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“I’ve got so many quilt books,” she said. “I usually go through it till I pick up an idea." Wedding Ring. Dresden Plate, Grandmother's Fan. Star of Bethlehem — these are some traditional patterns that are as old as the hills of West Virginia." Her favorite pattern is Bridal Wreath. My favorite is Bear Paw.
Though she begins with an unoriginal pattern, her quilts are marvelously creative variations on a theme. Patterns may have their dark and light colors reversed, be enlarged to cover a whole quilt, turned topsy-turvy, or pieced together in endless different ways. This is where Mrs. Conelly's supreme sense of color and design comes into play. All her quilts give a nice impression of tastefulness and unity.
Our class's last stop was at the home of J. B. Lambert. A sign in front of his house savs "FOR SALE ALL KIND OF HANDLES." He makes "hammer handles, hatchet handles, name it."
And he makes them right. "We don't make nothin' only outta hickory.” he told us. “Here's some of them ash handles. They're broke. That's all they make up at Beverly." (Beverly is a nearby community where a factory produces ax handles made of ash.)
Lambert is experienced in many trades. He used to own a farm nearby, “over near Wymer. I owned a coupla farms over" there and I sold out and I’ve hated it ever since. Had no help fencing and stuff. I've worked in the woods and I’ve worked in the mines and ever’ place I went I seen somebody doin' somethin.’ I said someday , . .
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