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Photo Finish
Petticoats and Prairies
By the Hi-Line Quilt Guild
Inspired by faded photographs of the women who settled their state, a group of Havre, Montana, quilters made this tribute as a fund raiser to bring national teachers to their guild. Suzanne Huston designed the blocks, which were sewn by guild members, and orchestrated the final assembly of the 94" x 98" quilt. Native American women, ranchers, mothers, laundry workers, a school teacher, and even the "soiled doves" are depicted in hand-dyes and commercial prints.
"Perhaps in days past a stash might mean coins from egg or cream sales, but today a stash is cloth, " Suzanne muses. "With our freezer paper, special fabrics, rotary cutters, and travel irons we would be humbled by the windowless dugout or soddie. But we quilt for the same reasons the ladies in the 1890s did: for warmth, for art, and for social pleasure."
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