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Whole-Cloth Wool Quilt, 86" x 88", by Lucia Stodard Walker of Waitsfield, Vermont, in 1826. Owned by the Randolph, Vermont, Historical Society.
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From June 26-29, the town of Northfield expects to attract approximately 9,000 new and repeat visitors to New England's oldest and largest quilt exhibition, the Vermont Quilt Festival at Norwich University.
This year the show celebrates its twenty-seventh anniversary with its first major change in management. Founder of the show, Richard Cleveland, retired last year, and Pamela Druhen is now executive director.
Richard will still have some involvement, though, as he and Nancy Halpern of Natick, Massachusetts, will serve as curators for one of the week's major exhibits, All Wool and a Yard Wide: New England Wool Quilts, 1750-1925. Quilt historian Lynne Zacek Bassett and weaver and weaving expert Kate Smith helped with the selection of about 60 quilts. Related wool items will be displayed with text panels and photographs to demonstrate the importance of sheep and the wool industry in New England. The quilts range from whole cloth, pieced, crazy, appliqued, and embroidered.
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Wool Nine-Patch Variation, 88" x 90", probably by Catherine Sophia (Whiteman) Rich of Maidstone, Vermont, c. 1780-1800.
Photos by Ken Burris, courtesy of Vermont Quilt Festival.
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Other exhibits will include Found in Vermont, quilts from the Pilgrim/Roy Challenge, and a retrospective of quilts made by Carol Ann Grotrian of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
For more information about the festival, contact VQF at P.O. Box 349, Northfield, VT 05663; 802-485-7092; email info@vqf.org.
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