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OUT ON HER PORCI advantage of the sunny warm winter quilt.
By MICHELE MAY Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Summer was supposed to stop at 10:42 a.m. on Friday. September 23, but suddenly on Thursday night people were wearing winter w.oolies.
By Friday morning, the frost was on the pumpkin, the automobile windshield and the typewriter keys at work. Rappahannock citizens were simply shivering.
It sort of made them think about setting by a cord of wood, shopping for new winter robes and pulling out the old thermal underwear.
It was a good time to make the bed.
Piling on something like 22 quilts to make for good snuggling.
It was that sort of weather, but where were the quilts? Rappahannock News reporters went out in quest of the best.
Country Heritage proprietress Nan Thomasson offered to redesign one’s entire bedroom. Her crafts shop in the Clopton house on Main Street, Washington, specializes in custom designed log cabin quilts in traditional barnraising and fields and furrows patterns.
Nan said each quilt takes seven fabrics to make; and extra cloth can be used to coordinate curtains, wall hangings, throw pillows and pillow’ cases.
At her home. Nan’s bedroom was planned around a peach and pink quilt with companion rose colored curtains. She used “crayola" rainbow colors in the kids’ room.
Nan explained that selection of the fabric takes as long as the actual construction of the quilt. She said the part of quilting that’s an art is gathering and choosing the particular fabrics from two color schemes that “w ill walk well together."
Customers are sent seven swatches of material in their color scheme before the quilt is built. The seven samples are chosen according to very special rules. Each quilt usually has three dark colors, three pastels and a neutral. A red square in the center represents the heart of the home.
The patterns are blended together to form the light
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