were also
showcased at Deschutes
County Historical Society in
Bend August 25-September
23, 2020, and Sisters
Historical Society for three
days in October.
The Women Suffrage
quilts, <She Gets to Vote,=
are now on display in the
Aspen Lodge at Black Butte
Ranch throughout the month
of November. This will be the
last show for these quilts in
Central Oregon.
Cobb said, <The idea for
this special exhibit began
because we wanted to honor
the centennial anniversary
of the 19th Amendment. In
a planning meeting of the
EOCQ guild, we decided, due
to the importance of the topic,
that we would open this spe-
cial exhibit up to include quil-
ters from the various guilds in
Central Oregon.=
The women9s suffrage
movement was a decades-
long fight to win the right to
vote for women in the United
States. Oregon led the way
in giving women full voting
rights in 1912. Oregon then
joined other Western states
and territories in extending
the vote to female citizens
and providing crucial legiti-
macy to the woman suffrage
movement nationally.
The idea for this special
exhibit began because
we wanted to honor the
centennial anniversary of
the 19th Amendment.
— Susan Cobb
<A lot of research went
into each one. And it was
a lot of education,= Cobb
explained. <Since the ratifica-
tion of the U.S. Constitution
in 1788, women, and men,
across the USA worked
towards a U.S. Constitutional
Amendment to give women
equal rights, including the
right to vote. It took 268 years
for women to have the right
to vote nationally and even
then, not all women were
included. Asian, indigenous,
and women of color contin-
ued to struggle through mid-
20th century for their voting
rights.=
Cobb has two quilts on
display, <Equality= and
<Liberty.=
Each quilt followed the
theme of the 100th anni-
versary of women suffrage.
The size of each quilt is 45=
square to honor this special
exhibit starting during the
45th Anniversary of 2020
Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show.
Each quilt must include the
mid-18009s U.S. suffragists9
colors gold, purple and white
and it must have a label and
sleeve on the back.
Judi Benson, a member
of the Black Butte Ranch
quilt guild <Peggy9s Pin Pals=
joined forces with eight other
women from the guild creat-
ing a nine-star quilt.
Benson told The Nugget,
<This project caught my inter-
est because I can remember
my mother, who was a very
independent woman, talk-
ing about how long and hard
women had to work to get the
vote. I felt she would be cel-
ebrating this 100-year anni-
versary along with the rest of
us. Our quilt group, Peggy9s
Pin Pals, is a very collab-
orative one, and we decided
early to make it together.
After counting the number of
participants, we designed the
size of the squares to fit into
PHOTO BY JODI SCHNEIDER
Judi Benson next to the women’s suffrage quilt made by nine women
from Black Butte quilt guild Peggy’s Pin Pals.
the required size of the quilt
so that we could each make
one square. We decided on a
star theme, as each state rati-
fying the vote was especially
important. We are all so glad
of the rights women have,
and hope they continue to
increase in this century.=
Benson has been sewing
since she was a young girl
and made a lot of her own
clothes. Her grandmother was
a quilter and was the catalyst
that led her to quilting.
<When we retired to Black
Butte Ranch 22 years ago, I
took some lessons at the
Stitchin9 Post and have been
quilting ever since,= she said.
The Aspen Lounge is open
Daily from 3 to 9 p.m. Pick
up one of the handouts that
describes each quilt and let it
guide you while viewing the
quilts.
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