Wallowa County Chieftain
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wallowa.com
June 13, 2018
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Wallowa
Mountain
Quilters Guild
hosts annual
show
“Mariner’s Com-
pass” took sec-
ond in the Peo-
ple’s Choice
competition
at the Wallowa
Mountain Quil-
ters Guild June
9. It was entered
by Laura Burton.
A quilt entered
by Klista Stien-
beck, “Friend-
ship Baskets,”
won first. Senior
youth winner
was Katie Wilber
and Junior youth
winner was Ella
Hillock.
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Jeannie Alford was one of several guild members who presented
demonstrations on quilting techniques at the quilt show.
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Paul Wahl/Chieftain
Marietta Herincks inspects one of the quilts at the Wallowa
Mountain Quilt Guild show Saturday.
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Norma McDaniel and Pat Ulrich, both of Lostine, spent time
looking over the entries in the Wallowa Mountain Quilters
Guild show Saturday at Joseph HIgh School.
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Karen McIver of Joseph explains her answer to the “row
by row” quilting challenge that Wallowa Mountain Quilters
Guild undertook from Sept. 2017 to May 2018. She created six
dstinctive rows of embroidery for her quilt, which was pieced
by Bobbi Thomson and quilted by Denise Kuppinger.
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Crystal Bruce of Teton, Idaho, and Melody Bruce of Enterprise examine the quilt of their friend Laura Burton at the Wallowa
Mountain Quilters Guild show in Joseph. Burton’s Rhapsody in Blues appliqué quilt was a striking example of the quilting
talent in the county. “She’s just amazing,” said Melody. “She does most of her own patterns.”