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Quilting As A Hob
Has Its Reward
(Thi* article appeared in the , 28 U*ae ef Richmond Timespatch, and U reprinted hare i permission ef j the managini tar.)
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By Patricia Fariifer
(Women’, Dept.)
Four. years jago three Culpep* r women visited the State Fair i.t Richmond and! stopped to set the quilting exhibit They were a 1
veteran quiltefs, but the idep of entering competition had qevcjr entered their linind.
But that y^ar, they were adpalled by the lack of quality i 1 the auilts their saw. “We kneir we tVere far from perfect in th ■ quilting art,” recalls one membeof the trio nlow, “but we ialsu knew we had ppettier ones (hai that at home.” i
That is how ithe women, Mis;
edi
he: Lucy Catherine Bowie, (first tor of Rappahannock News), mother, the late Mrs. Audrey
Bowie, and hei| aunt, Miss Lfucj Stringfellow, became convertec from “just for ^un” hobbyists regular fair exhibitors.
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Wen B|uc Ribbon
Since then iwo ^Bowie-Strwgfellow quilts have taken blue ribbons, one at the Rappahannock County Fair in I960 and on«
the State pail} of Virginia 1954.' Another
quilt won second prize and special mention in year’s fair, too.
The trio quilted together about 15 years
mtil Mrs. Bowie’s
last
for
he death in 1954. Since then, daugheer and sister have carried on the family hobby, spending much of their leisure time at two wooden quilting frames in the family living room.
They really j can’t remember when they began individually getting interested in quilting. “It was no planned hobby,” said Miss Bowie, “Like Topsey, ‘it ist grpwed\” ! ' 11
Miss Bowie ijecalled that her first attempt at quilting was m*de as a young teacher in Greene County the year jgfter her gradu
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