Quilters
Photos by Jeff and Heather Morris
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Quilters
Photos by Jeff and Heather Morris Return |
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Robin Barnes Angela Blair Annah Abetti Korpi Emily Maluski Susan Maluski Valerie Schrader Tanyah Stone |
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"Rocky road, rocky road, you're a callin' to me." Women travel west in a Conestoga wagon. |
"I had my seventh birthday in a dugout in the dead of winter." A child listens to the prairie blizzard winds. |
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| Before they were old enough to quilt, children would hear: "Children come! Thread the needle." |
"God bless this baby."
Prairie midwives assist at a birth. |
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"Daddy's hand made a windmill." Two sisters remember "what held your life in this country." |
"We had red for a long, long time after that." The family rides home from town after a surprise purchase. |
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"I baptise you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost." |
"Mama, look what I found!" "The patient is sewing the scraps of her garments together." An adopted child learns the truth of her origin. |
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"The green, green, green of the rolling green lawns." A geography essay becomes a poem. |
"Dear God, why has this happened to me?" Is it worse to be the first or the last to grow up? |
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"Happy twenty-one, James Earl Prentiss." Neighbors make a "freedom quilt" for a young man. |
A shy girl is brought into The Lone Star Waltz. |
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| Cowboy John notices Lou Ann working on a quilt for her hope chest as she is "Quiltin' and Dreamin'." | "Double Wedding Rings": the wedding portrait. |
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"Mable Louise, I'm
gonna forget we ever had this conversation." Women prepare a "home remedy." |
"Mama, can I sleep with you?" Logs creak in a new cabin. |
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"Praise God from whom all blessings flow." Faith sustains the pioneers through all adversity. |
"Their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when he striketh a man." A prairie fire devastates a settlement. |
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"I've done my portion of creatin'."
Sarah comes to the final block of her legacy quilt. |
Sarah's Legacy Quilt: "Give her the fruit of her hands and let her own works praise her in the gates." |
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| Lynn directs from the keyboard. | Tina on flute. |
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| Dylan on guitar. | Fritz on banjo. |
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Many thanks to the Nelsonville Quilt Company and the quilters who prepared the quilt blocks and the legacy quilt for this show. |
| Will on violin. |
