Whose Library?
A Quilt by Betty Reynolds
Donated to the New Mexico Library Foundation
For the 1997 Fundraising Campaign
Machine pieced and hand quilted (38 x 42 inches) The basic
"Library Shelf" block was designed in 1994 by Christine Thresh for
members of
the Quilters' Bulletin Board on America-On-Line. The Summer 1996
issue of Quick
Quilts carried an article by Debbie
Kratovil, "The Library Quilt" on pages 34-37,
about the AOL quilt exchange. Chanin Rivenbark
read the article and arranged another exchange of library blocks on
rec.crafts.textiles.quilting (RCTQ) (For information about how to obtain
a copy of Quick Quilts write to Harris Publications, Inc., 1115
Broadway, New York, NY 10010 USA) Christine Thresh also sells her pattern
which you can see on her pattern page.
This quilt is made up of blocks by:
Top row: Nancy Slavitz and Patty Perry (Toronto, Ont.)
Second row: Jean Foglein (Gondola Point, NB), Lisa Fry (North
Carolina), and Brenda Suggs (Virginia)
Third row: Connie Jo Ozinga (Seymour, IN) and Cindy Borodkin
(Gambrils, MD)
Bottom row: Chanin Rivenbark (Raleigh, NC) and Betty Reynolds
(Socorro, NM)
... with small setting blocks in the centers of rows 1, 3 and 4 by Betty
Reynolds. Names and places were embroidered by Lynn Brandvold, also of
Socorro.
Here's a closeup of Brenda Suggs' block with the orange cat I
added
I appliqued three cats and packing crate label pictures to blocks
received in the exchange, and quilted a mouse under the bookcase among the
dust bunnies.
Whose library is this? On April 10, 1997, at the New Mexico Library
Association's annual conference in Santa Fe, Sid Margolis' name was drawn
as the lucky winner. Sid is the semi-retired owner of Santa Fe House of
Books and a long time supporter of library and book activities, including
a charter trustee of the New Mexico Library Foundation. Congratulations,
Sid! Word has it that Sid may be passing the quilt along to his son,
Bernard Margolis, director of the Boston Public Library.
Proceeds from the quilt brought in more than $2000 for the Foundation's
many projects.
For information about the 1998 fundraising quilt, It's a Small
World, visit its website. For information about how you can
participate in helping to make the 1999
paper
pieced balloon quilt, please
send e-mail to Betty Reynolds
For more pictures of completed library quilts from the same or slightly
different patterns, see
Debby Kratovil's gallery
page and Judy
Hodge's completed quilts page and the Hands All
Around Quilt Group's library quilt for the Northville (Mich.) District
Library. Quilt Magazine is
also running a Library Book Block Swap
and Contest using paper foundations.
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