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and dark paths of the quilt. The light one signifies the successes, five harvests, and joys in store for the family. Nan explained. The dark portion shows the trails, tribulations, droughts and disasters in store.
Nan said it's exciting to watch the top of the quilt grow once the patterns are pulled together.
The entire process from the time the customer names his favorite colors 'til he makes the bed with his new quilt takes between six to eight weeks. Nan said.
A person doesn't need to be an excellent seamstress to actually make the quilt, nan added. Hers are machine stitched. The tedious part is assembling and attaching the bottom.
Nan pointed out that in Colonial times, teenagers made quilts for their hope chests. Quilting was almost considered child’s play in those days.
When quilting bees went out of style, something else left society. Nan thinks. She and her friend Joanne Topper, a crafts supplier for her shop, actually gets together to make the quilts. "It's time we share together that is very nice. It’s very therapeutic," she said. “We solve the problems of the world."
She smiled a little mischieviously. “What President Reagan needs is a quilting bee," she added.
Samples of Nan and Joanne's work graced the antique beds at Country Heritage. They try to keep four quilts on hand at all times. A pretty blue and green one currently on display, called "Grandma's Mistake", is not for sale.
Nan’s saving it for far-inthe-future grandchildren. She said she won't sell it because the paths of good and ill dead end instead of going across the blanket as the traditional fields and furrows pattern should. She admitted it's a designer’s original, but said that isn't what she was trying to do.
On the double bed was a quilt in peach and brown ghades, a popular combination. The other favorite, dark and light blue, is demonstrated in a quilt hangingon a rack beside it. everywhere were clustered the
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