Quilts decorate Ronan High School gym
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RONAN — While 4-H kids at the Lake County Fair were showing their steers and exhibiting cookies and photography projects, the Mission Mountain Quilt Guild held its annual quilt show.
About 150 quilts were hanging in the Ronan High School gym on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The quilt show’s theme was, “Wild About Montana.” Quilt show chair Sylvia Moody said the show had about 150 entries plus featured quilter Lovie Bailey’s 22 quilts and 17 pieced tops on display.
Bailey has quilted practically all her life.
“Mother quilted, and I helped her,” Bailey said.
Bailey, who is 85, said after she got married she didn’t quilt much. Instead, Bailey sewed for her family of 10 children — dresses for the girls and shirts for the boys.
When her husband passed away in 1980, Bailey said, “I had to have something to do so I started quilting seriously.”
She’s made embroidered, hand-quilted quilts for each of her 10 children and her three oldest granddaughters.
Bailey said she’ll see a quilt pattern, like it and visualize what material she would like to use in the quilt.
“You get addicted to material,” Bailey explained.
The wonder of quilting, according to Bailey, is that you can give the same quilt pattern to six different people and get wildly different quilts.
Bailey likes to make lighter quilts, such as spreads on a bed. Homes are warmer these days so heavyweight quilts aren’t so necessary, she said.
Since Bailey has everything done, she’s started looking at quilt books, thinking about what she’s going to do next.
Quilt guild members voted on their favorite of Bailey’s quilts. Log Cabin Tulips was the favorite followed by Loves Me wall hanging.
To raise money for their guild, the quilters sold chances on a batik quilt and a basket of fat quarters. Libby Reed won the raffle quilt, and Sylvia Moody won the fat quarter basket.
Results for the Mission Mountain Quilt Guild Show are:
Wall Hanging
1. Jim Carroll, Midsummer Night Dance
2. Kate Carroll, Wisdom’s Journey
3. Susan Brown, Mick n’Me
Group/Club
1. Jessie Merwin, MMQ Sampler
Seasonal
1. Kay Krantz, Christmas Tree
2. Kathy Klinge, Christmas Celebration
3. Kay Krantz, Figgy Pudding
Hand Embroidery
1. Lovie Bailey
Hand Quilted
1. Virginia Halgren, Butterflies and Daisies
2. Carl Rohr, Circles Aslant
Art
1. Jessie Merwin, Peace
2. Clara Miller, Barefoot Knight
3. Colleen Fenimore, Dancing
Ladies
Baby
1. Donna Corum, Kitty Nap
2. Clara Miller, Teddy Bears
3. Donna Corum, Cool Cats
Lap/Small
1. Kay Krantz, Jewel Box
2. Donna Corum, BQ Squares
3. Lovie Bailey, tied ap
Fusible Applique
1. Rosa Tougas, Butterfly Surprise
2. Kay Krantz, 12 Days of Christmas
3. Kay Krantz, Gingerbread Lane
Miscellaneous
1. Susie Luchau, table runner
2. Debbie Thinglestad, Kay’s Quilt Bag
3. Barb Sohm, Spicy Spiral Runner
Theme “Wild About Montana”
1. Debbie Thinglestad, Wild About Montana Rag
2. Sylvia Moody, Montana Log Cabin
3. Barb Sohm, Team Players
4. Jessie Merwin, Log Cabin
5. Kay Krantz, Big Sky Country
Paper Pieced
1. Donna Corum, Dragon Star
2. Mary Smith, Stepping Stones
3. Donna Corum, Montana
Drunkard’s Wave
Machine Embroidery
1. Susan Chatfield, Peter Rabbit
Machine Quilted by Professional
1. Peggy Olson, Cherries! You Pick!
2. Peggy Olson, Floral Color Wash
3. Sylvia Moody, Thangles Buck a Block
Hand Applique
1. Jessie Clemans, Quilters Dream
Bed Quilts
1. Rocky Stanley, Tumbling Blocks and Stars
2. Susie Luchau, Hunter’s Star
3. Carl Rohr, Garden of a Thousand
Switch Plates
Pre-printed Panels
1. Kay Krantz, Horses
2. Kay Krantz, Alaska Photo Frame
3. Kathy Dennis, Humpty Dumpty
Mystery/Buck a Block
1. Dawson Swanberg, Dawson’s Quilt
Class/Workshop
1. Donna Corum, Radiant Sun
2. Sylvia Moody, Radiant Sun
3. Peggy Olson, Radiant Sun/New York Beauty
Children
1. Brant Hiener, Boys Will be Boys
2. Olivia Hiener, Crème Sicles
3. Patsy Anderson, Heart A Flutter
Overall Theme Quilt
1. Sylvia Moody
2. Susie Luchau
