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KAYSVILLE WOMAN QUILTS HER OWN STORY By Karen Painter | kpainter@mycityjournals.com
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aysville resident Sheila Stettler recently won an award of excellence at the Annual Best of State Quilt held at the Springville Art Museum. Quilts are judged on the quality of artistry, design, color, originality, and general appeal and must be “admitted” into the show. “Just to get accepted into the quilt show is an honor because the Springville show is the best,” Stettler said. This is the third Award of Excellence Stettler has received from the show. This year’s award was for a memory quilt called “My Story,” which depicts Stettler’s childhood memories and iconic Kaysville buildings as they were in the 1960s to 1970s. She created the floral and basket blocks in the center a while ago, and it sat for a long time until she decided to make “her story” around the edges one day. “I wanted to put authentic buildings on my quilt and things that mean something to me. Every item on my quilt has a purpose. There is a message or story behind each one,” Stettler said. Stettler grew up as Sheila Barton, the daughter of Russell and Helen Barton. She
lived in the same house on 3rd Street in Kaysville until she was married. Stettler included a “Third West” street sign on the quilt next to her childhood home. To produce her home and other iconic Kaysville buildings on the quilt, Stettler consulted old photographs and picked fabric to match the color of the buildings at the time. She carefully chose tan to represent the stone of the old Kaysville Elementary and green for the windows. Stettler attended school there from kindergarten to fifth grade. “I included the playground as I remember it with the great big slide, the monkey bars, and swings,” Stettler said. “I remember playing foursquare, hopscotch, and tetherball.” Other iconic buildings on the quilt are the old stone Kaysville City Library, the Post Office on Second North, Clover Club Foods Factory, the Kaysville Cemetery, King’s Drive-In sign, and the old Kaysville Tabernacle. Stettler attended church in the TaberThe good ol' tile “D” at “dear ol’ Davis High nacle throughout her childhood. School” and the Stewart’s Gift Shop on Main Continued page 8
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