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Raffle ticket sales to benefit local Wounded Warrior Project

American Legion Commander, Bill Ransom, Louise Watson, Annette Eyre, Anne Garbarino, Donnie Brownsey, Sue Russell and Sandy White. Missing from photo is Julie Brightsen, Claire Oehler, Marian Gibson and Pauline MacDonald. Photo by Gina Greco

American Legion Commander, Bill Ransom, Louise Watson, Annette Eyre, Anne Garbarino, Donnie Brownsey, Sue Russell and Sandy White. Missing from photo is Julie Brightsen, Claire Oehler, Marian Gibson and Pauline MacDonald. Photo by Gina Greco

By Marianne Christy

The Pointed Pine Quilters have handstitched a quilt that will be raffled by American Legion Post #893 to benefit its Wounded Warrior Project.

The patriotic-themed quilt features blocks of red, white and blue and will be on display at the Legion Post and various other locations throughout the summer.

One thousand tickets will be sold at $2 each or three for $5 and can be purchased from  legion members. Legion volunteers will be selling tickets during multiple events throughout the summer and fall.

The quilt will be raffled when tickets are sold out.

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VIEW hosts 120 for Quilters’ Consortium

The Quilters’ Consortium of New York state, a non-profit organization, is a resource-sharing organization made up of quilt guilds, quilt shops, individuals, quilt-related businesses, quilting teachers and non-profit organizations.

It’s primary goal is to be a source of information for its member guilds, to provide a venue for sharing program ideas and expenses for guild programs, to be a source of vendor information for members’ quilt shows and a means to advertise the members’ quilting events. Continue reading →

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Peg Sykes’ quilt takes first place at NYS Fair

Margaret (Peg) Sykes of Woodgate recently won Best of Show at the Boonville Oneida County Fair for her quilt, Scraps ‘N Logs.

The quilt was entered in the Adult Crafts category, which included quilting, crocheting, knitting, cross stitch, woodworking and other handiwork.

As the winner at the Oneida County Fair, she was eligible to enter her quilt in the New York State Fair to compete with other first prize winners of County Fairs across the state.

The quilt ended up taking first place honors at the New York State Fair.

Sykes said she named the quilt “Scraps ‘N Logs” because it was created in the log cabin design from her own fabric scraps.

“As I’m quilting or sewing, I cut my pieces and I put them in piles. When I have enough, I make a quilt,” she said.

According to Sykes, more than 3,000 pieces were used in the prize-winning quilt that took her less than six months to complete.

Sykes said she has been quilting since she was 16, when she made her first quilt from her mother’s sewing scraps as a wedding gift for her sister and her husband.

Sykes and her husband, Bud planned to attend the State Fair this week to see her prize-winning quilt hanging among the other entries.

 

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Local women design quilt square for N.Y.S. Historian Quilt Project

A quilt square that represents the Town of Webb, will soon be added to a giant New York State Quilt along with the quilt squares from other townships from across the state.

The quilt will eventually be on display in the State Museum in Albany. The New York State Quilt is a project of the Association of Public Historians of New York State.

The quilt square for Webb was designed and created by Town of Webb retired school teachers, Annette Eyre and Louise Watson.

There are no stitches in their quilt block because Wonder Under, a paper-backed commercial product, was used to bind the two fabrics together.

“The square we made is very suggestive of our Adirondack heritage. We’ve incorporated mountains, water, sky and a Parson’s guide boat,” said Watson.

“Our quilt square was designed for our area of the Adirondacks. We received permission from the Adirondack Museum to use the guide boat logo because Parson’s Guide Boats was a large industry in our early history,” Eyre said.

 

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