Machine pieced and machine quilted (38 x 46 inches)
This quilt began as a 4" house and building block swap on the internet called
"Our Town", coordinated by Wendy Wood in March 1997, patterned after the
quilts shown in the article "Quilt Construction Zone" in the winter 1997
issue of Country Quilts. Then followed another block swap in June
1997 called "Decorate the Town," which provided trees and other
landscape items. In addition, friends from the New Mexico library
community and Quilt Camp in the
Pines provided more houses.
This quilt is made up of blocks by:
Top row:Judy Stratbucker (Omaha, Neb., house), Someone from
Michigan (house), Karla Patten (Orem, Utah, tree), Ann Hussey (Maine,
house), Judy stratbucker (tree), Maria Crossman (Penna., house), Karla
Patten (house), Pat Tribbey (Fla, sabol palm), and a sun
designed by Mary Ann Beattie, sewn by Betty Reynolds.
Row 2: Laura Ballantyne (Johnson City, Tenn., house), Shelley
Kuecks (Eugene, Ore, garden fence and Sew Much Hemp), Karla Patten
(panel van), Shelley Kuecks (barn), Judy Elliston (N.C., tree), The
Webbs (N.Y., dairy barn), Cynthia Woods (Carson City, Nev., Windy Moon),
Pat Tribbey (house)
Row 3: Colleen in California (house), Unknown quilter (lighthouse),
Susan Widhammer (Minot AFB,
N.D., old fort), Linda Denner (N.Y., house), Eileen Jacobs (Portland,
Ore, house), Betty Reynolds (Hillsboro, N.M., Albuquerque
Balloon Fiesta), Judy Steffen (Mascoutah, Ill., house), Kaye Hammond
(Tooele, Utah, house), Katie Medlin (Tatum, N.M., house)
Row 4: G. Anderson (Jennie Minter's mother, Colchester, U.K.,
house), Lang Family (Smithshire, Ill., barn), Janetta Rodriguez
(Kingwood, Tex., silo), Meena Schaldenbrand (Plymouth, Mich., sewing
store), Linda Erickson (Albuquerque, N.M., A-frame house), Lisa Blakslee
(Lees Summit, Mo., house), Judy Cox (Cleburne, Tex, house), Susan
Widhammer (N.D.)
Row 5: Meena Schaldenbrand (circus tent), Jenny Minter (Las
Cruces, N.M., house), Betty Reynolds (quilt studio), Janetta Rodriguez
(tree), Sweet Shop, Jeri McGuire (Minooka, Ill., house), Kim Bagala
(Baton Rouge, La., house)
Bottom row: Pam Bennett (Albuquerque, N.M., house), Peggy Hartley
(Socorro, N.M., house with telescope for viewing comet Hale-Bopp), Meena
Schaldenbrand (vegetarian household) and Betty Reynolds (Socorro, NM, adobe
house)
Label on the back: Kaye Hammond (flower), Judy Stratbucker (Ohio
star)
