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ARTS | CULTURE | EVENTS SUMMER 2012

A MAGAZINE DEDICATED TO SPECIAL EVENTSIN THE TOWN OF SISTERS

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INSIDE: COMPLETE SISTERS OUTDOOR QUILT SHOW GUIDECOMPLETE SISTERS OUTDOOR QUILT SHOW GUIDE

Quilt Show At A Glance

Quilter & Special Exhibit Listings

Quilter Spotlights

Around The Block Fiber Arts Stroll

& Quilt Walk

Maps & Locations

& Much More!

SATURDAY, JULY 14, 2012

37TH ANNUAL

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Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show celebrating 37 years.by Sondra Holtzman, for The Bulletin Special Projects

The Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show began in 1975 with the simple concept as a day of sharing. Yet founder Jean Wells had a hard time talking some ladies in Sisters into bringing their quilts to hang with some of her own family quilts for display.

Now in its 37th year, the largest outdoor quilt show of its kind displays some 1,300 quilts from all over the globe. This happens throughout Sisters on Saturday, July 14 from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

“My job is placing the quilts in selected locations around town,” said Wells. “Joyce Boyd and I have developed a system where we have pictures of every spot the quilts will be hung in a big notebook. When placing the quilts, we look for those that are aesthetically pleasing together and have something in common, such as a theme or color scheme.”

Aside from being a free, non-juried event, one of the most unique things about the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show is that it is open to anyone who is interested in showing a quilt, attracting worldwide appeal.

One example is a group of quilters in Santa Barbara who created a project featuring hand dyeing and quilts made especially for the show.

Another special exhibit showcases wares from a

quilting group of women in Mongolia, doubling as a fundraiser.

“It takes a year or more to plan the show,” said

executive director Ann Richardson. “We’re already working on theme, poster artist, special exhibits and raffle quilts for 2013.

“Although this event is planned with a small staff, we are fortunate enough to have hundreds of volunteers who work the Quilt Show. Half are local, and on Quilt Show day, the other half are visitors who come for the event.”

This year’s theme is A Patterned Village, inspired

Blanket of Colors & PatternsPhoto by Gary Miller

Photo by Gary Miller

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AROUND THE BLOCK FIBER ARTS STROLLSunday, July 8, Downtown Sisters, Noon-4 p.m. The ninth annual fiber arts stroll throughout the town of Sisters. Local businesses will host textile artists displaying, demonstrating and selling their work. Refreshments and music from noon to 4 p.m.

AROUND THE BLOCK QUILT WALK July 1 - 31: Quilts on display in Sisters and other Central Oregon locations; July 6-23: Locations in the Old Mill DistrictQuilt Show sponsoring businesses display more than 100 quilts by local quilters during their business hours.

QUILTERS AFFAIR Monday - Friday, July 9-13, Sisters High SchoolFive days of quilting classes, lectures, a garden tour and evening programs highlighting the diversity of the art of quilting.

“MEN BEHIND THE QUILTS” CALENDAR PREMIERE PARTYTuesday, July 10, 7 p.m., Lawn behind Sisters Art Works, 204 W Adams St., SistersAn evening of music, micro-brew, autographing & a live auction of the calendar quilts.

ARTIST RECEPTIONS AT CLEARWATER GALLERY, SISTERS Sunday, July 8, noon - 4 p.m.Featuring poster artist Kathy Deggendorfer.Thursday, July 12, 4 - 6 p.m.Featuring quilt artist Rosalie Dace.391 W. Cascade. Contact Julia Rickards, 541-549-4994

37TH ANNUAL SISTERS OUTDOOR QUILT SHOW Saturday, July 14 , 9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m., Downtown Sisters More than 1,300 quilts on display in the largest outdoor quilt show in the world.

SAVE IT FOR SUNDAYSunday, July 15, 10 am - 3pm Guest Lecture at FivePine Conference Center & limited exhibit of quilts downtown.

The Show AT A GLANCE


by the small village feel of Sisters, along with the myriad colors, textures and quilts that make up the Outdoor Quilt Show.

The official event poster, titled “Go To Town” and created by fine artist and Sisters resident Kathy Deggendorfer, further illustrates the concept of a patchwork village. A strong supporter of the arts, Deggendorfer supports the Quilt Show through her personal economic driver, The Roundhouse Foundation.

The Stitchin’ Post’s annual Employee Challenge is also based on the 2012 theme. Each year, Quilt Show founder Jean Wells donates fabric toward the challenge, offering employees the opportunity to make a quilt based on the assigned theme.

Those quilts are displayed on the side of the Stitchin’ Post building and are hung by the ever-popular firemen in Sisters.

Other special events include the

Teacher’s Tent, where quilts made by instructors who teach at the Quilter’s Affair are displayed; and the Quilter’s Affair, five days of classes and lectures sponsored by the Stitchin’ Post and given by instructors who come to Sisters from all over the world.

“Each year we ask these talented people to display some of their finest quilts that range from traditional to art quilts,” said Richardson. “This year, the venue will be located on the lawn behind Sisters Art Works, just two blocks north of the Stitchin’ Post.”

Another popular Quilt Show attraction is the Wish Upon a Card fabric postcard fundraiser for Wendy’s Wish Foundation/St. Charles Cancer Center. The beautiful array of fabric postcards will be on display at the Sisters Chamber of Commerce.

“We’ve raised over $50,000 in the last five years through the sale and silent auction of the cards,” said Richardson. “All custom framing is donated by

High Desert Frameworks, and we’re so grateful for the fabulous job they do each year.”

Unique to the 2012 Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show is a special fundraiser called Men Behind the Quilts Calendar, a little “edgier” Quilt Show project, according to Richardson. Calendars will be on sale at the Stitchin’ Post and many other local businesses in Sisters. A calendar premiere party will be held at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, July 10 at Sisters Art Works. Tickets are $10 and are available at www.sistersoutdoorquiltshow.org.

Founder Jean Wells is fascinated by the groups of people who travel together to participate in the Quilter’s Affair.

“Aside from sharing time with fellow quilters, we see families who come together for the show — mothers, grandmothers and granddaughters,” said Wells. “It’s a time for them to be with like-minded people to share their love of quilting.”

The quilt Wells crafted for the show


Raffle Quilt: “A Patterned Village”“A Patterned Village” was designed and constructed by

Tonye Belinda Phillips of Camp Sherman, Oregon. Tonye is an exceptional teacher, quilter and author and we love the wall-sized quilt she’s designed for our 2012 raffle. Tonye took this year’s theme, “A Patterned Village,” to heart. Having been immersed in funky houses for the last few years, this was right up her alley. This particular “village” is surrounded by wild flowers at their peak, just like the second Saturday in July – Quilt Show day!

Proceeds from the annual raffle quilt support the

Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show, a non-profit organization benefiting the schools and community of Sisters and Central Oregon. We are again sharing 25 percent of the proceeds with Kiwanis of Sisters to help them with the great work they do in our community. Tickets are $1 each or six for $5 and can be purchased at the Stitchin’ Post or on Quilt Show day. The winning ticket will be drawn at 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 14th, Quilt Show day, at the Stitchin’ Post. You need not be present to win the quilt.

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cool bike. Raffle tickets are $5 each and can be purchased at the Stitchin’ Post or at the raffle tent on the lawn behind the Stitchin’ Post on Quilt Show Day. The drawing is at 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 14, and the winner need not be present. We will be happy to ship the bike if our winner is from out of town. Funds raised will help pay the expenses of the show. Many thanks to Jacquie Zanck and Blazin Saddles for making this raffle possible.

this year is entitled “Creekside,” inspired by Wychus Creek which flows near her home.

Despite attracting people from across

the globe, the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show remains a grassroots event that relies on contributions from volunteers, neighbors and even family members.

Wells’ daughter is a textile artist in her own right, and her grandson, who just turned 9, will be putting out the traffic cones with his father and grandfather before the sun rises on Quilt Show day.

“I see the show continuing as a venue for people to share their work and be inspired by others for many years to come,” said Wells. “It’s a time-honored tradition that is an integral part of the Sisters community.”

The Sisters Outdoor Quilt show is a nonprofit organization whose lifeblood depends on donations, fundraisers and sponsorships.

“I’m thrilled to be associated with such a creative and innovative organization,” said Richardson. “The show continues to grow, and we look forward to a future of unlimited possibility.”

2012 Quilt Show Poster: “Go To Town”KATHY DEGGENDORFER ARTIST STATEMENT:

“This year’s poster is from my painting titled “Go To Town”. The painting was done with liquid watercolor on Rives BFK Printmakers paper. The smooth surface of the paper and the liquid watercolor make it possible to achieve really intense and saturated color … just the way I like it … bright and cheery. I love painting little houses. The square, rectangle and triangle shapes build such lovely little patterns. “Go To Town” is a fun piece that includes lots of different styles of buildings and perspectives along a luscious curving purple road. It

represents the town of Sisters. We are a mountain town … built on a solid base of traditional quilting (the basic block houses at the bottom). The neighborhood is filled with houses and horses, cows and dogs, pickup trucks and big mountain vistas. All this and a backdrop of golden fields and rolling farm land. In a tribute to our pioneering spirit, I topped it off with a little log cabin, a portly bear and a very tame deer!

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SAVE IT FOR SUNDAY: Sunday, July 15 Sponsored by FivePine Lodge & Conference Center

by Laurel Brauns, for The Bulletin Special Projects

“People always say, ‘I can’t see everything in one day!’” said Ann Richardson, Executive Director of the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show. “I can’t believe it has taken us 36 years to add an extra day.”

Save It for Sunday began last year in an effort to give people who missed the show on Saturday the opportunity to view some quilts, as well as to highlight some specific displays that can be “saved” for the day after the main show.

One of the highlights of Sunday’s activities is guest lecturer Gwen Marston at the FivePine Lodge campus. Marston is a non-traditional quilter and collector of textiles from around the world. This is the first time that her collection of sixty pieces from thirty-two countries will be shown to the public. The display includes pieced and appliqué folk textiles, and even a Mongolian yurt wall cover. Her lecture will highlight common characteristics of folk art and how these pieces have influenced her

own work. She will also discuss what is happening with textiles around the world. Marston’s lecture begins at 11 a.m. and costs $20, and she will also be offering walking tours of her collection with tickets for the 2:15 p.m. tour still available for $15.

Richardson is excited to have the opportunity to utilize the FivePine Lodge campus for Marston’s lecture and exhibit.

“It’s such a pretty location, but on quilt show day everything is downtown and people don’t like to walk that far,” she said. “This is a community event, and FivePine is part of the community, so it’s great to include them.”

A number of other exhibits will be on display that quilt show fans can “save for Sunday.” The Stitchin’ Post “Employee Challenge” Quilts will be hung on the front of the quilt store. Also be sure to check out the “Quilt for Two Rivers” installation at Clearwater Gallery on Cascade Ave. This is a forty-foot long piece made up of seventeen quilt panels, with Whychus Creek in Sisters flowing through all of the different quilts and connecting them.

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Other highlights include “Peter & Wendy, Quilts from Peter Pan” by Cover to Cover, and “View From The Village,” a fiber art exhibit and sale at Sisters Art Works that follows the theme of the show. There will also be quilts in all the sponsoring businesses in Sisters, making this a great day to relax and enjoy the Sisters shopping experience.

“Up until last year, the people that came through on Sunday would be really disappointed that they missed the show,” Richardson said. “We are starting small, but I’m so glad that now we are doing something on Sunday.”

Save it For Sunday EventsSunday, July 15, 10 am to 3 pmSponsored by FivePine Lodge & Conference Center

Featured Speaker: Gwen Marston – “Folk Art Textiles” at FivePine Lodge & Conference Center Lecture - 11 a.m., $20 — Join Gwen on a trip around the world! Gwen Marston may be the most entertaining quilt lecturer you’ve ever seen. Gwen has amassed a fantastic collection of mostly pieced and appliqué textiles from thirty-two countries. In her lecture, illustrated with textiles from the collection, Gwen will discuss the common characteristics of folk art the world over and share how she has adapted her quilting techniques to capture the spirit of these gems in her own work. This is the first time Gwen has shared her extensive collection with the public. Tickets can be purchased at www.sistersoutdoorquiltshow.org/events.htm#lecture or by calling 541-549-0989. Tickets will be available for purchase at the door.

Some of Gwen’s collection will be on display, free to the public, among the trees on the FivePine Campus from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sunday, July 15.

Other Exhibits &Locations for Sunday:Featured Gallery Artist: Quilts by Rosalie Dace – Clearwater Gallery, 391 W. Cascade

Quilt for Two Rivers – Clearwater Gallery, 391 W. Cascade

Peter & Wendy Quilts by Cover to Cover – Heritage Building Lawn Area

Stitchin’ Post Employee Challenge Quilts – the Stitchin’ Post

Quilts from Uganda – inside Sisters Coffee Co.

The Affair of the Necklace Quilts by the Journeys Group – FivePine Lodge, inside

The Novel Idea Quilts – Sisters Library

Quilt Block Contest – Stitchin’ Post Lawn Area

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by Gregg Morris, for The Bulletin Special Projects

The Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show is the talk of the town every summer. While the 37th annual Quilt Show only runs from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, July 14, the quilting festivities last all July.

Headquartered in Sisters, the folks who run the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show not only expanded their displays throughout the month of July, but for the third straight year, they are including Bend as well.

The Fiber Arts Stroll, the Sisters Quilt Walk and the Old Mill District Quilt Walk offer longer viewing periods and unique quilts and fiber art on display.

The 9th Annual Around the Block Fiber Arts Stroll

The 9th Annual Around the Block Fiber Arts Stroll will take place Sunday, July 8 from noon to 4 p.m. in downtown Sisters. On this second Sunday in July, local fiber artists will demonstrate, exhibit and sell their work in participating Sisters’ businesses.

“The Fiber Arts Stroll is a great concept

for an art stroll since it focuses on textures along with color,” said Julia Rickards, owner of Clearwater Gallery and Framing. “We work with artists that use gourds and wood for a three-dimensional approach, as well as the traditional, two-dimensional pieces.”

As quite possibly the most unique art stroll in Central Oregon, the Fiber Arts Stroll takes a hands-on approach to quilt display.

“It is a little more interactive between the artists and the public,” said Ann Richardson, executive director of the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show. “There will be many demonstrations by the artists. In some cases, they will be working on a piece while the public watches.”

The Fiber Arts Stroll is good for the local businesses as well.

“My husband and I have owned our gallery for 10 years, and we have been with the Fiber Arts Stroll since

its inception nine years ago,” Rickards said. “It is a natural marriage for us to be a part of the Fiber Arts Stroll and the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show.”

The Fiber Arts Stroll and Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show share one thing with the melting of snow on Black Butte.

“It feels like the kickoff to summer for Sisters,” said Rickards. “There is a happy feel to it. Fabric, textures and color bring the summer vibe to our town.”

Sisters & Old Mill Quilt WalkDuring the entire month of July, local

artists will display their quilts in sponsoring businesses throughout Sisters. By taking a walk in downtown Sisters, quilting revelers can enjoy more than 100 quilts in the local shops.

“It’s a nice way to support the businesses that support the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show,” said Richardson. “It is all local artists in local shops.”

While the Quilt Walk is in it’s ninth year, the different quilts and exhibits keep it fresh and exciting.

The Sisters Art Works Gallery will show a special collection of fiber art all based upon this year’s quilt show theme, “A Patterned Village.” The “View From A Village” exhibit will run from through July 15 and will include an artist reception Tuesday, July 10 from 3 to 6 p.m.

“That’s a don’t miss,” Richardson said.

For the third year, The Quilt Walk will stretch into Bend’s Old Mill District. You can catch the exhibits July 6 - 23 at participating businesses.

“We are excited to get the 20 or so Old Mill District businesses directly involved in the show,” Richardson said.

The Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show asks that while you are enjoying the various quilt exhibits in Central Oregon, please take a moment to thank the sponsoring businesses.

For more information and brochures with maps, please contact the Sisters Area Chamber of Commerce at 241 E. Main Street.

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LOCATIONS ARTISTS MEDIAAlpaca by Design Liz McDannold Wet Felted Art & AccessoriesBeacham’s Clock Co. Sally Rogers “Onward From Four Patch” Traditional QuiltsClearwater Gallery on Cascade Kathy Deggendorfer 2012 Poster ArtistClearwater Gallery on Cascade Quilt For Two Rivers Exhibit Art QuiltsClearwater Gallery on Cascade Rosalie Dace South African Quilt ArtistCommon Threads Sara Wiener / Sara Bella Upcycled Upcycled Plastic Bags & BannersDesert Charm/The Dime Store High Desert Rug Hookers Traditional Rug HookingDon Terra Artworks Mari Livie Fabric & Clay ArtDon Terra Artworks Tylar Merrill Felted Clothing & PillowsEar Expressions Joanne Myers Handmade Fabric This & ThatFivePine Lodge & Conference Center Affair of the Necklace by the Journeys Group Art QuiltsMackenzie Creek Mercantile Catherine Moen 2012 Featured QuilterNavigator News Beverly Soasey Mixed Media/AssemblageNavigator News Maria Winner Contemporary Fiber ArtPaulina Springs Books Tracy Curtis Needle Felting Technique & Recycled AccessoriesPieceful Expressions Eric Gunson Pattern Designer & Quilt MakerSisters Art Works View From The Village Central Oregon ArtistsSisters Chamber of Commerce Wish Upon a Card-Fabric Postcard Fabric Postcard Sale & Auction NEW LOCATION! Fundraiser for Wendy’s Wish FoundationSisters Coffee Co. ”Sisters of the Heart” Quilts from UgandaSisters Drug & Gift Dianne Browning Decorator Art QuiltsSisters Log Furniture Suzette DeCourcey Shoulders Embellished Crazy Quilt ArtSisters Market & Eatery Mari Walz “Fiber of Life” Mixed MediaSisters Mercantile Jan Isbell Felted Fiber Art & AccessoriesSisters Public Library A Novel Idea Quilts Quilts inspired by “Rules of Civility”Sundance Shoes Quilters Without Borders Mongolian Handmade Quilts & Accessories The Culver House Helen Brisson 2012 Machine Quilter Showcase Artist The Culver House - West Wall Small Wonders Quilt Challenge Quilt Sale & FundraiserThe Hen’s Tooth Kristin Shields Slow Cloth TechniquesThe Hen’s Tooth Janelle Rebick Fabric DyeingThe Jewel Kerry Vine Beaded JewelryThe Paper Place Debbie Slater Marbelizing on FabricThe Stitchin’ Post Jean Wells Keenan Art Quilt Presentation IdeasWild Hare Fiber Catherine Ware Hand Dyed Wool FabricWild Hare Fiber Louann Person Bead-Knitted Silk Victorian Jewelry

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1. Teachers’ Tent - NEW LOCATION! —Behind Sisters Art Works

Sponsored by Morrow’s Sewing & Vacuum Center and Baby Lock

The Teacher’s Tent has a new (and permanent!) home just three short blocks north of the Stitchin’ Post. Each year the Quilters’ Affair instructors share a wide variety of techniques, design, color and innovative ideas in this fabulous exhibit. Their quilts are always a highlight of the show!

2. View from the Village — Sisters Art WorksNine women, all Oregon artists, each working

in a different medium, incorporate the form of a house or dwelling as the basis for creative expression. For those who love to see innovative uses of traditional materials and new ways of combining techniques and materials this show will be a real treat.

Some of the artists work alone -- with a torch or a kiln, a sewing machine or a paintbrush. Others work together as collaborators. Each has their own particular “view”. The connections come thematically and with the use of diverse materials woven or stitched together into beautiful art pieces.

3. Fabric Swatch Challenge, The Fiberexplorations Group, Salem —Mackenzie Creek Mercantile

Sponsored by Cynthia’s Sewing Center and BJ’s Quilt Basket, Bend, OR

This challenge was developed from two sources of inspiration, the “Fabric Swatch Exchange Reader’s Challenge” in Cloth, Paper, Scissors magazine and the color palette of the 2012 Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show poster by Kathy Deggendorfer. Each member uses her favorite surface design technique, based on the selected color palette, to transform a yard of fabric. Each fabric is cut into 9” swatches and exchanged within the group. Members then have four months to design and construct an original art quilt using the fabric swatches, along with other fabrics of

their choosing. Some members also base the quilt design or theme on the show poster so there is plenty of variety in the quilts. In addition, each quilt in the exhibit complements its neighbor in whatever configuration they’re placed, all due to the use of a common color palette.

4. Quilt for Two Rivers — Clearwater Gallery, 391 W. Cascade

Sponsored by U.S. BankSee story page 24.

5. Featured Gallery Artist: Rosalie Dace — Clearwater Gallery, 391 W. Cascade

Sponsored by Clearwater GallerySee story page 28.

6. Small Wonders Challenge — Oregon Outback Outfitters

Sponsored by Michael Miller FabricsThe Small Wonders Challenge is back! Last

year’s contest raised more than $1,100 for local charity. The Small Wonders quilts are all donated for a fundraiser benefiting Sisters families and kids. Prizes totaling $600 have been awarded in six categories: Michael Miller Challenge Award, Best Use of the 2012 Quilt Show Theme “A Patterned Village”, Best Use of Color, Best Abstract/Contemporary Quilt, Judges’ Choice and Viewers’ Choice. They are now for sale and one would just LOVE to go home with you!

7. The Calendar Quilts — The Stitchin’ Post Complex

Sponsored by Stitchin’ Post, Bronco Billy’s, The Quilt Shack, The Nugget, BendBroadband

The quilts that grace the pages of the “Men Behind the Quilts” calendar were provided by the talented quilters of Central Oregon. The quilts on display were auctioned on Tuesday night as a fundraiser for Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show. Half of the proceeds from the auction benefit our non-profit and the other half will go to the quilters who gave us their quilts for the calendar. Calendars can be purchased at www.SistersOutdoorQuiltShow.org, the Stitchin’ Post and many Sisters businesses.

8. The Stitchin’ Post Employee Challenge — The Stitchin’ Post East Wall

Sponsored by The Stitchin’ PostEach year the Stitchin’ Post employees are

offered the opportunity to create a quilt to be displayed on Quilt Show day. This year’s challenge is our show theme, “A Patterned Village”. The employees’ quilts range from the whimsical to the traditional in portraying the challenge theme.

9. Raffle Quilt & Patchwork Bike Raffles — The Stitchin’ Post lawn area

Sponsored by Bi-MartSee page 4 for details on both raffles. Winners

will be drawn at 4:00 pm on Saturday, July 14th, Quilt Show day, behind the Stitchin’ Post. Winners need not be present. We will be happy to ship the bike if our winner is from out of town!

10. Handi-Quilter Demonstration — Behind the Stitchin’ Post

Sponsored by Handi-Quilter and Cynthia’s Sewing Center

Cynthia’s Sewing Center and Handi Quilter are co-hosting a demonstration booth at the 2012 Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show. Come check out the latest models of Handi Quilter machines and quilt frame packages. A Handi Quilter national education ambassador will be available in the booth as well. Stop by and register to win a special prize basket valued at more than $250!

11. Onward from Four Patch, Traditional Quilts by Sally Rogers — Beacham’s Clock Co., inside

Sponsored by Bella ModaSally made her first quilt as a newlywed in

Cottage Grove 54 years ago, using the Singer Featherweight her Grandmother gave her in 4th Grade. It was a 4-patch Single Irish Chain, and she’s still piecing quilts on that same machine. Retiring to Central Oregon in 2000 added momentum to her quilting, although still piecing the basics: 4-patch, 9-patch and Log Cabin - inspired by her collection of antique quilts and reproduction 19th century fabrics. Many of the quilts in this display were hand quilted on a floor frame built by her husband, Jerry.

12. Amish Inspired Quilts by Bryce Hamilton — The Heritage Building

Sponsored by FivePine Lodge & Conference Center

Bryce has been buying, selling and collecting antique quilts for almost too many years to count. We are honored to be one of the few places in the country that displays and sells these lovely, hand quilted masterpieces. His fascination with Amish quilts led him to his present business of designing and commissioning quilts that are made by women in Ohio, most of whom are Amish. We always look forward to seeing his new collection each year at the show.13. The “Peter and Wendy” Quilts by Cover to Cover—The Heritage Building lawn areaSponsored by Sew Many Quilts, Bend, OR

Cover to Cover was formed in 2000 by a group of quilt artists who challenged themselves to make quilts inspired by literature. While skills and styles vary within the group, each member brings her unique talent and ideas, making it an open forum for innovative approaches to creating art quilts as well as beautiful traditional pieces. This year the group’s work is based on “Peter Pan” by Sir James Matthew Barrie. The quilts in this display exemplify the diversity of the group. Come and be prepared to “Believe.”

SPECIAL EXHIBITSSisters Outdoor Quilt Show

Deb Sorem, Fabric Swatch Challenge

Elements, Earth by Rosalie Dace

Peter and Wendy Quilts

Amish quilt inspired by Bryce Hamilton

Ann Richardson, Calendar Quilt


14. Sisters of the Heart – Quilts from Uganda — Inside Sisters Coffee Co.Janet Storton of Sisters, Oregon, taught a

group of African women, from the mountains of Uganda, to make quilts from African and donated fabric. They call themselves “Sisters of the Heart” and they sell their quilts in the U.S. to raise money for a Micro Loan foundation giving other women in their village the means to earn a living and sustain their families. 100% of the proceeds from the sale of these quilts is returned to Uganda for this effort.

15. Featured Quilter: Catherine Moen — Ponderosa Properties lawn area

Sponsored by the Roundhouse FoundationSee story page 19.

16. Portland Modern Quilt Guild — Paulina Springs Courtyard

Sponsored by Cuppa Yo Frozen YogurtThe Portland Modern Quilt Guild formed in

March of 2010 as a chapter of the international Modern Quilt Guild movement. We meet the third Thursday of every month at the Pacific Northwest College of Art to share techniques, show our quilts, and collaborate on charity quilting and many other projects together. You can visit our blog at portlandmodernquiltguild.blogspot.com to see photos of our work or find out about our upcoming events. We are so honored to present the second annual special exhibit of our quilts at the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show.

17. Machine Quilter Showcase featuring Helen Brisson — Don Terra Artworks/Barclay Park

Sponsored by Old Mill District, Bend, ORSee Story Page 20.

18. Rosalie Dace Students’ Quilts — The Gallery Restaurant, west wall

Sponsored by Ray’s Food PlaceAs a tribute to Rosalie, her work and her

teaching, we’ve gathered a great selection of quilts made by students in her classes at the Stitchin’ Post – enjoy!

19. Inspirational Instructor – Jackie Erickson — The Jewel

Sponsored by C&T PublishingSee Story page 22.

20. Coffee Creek Quilters — The Hen’s Tooth west wall

Sponsored by Dutch Bros. Coffee of Central Oregon

Coffee Creek Quilters teaches quilting classes

to women incarcerated at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville, Oregon. Since 2002, they have provided a positive, hands-on program that gives the students an opportunity to learn and practice many life-enhancing skills. Quilting teaches patience, perseverance, problem-solving and the importance of quality work. When students complete their quilts, they develop a positive, “I can do it” attitude. The goal is to nurture students’ self-esteem, so that they will be more successful living in the community after release from prison. Students complete three quilts during their time in the program. Two quilts are for charity and one is for themselves or a loved one. This is an entirely volunteer organization.

21. “ab-strakt-ed”, the Santa Barbara Quilters—Three Creeks BuildingSponsored by Santa Barbara Quilting Retreats

This exhibit of 15 quilts was created over the past six months by four individually and

collectively inspired fiber artists. Through continual contact and regular meetings to share and critique emerging work, the group produced a fresh and cohesive collection of uniquely pieced, abstract quilts that are debuting at the 2012 Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show. The work features several bolts worth of vibrant fabric designed and created by the artists during three all-day collaborative fabric dying sessions.

22. Quilting Activity Area & Next Generation of Quilting — Town Square lawn, behind Re/Max Building

Sponsored by Bank of the CascadesThis is a special location dedicated to the

new quilter and quilter wanna-be. Kids are welcome to stop by the Quilting Activity Area for an introduction to the art of sewing and quilting. Each participant will complete a small take home project with the help of our volunteers. Activity tent hours are 10:30 to 2:30 on Quilt Show day. Parents must accompany children.

Our Next Generation exhibit area features quilts made by young people under the age of 18. It’s always fun to see what the Next Gen is up to!

23. Quilt Block Contest — Town Square lawn area

Sponsored by Westminster FibersThe annual Quilt Block Contest challenges

quilters to create a block using a packet of fabrics from our sponsor, Westminster Fibers. This year’s focus fabric is from Valori Wells Designs. Participants were allowed to use only the fabrics we sent them to create their block and our Quilters Affair instructors have picked their favorites. The Best in Show block wins a $50 prize and the runners-up all have an Honorable Mention ribbon attached. The blocks will be Portland Modern Quilt Guild Ab-strakt by Debra Blake

by Helen Brisson

Coffee Creek Quilters

Quilt Block Contest

by Catherine Moen


divided among those winners. Finished quilts from last year’s contest will be displayed here if they have been submitted for this year’s show.

24. “Paint Chip Challenge”, Crook County Quilt Guild—Corner of Hood & Spruce

Sponsored by Hancock FabricsThe idea for a paint chip challenge sprang from

a fabric dying class taken by two of our members during Quilters Affair classes in 2010. A student in that class was attempting to match a paint chip color for her guild’s challenge. We tweaked the idea and came up with some “rules” to make ours a bit different, presented it to the guild and received an enthusiastic response. Each person received the same red paint chip, with a second paint chip that was a different color for each person. By the end of

the one year allowed for completing the project, twenty five completed quilts were presented, all wonderfully different from one another.

25. The Affair of the Necklace, Journeys Quilting Group—FivePine Lodge, Five Pine Campus Sponsored by Three Creeks Brewing Co.

The Journeys Art Quilters stretched their imaginations as they prepared the twelve quilts

in this exhibit. The artists were challenged to create a work 18” x 45”, using the theme “The Affair of the Necklace”. The theme was inspired by a unique necklace worn by one of the group members. The audience will be delighted with the jewel colors and the imaginative way each piece demonstrates the unique style of the individual artists. The designs use cotton, wool and silk, as well as embellishments, and viewers will be

surprised at the variety: everything from whimsy to romance, from adventures in the abstract to pictorial, from playful to intense.

26. “Rules of Civility”, the Novel Idea Quilts — Sisters Public Library

Sponsored by QuiltWorks, Bend, OREach year the Deschutes Public Library selects

a book for their annual “Novel Ideal” program that will engage and inspire the community to read, discuss, participate and get involved in their library. Marilyn Ulrich of QuiltWorks in Bend organizes a group of quilters each year to make quilts inspired by the “Novel Idea” selection. This year’s book, by Amor Towles, was “Rules of Civility”. The author was in town to lecture and attend events and he and his family were so taken

with the quilts that they purchased several of them! Bet you’ll be inspired to read the book after seeing these wonderful interpretations.

27. An Affair to Remember, The Cheerios Quilters — Corner of Cascade & Larch. Sponsored by Sisters Garden ClubSince 1996, the nine members of the Cheerios

Group have been attending the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show and Quilters Affair classes. They have been sewing, quilting, taking classes and displaying quilts in the show ever since. The group’s annual challenge is to finish a quilt from a past Quilters Affair class for display in the show. The origin of their group name? When they are together, they all have Cheerios for breakfast!

28. ManLand — Corner of Main & SpruceSponsored by Black Butte Ranch

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Affair of the Necklaceby Kristin Shields, Autumn in New York

Star Image by Eric Gunson

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one place so we could all get a good look at what they’re doing. We’ve had men exhibit in the show for many years, and it’s time to bring them out of the shadows. No la-z-boys here - the guys’ work will amaze you!

29. Wish Upon a Card - Silent Auction for Wendy’s Wish Foundation — Sisters Area Chamber of Commerce - NEW LOCATION

Framing Sponsor – High Desert Frameworks!; Exhibit Sponsor – Dr. Tom Comerford, Dr. Linyee Chang, and Dr. Russ Omizo, St. Charles Cancer Center Radiation Oncologists

We have raised more than $50,000 in the last four years for Wendy’s Wish, a local cancer support foundation, through the sale and silent auction of donated fabric postcards. Custom-framing for the postcards is also donated - by award winning framer, Myrna Dow of High

Desert Frameworks! Cards are available for viewing and bidding beginning July 6 at Sisters Area Chamber of Commerce, 291 E. Main, between 10 am and 4 pm. The silent auction closes at 3:00 PM on Quilt Show Day, Saturday, July 14th.

30. Kimonos & Laundry Blues, Mountain Meadow Guild — Sisters Chamber of Commerce building & lawn area

Sponsored by Sisters Drug & GiftMountain Meadow Quilt Guild has two

exciting displays this year. One is the Chain of Kimono Jackets, inspired by a class taught by Elaine Bowles and Sharon Baker of Boise, Idaho. Lots of beautiful color and fabrics have gone into these jackets. You will want to make one yourself!

The other part of our exhibit is the Fiber Chix “Laundry Blues.” The Fiber Chix traded 10” squares of fabric in a primarily blue palette. They wanted the challenge to be fun, so any pattern, techniques or size was allowed. The Mountain Meadows Quilters Guild, started in 1996, is made up of quilters from in and around Sunriver, OR.

31. Presidential Quilts, Mt. Bachelor Quilt Guild — Leavitt’s Lawn area

Sponsored by Best Western Ponderosa LodgeThe Mount Bachelor Quilters Guild was

founded in 1983 with six members and has

steadily grown to about 120 members. Each year seven leadership positions are filled to chart our course and plan activities. Those activities include monthly workshops and meetings, an annual March retreat, an August quilt show, a raffle quilt, and our community service quilt group that donates about 150 quilts to various organizations throughout Central Oregon. It takes an ambitious president to keep all of these balls in the air throughout their term. As a reward at the end of their term, the president is given quilt blocks, made and signed by the members, in the style and colors that are her favorites. She then gets to assemble a quilt with them. Our special exhibit is a collection of those “presidential” quilts.

32. Quilters Without Borders — The Place Building, 161 N. Elm St.Sponsored by Bend/Sisters Garden RV Resort

The New Way Life (NGO) Mongolian Quilting Center in Ulaanbaatar was opened in 2004 under the direction of Selenge Tserendash, a young Mongolian lawyer, for the purpose of helping needy Mongolian women both economically and socially. Quilting is a new activity in Mongolia, but the women have excellent sewing skills and are eager to learn. The Center employs two seamstresses making items to sell, a designer, and five part-time teachers. Maggie Ball and her daughter went to Mongolia in 2004 as volunteers. They taught basic quilting skills, and the piecing of the traditional Mongolian ölzii symbol thought to bring long-life and prosperity. This motif is featured on aprons, bags and quilts that the women make to sell. Funds raised from the sale of these items help support the operating costs of the Quilting Center.

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Hilde Morin, Wish Upon a Card

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W E LC O M E QU I LT E R S !


Information Booth/Volunteer Check-InVolunteers who are hanging or taking down quilts should check in at the Quilt Show Office, 352 E Hood St. All other show day volunteers should check in at the Information Booth 30 minutes before their shifts. The Info Booth is located on the grassy area behind The Stitchin’ Post. All our volunteers are invited to a volunteer thank you reception on July 19.

Lost & FoundOn Quilt Show Day, lost and found items will be held at the Information Booth. Check at the Stichin’ Post or call 541-549-6061 after July 14 to check for lost items.

Trying to Locate a Quilt?The Information Booth and the Sisters Chamber have a list of where all the quilts are hung. Please check there if you’d like to find the location of your quilt.

First AidVolunteer firefighters will be on hand on Cascade Avenue, at Leavitt’s, to provide first aid. The Fire Department on Elm Street, south of town, is also available to provide assistance. In case of emergency, call 911.

Buy a Quilt - Help the Show!More than one-third of the quilts on display are for sale. And your purchase helps support quilting AND the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show. Quilts with a brightly colored show tag are all for sale. To purchase a quilt, remove the small bright yellow ticket with the name and price of the quilt (if that ticket is gone, the quilt has been sold). Please do not remove the ticket unless you are certain that you intend to purchase the quilt. Take the ticket to the Quilt Show Sales Office in the Sisters Area Chamber of Commerce building at 291 E Main. Quilt purchases must be completed on Saturday, July 14, between 9:30 a.m. and 5

p.m. A portion of your purchase price goes to help defray the expenses of the show.

Raffle Prize DrawingsRaffle Quilt and Bike Raffle drawings at 4 p.m. behind The Stitchin’ Post.

Picking Up QuiltsQuilts may be claimed beginning Sunday at 7:30 a.m. at the Quilt Show Office, 352 E Hood St. Please note: this is a different location from the Quilt Show Sales Office. Pick up times are: Sunday, July 15, 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., and Monday - Wednesday, July 16-18, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Can We Be Friends?Become a member of the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show and you will:• Inspire Creativity for thousands of visitors. • Educate present and future generations

about the art of quilting.• Build Community partnerships to do great

things for deserving people.A “Friend of the Show” membership extends

the gift of inspiration and creativity to you by providing free admission and discounts to thirty Quilt Museums, Shows and Shops from seven states along with other inspiring benefits. Come by the Friend of the Show booth behind the Stitchin’ Post on Show Day and join us in making a difference.

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The Schedule: “37 Years of Quilting”

Info to Know

The Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show™ | Saturday, July 14, 9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. | 541-549-0989 | www.SistersOutdoorQuiltShow.org

Special thanks to the volunteers, board members and event staff that make this show happen. Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show would not be possible without their contribution of time, energy, enthusiasm and creativity. Special thanks to Donna Rice, Karly Hedrick, Maret Pajutee and Fran Willis for their great work on the Quilt for Two River project. Hats off (and more!) to all the Calendar Guys and to the ladies who gave us their wonderful quilts to auction. As always, our sincere gratitude to Kathy Deggendorfer for her

support and creativity. A shout out for going ‘above and beyond’ goes to Gary Miller, Mark Bill and Malcolm Murphy

Board of DirectorsJeri Buckmann, Myrna Dow, Rosie Horton, Sharyl Parker McCulloch, Jan McGowan, Jean Wells Keenan, Valori Wells Kennedy

Event StaffAnn Richardson, Executive DirectorTammy Ambrose, Events DirectorKathy Pazera, Friendraiser CoordinatorJamie Audrain, Events CoordinatorClyde Dildine, IT Director & Grunt Labor

Around the Block Fiber Arts StrollSunday, July 8, Downtown Sisters, Noon-4 p.m.

Around the Block Quilt Walk July 1-31: Quilts on display in Sisters and other Central Oregon locations; July 6-23: Locations in the Old Mill District, Bend

Quilters Affair Monday – Friday, July 9-13, Sisters High School

“Men Behind the Quilts” Calendar Premiere PartyFeaturing the men in the “Men Behind the Quilts” calendar. Tuesday, July 10, 7 p.m., Lawn behind Sisters Art Works.

Artist Receptions At Clearwater Gallery, Sisters Kathy Deggendorfer: Sunday, July 8, Noon-4 p.m.Rosalie Dace: Thursday, July 12, 4-6 p.m.

37th Annual Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show Saturday, July 14, 9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m., Downtown Sisters

Save it for Sunday Sunday, July 15, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.See pages 6-7 for details

Ray’s Quilt ChallengeStop by Ray’s Food Place to check out their “mini” quilt show and vote for your favorite quilt! The Viewer’s Choice will win a $50 gift card to Rays — and one of the lucky voters will win one, too. Quilts will be on display in Rays from July 1 to 31. The drawing will be held Aug. 1.

THE SHOW

At a Glance

We’re Having An Affair with our

VolunteersWe welcome everyone who

volunteered his or her time to make this year’s show a great success to

our Volunteer Appreciation Affair on Thursday, July 19 at 5:45 p.m.

The event will be held at The Lodge at Black Butte Ranch and feature hors d’oeuvres, a hosted wine

bar, crafted beer by Three Creeks Brewings, door prizes and special

recognitions.

R.S.V.P. by July 16 at www.tinyurl.com/76jlr2k.

One guest per volunteer welcome for $10 admission.


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25. The Affair of the Necklace, Journeys Quilting Group—FivePine Lodge, Five Pine Campus

26. “Rules of Civility,” the Novel Idea Quilts—Sisters Public Library

27. An Affair to Remember, The Cheerios Quilters—Corner of Cascade & Larch back lawn area

28. Manland—Corner of Main & Spruce

29. Wish Upon a Card - Silent Auction for Wendy’s Wish Foundation— inside Sisters Area Chamber of Commerce - NEW LOCATION

30. Kimonos & Laundry Blues, Mountain Meadow Guild—Sisters Chamber of Commerce building & lawn area

31. Presidential Quilts, Mt. Bachelor Quilt Guild—Leavitt’s Lawn area

32. Quilters Without Borders—The Place Building, 161 N. Elm St.

Special Exhibits

Map Guide1. Teachers’ Tent - NEW LOCATION!—Behind

Sisters Art Works

2. View from the Village—Sisters Art Works

3. Fabric Swatch Challenge, The Fiberexplorations Group, Salem—Mackenzie Creek Mercantile

4. Quilt for Two Rivers—Clearwater Gallery, 391 W. Cascade

5. Featured Gallery Artist: Rosalie Dace—Clearwater Gallery, 391 W. Cascade

6. Small Wonders Challenge—Oregon Outback Outfitters

7. The Calendar Quilts—The Stitchin’ Post Complex

8. The Stitchin’ Post Employee Challenge—The Stitchin’ Post East Wall

9. Raffle Quilt & Patchwork Bike Raffles—The Stitchin’ Post lawn area

10. Handi-Quilter Demonstration—behind the Stitchin’ Post

11. Onward from Four Patch, Traditional Quilts by Sally Rogers—Beacham’s Clock Co., inside

12. Amish Inspired Quilts by Bryce Hamilton—The Heritage Building

13. The “Peter and Wendy” Quilts by Cover to Cover—The Heritage Building lawn area

14. Sisters of the Heart – Quilts from Uganda—Inside Sisters Coffee Co.

15. Featured Quilter: Catherine Moen—Ponderosa Properties lawn area

16. Portland Modern Quilt Guild—Paulina Springs Courtyard

17. Machine Quilter Showcase featuring Helen Brisson—Don Terra Artworks/Barclay Park

18. Rosalie Dace Students’ Quilts—The Gallery Restaurant, west wall

19. Inspirational Instructor – Jackie Erickson—The Jewel

20. Coffee Creek Quilters—The Hen’s Tooth west wall

21. “ab-strakt-ed”, the Santa Barbara Quilters—Three Creeks Building

22. Quilting Activity Area & Next Generation of Quilting—Town Square lawn, behind Re/Max Building

23. Quilt Block Contest—Town Square lawn area

24. “Paint Chip Challenge”, Crook County Quilt Guild—Corner of Hood & Spruce Please recycle!

Blue recycle containers are available at two recycle stations. We strongly encourage their use. Thank you!


Local Traffic - Quilt Show DayBusinesses are accessible in Three Wind Center on the west end of Sisters. Bi-Mart, Takoda’s Restaurant, Sisters Dollar & More, and other businesses can all be accessed from Hwy 20 eastbound. Westbound traffic can access these businesses via Hood Ave.

Cascade Avenue will be closed to east/west traffic on Quilt Show Day by 6 a.m. All the north/south cross streets will be open to traffic and parking. Through traffic will be routed around town on Locust St. and Barclay Drive until 5 p.m.

Parking is available on all city streets in the business district and residential areas in Sisters. Please be considerate of local residents and DO NOT park in or block private driveways or alleyways. Where parking spaces are unmarked, we encourage angle parking to accommodate more cars.

Handicapped parking is available now in TWO lots on the east end of town. We have designated handicapped parking in the Sisters Elementary School parking lot, on the east side of Locust St. We still offer handicapped parking on the west side of Locust St. in the lots between the School Administration building and Sisters City Hall. Access to this lot has changed – please check the map and follow the traffic signs to access all handicapped

parking. A small shuttle vehicle to and from the elementary school lot is graciously provided by Aspen Lakes Golf Course.

Tour buses will drop off and pick up passengers on Main Avenue. Busses will park off Larch Street, north of town at Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church. Volunteers are greeting tour busses and will be serving lunch at the church from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

at 386 N Fir St., just two blocks north of town.

Free Park & Shuttle - The Sisters High School Lacrosse Team is providing a free shuttle for anyone who wants to park at Sisters High School at 1700 W McKinney Butte Rd. The first shuttle bus leaves the High School at 9 a.m. The last shuttle will leave Sisters at 5 p.m. The shuttle stop in Sisters is on Hood Avenue, one block south of The Stitchin’ Post.

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by Gregg Morris, for The Bulletin Special Projects

Upon being told she would be the featured quilter for this year’s Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show, Sisters resident Catherine Moen did what most quilters would do. She stood there in amazement.

“The next hour was a blur,” she said. “I was stunned.”

Since 1975, the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show has brought together amateur and professional quilters from across the globe. With more than 12,000 people walking the streets of Sisters, it is the largest outdoor quilt show in the world.

A native of Northern California, Catherine began her quilting career 14 years ago in Issaquah, Wash. A well-known quilter and instructor who happened to be Catherine’s neighbor suggested quilting lessons as a Christmas gift from her husband. The rest is, as they say, history.

“It all started at Christmas time in 1998, just months before moving to Sisters,” Moen said. “Sandy Bonsib and I went to her class every week for a couple months, and I made my first nine-block sampler quilt. At that time, even though we were moving to Sisters. I had no idea

this was such a quilting mecca, and had never heard of The Stitchin’ Post or the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show.”

As with most things, Catherine’s style has changed throughout the last decade and a half. Starting out like most beginner quilters, she followed patterns and made traditional block quilts.

Catherine credits Jean Well’s Intuitive Color and Design classes as the source of her latest techniques. Taking color and composition from nature and the surrounding world, Catherine has switched gradually from traditional quilts to art quilts.

“I love Jean’s style and have copied her techniques a lot,” Moen said.

The only quilt she has ever entered in a juried quilt show, “Rooster Cogburn,” took home the first place ribbon.

Like all good quilters, Moen follows a familiar process when she creates a new quilt.

“I first imagine what I want to create,” she said. “This usually occurs at night.”

Next, she creates the design by sketching it on graph paper. The longest part of the process usually occurs when she auditions the fabrics.

“I am a messy quilter, and the floor of my quilt room becomes covered with audition rejects,” she said.

Finally, she starts cutting and sewing the fabrics together. If something doesn’t fit, Catherine tears it out and replaces it with another fabric.

“I will finally have something I like even if I don’t realize it until the end,” Moen said.

Moen said she plans to continue pursuing different avenues through her quilting.

“I love the contemporary art quilts,” she said. “This form of quilting, or fiber art, gives those who have only thought of quilting as the Midwestern, traditional block quilts a whole new appreciation of the art of quilting.”

Other than exhibiting her quilts at the quilt show, Catherine will participate in the Fiber Arts Stroll and present her quilts at the East of the Cascades Quilt Guild

meeting in late June.

Always held the second Saturday in July, the 2012 Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show will take place on Saturday, July 14 from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. You can catch Catherine at her exhibit on

the lawn at Ponderosa Properties on Hood Avenue or mingling with spectators, answering any questions they may have.

As for the future of quilting, Catherine keeps an optimistic mind.

“I am confident that as we quilters make a special effort to teach our children and grandchildren, it will be a fun, creative outlet for many generations of future quilters,” she said.

Catherine’s words of advice to beginner quilters reads like advice for life.

“Enjoy and keep your eyes open to the world around you,” she says. “Don’t worry about what anyone else thinks. It is your quilt. If you love it, that is all that matters.”

With eyes open to the worldThis year’s featured quilter, Catherine Moen, depicts the world around her in her quilts

FEATURED QUILTER: CATHERINE MOEN Sponsored by Roundhouse Foundation


MACHINE QUILTER SHOWCASE: HELEN BRISSON Sponsored by Three Creeks Brewing

by Laurel Brauns, for The Bulletin Special Projects

While many quilts on display at the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show might be considered non-traditional, machine quilter Helen Brisson takes this notion to the extreme.

Her quilts are defined by abstraction, some integrating themes from nature (including actual branches), while others depict scenes and shapes that flow from her unconscious memories.

“I like to use my machine as an extension of my drawing ability,” Brisson said. “My designs are more abstract than pictorial, and I feel like I’m drawing with my needle and thread and creating different shapes.”

Every year, the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show selects

local artists whose work is unique and interesting in an effort to showcase the level of talent here in Central Oregon. Although Brisson has only lived in the area for three years, word spread in the quilting community that her pieces were exceptional.

This year, she was chosen to be featured in the Machine Quilter Showcase, and her work will be on display on Saturday in Sisters in the park area between Don Terra Artworks and The Hen’s Tooth.

Brisson was a graphic designer and photo stylist by trade, working for years for Hallmark Cards in Kansas City. When she retired, she took up quilting but quickly became bored with the traditional quilting styles that were “all the same.”

Instead of following specific patterns and creating symmetrical shapes like traditional quilting, Brisson creates images based on her experiences and ideas, which is part of what defines her as an “art quilter.”

Brisson uses a machine known as a “long arm,” a sewing machine that has at least an 18-inch “throat,” or opening, to pull a quilt through.

These machines can be up to 20 feet long and are operated by moving the arm over the fabric, as opposed to moving the fabric under the machine, as is done with most domestic machines.

“Machine quilting in general is much more acceptable now than even five years ago,” Brisson said. “Pieces that were machine quilted used to be looked down upon

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at shows, but now many quilts are a combination of hand and machine work.”

Brisson said the move to Central Ore-gon from the Midwest has definitely height-ened her appreciation for the natural world.

“I am constantly taking pictures,” Brisson said. “I can’t tell you how many pictures of bark I have because of the interesting patterns. Nature often influences the designs that I integrate into my quilts.”

Recently, she was given the opportunity to channel that inspiration into a juried piece for “City Walls at City Hall” in Bend based on the theme of how Bend’s external environment inspires one’s internal environment (mental, physical, emotional and spiritual.)

“I was paired with the [Central Oregon] Environmental Center, and I thought there was a real spirit to that place as the hub of other environmental organizations,” Brisson said. “I used all recycled materials for the piece,

and I didn’t buy anything.”

Brisson’s first piece for “City Walls at City Hall” interpreted the theme of “past, present and future” using a photo from the Deschutes County Historical

Society.“I used a picture of the Bend’s Forth

of July Marching Band from 1904 and integrated that into the Pet Parade,” she said.

For this innovative piece, Brisson received the Judges’ Choice Award, and in the show that followed, she received the People’s Choice Award for her interpretation of the theme “Growing Up.”

Brisson believes that these awards are contributing factors to being chosen as a featured quilter in this year’s show.

“I was blown away when I was asked to be the Featured Machine Quilter,” she said. “I’m not going to tell you what I said.”

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Inspirational Instructor strives to show people how truly easy quilting can be.by John Cal, for The Bulletin Special Projects

Jackie Erickson, this year’s Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show Inspirational Instructor, offers less-than-glowing reviews of her own first experiences with sewing.

“I took sewing in High School, but I sucked,” she laughed. “The best I could get was a C.”

It wasn’t until years later, as an adult, that she learned how to quilt.

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“I learned here at the Stitchin’ Post,” she said while standing at her cutting table amidst bolts of fabric and stacks of half-finished appliqué.

Erickson started working at the Stitchin’ Post in 1978 when she was in high school.

“I took a few years off to have babies,” Erickson said, “but I’ve been here for 14 years straight now.”

In that time, Erickson has taught hundreds of students in myriad classes.

“It’s no problem getting them in the door. They come because it’s the Stitchin’ Post, but they get bored easily,” she said. “People have such sort attention spans these days, everything comes so fast with cell phones and computers that you have to keep them interested.”

Though it’s part of her teaching style with the methodical rhythms of quilting, Erickson herself has been known to be a speed demon with her craft.

“Almost everything I owned burned a couple of years ago in the Rooster Rock Fire,” Erickson said.

Gone with all her other possessions were her quilts.

“I thought it was nice that they asked me to be the Inspirational Instructor, but I had no quilts to show,” Erickson said with

appreciative derision. “Everything I’m showing in the show this year was made in the last 8 months.”

Even more amazing, Erickson has completed a total of 22 quilts for this year’s show, all since last September.

“People get overwhelmed with quilting,” said Erickson. “It can be really intimidating, and when you’re doing 14 blocks and each block has

a dozen or more pieces, it can seem really complicated.”

Erickson’s philosophy is to simplify the process as much as possible.

“A lot of people attack their quilts all at once, and then it’s chaos,” she

said. “I like to simplify the process. I make simple quilts.”To explain her methods, she began pointing

to the quilts hanging around the store.“Beginners look at a quilt like this,”

she said, indicating a red and white sawtoothed star quilt, “and it looks so hard, but it’s easy. It’s so easy.”

Quilting is easy. That’s the sentiment that permeates her teaching philosophy.

“People need encouragement,” she said. “They need to hear that they can do it. I take [quilting] classes. I don’t need them. I know the skills, [but] I want to be

with people, someone to work you through it. I need the encouragement too.”

Jackie’s goal is to fill her classes with a sense of camaraderie and an atmosphere of support.

“It cracks me up when people say ‘you’re so good,’” she said. “I’m bad. Really, really bad . . . that’s why I simplify it, for me. I think that’s why the students like it. I make it as easy as possible.”

Erickson is inspiring even the unexpected to start quilting.

“My uncle started quilting last year after the quilt show,” she said. “He’s 73 years old and just finished his 18th quilt . . . He gets ‘em done.”

When asked why she keeps doing it — why she keeps teaching classes year after year — she replied, “I’ve met some of my best friends in class, sitting and sewing and figuring out problems.”

“I like the fabric,” she said, continuing to ponder. “There are literally thousands of new fabrics every year. It’s overwhelming, but when I see them, it’s like ‘Oooo. I want to make something out of that.”

She loves what she does. It inspires her, and that’s what gives her the ability to share that inspiration with others.

“Oh, and it’s easy,” she said again, laughing. “I want to show them that they can do it. People think it’s so hard, and I want to show them it’s so easy. ‘No really,’ I tell them. ‘Just try it. Take a class. It’s so easy. Let me show you.’”

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Stitching the Tale of Two RiversA group of Central Oregon master quilters tell the story of creek restoration through fiber arts.by Laurel Brauns, for The Bulletin Special Projects

At first glance, Jean Wells’ quilt looks more like a painting. In it, a half-dozen burnt orange steelhead make their way up Whychus Creek in Sisters, careening over boulders and flying above waterfalls in gravity-defying leaps and arcs.

Her piece is connected to 16 other panels in a 40-foot collaborative

exhibit created by some of Central Oregon’s finest fiber artists.

Whychus Creek flows through and connects each of the panels, which depict this historic stream that runs right through Sisters — a stream that has been nothing more than a dry riverbed for the better part of the last century; a stream that has finally been restored and will someday be teeming with trout, steelhead and salmon.

This quilted masterpiece is just one of many awareness-raising efforts spearheaded by the National Forest Foundation (NFF) and the U.S. Forest Service. Other efforts include beer brewing, bike riding, and outdoor painting, but the quilt is arguably the most visually stunning.

The project is the brainchild of NFF’s only part-time staff person in Sisters, Karly Hedrick, and Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show (SOQS) executive director, Ann Richardson. The two got together and realized they could harness some serious word-of-mouth publicity for both organizations by joining forces.

First, 20 quilters were invited to explore Whychus Creek on a guided hike near the wild and pristine upper reaches of the stream.

They then scouted the Deschutes Land Trust’s restoration project at Camp Polk Meadow, where they were given an interpretive tour of the re-meandered stream that will eventually provide improved habitat for countless native species.

“The idea was not just about making a quilt for the rivers,” said Richardson, “but about educating these artists so they could become

stewards and interpreters of this entire project, not just passive quilt makers.”

Quilter Betty Gientke admits that she had little understanding of the significance of the stream’s re-meander before the tour.

“It was an ‘ah-ha’ moment for me because I’m not a fisherwoman,” she said. “But I was inspired to research it, and I found out that fish like to hide under logs; they like slow water with pools, riffles and glides, which is what the re-meander recreated.”

Gientke’s quilt shows the creek’s re-meandering from the perspective of a Ponderosa tree, and it has been a conversation starter for many who see it. Gientke never hesitates to share her new knowledge of the stream’s restoration.

“One hundred and eighty thousand native plants, 5,000 cubic feet of rocks and 700 logs were placed to welcome the fish — trout, steelhead and salmon,” she said. “What I learned about Whychus makes me appreciate all the other areas I visit and how important it is to maintain these areas, even if we have to recreate them.”

“Because of this project, my husband and I joined the Deschutes Land Trust,” added contributing quilter Mary Nyquist Koons. “It was quite surprising to discover how much impact irrigation and water needs have on the river.”

Recreating natural habitat like Whychus Creek requires monumental fundraising and the cooperative efforts of many disparate local, state and federal organizations.

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become a model for the nation. But even as the area around Camp Polk makes headlines, many Central Oregon locals have little awareness about the history that is being made in their own backyards.

“This project is really the tale of two rivers: the Whychus and the Metolius,” said Hedrick. “One is the forgotten river that everyone is just getting to know and care for again; the other is the Metolius, that

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As the quilters embraced the age-old tradition of telling a story through their craft, many mixed their memories of the Metolius with their newfound appreciation for Whychus.

This new narrative wove the rivers’ histories together, and a new appreciation was born — for the forest from the quilting community, and for the fiber arts from the forest community.

This led some quilters to take the challenge a step further.

“A week after the original education tour, a group of quilters went back and set off on a longer hike up to the Whychus Falls,” Richardson said.

The result was an additional four panels of Whychus Creek Waterfalls, which will be displayed alongside the “quilted river,” as the installation premiers throughout the Northwest throughout the next year.

The 17-panel exhibit will be gifted to a donor who pledges $20,000 or more, and each of the

waterfall panels will be offered for donations of at least $1,500. Half the donation will go to Sisters area forest restoration efforts and will be matched by the National Forest Foundation.

The exhibit will be on display at Black Butte Ranch through July 1.

In July, the exhibit will be on display at the Clearwater Gallery at 391 W. Cascade Ave. in Sisters, then travel to quilt shows in Portland and Tacoma and other northwest museums and businesses.

U.S. Bank is the official presenting sponsor of the project and will house the exhibit at their Bend branch sometime during the year.

“This project shows how our local arts and natural resources reinforce each other,” said Hedrick. “The landscapes that surround us inspire incredible art, and these artists are using their creations to raise awareness, appreciation and stewardship for these lands.

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SPECIAL EXHIBIT: MEN BEHIND THE QUILTS CALENDAR

Not Your Average Quilt CalendarLocal men go undercover to benefitthe Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show.

by John Cal, for The Bulletin Special Projects

They’ve made gift baskets and had auctions. They’ve raffled quilts and held fundraising galas, but this year the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show went more bare with their approach.

“We wanted to do something to get more of the community involved this year, not just for quilters,” said Ann Richardson, Executive Director of the Quilt Show.

They did in fact get 18 commu-nity members, not usually known for their quilting abilities, involved in this year’s fundraiser in a very in-timate way.

“It sparked over a series of board

meetings,” said Richardson. “‘Why don’t we do a calendar?’ someone said. ‘What if it had really nice quilts,’ someone else added. Then someone said, I think as a joke at first, ‘What if it had guys in it?’”

After the silence and proceed-ing giggles subsided, the ladies on the Quilt Show board of directors decided to go forward, and for this year’s Quilt Show fundraiser, they produced an 18-month calendar fea-turing beautiful quilts made by local quilt artists ... and semi-nude men.

“I don’t think they really knew what they were getting into,” said Richardson.

The aim was to have a larger community involvement, and so

Richardson and calendar photogra-pher, Valori Wells Kennedy, set out to recruit a variety of local models, including both of their husbands.

“Valori leaked that I was going to be asked, and then Ann finally approached me,” said Wade Under-wood, model for November 2013 and owner of Three Creeks Brew-ing Co. in Sisters. “I didn’t know how it was going to turn out, but I knew it was going to be classy.”

Underwood’s photo actually fea-tures two quilts, one of which is on permanent display at the brewery and was made by his mother, Judy.

When asked what his mother thought of him posing seemingly na-ked behind one of her quilts Under-wood laughed.

“I’m keeping it a secret, [but] I’m sure she’ll get a kick out of it when I tell her.”

Wade, who now has the calendar for sale at the brewery, has gotten nothing but good responses for his involvement with the project. When his patrons thumb through the cal-endar, Underwood says, “. . . their faces immediately go to laughter and then joy ... I’ve even signed one.”

If interest from its initial release and more than $1,500 in presales are any indication of how people are feeling about the calendar and

its suggestive photos, then the quilt community is in full support (and in full curiosity) of the calendar and its images.

“We tried to match the quilt to the scenery in each photo,” said Richardson. “We wanted the quilts to go with the seasons.”

Though the photos are more harmless and lighthearted than lewd, it’s debatable that quilt show patrons will be paying much atten-tion to its quilts.

“Women like to look at pictures of guys,” laughed Richardson, “and our largest audience is women.”

Tate Metcalf, featured calendar model and owner and general man-ager of the Sisters Athletic Club, cur-rently has all 18 images displayed in the club’s lobby.

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With all the buzz surrounding this year’s quilt show fundraising calen-dar featuring scantily clad men pos-ing behind quilts, Jean Wells, Ann Richardson, and the rest of the hard-working ladies at the quilt show of-fice also decided to show off men’s ... creativity in an exhibit entitled Man-Land, a showing of 27 quilts by 10 men from all over Oregon and as far as South Carolina.

“We’ve had quilts in the show made by men for years, but this is the first time we’re pulling them togeth-er, tell people what the guys are up to,” Richardson said.

Many are expecting to see quilts made from a completely different point of view, but Richardson said the opposite is true.

“I really don’t they are much dif-ferent,” she said with a smile. “The only difference might be the guys see a sewing machine as a power tool.”

But with entry quilts with titles

such as “Buzz-saw, Buzzkill” by Mi-chael Corlew and “Space Twizzle,” an entry by Rob Appell, the exhibit is sure to feature the unexpected. “Mar-vellete,” an entry by Bill Volkening, was named after the Motown group of the same name.

“I was listening to some of their music as I was quilting,” said Volken-ing.

Though Bill has been a quilt en-thusiast for 23 years and boasts a 200-plus collection of quilts dating back as early as 1780, he has only been quilting for 2 months.

The exhibit proves to capture the perspective of a group of individuals sometimes overlooked in the quilting community.

“Many people don’t realize how many guys come and show at the quilt show, and we wanted to give them the attention they deserve,” said Richardson.

tures in the club,” he said. “People stop, look at the pictures and laugh.”

Tate signed up to be a part of the calendar early on and was the first model that Wells-Kennedy shot.

“I actually forgot it was going to happen ‘til they walked by my win-dow,” Metcalf said. I wasn’t mentally prepared to be naked. I remember it was Sept. 12 because I did a tria-thalon the day before, and I also re-member it was a little cold out on my day.

“‘You can be as naked as you want,’ Val told me. ‘Really? Naked?’ I asked her. We were all really unsure of how the project would unfold.

“[My wife] said I should have showed more leg,” he added. “I really should have ... really given people something to talk about. After all, isn’t that something they want? What we want them to believe?”

Aimee, Tate’s wife works at COCC and Metcalf explains with sarcastic devastation, “All the COCCers are calling me Mr. July now. I’m being totally objectified.”

“We like to stay on the edge and try new things,” Richardson conclud-ed talking about the calendar. “We

want to attract new quilters of every age. We want people to realize that the show is not just your grandma’s quilts off the bed. We’re hoping that the mood and attitude of the quilt show appeals to a broader general audience.”

As for next year, when asked how they’re going to top the buzz of this year’s fundraiser, Richardson adds with a smirk of sincerity, “That’s one of the things I love about working with so many great women. We are never short of ideas. I don’t know what’s forming, but I know it’s going to be something equally good and exciting.”

The “Men Behind the Quilts” cal-endar is now available for $12 online at www.sistersoutdoorquilshow.org and at over 25 businesses around Sisters including Three Creeks Brewing Co. and The Sisters Ath-letic Club. A calendar premier party is taking place on Tuesday, July 10. Tickets are $10 and are also avail-able online. Calendars will be avail-able that evening for a discounted price of $10, and all calendar quilts will be shown and auctioned during the event.

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FEATURED QUILT ARTIST: ROSALIE DACE Sponsored by Clearwater Gallery

Tapping Into Life’s ExperiencesAn artist reception for famous quilter and instructor from South Africa to be held at Clearwater Gallery

by Sondra Holtzman, for The Bulletin Special Projects

The newest featured gallery artist for this year’s 37th Annual Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show lives halfway around the world in South Africa.

Rosalie Dace has been teaching quilting in the U.S. since the early 90s and considers America a second home.

Dace, who is hosted by Clearwater Gallery in Sisters, will exhibit her work starting Sunday, July 8 during the Fiber Arts Stroll and through Quilt Show weekend.

“My wall quilts vary in size and shape and are generally abstract designs made of a variety of fabrics such as cotton, silks, velvets and sheers,” said Dace. “They are generally machine pieced but

most include some element of hand work.”

Dace’s inspiration comes directly from life experience. One of the pieces in the show was made in response to the dreadful bush fires that ravaged the Australian state of Victoria several years ago. Dace visited and worked there at the Australian Quilt Convention in Melbourne and felt compelled

to make the fire quilt.“I’m also showing one of my ‘Journeys’

series entitled “Diaspora” using Ugandan bark cloth,” said Dace. “Other elements include textured African fabrics such as Zairean raffia.”

The artist encourages her students to produce individual pieces of work rather than a class project look when emerging from her classes.

Dace lives in Durban on the southeast coast of South Africa and is drawn to the region’s vibrant, noisy and rich multi-cultural mix. With a population of four million people, Durban is made up mainly of Zulus and people of Indian origin, making it a wonderful melting pot for different cultures.

“We’re all influenced by our

surroundings and history, so I think that shows in my work,” said Dace. “I have a collection of Zulu baskets, pots and beadwork which I find inspiring along with a collection of Benares saris in rich, saturated colors. Apart from South Africa, I’ve traveled to exhibit and/or teach in England, France, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States. My quilts come directly from my life. I simply don’t know any other way to create them.”

Toggling between South Africa and the U.S. affords the artist the best of two worlds, experiences and opportunities. Her South African experience has contributed a simpler country life along with life in a city.

“When I’m away, I miss the different languages I hear in South Africa, the noise and the wonderful sense of the unexpected,” said Dace. “However, I love America too and feel too privileged to have experienced the incredible warmth and generosity of the people and everything that is available here, from art museums to exquisite landscapes and national parks.”

Dace found her way to Sisters after accepting an invitation from Jean Wells Keenan, who invited her to teach at the Stitchin’ Post several years ago.

Although her quilts are mostly machine stitched, the artist enjoys having evidence of the human hand in her work. She loves working with strong, saturated color and usually incorporates a plethora of fabrics into her quilts because of the contrast of texture they allow.

The result is a body of work that is a combination of hand-dyed and commercial cottons, silks, velvets, brocades and sheers, many of which include a particularly delicious metallic gold silk favored by the artist.

Although Dace does not generally

instruct beginners, as an educator she is of the strong belief that every person has an individual voice. Her job is to help them find it.

“I love traditional quilts and stand in awe of the women who made them,” said Dace. “However, what I do, though based on those traditional beginnings, is better described as an art quilt.

“Although I start with a concept or idea, I don’t know how the final piece will evolve. Making it, being both thrilled and at times in despair. is the magic of creating an art quilt. Art quilting as an art form for me spans that indefinable magical area between painting and sculpture.”

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Santa Barbara quilt group to display abstract quilts at this year’s show.

by Kari Mauser, for The Bulletin Special Projects

From the first time Cathe Hedric came from Santa Barbara, Calif., to the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show five years ago, she was hooked.

“I was immediately blown away by how exciting and dramatic the event is, and by the way the whole town participates,” she said “That spirit really grabs me every year.”

So when Ann Richardson, executive director of the show, approached Hedric last year and asked if she would be interested in putting together an exhibit of work from quilters in Santa Barbara, she immediately jumped at the chance.

Hedric, who owns Santa Barbara Quilting Retreats and is a member of the Coastal Quilters Guild of Santa Barbara, was thrilled with the idea of having quilters from her area represented at the show for the first time.

For Hedric, the opportunity meant a chance to promote her business, which brings quilting teachers from across the country together with quilting students from around the world. But more importantly, it meant a chance for some of the guild members to showcase their quilts at the largest outdoor quilt show in the world.

The women Hedric approached were

an ideal group for her company to sponsor as participants in the show. The four of them were all members of the Coastal Quilters Guild of Santa Barbara, but they had also created their own smaller, more focused group as an offshoot of the guild.

“We had realized that not only were our skill levels the same, but we always gravitated to the same quilts when we went to shows,” said quilter Debra Blake. “We had this notion that as a small group we wanted to move to the next level, to make really good work and believed that once we did, then the venues to show it would come — because being able to show your work is incredibly stimulating.”

None of them had considered the idea of having an exhibit at something as grand as the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show.

“We are so inspired by the opportunity,” Blake said. “I mean, it is certainly not every day you get to show your work in a place where so many people will see it.”

In the beginning, Hedric, along with Blake and the other quilters — Maren Johnson, Lou Ann Smith and Patty Six — felt perplexed

“We knew we wanted to present something, but we had no idea what.” said Hedric. “We wanted something interesting and unusual. It was a learning process for all of us.”

The request from Richardson was that the exhibit be a cohesive body of work,

as many as 15 quilts that fit together collectively.

“We thought, ‘Let’s find where our common ground really is,’ because we all have somewhat different styles,” Blake said.

After bouncing thoughts around, the group decided they would create a group of abstract quilts because they each enjoy and appreciate that type of work.

In creating an abstract work, the artist is really leaving the interpretation of the quilt up to the viewer. The piece might actually be an abstraction of something specific, but it is not created to actually depict any particular image or picture. Often, viewers see things in an abstract quilt that were never meant to be, but the very nature of it allows it to be anything.

Next, the women decided that they each wanted to work with their own hand-dyed fabric, agreeing that it can make an amazing difference in the end product. Once they decided that, they opted to spend some long days dying together so they could share color ideas and visions.

As the quilting began, the group met regularly to show each other the progress and to critique each other’s work. Some quilts would evolve that as a group they would then decide did not fit with the overall vision for the collection.

“It was an interesting process to be able to give that kind of feedback,” Blake

said. “It was nerve racking in that this is a sponsored exhibit at a special show, so you want to meet everybody’s expectations.

“We wanted to make sure we made works that were really our own, of course we each have influences from artists who have inspired us, but we really wanted to be original,” she added.

As the last six months have passed, the women have poured their hearts into the project. With the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show inspiring the body of work itself, having that focal point also inspired them to keep going with their pieces even when faced with difficult personal challenges and losses.

“All the life stuff that happens, the stuff that is truly all-encompassing — we’ve had a lot of things happen during the time we’ve been working on this show — so to have each other for support and encouragement along the way, well it’s made us a really connected group of women,” Blake confided.

In the end, each of the women has created a series of works that is independently cohesive, and then also cohesive in respect to the entire collection.

“The quilts all look very different, but all sit very comfortably next to each other,” Blake said.

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SPECIAL EXHIBIT: QUILTERS WITHOUT BORDERS Sponsored by Bend/Sisters Garden RV Resort

From Mongolia to SistersMongolian Quilting Center to feature hand-crafted quilts at this year’s show.by Bunny Thompson, for The Bulletin Special Projects

Mongolia conjures up thoughts of Genghis Khan, nomadic tribes and the Gobi Desert. Most of us probably don’t know exactly where it’s located (it’s just north of China and just south of Russia).

Following this year’s Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show, more people may appreciate the rich culture of this ancient country where mammoths once roamed and modern humans lived more than 40,000 years ago, when they have an opportunity to view and purchase quilts made by women at the Mongolian Quilting Center located in the capital city of Ulaanbaatar.

Selenge Tserendash, an attorney in Mongolia, wanted to help women in her country where unemployment is high and alcoholism and spousal

abuse is rampant. While traveling in the U.S., Selenge saw women gathering in community centers creating beautiful quilts and generating special bonds between themselves.

She realized the value of this camaraderie and returned with the idea of opening a center where Mongolian women could meet to make quilts and other crafts and run a shop to sell their wares.

The women were eager to learn and had sound sewing skills using ancient, but usable, hand-cranked sewing machines. Fabric scraps were available from a nearby clothing manufacturer, but the women needed a teacher to show them the techniques of constructing a quilt.

In June 2003, Maggie Ball, a renowned quilting teacher and author, received an impassioned email from Selenge asking for help.

Ball was intrigued with the project and emailed Selenge saying she was interested. That response began a journey for Ball that would take her to Mongolia to help these women and would establish a lasting friendship with Selenge built on mutual respect.

“The project seemed impossible, but Selenge made it possible,” Ball said.

In 2004, Ball and her daughter, Hazel, traveled to Mongolia and introduced simple piecing techniques such as strip pieced patches. They encouraged the women to use Mongolian folk patterns like the Olzii, a Buddhist symbol of the never-ending cycles of life and death said to bring long life and prosperity.

The Mongolian women from the center have progressed in their skills and have begun traveling to other communities to help more women

learn to make quilts.“Many of the women come from

desperate conditions and often have no means to support themselves or their children,” Ball said. “By making and selling their quilts, some of these women have been able to put a wooden floor in their yurt and have bought school clothes for their children.”

Ball and Selenge will be on hand at the Fiber Arts Stroll on Sunday, July 8 at Sundance Shoes. On Quilt Show day they will be located at The Place building on Elm St., displaying seven Mongolian quilts that are available for sale. The prices range from $175 to $850. They will also have Mongolian slippers and silk items made by the women at the center on sale at the show.


SPECIAL EXHIBIT: NOVEL IDEA QUILTS Sponsored by QuiltWorks

A Novel Idea!by Gregg Morris, for The Bulletin Special Projects

For the second straight year, the Novel Idea Quilts program will coincide with the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show. To be a part of it, quilters were asked to read Amor Towles’ novel, “Rules of Civility,” the use inspiration from the book to create their quilts.

“Novel Idea Quilts” was the

brainchild of Marilyn Ulrich, owner of QuiltWorks in Bend.

“I have participated in the A Novel Idea program for several years,” said Ulrich. “I knew it would be an interesting idea for quilters. It introduced people to the A Novel Idea program and, in turn, to new books.”

In its inaugural year, Novel Idea Quilts had 18 participants. This year, that number has almost doubled.

“We sent out an email to our list of quilters and invited everyone,” Ulrich said. “Even with the shortened time frame of three months for reading the book and making the quilts, 34 quilters accepted the challenge.”

“Each quilter picks up different things from the book,” she added. “Some focused on a martini glass, others on a butterfly.”

While in town for A Novel Idea events, author Amor Towles had the chance to see the quilts inspired by his book. He was so impressed, he purchased one.

The quilts range in size from a small wall hanging quilt to larger lap quilts.

QuiltWorks hosted a First Friday Art Walk event to showcase the quilts and honor the quilters. Now the quilts will be on display at the Sisters Library for the entire month of July.

“Since we almost doubled the

amount of quilters from last year, we will absolutely continue the event,” Ulrich said.

Local quilters create quilts inspired by the novel ‘Rules of Civility’

Quilt by Dianne Browning

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