Thur»., June 21, 1973 (Sec. 2) SANDY (Ore l POST - 7
Damascus woman uses yarn
for more than sweaters
By SUZANNE ASHMUN
People Editor
With a hank of yam , Mabel
Wescott can turn a dynamite
box into an a rt object.
The Damascus grandmother
took the box, which was made
in 1946, apart and used it as a
backing for a color interplay of
yarns The dovetailed ends
were used to hold the warp
threads in the stitchery
She also has created three-
dim ensional sam plers using
em b ro id e ry
hoops.
One
hanging links two hoops
together at right angles for an
unusual effect
Mrs
Wescott became in
terested in stitchery when she
re tire d
fro m
C lackam as
County G range Supply six
years ago Although stitchery is
relatively new to her, craft
projects are not.
“ All my life I've known how
to work with my fingers,” she
said
Like most craft enthusiasts,
M rs . W escott haunts the
Salvation A rm y and Goodwill
stores and remnant sales for
materials
prîtes at the Clackamas County F a ir with
her work
A P P U Q U E D Q U IL T made by Mabel
Westcott will go to one of her seven grand
children The Damascus woman has won
A member of the Columbia
Embroidery Guild, she said
finding a design idea is the
most difficult part
CARELESSNESS
D O E S MORE HARM
- a z a n t
than a
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“We re encouraged not to
copy and teachers frown on
using kits," she said
“Of
course we do get ideas from
each other, but every person
has a different way of doing it.”
Ongoing project for Mrs
Wescott is making quilts for her
g ra n d c h ild re n . S he’s made
three and has four to go.
She believes the revived
interest in crafts is related to
the increase in leisure times-
with not as much time required
for housekeeping chores
“We’re going way back to
things that grandmother did,”
she smiled “ Take macrame,
for example, which uses old,
old knots Young folks love
these things."
The Wescott home is filled
with evidence of Mrs Wescott's
projects, including decoupage
and tole painting as well as
stitchery She also has a bottle
collection and displays 70
different paper weights
She's given a w a y m any
things to her three sons, Jay of
Milwaukie, Dee of Damascus
and Coe of Seattle, and their
families
"A fter awhile your place is
saturated with things you've
made," she sighed “There has
to be a time to stop.”
Mrs. Wescott can't quit yet.
She’s working on a stitchery
that incorporates a cowboy
boot and a horseshoe, a
souvenir fro m
D am ascus
Centennial Days in 1969
" I found the boot out in the
“ One place to get interesting
yarns is to buy d ra p e ry
material and then unravel it ,”
she suggested
The result of the unraveling
is color-keyed yarns with a
c rim p , which she stores
together on rings.
One interesting stitchery duo
is "Mrs Westcott s Tis and
‘Taint In one she stitched the
design icalled positive* and in
the other the background (the
negative*
The member of Damascus
Extension Study Group is
modest about her c re a tiv e
talents
“ I do quite a little ripping,” road and hung it on my mailbox
she laughed “ I t ’s hard to tell for a w h ile . When nobody
how it'U look until you get it claimed it I stuck it away—my
garage is full of things—for
on.”
future use,” she remembered
Mrs Wescott has added some
cobwebs and other abstract
stitchery designs to the picture,
which
s h e'll
fra m e
in
weathered wood
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equal care is taken
with small points as
with large...just to
make sure /ou're
always pleased.
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COLORFUL ARRAY of yarns were collected by Mabel
W escott who unraveled rem nants of drapery and
upholstery m aterial. She holds som e wooden em broidery
hoops she hopes to use in a future project.
“The wood came from a
house built by my grandparents
(M r and Mrs E E Elliott) in
1865,” she smiled
Perhaps the unique stitchery
will find its way to the
Clackamas County F a ir where
Mrs Wescott has already won
several a lzes on her quilts and
stitchery
“ I believe in busy hands,” the
Wildwood
G arden
Club
member said “I don’t like to sit
around and s ta re at the
television The people I know
are a never-ending source of
new ideas "
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U N IQ U E S TITC H ER Y created by Mabel
Wescott feature« a leather cowboy boot
and a horseshoe that's a souvenir of
Damascus Centennial Days In 1959 Mrs.
Wescott Is framing the hanging with
weathered wood from a house built by her
grandparents in 1865.
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Friday and Saturday 7:00 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday 1:16
Blue Lake is taking on its
proper color and power boats
will proceed as usual following
two county actions last week
County park au th o ritie s ,
acting with advice from the
Department of Environmental
Quality, treated the lake with
copper sulfate last Friday to rid
the waters of a heavy algae
accumulation.
"The lake is looking better,”
commented Tex Matsler, head
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Matsler
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with Interlachen officers. DEQ
o ffic ia ls and o th er state
agencies to discusa the lake's
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In a second action county
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S TITC H ER Y
G R O U PIN G
created by Mabel Wescott
Includes several which use
em b ro id ery
hoops
as
frames. The open designs
are done with a method
called needle weaving and
one stitchery < second from
top. at right*, uses five
different hoops creating a
layered effect. The bottom
stitchery has a dynamite box
backing on whose dovetailed
ends the warp threads were
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