Guild Member Spotlight

Kathy  joined the CQG in 2001. Anne McCune invited her during a conversation around her crafting work and chairing the Annual Christmas Fair at UCC that year. She learned to sew at a young age and sewed throughout her 10 years in 4-H. Her green velvet prom gown with white lace trim won top honors at the State 4-H Dress Review in 1974. She sewed her own wedding gown in 1982, and finished hemming it the night before. The first quilt she made was a patchwork quilt for her college room, but she lost that somewhere. She also made a quilt for her and her husbands Mike's bed as a wedding present for Mike. I hope you enjoy getting to know Kathy through her amazing diversified work.

Answer: "I make mostly smaller quilts and table runners and give them as gifts to family and friends and as items for fundraisers. I need to make a new quilt for our king size bed, but don't know if I have the attention span and stamina to complete one!” 

Answer: “My Singer featherweight sewing machine that I use to quilt. I bought it from Pam Kohl, previous CQG President before she moved away. My husband built a nice plexiglass platform to surround it, providing a larger surface area.”   

Answer:  "I have a T-shirt quilt to make for a friend's daughter using her array of MoCo Arts 

t-shirts. I am also making a set of 8 quilt-as-you-go batik placemats for August and Caleb as a housewarming gift.”

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“Hmm. That's a tough one! I'm pretty sure I'd need some sort of creative outlet and the variety of colors and textures of fabric feeds my soul. I might be making more barn quilts! I designed and painted an 8' square and two 4' square barn quilts hung on red barns at Bretwood Golf Course on East Surry Road. I have two 4' boards ready to paint 2 more barn quilts this year. I enjoy making pretty cotton dresses for girls in Zimbabwe and costumes for MoCo Arts theater productions. I've dabbled with knitting and card making and would like to make a wool braided rug sometime. My mother made many while raising 5 children at Bretwood.

Answer:  “During the summer of 2020 (Covid), I made the 4th quilt in a series of 10 commemorating the final words of George Floyd on May 25, 2020. These 10 quilts became the Sacred Ally Quilt Ministry, a Justice and Witness Ministry of the NH Conference United Church of Christ. Two years later I worked with Harriet C. Ward, creator of quilts 3 & 9 and a black quilter with visual impairment, to make the cross that became the 11th quilt in the exhibit. I went to her home in Exeter thinking we would quilt for a few hours. 12 hours later I told Harriet I had to drive home. Harriet could see movement in fabric and taught me much about fabric selection while making a few more quilts before her death in January 2024. My stash is changed on account of Harriet. After inheriting her stash, I made a red quilted stole for Rev. Mark Koyama, who befriended Harriet and had the original inspiration for SAQM.”