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INSIDE: COMPLETE SISTERS OUTDOOR QUILT SHOW GUIDE

Quilt Show At A Glance

Quilter & Special Exhibit Listings

Quilter Spotlights

Around The Block Fiber Arts Stroll

Maps & Locations

& Much More!

SATURDAY, JULY 9, 2011

36TH ANNUAL

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Celebrating 36 years, and growing!

by Laurel Brauns, for The Bulletin Special Projects

Over the past 36 years, the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show has grown from a small storefront quilt arrangement to the largest outdoor quilt show in the world.

And as the event approaches the four decade mark, it truly has grown to represent quilters from both across the country and the world.

“The diversity we see every year is growing, from the various styles of quilts to the variety of regions, cultures and people represented,” said Ann Richardson, executive director of the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show.

This variety will be on display on Saturday, July 9, when 1,300 quilts representing 35 states and four countries (Japan, England, Australia and the U.S.) will by hung from buildings, walls, fences and rope lines throughout downtown Sisters.

More than 12,000 quilt enthusiasts from throughout the country — and some from beyond our borders — will travel to Central Oregon for the event, making it one of the largest summer attractions in the area.

“I get the shivers every year when I pull into town first thing in the morning and watch the quilts being unloaded and displayed,” said Jean Wells Keenan, owner of the Stitchin’ Post and founder of the Sisters Outdoor

Quilt Show. “The town is like a blanket of color and pattern.”

Celebrating the natural beauty of the area, and perhaps honoring the diversity represented each year

by both the quilts and their quilters, organizers selected “Nature’s Symphony” as the theme for this year’s event.

“The theme ‘Nature’s Symphony’ is beautifully portrayed in Kathy Deggendorfer’s poster image as well as interpreted in the Stitchin’ Post Employee Challenge quilts you’ll find on display on Quilt Show day,” Richardson said.

Despite its growth, the event had humble beginnings

AROUND THE BLOCK FIBER ARTS STROLLSunday, July 3, Downtown Sisters, 2-6 p.m. The eighth 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 2 to 6 p.m.

AROUND THE BLOCK QUILT WALK Fri., July 1 - Sun., July 31; Businesses in Sisters Country, The Old Mill District and downtown Bend, Black Butte Ranch and throughout Central OregonQuilt Show sponsoring businesses display more than 100 quilts by local quilters during their business hours.

QUILTERS AFFAIR Monday - Friday, July 4-8, Sisters High SchoolFive days of quilting classes, lectures, a garden tour and evening programs highlighting the diversity of the art of quilting.

“SHARED STORIES: PIECING TOGETHER MUSIC & ART” Featuring the Quiltmakers of Gees Bend, AlabamaTuesday, July 5, 7 p.m., Corner of Main & Spruce, Downtown SistersAn evening performance with the Gees Bend quilters and music students of the Sisters Folk Festival Americana Project.

ARTIST RECEPTIONS AT CLEARWATER GALLERY, SISTERS Sunday, July 3, 2-6 p.m.Hosting featured quilt artist Barbara Shapel.Tuesday, July 5, 3-6 p.m.Featuring poster artist Kathy Deggendorfer.

36TH ANNUALSISTERS OUTDOOR QUILT SHOW Saturday, July 9 , 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 SUNDAY Sunday, July 10 , 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., Downtown Sisters & FivePine CampusToo much to see? Come back on Sunday for more!

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The Show AT A GLANCE

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and still maintains the original concept of the first show: it is about sharing quilting, not judging art or craftsmanship.

In 1975, Keenan hung a few quilts outside her window that were made by her grandmother and some other students from her classes. Down the street, a friend that owned a pottery studio did the same with her work.

Other quilters around town came down to add their own creations, and the display grew to 12 quilts.

Over the course of the following years, the quilt collection grew, eventually becoming an organized show put on by the local quilt guild. By 2003, the show outgrew the resources of the guild and hired Richardson (who was then a volunteer with the show) as executive director.

The organization obtained nonprofit status two years later, and new events were added and the activities of the show were expanded to a whole month. This

year is no exception as organizers have unveiled a few new aspects of the show.

For those quilt enthusiasts who feel that they cannot see all there is to see in one day, Save It For Sunday was the most significant addition to this year’s event. Some of the special exhibit quilts are being held over for Sunday, including a quilt display and lecture by Keenan, the Quilt Show founder, at FivePine Lodge and Conference Center.

Keenan is honored to have her quilts on display at such a beautiful property.

“The quilts really stand out against the large lodge pole pines,” Keenan said. “They will have a very different impact in a contained area like the lodge.”

Keenan will give two walking tours of her quilts on Sunday and deliver a Power Point presentation called “Sticks and Stones: Pattern and Color in Quilting.”

Another change this year is that the Around the Block Quilt Walk has been expanded to the entire month of July, with exhibits of quilts inside sponsoring businesses in Sisters, Black Butte Ranch, Redmond, Terrebonne, the Old Mill District and downtown Bend.

Central Oregon quilters crafted all of the quilts on display for Quilt Walk.

“Many visitors to Central Oregon have in the past been disappointed to find they missed the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show,” Richardson said. “This gives them an opportunity to get a taste of what they missed.”

Another Around the Block event, the Fiber Arts Stroll, features fiber artists in businesses throughout Sisters on Sunday,

Raffle Quilt: “Tulip Star”This year’s raffle quilt was designed

by Eric Gunson, owner of “Pieceful Expressions,” a pattern design business here in Sisters. He based his quilt on a traditional Lone Star and used a colorful palette and unique placement to create the floral-like design. Eric’s mom, Beverly and sister, Nicole, also partners in the business, pieced the quilt and it was masterfully quilted by Betty Anne Guadalupe — our featured quilter from the 2010 show. 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 9, Quilt Show day, at the Stitchin’ Post. You need not be present to win the quilt.


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Bike RaffleCruise on down to your local fabric shop

on this 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 9, 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.

July 3 from 2 to 6 p.m. Fiber Arts is a form of art that uses textiles like yarn, fabric and synthetic fibers and focuses on personal craftsmanship.

Artists will be present to demonstrate their work, and many will have something that visitors can try themselves, like making fabric books or learning to make yarn on a spinning wheel.

Also new in 2011, more than 30 quilts

will be on display in Ray’s Food Place in Sisters. The grocery store invites patrons to vote for their favorite quilt. They will then be entered into a drawing for a $50 gift card from Ray’s.

Small Wonders, another addition this year, is an exhibit that features small quilts. Quilters from all over the country were asked to donate pieces that are between 18 and 24 inches in size. During the month of May, these were exhibited and judged and they will be sold during Sisters Summer Faire at Sisters Village Green Park (July 2 and 3) with a portion of the profits to benefit Sisters Parks and Recreation District.

Fundraisers like the Raffle Quilt and Small Wonders are a great way for Quilt Show to give back to the community of Sisters. Five hundred volunteers pitch in to put on the show with 3,000 hours of time donated. Groups do everything from greeting tour busses to hosting lunches and selling water.

“It takes a village to put it on,” Richardson said. “Everyone participates, from the merchants washing their buildings and sprucing their gardens, to the businesses who sponsor the show and donate gifts.”

2011 Quilt Show PosterKathy Deggendorfer’s image for the 2011 Show

poster is built on a series of colored squares with patterning done on top of the image. The background is 36 squares – reflecting 36 years of the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show. The scene includes our iconic Three Sisters Mountains, sunny skies of Central Oregon, pine trees, and, of course, flowing water. The patterning is Kathy’s exceptional style which we love so much – if you look closely you’ll see how the alternating blocks have varying degrees of pattern. Over the

basic landscape blocks the artist added stylized twigs and leaves as a kind of screen. And then... the musicians! This symphonic group is made up of those natural chorus members: songbirds, crickets, dragonflies, pikas and frogs... even a turtle for percussion as he jumps in the water. “Nature’s Symphony” invites you to come to Sisters for the 36th Annual Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show. It’s a visual event you won’t want to miss! Merchandise featuring Kathy’s image is available at www.stitchinpost.com.


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SAVE IT FOR SUNDAY: Sunday, July 10 Sponsored by FivePine Lodge & Conference Center

by Susan Thomas Springer, for The Bulletin Special Projects

So many quilts, so little time!But worry no more. This year for the

first time, you can visit quilts and exhibits you missed on a second day called Save it for Sunday.

Traditionally a one day show, the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show will still be going strong on Sunday, mostly with indoor displays.

“It’s our attempt to give people a really good reason to come back for a second day,” said Quilt Show Executive Director Ann Richardson.

“The show is so big now that people are always saying ‘I can’t see it all’ so this way if they know what’s on display on Sunday, they can Save it for Sunday!” added Richardson.

Richardson points out that many indoor

Saturday exhibits get so crowded that people have a hard time seeing them. Sunday gives them another chance plus it furthers the Show’s mission to benefit the business community.

“We know that people spend the night on Saturday because the lodging facilities are all full that night, and we’d like to give them a reason to return to town,” said Richardson.

Richardson said that when show goers asked in the past why it was only a one day show, organizers realized there was interest in a longer show.

One fun exhibit show goers will have a second chance to see is the Mad Hatters Tea party put on by a Portland-based book and quilt club. Cover to Cover Book Club Quilters will be showing 19 quilts depicting scenes from Alice in Wonderland. They

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SAVE IT FOR SUNDAYExhibits & LocationsFeatured Gallery Artis t: Quilts by Barbara Shapel — Clearwater Gallery

Quilted Forest Challenge — Stitchin’ Post lawn area

Dianne Browning Art Quilts — The Heritage Building, inside

Color Cascade Quilts — The Heritage Building, inside

The “Alice” Quilts by Cover to Cover — The Heritage Building lawn area

Quilts from Uganda - Sisters Coffee, inside

Endangered Species Quilts by Rob Appell — The Stitchin’ Post

Quilts from Japan — Five Pine Lodge, inside

Oregon, State of Diversity Quilts by Studio Art Quilt Associates — Sisters Library

Zipper-Mania by Wendy Hill — Sisters Library

Northwest Landscape Quilts — MacKenzie Creek Mercantile

will exhibit both days, showing quilts and holding a tea party with one member in full Mad Hatter costume.

“It’s just like when you read a story that doesn’t have pictures, you have in your mind what that might look like and so you try to get that down into fabric,” said Cover to Cover member Pat Busby.

Although members take six months to make their book-based quilts, they meet each month to discuss their progress. Busby said that while their book may be the same, the quilts are unique. For example, three Alice in Wonderland quilts at Quilt Show depict Down the Rabbit Hole but they are completely different.

“It’s amazing what the mind creates through the hands when working with fabric – there are never any two alike,” said Busby.

In addition to exhibits people may have missed on Saturday,

there are a couple new things to do. Jean Wells Keenan is offering a lecture and walking tour at Five Pine Campus titled “Sticks and Stones: Exploring Pattern and Color.” While tickets are going fast, everyone

is welcome to visit her quilts on display.

“The idea is to give people a reason to come back to Sisters. Have breakfast here before you leave and see some more quilts, go over to Five Pine and shop,” said Richardson.

Richardson adds that “local businesses are jammed on Saturday” and they welcome the chance for a second strong day of sales.

“Our goal is to help benefit the community of Sisters, to bring

people here, have them experience everything Sisters has to offer – from the Quilt Show to the shopping and the restaurants,” said Richardson.

Richardson said Save it for Sunday is “just a start” and that they plan to add more activities

for the new second day in future shows.

“We expect to slowly grow the Sunday opportunities for quilts and activities and events,” said Richardson. She added that attendees will soon think of the show as a full weekend all about quilts.

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by Laurel Brauns, for The Bulletin Special Projects

First stop for quilt lovers looking to expand their Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show experience is the Quilt Walk which spans the entire month of July and features quilts in participating businesses in Sisters, Bend, Terrebonne and Black Butte Ranch.

This self-guided walking tour features 150 quilts crafted by Central Oregon quilters and the purpose of the “walk” is to thank Quilt Show sponsors for their support.

“We expanded the Quilt Walk to a month this year because there are a lot of visitors to Central Oregon who have heard about the official Quilt Show but did not come on the date of the event,” said Ann Richardson, executive director of the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show. “This gives them the opportunity to see locally-made quilts on display and visit the businesses of our sponsors.”

To learn more about the Quilt Walk, pick up a brochure at the Sisters, Redmond and Bend chambers of commerce, the Central Oregon Visitors Association and participating businesses.

Fiber Arts StrollOne of the reasons for the Quilt

Show’s widespread popularity is that it showcases quilts from around the world

that are appreciated as works of art. It is a place that quilters can come and truly be acknowledged as the artists that they are. The Fiber Arts Stroll expands upon that theme to include fine artists that work with other mediums including yarn, fabric and synthetic fibers.

This one-day event in Sisters on July 3 from 2 - 6 p.m. is a great opportunity to meet and watch a number of different crafts people demonstrating and teaching their art. It is also a great opportunity for quilters or for those who are interested in art to experience different ways of approaching design and color.

“There are a lot of quilters who are multi-media artists,” said Jean Wells Keenan, founder of the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show. “They are making their textile before they make it into a quilt, whether that is knitting, spinning, crocheting, adding surface design or creating fabric for art quilts.”

Keenan will be demonstrating surface design techniques at Common Threads. This process involves stamping and printing on fabric; changing the surface by adding texture and line work. Keenan will have stamps and paper available for people who would like to craft their own greeting cards.

Artist Sara Wiener will be at the Stitchin’ Post during the Art Stroll demonstrating the art of

upcycling plastic bags and banners into fun, functional, and fashionable items like bags and purses. Jeremy Storton will provide live music that evening at the Stitchin’ Post.

Don’t miss the “State of Diversity” Quilts on display at the Sisters Library crafted by the Studio Art Quilters Association – Oregon Region. These “art quilts” depict the diverse nature of the State of Oregon and its natural resources.

Other highlights include Deborah Stanley at Paulina Springs Books who will be displaying fabric books, keepsake fold-overs and embroidery bookmark tags that can be embellished and personalized using an array of different crafts materials. She will have kits available for each item that visitors can purchase for a nominal fee. They can

learn to make their own that day with Stanley or take it with them to create another time.

Also, check out third-time Fiber Art Stroll artist Wendy Hill at Sisters Mercantile who will be selling and demonstrating 25 limited edition “Skinny Scarfs.” Hill is an accomplished writer and educator in the quilting world and will be giving “how to” advice for both the beginning and advanced fiber artist and will also have a copy of the Skinny Scarf pattern for sale.

Whether you’re already planning your weekend around the actual Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show on July 9, or you’re a quilt enthusiast who can’t get enough, the Around the Block events are a great way to experience beautiful local workmanship and different perspectives on quilt making and crafts.

Kick off quilt show week with a stroll through Sisters to visit local fiber artists

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LOCATIONS ARTISTS MEDIAAlpaca by Design Jackie Erickson Felted WoolBeacham’s Clock Co. Joanne Myers “Skinny Quilts”Clearwater Gallery Barbara Shapel Art QuiltsCommon Threads Jean Wells Printing on Fabric & Quilt ArtThe Culver House Donna Rice Featured QuilterDesert Charm/The Dime Store Susan Torassa Spinning, Knitting, Weaving Desert Charm/The Dime Store Kathy Shaker Art Quilts featuring LutradurDon Terra Artworks Jae Yost Embroidered Block Quilts & KitsDon Terra Artworks Tylar Merrill Felted Clothing & PillowsEar Expressions Suzette Shoulders Crazy Patch Collage ArtFivePine Lodge & Conference Center Japanese Quilts Japanese & US Quilt ExchangeThe Hen’s Tooth Janelle Rebick Fabric DyeingHeritage Building Dianne Browning Decorator QuiltsHeritage Building Color Cascade Special Exhibit of QuiltsThe Jewel Mari Walz “Fiber of Life” PaintingsThe Jewel Tropical Fusion Quilts from HawaiiMackenzie Creek Mercantile June Jaeger Northwest Landscape QuiltsNavigator News Andrea Balosky Art QuiltsNavigator News Lucinda Summerfield Nuno Felting Using Silk & Wool RovingThe Paper Place Deb Mulkey Recycled Wool Botantical & Floral CreationsPaulina Springs Books Deborah Stanley Embellished Fabric Books and EmbroideryPieceful Expressions Eric Gunson Pattern Design & Quilt MakerPoppies You! The Garden LoomPoppies Cindy Merrow Dye on SilkPoppies Joyce Burk Brown Fabric Batik & Quilted Wall HangingsRoaming Shirley McBride Large Puppets, Masks & CostumesSisters Art Works Wish Upon a Card Fabric Postcard Sale & Silent AuctionSisters Coffee Co. Janet Storton Sisters of the Heart/Quilts from UgandaSisters Drug & Gift Rosalyn Kliot Wearable Fiber ArtSisters Log Furniture Vicki Roadman Mixed Media Fiber CollageSisters Mercantile Wendy Hill The Skinny ScarfSisters Public Library Studio Art Quilt Associates “Oregon State of Diversity” QuiltsSisters Public Library Wendy Hill Zipper QuiltsThe Stitchin’ Post Sara Wiener Sara Bella - Upcycled Plastic Bags & BannersSundance Shoes Debbie Slater Marbelizing on Fabric

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1. Wish Upon a Card - Silent Auction for Wendy’s Wish Foundation—Sisters Art WorksFraming Sponsor – High Desert Frameworks!; Exhibit Sponsor – Dr. Tom Comerford, Dr. Linyee Chang, and Dr. Russ Omizo, Radiation Oncologists Affiliated with St Charles Cancer Center

We have raised close to $50,000 in the last four years for Wendy’s Wish, a local cancer support foundation, through the sale & silent auction of fabric postcards. Custom-framing for the postcards is donated by award winning framer, Myrna Dow of High Desert Frameworks! Cards are available for viewing and bidding beginning July 1 at Sisters Art Works, 204 W. Adams in Sisters. The silent auction closes at 3:00 PM on Quilt Show Day, Saturday, July 9.

2. Kaffe Fassett Class Quilts—Sisters Art WorksSponsored by Subway of Central Oregon

We’ve rounded up a great selection of quilts from the classes Kaffe taught when he was last in town – enjoy!

3. Featured Gallery Artist – Barbara Shapel—Clearwater GallerySponsored by Clearwater Gallery

Barbara is an award winning quilter having won Best of Show in the first juried quilt show she ever entered. Her work is in many private collections and has appeared at a number of shows. Artist Statement: “I am in awe of Mother Nature and the natural world. My most recent works reflect my love of nature and the physical world in which we all live. I try, through the use of light, line, color, and texture, to portray nature in a manner that invites the viewer to look closer at a subject that they might have taken for granted. Working with cloth is both comforting and challenging. Quiltmaking provides a creative outlet that is grounded in family history, while offering unlimited artistic experimentation and creation. It allows me to spiritually hold hands with my grandmother, who was also a quiltmaker, while at the same time stretching the boundaries of what a quilt is.”

4. The Stitchin’ Post Employee Challenge—The Stitchin’ Post East WallSponsored by The Stitchin’ Post

Each 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, “Nature’s Symphony”. The employees’ quilts embody the harmonious combination of color, shape, design and texture found in the natural world.

5. East of the Cascades Raffle Quilt & The Patchwork Bike Raffle—The Stitchin’ Post lawn areaSponsored by Bi-Mart

“Tulip Star,” the 2011 raffle quilt, is an original design by Eric Gunson. Eric’s mom Beverly and sisters Nicole pieced the quilt and Betty Anne Guadalupe of Prineville, OR did the masterful quilting. Eric and his family own Pieceful Expressions, a pattern design company based right here in Sisters. Tickets are $1 each or six for $5. A portion of the proceeds from our raffle quilt benefit Kiwanis of Sisters and the great work they do in our community. See page 5 for more information on both raffles.

6. Quilted Forest Challenge—Stitchin’ Post Lawn areaSponsored by Black Butte Ranch

Art quilters from around Oregon were invited by Greenbaum’s Quilted Forest of Salem, Oregon, to create their impression of a tree in fiber. The quilts will hang from the trees where visitors can walk among the art work as if they were walking though A Quilted Forest. Each piece is approximately 20 inches wide x

8 feet tall. The imaginative artists have created visions of trees that are literal, figurative, inspired, interpretive and stylized!

7. Quilt Show Sponsor Venue—Stitchin’ Post lawn area

We invite our featured show sponsors to set up a booth on the lawn area on Quilt Show day. Please take a moment to stop by and thank them for their support. We also encourage you to support their businesses. The financial support from these sponsors makes it possible for us to put on a fabulous show!

8. Dianne Browning – Art Quilts—The Heritage Building – insideSponsored by Bend/Sisters Garden RV Resort

Dianne specializes in using designer fabric scraps; silkscreen prints, velveteen’s, micro-fiber suede’s, satins, brocades and silks for her art quilts. Their texture, variety, and very unique look result in one of a kind pieces. Dianne likes creating large graphic flowers, fruits and abstract designs – either realistic or impressionistic. She loves designing with curve piecing, and embellishing with designer trims. Dianne is always learning new techniques to incorporate into her designs.

9. Color Cascade—The Heritage Building – insideSponsored by Los Agaves Mexican Grill

Seven simple rules resulted in this cascade of 20 colors. The finished product was to be a faced quilt, 18-by-40-inch, which “read” as one color from ten feet away. Beginning with the “3-in-1 Color Tool,” we randomly selected color cards. For months we were seen in the fabrics stores in our community, clutching our color

cards and collecting our fabrics. The end result is a kind of 20/20 vision with twenty colors and 20 interpretations.

10. Amish Inspired Quilts by Bryce Hamilton—The Heritage BuildingSponsored by QuiltWorks, Bend, OR

Bryce has been buying, selling and collecting antique quilts for over 30 years and 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. Many collectors and visitors anxiously look forward to seeing his new collection each year at the show.

11. The “Alice” Quilts by Cover to Cover—The Heritage Building lawn areaSponsored by Bronco Billy’s Ranch Grill and Saloon

Cover to Cover is a book club for quilters organized in the Portland area. All members read the same book and each member then creates a quilt using the book as inspiration. The club is well into its tenth year, and the body of work is growing. The camaraderie and support, as well as opportunities to show their work as a group, have helped these women achieve new goals in the art of quilting. This exhibit of quilts is from Lewis Carroll’s classic, Alice In Wonderland — a crowd pleaser for all ages!

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“Wish Upon a Card”

Quilted Forest Challenge

by Dianne Browning‘Alice’ Quilts by Cover to Cover


12. Sisters of the Heart – Quilts from Uganda—Inside Sisters Coffee Co.Sponsored by U.S. Bank

Janet Storton of Sisters taught a group of African women living in the mountains of Uganda to make quilts from African and donated fabric. They call themselves “Sisters of the Heart” and they are selling 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. All the proceeds from the sale of these quilts — 100 percent — is returned to Uganda for this effort.

13. Featured Quilter: Donna Rice—Ponderosa Properties lawn areaSponsored by the Roundhouse Foundation

See story page 19.

14. Portland Modern Quilt Guild—Paulina Springs CourtyardSponsored by Old Mill District, Bend, Oregon

See Story Page 26.

15. Endangered Species Quilts by Rob Appell—Don Terra Artworks/Barclay Park (at the Stitchin’ Post for Save it for Sunday!)Sponsored by Sew Many Quilts, Bend, OR

Rob Appell and Michael Miller Fabrics have teamed up to build awareness about our planet and her Endangered Species. Rob has created twelve different “Up close and personal” quilts featuring these special creatures. And all twelve are on display at our show this year! Each quilt is designed entirely using the incredible “Fairy Frost” fabric from

Michael Miller and patterns are available for all of them.

16. Inspirational Instructor – June Jaeger—Three Creeks BuildingSponsored by C&T Publishing

See Story page 22.

17. Quilting Activity Area & Next Generation of Quilting—Town Square lawnSponsored by Bank of the Cascades

This is a special location dedicated to the new quilter and quilter wanna-be. All ages 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 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Quilt Show day.

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!

18. Quilt Block Contest—Town SquareSponsored by Westminster Fibers

The Quilt Block Contest challenges quilters to create a block using a packet of fabrics from our sponsor, Westminster Fibers. This year participants had to use ONLY the fabrics we sent them to create their block. 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 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.

19. Disappearing Nine Patch Quilts, Prineville Evening Quilt Guild—Corner of Hood & SpruceSponsored by Hancock Fabrics

This year, when planning our exhibit we noted that many shows in the south had an interesting, and varied number of quilt designs that started with a nine patch but never looked like it was made of nine patches.So our theme was born. “The Disappearing Nine Patch.” No rules or directions other than the quilt begin with nine patches, and that the quilts meet the size requirements for the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show. We expect a surprising variety.

20. Quilts from Japan 2005 - 2011—FivePine Lodge, FivePine Campus Sponsored by FivePine Lodge and Conference Center

Liz Borajkiewicz, project organizer, describes the project: “This Block Exchange between the USA and Japan was inspired by the need to acclimate to a foreign country, as an expatriate. It grew out of nostalgia for my home country, USA and for the fondness I inherited for my host country, Japan. Three rounds of exchanges have taken place between quilters in Narita, Japan and Lansing, Michigan and Bristol, Connecticut. As different as our customs are and the difficulty language presented, we shared the common bond of quilting. The end result has been 40 magnificent quilts, an understanding and appreciation of another’s differences and some very special friendships.”

21. Oregon, State of Diversity—Inside the Sisters Public LibrarySponsored by Ray’s Food Place

Quilts by members of the Studio Art Quilt Associates, Oregon Region, are on display for the entire month of July.

22. Zipper Mania with Wendy Hill—Inside Sisters Public LibrarySponsored by The Nugget Newspaper

Form, not function, is at the heart of Wendy’s quilt and fiber art creations, constructed with the same sensibilities as any other visual art. For Wendy, the physical texture of handling materials is intertwined with the creative process. The zipper is the focus of “upcyling” or “repurposing”: instead of being used as intended, it’s used in a new way. Wendy has been collecting zippers since 2008 to use as a material in quilts, jewelry, tote bags and more. Whether used whole, cut up, as piping, as beads, or embellishment, zippers open up a new way to create fiber art.

23. An Affair to Remember, The Cheerios Quilters—Village Interiors back lawn area

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24. Sisters of Sydney – Quilts from Australia—Village InteriorsSponsored by Wanderlust Tours

This is a group of quilts all the way from “down under”. Kathy Doughty, teacher, author and amazing quilter has organized a wonderful exhibit, showcasing the talent of a group of Australian quilters.

25. Teachers’ Tent—Corner of Main & SpruceSponsored by Morrow’s Sewing & Vacuum Center & Baby Lock

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!

26. Mountain Meadow Guild - “Quilts on the Run”—Sisters Chamber of Commerce lawn areaSponsored by Cynthia’s Sewing Center

The Mountain Meadows Quilters Guild,

started in 1996, is made up of quilters from in and around Sunriver, OR. Every August, the guild holds a quilt show and bazaar. One item you are sure to find at the bazaar is a display of table runners. To prepare for the bazaar, several members teach free classes; in return, attendees make and donate one item to the bazaar. This display is a sampling of the lovely table runners we have made.

27. Nearly Sisters: Pole, Pedal, Paddle Friendship Quilts—Sisters Drug & GiftSponsored by Sisters Drug & Gift

Our “Pole, Pedal, Paddle” all women relay team first competed in 1993 in Bend, Oregon. We’ve competed every year since and won countless trophy mugs in our age category. For reasons too numerous to mention, we eventually became “The Ovarian Cysters.” In 2005, one of our teammates suffered a torn

ACL and the first Cyster’s Friendship Quilt was created. Each Cyster designed and sewed a quilt block or two, which were then assembled by Mary Koons. The Cysters liked the process and resulting quilt so well that we decided to create a series of Friendship Quilts for each other. We sewed and designed each of these quilts during our bi-annual Florence or Sisters retreats. In March of 2011, the last of the 11 quilts was completed and now we – who are nearly sisters – are bound together by sport, friendship, and textiles.

28. Machine Quilter Showcase featuring Cindy Young—Leavitt’s facing Cascade and the lawn areaSponsored by Three Creeks Brewing

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29. Mt. Bachelor Quilt Guild – Kim Diehl Workshop Quilts—Leavitt’s Lawn areaSponsored by BJ’s Quilt Basket, Bend, OR

Mt. Bachelor Quilters Guild in Bend is a very active 140-member group that often enjoys workshops and lectures by nationally known quilt teachers. In May of 2010, Kim Diehl of Boise, Idaho, offered them a workshop called “Bittersweet Briar,” based on a quilt from her book, Simple Graces. Kim taught the guild members her techniques for invisible machine-stitched appliqué and surprisingly simple patchwork. These lovely

and whimsical quilts are the result of that fun and successful class.

Special thanks to the Mt. Bachelor guild for all the volunteer help and financial support they provide to the show – we are so very grateful for their participation!

30. Tropical Fusion—Sisters Log Furniture/Your StoreSponsored by Flowers by Deanna

Tropical Fusion is an exhibit comprised of women from Hawaii who are not only close quilt sisters but all members of the Hawaii Quilt Guild in Honolulu. What is especially unique is that our dear friend Sarah Kaufman used to live in Hawaii, and now resides in Bend, Oregon...and has hosted every one of us at her home at some time or other, so that we might come to see the great Sisters Show. It is an honor to share our work with Sisters!

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31. Feathered Star Quilts by the Juniperberries—The Jewel/Barclay ParkSponsored by Cascade A&E

The Juniperberries are a group of quilters from Sisters, Oregon. Their most recent project turned out to be more of a challenge! Some of us have done the one and only Feathered Star Quilt we will ever do. Thanks to some very helpful instruction from Marsha McCloskey, we made it through!

32. The Good Good Pig Quilts by the Undercover Quilters, Bend, Oregon—Gallery Restaurant/Barclay ParkSponsored by The Gallery Restaurant

At our first meeting all of us are a little reserved, as the only association we have had with each other has been mostly once a month at our guild meeting. This is a different kind of group meeting and we are all without realizing it, stepping out of our own self-imposed boxes into a new world of group friendship. After the introductions, we scatter throughout the store and choose books that interest us. By majority vote, our choice is a book of non-fiction titled “The Good, Good Pig” by Sy Montgomery. This true story is about a little sickly runt pig, Christopher, who survives and is raised by a Jewish man and his vegetarian wife. As a result, Christopher lives to be well past a typical slaughter to the ripe old age of 7. Because he lived such a long life he leaves

this world weighing roughly 700 pounds! He was a porker!

33. The Patchwork Pelican and Art Quilts by Fran Coker—Barclay Square courtyardSponsored by Best Western Ponderosa Lodge

Fran’s “Patchwork Pelican” — a colorfully decoupaged pelican in beloved quilting patterns - is part of the novel art fundraiser “Pelicans on Parade (POP!)” project, a multi-year effort, organized by the nonprofit birding group Klamath Wingwatchers. The project, “Connect Kids to Nature” promotes wildlife appreciation, conservation, and education in an effort to get America’s youth

back outside and connected to Nature, for their own enrichment, and as future caretakers of our Planet. The Pelican is on display and for sale — along with several of Fran’s art quilts.

34. Northwest Landscape Quilts by June Jaeger—Mackenzie Creek MercantileSponsored by South Valley Bank & Trust

A long term resident of Central Oregon, June has been in the quilting business for over 25 years. June designs patterns of subjects she is familiar with, such as dogs, cats, horses, and nature. Working at a veterinary hospital and living on thirty-five acres in a log cabin at the foothills of the Ochoco Mountains opens the door for her creativity. These scenes were all inspired by the beauty and grandeur of our corner of the world.

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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 entered into a drawing for some great thank you gifts and are invited to a volunteer thank you reception later in the month.

Lost & FoundOn Quilt Show Day, lost and found items will be held at the Information Booth.

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.

To Purchase A QuiltQuilt collectors and quilt lovers alike come to the Sisters Quilt Show to purchase quilts. Over one-third of the quilts hanging are for sale. To purchase a quilt that is designated “For Sale,” please remove the small yellow ticket that includes the name and price of the quilt (if the yellow ticket is gone, the quilt has been sold). Please do not remove the yellow ticket unless you are certain that you intend to purchase the quilt. Take the yellow 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 9, between 9:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. A portion of your purchase price goes to help defray the expenses of the show.

Food VendorsThe Sisters Area Chamber of Commerce is organizing food vendors at Village Green Park on Elm Street, one block south of town.

Vendors will serve food from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., and there’s plenty of shade and grass for relaxing.Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church is selling lunch at the church from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 386 N. Fir St., two blocks north of town. Or please feel free to enjoy your own lunch in the bounty of the Sisters Community Garden on Adams St., between Larch & Spruce.

Raffle Prize DrawingsRaffle Quilt and Bike Raffle drawings and volunteer thank you gift drawing 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 10, 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., and Monday - Wednesday, July 11-13, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Can We Be Friends?Our Friends of the Show provide valuable financial support which enables us to present a world-class event, to showcase quilts, quilters and fiber art from around the

world and to do great things for deserving people. Our show is a day of sharing, open to anyone to enter. It’s a free event - always has been, and with a little help from our Friends, it always will be. We are a 501(c)3non-profit organization and your gift is tax deductable. Stop by our “Can We Be Friends” booth on Quilt Show day, on the lawn behind the Stitchin’ Post and become a member!

Volunteer Appreciation SoiréeWe welcome everyone who volunteered his or her time to make this year’s show a great success to our Volunteer Appreciation Soirée on Thursday, July 14 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 11 at www.tinyurl.com/3pc9mql. One guest per volunteer welcome for $10 admission.

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Info to Know

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Special thanks to Susi Geren for her help with the inaugural Small

Wonders Challenge. A shout out to Sisters Folk Festival, Brad Tisdel, Kit Stafford and Rick Johnson for all their hard work on our Gees Bend event. Thanks to Roger and Jeanne Sellgren for our special train car in Depot Café! Once again, our sincere gratitude to Kathy Deggendorfer for her support and creativity. Our show is enhanced by her involvement.

Board of DirectorsJean Wells KeenanValori Wells KennedyMyrna DowRosie HortonJeri BuckmannSharyl Parker McCullochJan McGowan (ad hoc member)

Event StaffAnn Richardson, Executive DirectorTammy Ambrose, Events DirectorJamie Audrain, Events CoordinatorClyde Dildine, IT Director & Grunt Labor

Thanks to Sisters Folk Festival forMusic at the Show

The Sisters Folk Festival Americana Project will have a music performance stage in

Barclay Park from 9 am to 1 pm on Show Day. Give a listen and support the great folk music festival they host here in Sisters every

September.

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THE SHOW

At a Glance

Stop byRay’s Food Placeto 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 August 1.

Around the Block Fiber Arts StrollSunday, July 3, Downtown Sisters, 2-6 p.m.

Around the Block Quilt Walk Fri., July 1 - Sun., July 31; Businesses in Sisters Country, The Old Mill District and downtown Bend, Black Butte Ranch and throughout Central Oregon

Quilters Affair Monday – Friday, July 4-8, Sisters High School

“Shared Stories: Piecing Together Music & Art”Featuring the Quiltmakers of Gees Bend, AlabamaTuesday, July 5, 7 p.m., Corner of Main & Spruce, Downtown Sisters

Artist Receptions At Clearwater Gallery, Sisters Kathy Deggendorfer: Tuesday, July 5, 3-6 p.m.Barbara Shapel: Sunday, July 3, 2-6 p.m.

36th Annual Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show Saturday, July 9 , 9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m., Downtown Sisters

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28. Machine Quilter Showcase featuring Cindy Young—Leavitt’s facing Cascade and the lawn area

29. Mt. Bachelor Quilt Guild – Kim Diehl Workshop Quilts—Leavitt’s Lawn area

30. Tropical Fusion—Sisters Log Furniture/Your Store

31. Feathered Star Quilts by the Juniperberries—The Jewel/Barclay Park

32. The Good Good Pig Quilts by the Undercover Quilters, Bend, Oregon—Gallery Restaurant/Barclay Park

33. The Patchwork Pelican and Art Quilts by Fran Coker—Barclay Square courtyard

Special Exhibits

Map Guide1. Wish Upon a Card - Silent Auction for

Wendy’s Wish Foundation—Sisters Art Works

2. Kaffe Fassett Class Quilts—Sisters Art Works

3. Featured Gallery Artist – Barbara Shapel—Clearwater Gallery

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

5. East of the Cascades Raffle Quilt & The Patchwork Bike Raffle—The Stitchin’ Post lawn area

6. Quilted Forest Challenge—Stitchin’ Post Lawn area

7. Quilt Show Sponsor Venue—Stitchin’ Post lawn area

8. Dianne Browning – Art Quilts—The Heritage Building – inside

9. Color Cascade—The Heritage Building – inside

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

11. The “Alice” Quilts by Cover to Cover—The Heritage Building lawn area

12. Sisters of the Heart – Quilts from Uganda—inside Sisters Coffee Co.

13. Featured Quilter: Donna Rice—Ponderosa Properties lawn area

14. Portland Modern Quilt Guild—Paulina Springs Courtyard

15. Endangered Species Quilts by Rob Appell—Don Terra Artworks/Barclay Park (at the Stitchin’ Post for Save it for Sunday)

16. Inspirational Instructor: June Jaeger—Three Creeks Building

17. Quilting Activity Area & Next Generation of Quilting—Town Square lawn

18. Quilt Block Contest—Town Square lawn area

19. Disappearing Nine Patch Quilts, Prineville Evening Quilt Guild—Corner Hood & Spruce

20. Quilts from Japan 2005 - 2011—FivePine Lodge, FivePine Campus

21. State of Diversity Quilts—Sisters Public Library inside

22. Zipper Mania with Wendy Hill—Sisters Public Library inside

23. An Affair to Remember, The Cheerios Quilters—Village Interiors back lawn area

24. Sisters of Sydney – Quilts from Australia—Village Interiors

25. Teachers’ Tent—Corner of Main & Spruce

26. Mountain Meadow Guild - “Quilts on the Run”—Sisters Chamber of Commerce building & lawn area

27. Nearly Sisters: Pole, Pedal, Paddle Friendship Quilts—Sisters Drug & Gift


Local Traffic - Quilt Show DayBusinesses are accessible in Three Wind Center on the west end of Sisters. Bi-Mart, Sisters Electronics and The Dollar Store, 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 designated in the parking lot between City Hall and Sisters School District Administration building. Access to the lot is from Cedar Street and will be for handicapped parking only.

Tour busses 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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This year’s featured quilter for the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show, Donna Rice’s style has evolved from traditional to more abstract work.

For the

Love of

Fabricby Susan Thomas Springer, for The Bulletin Special Projects

Donna Rice remembers her first sewing project.

She was in first grade, in Brownies, and made a hand-sewn heart. That heartfelt passion has continued through the years, inspired by a mother and grandmother who were accomplished sewers, crocheters and knitters.

Now it’s inspired by Rice’s own love of fabric.

The Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show chose Donna Rice to be “Queen for a Day” with the designation of Featured Quilter. That honor is bestowed on a quilter who not only dedicates themselves to quilting but who inspires others.

Rice loved fabric so much that she knew she wanted to major in Home Ec in college. However, on the first day of class, the teacher said the only thing you can do with this major is teach. That didn’t sound good to Rice, so instead she decided to major in accounting and bookkeeping. She moved forward with a math-based career while staying interested in fabric arts.

“That’s my hobby – that’s my passion. That’s what I do after work,” said Rice.

About 20 years ago, Rice took a quilting class and, “I was hooked.” In the first class, she made her first quilt from the traditional Baby Rosebud pattern. Being a “finisher” she was done early

and had time to hand tie her quilt. Later, she purchased a longarm machine and removed the ties to practice longarm stitching.

Rice moved from traditional quilts to more freeform wall hanging art when she started entering contests. She appreciated that contests gave her a theme or starting point.

“I like to do contests,” said Rice, and they like her.

Rice has won several awards including two Sisters Quilt Show awards; one was first place for the Theme Award in 2006. Also, she won two awards in the Mt. Bachelor Quilt Guild for Best Piecing and for Best Appliqué.

Another step along her artistic path was joining a Central Oregon fiber arts group called Journeys.

“We do inspire each other,” said Rice of the group she has been a member of for five years. Members try to stretch each other beyond traditional boundaries of quilt making to explore the unexpected. For example, Journeys members have experimented with printing their own fabrics.

“We save time to bring and critique each others work. Last month I brought something in where I wasn’t sure if I should stop which is a real problem for artists,” said Rice.

“We’re a group who inspires each other and helps each other through moments of artistic roadblocks,” added Rice.

Rice finds inspiration for her work in nature from things such as trees

and landscapes. She is also inspired by computer generated fractal images.

Rice notices the color and lines around her. For example, one of her quilts depicts a juniper tree and the background is the Painted Hills from a photograph she snapped.

“A picture, whether I took it or it’s some fabulous print, I will use that for line and color ideas. Because I’m visual I have to work from something to start designing what I want to portray,” said Rice.

This year at Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show, people will see Rice’s journey in her quilting – from beginning to today.

“I started out using more pattern based or traditional quilting and I’ve pushed it to the abstract,” said Rice.

She adds there’s so much more she wants to do in quilting but she’ll probably stay in abstract where there are no boundaries.

“It’s really freeing,” said Rice who likes to balance her left-brained career with her right-brained hobby.

Rice and her quilts will be at the lawn in front of Ponderosa Properties on Hood Ave.

FEATURED QUILTER: Donna Rice Sponsored by Roundhouse Foundation


by Susan Thomas Springer, for The Bulletin Special Projects

“This is just a hot bed of quilting,” said Cindy Young who is happily immersed in Central Oregon’s quilting scene.

Her knowledge and talent are being recognized at this year’s Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show since she has been chosen for the Machine Quilter Showcase.

Machine quilters use a longarm to make the stitches, called quilting, which bring together the top, batting and back

into the finished quilt.Quilting used to be done by hand

but today quilting is more often done using a longarm machine which comes with a large table, fabric roll-ers and a moveable needle.

“It’s creative — it’s sort of like drawing,” she said. “I tried quilting on a regular sewing machine, but to me it was like trying to draw by leaving the pencil stationary and pushing the paper around. So with the longarm, it’s just like you’re drawing.”

Young said she lays a huge clear dry erase board on top of the quilt to draw potential designs before she begins stitching.

Six years ago, Young’s first longarm project was a fall table runner quilted

with oak leaf and acorn designs. While the 12-foot long machine was “totally in-timidating” on that first project, now she calls it “just a big sewing machine.”

Young’s mother taught her to sew when she was only 6 years old. Her skills grew in high school and college when she tackled projects from tailored suits to cheerleading uniforms. She even reup-holstered her Chevy Nova.

She graduated with a business de-gree followed by a 20-year career with a women’s apparel manufacturer in San Francisco. During that time, a friend in-troduced her to quilting.

When Young and her husband moved to Central Oregon, she invested in a lon-garm and started her business, Riverjoy Quilting.

“I wanted to work from home. We’re on the Deschutes River and that’s why I call my business Riverjoy,” said Young of her Redmond home studio.

Young is a custom design longarm quilter, meaning she guides the stitches herself. She likes the creativity of free-hand stitches rather than using panto-graph patterns in which longarm quilters follow a line made by a laser light.

About one-quarter of her customers tell her the specific designs they want. The rest say “do whatever you think.”

For a baby quilt, Young may stitch in the baby’s name; for a traditional pat-tern, she may quilt feathers; and for a modern quilt, she may add geometric designs.

“What’s printed on the fabric can give

A custom design longarm quilter from Redmond, Cindy Young likens freehand machine quilting to drawing.

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you ideas of what to quilt over it,” said Young.When Young began her longarm business,

she learned a lot by studying an older book titled “Quilting Makes the Quilt” written by Australian instructor Lee Cleland. The book shows 12 dif-ferent traditional quilt patterns, each made five times with the same fabrics, but quilted with five different designs.

This allowed Young to “try on” quilting de-signs and see the impact of various designs on the quilt top.

Young works part-time at the Stitchin’ Post where she is also a class instructor. She’s a mem-ber of High Cascades Longarm Quilters, makes time to create a few of her own quilts, and also creates quilt patterns.

Young says it helps to keep her skills fresh by working at Stitchin’ Post. For example, she used to spend hours choosing fabrics for her own quilts but has gotten much faster with the prac-tice of helping customers.

“It’s really a great way to help design a quilt when they come in. It’s really a great learning experience,” said Young.

During Quilt Show, Young and her quilts will be on the lawn next to Leavitt’s on Cascade Ave. She will be showing 14 quilts, half with tradi-tional and half with modern designs.

“I tried quilting on a regular sewing machine, but to me it

was like trying to draw by leaving the pencil stationary and pushing

the paper around.”

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by Kari Mauser, for The Bulletin Special Projects

When June Jaeger began making her first quilt, she really never thought twice about it. She never imagined that quilting would eventually become a passion; she certainly never dreamed that it would be such a major part of her life.

It was 1969 and she was making the quilt for her son.

“I wasn’t at all interested in it, it was just utilitarian,” she explained with a hint of amusement in her voice.

Ten years later, her sister brought her some quilting books and told her to get started. So she did, and she hasn’t stopped since.

“I immediately did not like following patterns,” Jaeger said. “Right from the beginning I liked doing my own thing.”

Once she lost the patterns, Jaeger found quilting.

She got a job at a huge quilting store in Portland and before long her knack for sharing creative ideas along with her love of working with people inspired the management. They asked her to teach a quilting class at the store, which

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turned out to be a turning point in her life. That was 32 years ago.

From there, a year later, she began teaching at the Sisters’ Quilters’ Affair. As one of 30 teachers, Jaeger said she’s honored to be included among teachers who come from places such as New York, Australia and even England.

“Everybody is hooked on quilting,” she said. “A lot of crafts come and go, but quilting just keeps growing and growing, and it attracts all kinds of people!”

Today, teaching the craft is not just a passion, it’s Jaeger’s business. She teaches throughout the United States and Canada, sharing her ideas and talents at seminars and retreats and even at classes that are hosted by quilting stores much like the one where she got her start.

“More than anything, I love seeing the light bulb go on when I’m teaching and a student gets it,” she said. “I think I get as much out of it as the students do because it’s so rewarding to see them achieve. When they get excited, I get excited.”

True to her own style of quilting, Jaeger encourages her students to use their own creativity.

“We always say, ‘June teaches the No Rules class,’” she said, laughing.

Because her students aren’t using a kit, and they’re not all making the same project, her classes don’t end up with look-alike quilts. Each student is an individual creator and therefore each quilt is unique.

One of Jaeger’s favorite classes is the ‘expressions’ class, where students take any subject – from a special trip they went on to commemorating their grandmother’s hankies – and create a quilt around their personal subject. Students learn tricks of the trade – how to use stretchers, appliqué, and different techniques and especially how to choose fabrics and colors that work to keep the eyes moving through the quilt.

“The main purpose is they become the creator,” she explained. “And it becomes very, very personal as their creativity just comes out and they end up with this wonderful project. It’s so

rewarding to see them realize that they can do it!”

For Linda Adams, signing up for quilting class was an attempt to meet people when she moved to Prineville. Little did she know that Jaeger’s enthusiasm as an instructor would be so infectious!

“I simply got hooked,” she said. “I went into the class thinking I’d be sewing some squares together, and now with June’s encouragement and amazing enthusiasm and patience, I’m creating my own landscape quilts. It’s amazing how far I’ve come in just a few years with her guidance.”

Jaeger makes quilting personal by having each student create something that really comes from within themselves. Even when a class uses a pattern that she designed, they choose the fabrics, the colors and the size.

“Sometimes,” Jaeger explained, “if a student isn’t comfortable and doubt takes over, then we back up and stop thinking about the finished project, instead breaking it down step-by-step, and then it all comes together.”

It was that patience that Marney Close valued most when she began quilting in Jaeger’s class.

“She let me take baby steps,” Close said. “She has such a love for [quilting] that she has a gentle way of encouraging you and making you feel strong, to do things you didn’t think you could do.

“She is amazing to watch — her magical hands and great imagination. You can take her class and get all the basics but her 30 years of experience just pours out of her. She is like a well of fresh water that just runs over.”

As a teacher, Jaeger hopes to inspire her students, but more than that she hopes to show them how inspiring quilting can be.

“I find I go out to my [quilting] studio and shut the door and turn on some music and then I’m in a wonderful place in my life and I just love it and I absorb and I create. I want people to be as happy as I am, so maybe that’s really where my desire to teach quilting comes from.”

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by Bunny Thompson, for The Bulletin Special Projects

Sometimes you can’t see the forest for the trees. In this case, the trees are quilts and, like all great trees, you need to study each one carefully to understand the message hidden within its layers. Twenty-six quilts representing A Quilted Forest Challenge will be hung in the trees behind the Stitchin’ Post for viewing on Saturday and Sunday.

A Quilted Forest Challenge is an unusual quilt exhibit for many reasons. The theme is a forest, each quilt is 20 inches wide by 8 feet tall and each quilt is pieced on both sides.

That’s where the rules stop and the artistic license begins. The quilters who participated in this project brought their own version of the theme.

Whether the piece was interpreted literally or figuratively, each quilt shows an inspiration and style that is unique to the quilter.

The project was started by Sylvia Dorney, owner of Greenbaum’s Quilted Forest in Salem. Dorney is the granddaughter of the founder, Izzy Greenbaum and has been quilting all of her life. She first saw a similar project at the International Quilt Festival in Houston last year.

“The project was done by a group of German quilters,” Dorney said. “I saw it and decided we could sponsor a project like that at the Oregon State Fair. It’s a great way to show the public another side of quilting. Quilts are works of art.”

Dorney and her office and events manager, Lisa Encabo, contacted local quilters’ guilds to ask if they would be willing

to participate. The response was very positive so they also contacted several Central Oregon quilters’ guilds inviting them to take the challenge.

“Most quilts are made in a landscape configuration, but we wanted these to be tall and skinny, like trees. We wanted the artists to be inspired by the theme,” Encabo said. “It

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was very exciting to see the diversity in the concepts of that theme.”

The first exhibit was at the 2010 Oregon State Fair. It was well received by the public so Dorney and Encabo decided to display A Quilted Forest Challenge at the Oregon Gardens Quilt Show this past January.

“It was exciting to see them all together again and to see how the quilts were adapted to a Pacific Northwest feel,” Encabo said.

One quilt done by a Salem quilter was a Douglas fir. The quilter (named Pat) incorporated an inscription on the tree: Pat + Doug with a heart around it.

“The funny thing about

the inscription is that Pat’s husband’s name is Don,” Dorney said. “But this quilt was about Pat and the Doug fir. We all got a laugh from that one.”

Bend quilter, Betty Gientke, took her forest inspiration to the mythological. The Greek myth, Apollo, chased the nymph, Daphne, and longed to obtain her. Daphne fled her pursuer and appealed to her father, the river god, for help. Daphne was transformed into a laurel tree. Apollo vowed to weave the laurel branches into wreaths to wear on his head.

June Jaeger of Prineville was inspired by the burned trees at Santiam Pass on Highway 22. Jaeger is a longtime quilter and sister of the Stitchin’ Post

founder, Jean Wells.“I’ve travelled across Santiam

many times and seen the burned forest,” Jaeger said. “One time I decided to stop and walk in the burned forest just to see what it looked like up close. I was amazed at how much was coming back. It was scorched but still surviving. It’s like humans, we can be scorched but still survive.”

Jaeger’s quilted piece is call Soul Survivor.

The forest is a place of magic and enchantments. Spend a little time during the Quilt Show or the Sunday following the big day and walk in this enchanted forest. You might find yourself being charmed by the wonders of it all.

“It was exciting to see them all together again and to see how the quilts were adapted to a Pacific Northwest feel.”

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by Gregg Morris, for The Bulletin Special Projects

A fresh new take on quilting circles has begun to sweep the nation.

The founding branch of The Modern Quilt Guild began in 2009 in Los Angeles and spread quickly with the help of social media and good old word of mouth.

Branches sprung up throughout the country, including Portland, Eugene and Bend, Oregon. As a young collective, most local guilds are in their early stages of planning and organization.

But what they lack in institutional experience, they more than make up for in youthful enthusiasm and acceptance.

“Half of our members have been quilting for five years or less,” says Christina Cameli, president of the Portland Modern Quilt Guild.

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(PMQG) is made up of a solid group of Modern Quilters, crazy about fabric and always excited to learn new sewing techniques.

Created in 2010, they meet the third Thursday of every month to learn and

share new ideas about this 300-plus-year-old labor of love.

Proudly referring to themselves as “happy ambassadors of the art of quilting,” the PMQG gets together for regular meetings as well as other, more informal sewing nights and various quilting shows, such as the upcoming Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show.

Perhaps more impressive than the infusion of energy the Modern Quilt Guild brings to the sewing machine is the manner in which it brings it.

The use of social media has become an important tool in establishing new organizations, and the Portland Modern Quilt Guild is no exception.

“Our guild has a Facebook page and a blog instead of a newsletter, and we have places online to share discussions and photos of our creations with one another.” said Cameli. “About half of our own members keep personal blogs as well.”

This allows the members to keep in touch between the monthly meetings and spread any news quickly.

Curious quilters wishing to learn the basics of long-arm quilting or wondering where to show their work can check out portlandmodernquiltguild.blogspot.com or www.facebook.com/

portlandmodernquiltguild.

Modern Quilting“Modern quilting is a new twist on

the traditional art of quilting,” states the Modern Quilt Guild’s website, www.themodernquiltguild.com.

Examples of such changes include

the use of modern fabrics and upcycled vintage sheets, or modifying the block arrangements for a more personal expression.

“Modern quilting is sometimes difficult to define because in many ways the definition is as individual as the quilter — changing from quilter to

quilter,” says the site. “[It] is also about the attitude... that modern quilters take.”

This approach allows for a grand acceptance of a diverse crowd. It also allows the quilters the opportunity to devise their own path toward creativity.

In doing so, quilters are able to be rooted in the past with an eye on the future.

“(Modern quilting) respects the amazing artistry and talent of the tradition of quilting, while allowing the quilter to challenge the ‘rules,’” says the site. “In fact, if there were one rule in modern quilting it would be that there are no rules.”

Never too young to be oldWith members ranging in age from

their early 20s to over 60, the Portland Modern Quilt Guild is proud of their vast mixture of members.

“Over half our members are younger than 40,” said Cameli. “What defines the Modern Quilt Guild is not age, or experience, at all. I think it is an openness to new directions in quilt making, an appreciation for experimentation, and acceptance of the many creative

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viewpoints that individuals bring to this longstanding art form.”

Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show

The 36th annual Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show will be held Saturday, July 9 in downtown Sisters. This seminal favorite event is the perfect place for the modern quilters to show their stuff.

Jen Bailly, past PMQG president and current show coordinator, wants us to be on the lookout for “some very traditional patterns done in non-traditional ways.”

“There are also several original quilt designs,” she added. “In fact, I believe there are only two [quilts] not designed by the quilt makers.”

Perhaps most exciting will be the two winning quilts of Project Modern. Project Modern is a challenge put out by The Modern Quilt Guild to its members across the country to create personal quilts based upon specific guidelines.

The first challenge tasked the

quilting community to “design a quilt based upon a photo that inspired them.”

The second challenge asked the quilters to “design and make a quilt that is monochromatic.”

“Create interest, life and energy in a quilt by using tints, shades and tones of a single color,” it outlines.

Sew what?With Modern Quilting Guilds

popping up all over the country, wannabe quilters have ample opportunity to express themselves with fabric and thread.

Cameli suggests interested people check out their website or head to one of the many Modern Quilt Guild meetings.

The Central Oregon chapter of the Modern Quilt Guild meets the first and third Tuesday of the month from 5 to 8 p.m. at QuiltWorks in Bend.

They ask meeting goers to bring some handwork or your machine and a project with you. Or, just come on out and see what’s happening at your local Modern Quilt Guild.

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Both quilters and music lovers will be in for a special treat when young local musicians merge their talents with a well-known quilting guild from the South to create a multi-cultural, mixed-media experience unique to the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show.

On Tuesday, July 5, the Quiltmakers of Gees Bend will share their love of life, music and quilting in a special fundraising event for the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show and the Sisters Folk Festival.

The event, titled “Shared Stories: Piecing Together Music and Art,” will feature a pair of workshops during the day and an evening performance with songs, stories and shared “conversation in music.”

The evening performance will

begin at 7 p.m. on the corner of Main and Spruce in downtown Sisters.

“Join us for an event that celebrates American roots craft and song, and the spirit of community that makes Sisters such a special place,” said Ann Richardson, executive director of the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show.

The Quiltmakes from Gees Bend, Alabama, have been featured before at the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show.

Descendants of slaves who worked a plantation along the Alabama River, their quilts are made from “on-hand” materials and inspired by the world around them.

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Small Wonders is an exhibit that features small quilts. Quilters from all over the country were asked to donate pieces that are between 18 and 24 inches in size.

During the month of May, these were exhibited and judged, and they will be sold during Sisters Summer Faire at Sisters Village Green Park July 2-3, with a portion of the profits to benefit Sisters Parks and Recreation District.

Here are the winners (left, top to bottom):

JUDGE’S CHOICE – Kristin Shields, Bend

VIEWER’S CHOICE – Joanne Myers, Bend

BEST USE OF COLOR – Mary Nyquist Koons, Eugene

BEST USE OF INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES – Kathie Leonard, Prineville

BEST USE OF RECYCLED MATERIALS – Charlene Kenny, Redmond

a decade ago, the Quiltmakers of Gees Bend have become known for their simple yet striking designs and a penchant for breaking into song while working on their quilts.

Earlier that day, Quiltmakers will spend time sharing their life experiences during two workshops — one focused on quilting/fiber arts and the other on music and song.

Young people from Central Oregon will participate in a fiber arts workshop, learning to make their own original design quilt blocks.

High school students involved in the Americana Project will prepare music for the evening performance and partner with Gees Bend quilters on stage.

The Sisters Americana Project, hosted by the Sisters Folk Festival, uses a curriculum integrating musical instruction and the history of American music to inspire the creativity of young people.

The event attracted the attention of the Oregon Arts Commission, which gave the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show a $5,300 grant to promote the event beyond Central Oregon.

“Shared Stories” is sponsored by South

Valley Bank and Trust and Bend/Sisters Garden RV Resort.

Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for youths under 18. They may be purchased at Paulina Springs Books in Sisters and Redmond, BJ’s Quilt Basket in Bend, The Stitchin’ Post in Sisters, and online at www.sistersoutdoorquiltshow.org/events.htm#/geesbend.

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BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: Periwinkle of Sisters

by Kristy Hessman, for The Bulletin Special Projects

After a two-year hiatus, Periwinkle Home, which sells eclectic furniture and home accessories, has a new storefront.

The store had been a staple in downtown Bend for eight years before closing in 2009.

“Rent was so high, so we closed the store,” said Janette Adams, who owns Periwinkle Home with her husband, Bob.

After closing, the couple who has lived in Central Oregon for 11 years, sold wholesale to designers and decorators and also sold goods at the Indoor Markets in Bend. When the indoor market was shut down, they

looked to Sisters for retail space. “A friend suggested Sisters, so we

checked it out.” Janette said. “It’s a really nice location.”

The new store, located off the main drag

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in Sisters, across from Bronco Billy’s and next to Sundance Shoes, opened for business in mid-May.

“We’re just getting the signs up as we speak,” Janette said.

The store offers many of the same

items that it did when it was in business in Bend.

“We’re basically selling everything we used to sell: furniture, recliners, club chairs, sofas, love seats and fun accessories,” she said.

Now with the lower rent, Janette said they can continue to afford to pass on additional savings to their customers.

“We are selling the same hugely discounted prices to the public,” she said.

Many of the items in the store and furniture that is ordered through the store, are less than typical retail prices.

“Chairs in the store are 50 percent off the retail price. And we offer huge discounts on special orders too,”

Janette said. Periwinkle Home is open seven

days a week from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., with special hours during event weekends, like the days of the Sisters Rodeo or the Sister’s Outdoor Quilt Show.

“We will be sponsoring one of the quilts during the quilt show weekend,” Janette said.

Adams said business has been good so far in Sisters, and many people who used to frequent the store in Bend have already found them. Even the old phone number remains the same, but

now rings in Sisters. “We have people who are coming

from Portland and Eugene, people traveling through and coming in from Bend,” Janette said.

Those who had visited the store in Bend, may also remember Janette and Bob’s daughter, Holly, at the store. She will be helping out from time to time in the new location as well.

“It’s good,” Janette said. “Everyone is really friendly, and lots of people remember Periwinkle from Bend. Word is getting out.”

“We have people who are coming from Portland and Eugene, people traveling through

and coming in from Bend. Everyone is really friendly, and lots of people remember Periwinkle from Bend. Word is getting out.”

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Don’t miss the new Dog Days of Sisters in August, along with the Bead Stampede, Antique Faire, and so much more!

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Join us in Sisters Country for the 3rd Annual Sisters Glory Daze Car Show. Bring your ride to downtown Sisters on Saturday July 16 for a great day of fun with live music and much more. On Main Ave in downtown Sisters, this event is sure to be a crowd-pleaser.

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