Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show 2021 // 2021-07-07

Saturday, July 10, 2021 A Message from SOQS Executive Director Dawn Boyd:

Welcome to our neighborhood!

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This year marks our 46th annual Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show, and on behalf of our board of directors, welcome! We are proud to host our show this year and believe we have created an event that will fill your heart and soul with beautiful quilts. We hope you enjoy the day filled with the sights and sounds of Sisters, making new friends, becoming inspired, and feeling renewed.

Our theme for the 2021 Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show — “Renewal” — was selected this past fall as we looked toward our Quilt Show with a feeling of hope. The unknown roads we traveled brought us to this year, but we never traveled alone. We are truly appreciative of those in our community who have partnered with us to make today happen: City of Sisters, Deschutes Count y S her iff ’s Office, Deschutes County Health

Dept., Oregon Department of Transportation, Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District, local businesses, donors, and our many volunteers and quilters.

We are here because of the support we have received from all of you.

The Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show has always been free to attend, and always will be. We hope that you will consider supporting the Quilt Show with a donation or becoming a Friend of the Show to help offset our expenses, and to help our board continue to fulfill that commitment.

Quilters are a determined bunch. Sometimes given a pattern without clear direction, quilters might have to improvise or learn a new technique.

When quilters are faced with challenges, they often figure out a solution that evolves into an

even better completed project.

This year, as we have faced so many unknowns, we have tapped into our own resiliency while keeping our mission in front of us — “to celebrate the art, skill, and heritage of quilting and fiber arts, while enhancing the cultural vitality of Sisters and Central Oregon and providing enrichment opportunities for area youth.”

We have never wavered in the excitement of preparing this show for all of you.

The Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show is a bucket-list item for many. No matter if this is your first time here, or if you are a seasoned veteran attending the Show, we want every visit to be memorable. This year’s Quilt Show is filled with quilts from around the country — and around the world. Enjoy your time with us!

9 a.m. — Start of 46th Anniversary Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show “Renewal”

Over 500 quilts on display throughout the town of Sisters

The “Bob Ross” Cherrywood Challenge on display at the Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire Community Hall throughout the day

4 p.m. — end of Quilt Show day 2021 SOQS raffle quilt behind Stitchin’ Post Plus livestream on Facebook

Virtual Show Day Activities on Facebook Live: 7 a.m. — Welcome to SOQS: Quilt Hanging at Stitchin’ Post 9 a.m. — Live around town 10 a.m. to noon: Freddy Moran • Carol Dixon •Kim McCray Sue McMahan • Helen Brisson • Sandy Koch Tentmakers of Cairo Quilts 12:30 p.m. — Bob Ross 1 p.m. — Quilt Block Challenge • WISH Upon A Card 4 p.m. Raffle Quilt Drawing Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show

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If you miss something, check out www.soqs.org after the show.

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Donna Rice creates a poster quilt

By Katy Yoder Correspondent

Capturing the essence of Sisters Country is a challenge many artists have undertaken. There’s so much to celebrate! Ever-changing landscapes, from the Three Sisters mountains to meander ing water way s like Whychus Creek and neighboring Metolius River, are reminders of what a special place this is, and how blessed we are to walk in such beauty.

Donna Rice was selected to create this year’s Sisters O utdoor Q uilt Show (SOQS) poster art. Usually the poster is a painting; this year it’s a quilt. With both a textile and visual art background, Rice was the perfect person to take on the task.

“To find inspiration, I went down to the Metolius and looked at the river cabins in the woods along the way.

That’s where I came up with the design,” said Rice.

A Bend resident, Rice said she loved creating the first

quilt ever used for the poster.

She’s lived in Central Oregon for forty years and grew up in the Pacific Northwest.

“I think there were 17,000 people when I moved to Bend. I’ve watched it grow.

When I began volunteering, the Quilt Show was much smaller and there weren’t as many quilts to hang. I’ve grown with the SOQS and love taking classes. I’m a member of the Journeys quilting group. We have members from Bend, Terrebonne, and Sisters area.”

Rice is looking forward to seeing them in person soon.

The artist is drawn to all colors. But that wasn’t always the case.

“For years I wasn’t a blue person, which is more of a cold color. I’ve been more into oranges and reds, which are more warm colors. But I’ve started using blue and like it just as much. Maybe life experiences can change that? It’s funny what color means to us,” she mused.

While adjusting to some

big life changes, Rice is working on several quilting projects.

“My husband passed away two months ago,” she said.

“Because of that, suddenly

I have two acres of grass to irrigate and take care of by myself. It feels like I’m pedaling and getting nowhere, but eventually I’ll be back. I didn’t even know how to turn the water on. The one thing I’ve told most of my friends is to step up and pay attention. Because you don’t know what life’s going to throw.

But I still go into my studio.

At first I had trouble focusing but now I go in and stay there for a few hours. There are a couple of projects I’m doing just for myself.”

Quilting is helping Rice get through this time. With so many uncertainties in her life, this is a known quantity.

“I’m just trying to figure out how I’m going to maneuver through it all in the future,” she said. “Quilting will always be a part of my life. I will never quit doing what I’m doing. I love it. It feeds my soul for sure. You can get lost in it too. Like reading a good book, I go into a zone and it centers me.

My studio is my sanctuary.”

SOQS ‘Renewal’ raffle quilt was a group effort The 2021 SOQS raffle quilt was truly a group effort.

The quilt was designed and pieced by a team of Sisters quilters, including SOQS Board members Jean Wells, Cece Montgomery, and Carol Dixon. They were joined by local quilters Diane Tolzman, Barb Bowman, Susan Degroat, Janet MacConnell,

and Jill Miller. The quilting was done by Jill Miller.

The quilt represents the beauty of Sisters and is symbolic of our beautiful landscape. Based on the 2021 Quilt Show theme, “Renewal,” it portrays the snow on the Three Sisters and the beauty of the wildflowers in the meadows surrounded by the

pines. The fish playfully frolic in the river, reflecting the joyfulness of Sisters Country.

The quilt was sponsored

by Island Batik, and their fabrics have brought this quilt to life. Proceeds will benefit the

SOQS Scholarship Fund and help to produce the free-toattend Quilt Show.

Raffle tickets are $5 each, available at www.soqs.org.

Tickets are also available at Stitchin’ Post, and in person

on Quilt Show day (Saturday, July 10).

The winning ticket will be drawn at 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 10, on the lawn behind Stitchin’ Post. Winner need not be present to win.

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Garden quilts celebrate Central Oregon folklore

By Katy Yoder Correspondent

Sisters artist Kit Stafford has blended quilting and agriculture in a project that celebrates the folklore of Central Oregon.

Pine Meadow Ranch (PMR), with support from The Roundhouse Foundation, offered a “quilt garden” design contest reflecting the focus of PMR: the arts and agriculture. After receiving proposals from Central Oregon quilters, a jury chose Stafford’s “Flower Folklorica.”

S t a f f o r d ’s p r o p o s a l included incorporating found and recycled materials. A sense of humor and fondness for folk traditions are wisely offered, but not always followed.

“When I moved to Central Oregon many years ago, I was told to wait to plant my garden until the snow was melted from the top of Black Butte.

This folklore is something I’ve found impossible to follow,” she said with a laugh.

Stafford’s quilt design, measuring 40 inches square, echoes geometry found in landscape, like classic quilt triangles, deep purple for the colder north side of the mountain, with a snow-white half circle, and a violet for the sunnier side. The top half features repeating, pieced sunray shapes. Whimsical, circular flowers were appliqued in fields of green-growth panels in the lower half of the design.

The corresponding quilt garden is 16 by 16 feet.

The garden is being planted

by PMR Director of Ranch Operations Pamela Wavrin.

Stafford was thrilled when she learned who would be handling the garden portion of the design contest.

Pamela Wavrin and artist Kit Stafford in the ‘quilt garden’ at Pine Meadow Ranch.

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“Lucky me because the collaboration is with Pam Wavrin,” she said.

Both projects are coming together simultaneously.

Stafford is a multi-genre artist and Wavrin has a background in landscape design.

“It’s this team effort,” said Stafford. “We’re learning as we go and finding these things out along the way.”

Dedicated to sustainability for both projects, the women made sure the carbon footprints for their projects were light. Stafford is hand sewing the entire quilt and she decided to only use fabrics she already had.

“Every step of the way has been pretty folkish,” Stafford said. “An artist friend, Leottie Richards, gave me an oldfashioned, horsehair inner facing. I used a full-length dress from the late 1960s for the rim. I thought pea-green velvet! So I cut it up. It was so fun that I had that.”

For the back, Stafford had a piece of toile fabric that was developed in the 1700s in France.

“It’s usually pastoral scenes with light backgrounds and two colors. I took the farm

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scene and transformed it to honor Pine Meadow Ranch and those who keep it all going. There’s Juanita the donkey, chickens, a cat, two dogs, people working very hard, and one sleeping,” she said.

“I embroidered the names of everybody who works here.

It’s kind of a time capsule for the Pine Meadow Ranch crew.

That will be on the back. It was really fun!”

Ana Varas, arts projects coordinator for PMR, organized the contest and is overseeing the project. She’s always seeking ways to integrate the arts and agriculture as PMR and The Roundhouse Foundation continue their work supporting traditional crafts and skills in the area.

Current residency artists have taken part in the project as well.

“The quilt garden is a perfect way to translate or reflect our areas of interest,” she said.

Varas, Stafford, and Wavrin are watching the garden take shape and change as the season progresses. Nasturtiums, daylilies, strawberries, lettuce, violas, beets, Swiss chard, alyssum, sunflowers, herbs, and a variety of squash are all integrated into the quilt garden.

“Different colors will be popping up,” said Wavrin.

“The strawberries and violas

were planted together to celebrate all the different colors, including red strawberries.

We’ll put borage at the end.”

“It’s a brave project just to do the interpretation,” said Stafford. “We want to connect with this special event in Sisters that’s been going on for so many years. This project will add another interpretation that takes place on the Ranch. We want to celebrate the arts, agriculture, and SOQS.”

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The artistry of quilting

By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

The Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show is, above all things, a celebration of the artistry of quilts and the creativity of quilters. Two local quilters will have their work displayed in personal showcases.

Sue McMahan Quilts is located inside of Beacham’s Clock Shop, corner of Hood Avenue and Oak Street.

McMahan describes herself as “pretty traditional.”

“Basically, I’m a traditional piecer,” she said.

Six or seven of her quilts, selected by Quilt Show founder Jean Wells, will hang at the clock shop during the Show.

McMahan took up quilting after her husband retired and they moved to Sunriver, Oregon. McMahan said her husband “sailed into retirement” with many enthusiasms to keep him active. She, however, felt at loose ends.

“I really had no connection,” she said. “One day, I just happened to find out there was a quilt group in Sunriver and I thought, well, I might as well check it out.”

It turned out to be a fateful choice. Like so many who come to the craft, McMahan found not only a satisfying activity, but a nurturing community.

“All of a sudden I not only had a new group of friends — I had a new hobby,” she recalled. “It’s all about fabric and color and women coming together and supporting each other,” Wells got her started

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teaching, and she finds that role profoundly satisfying.

She loves nothing more than seeing a student light up when they “get it” and discover a new skill.

Now living in Eagle Crest, between Sisters and Redmond, McMahan has been an active quilter, traveling to international shows in Japan and enjoying “seeing what others are doing around the world.”

The pandemic did not stop her, and she’s seen quilting carry many people through a year of isolation and dislocation.

“It’s been a mainstay for so many people I know, to

keep them active and happy, you know, even though we’ve been stuck at home for quite a long time,” she said.

What was once a “new hobby” is now a guiding passion in McMahan’s life.

“It’s something that grabs you,” she said. “It’s something you have for the rest of your life.”

The Sandy Koch Quilt Showcase is located at The SweetEasy Co. ice cream shop at 170 W. Cascade Ave. Koch will hang 15 quilts with varying themes — some honoring military service, some whimsical and fun, many featuring painted images.

“The designing of the quilt is what I like to do,” Koch said.

She loves to incorporate paint and applique, which makes her work endlessly fresh and creative.

“I give the quilting part off to a long-armer and they do that part of it for me,” she said.

The military themes that adorn many of her quilts honor her late husband, Neil Koch, her high school sweetheart, who served as a U.S. Marine Corps carrier pilot for decades. In her most current military project Koch has made lap quilts in the Honor Flight Quilts program, donating them to World War II and Korean War veterans who have been to

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She and Neil moved to Sisters from San Diego in 1993, and she soon integrated into the thriving quilting community here.

“What I wanted to do was sit under a tree — and then go quilt, of course,” she said.

Quilting has been a solace for her over the past difficult year and a half.

“During the pandemic, I did nothing but make quilts, quilts, quilts, quilts, quilts,” she said. “I [recently] held my first neighborhood party and had all my neighbors over, and I feel much better.”

Visitors to the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show can enjoy viewing the works of these two active quilters, whose craft has become a driving life’s passion.

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Featured quilter captures what matters

By Katy Yoder Correspondent

Carol Dixon is this year’s Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show Featured Quilter.

The 12 quilts she’ll exhibit reflect her many travels, commitment to social justice, and her family ties and stories.

Her love of color and the emotions it can translate are evident in her work. Most of her quilts are brightly imbued, reflecting happy times in faroff places like the African continent and Caribbean. For her pieces telling stories of hardship, hope, and injustice in the United States, she was drawn to colors that evoke a sense of danger, risk, and redemption. That’s a lot for a quilt to achieve, but Dixon does her best to tell stories that inform — and, hopefully, teach.

Her desire to educate viewers has roots in her career as a teacher. She taught for 44 years, at Sisters High School and later at Black Butte School in Camp Sherman.

“When I was hired Sisters High School had just opened.

Now it’s the middle school. I taught all the seniors. I love teenagers and their energy.

I was asked to come out of retirement to teach writing at Black Butte School. I was head teacher for the last two years. I loved being with those kids. My license plate says ‘Mama D’ because that’s what the kids called me,” she said proudly.

Leaving teaching was hard for Dixon. But when she

retired she took her first class at Stitchin’ Post.

“I always loved sewing,” she said. “I made my own clothes but, until then, never quilted. I’ve always loved art and appreciate it tremendously. I still don’t consider myself an artist. The first time my sister and I came to the Quilt Show, I didn’t know anything about quilting, I just saw little pieces of art.”

Dixon quilts purely for herself. She chooses not to display them or even hang them in her house. She loves the process of picking the fabrics and design. In the beginning she used patterns, but now enjoys making some of her own too.

“Making quilts helps me remember exper iences, ” she said. “They’re like a quilting travel-journal.

Then other times I’m just inspired by an artist I admire and want to make a quilt that reflects their work.”

One piece in her collection was inspired by pop artist James Rizzi and his use of childlike imagery and vibrant colors.

“I see a piece and say, now there’s an idea! After I’ve been working on a more somber quilt, I’m ready to do something with more whimsy and fun. I feel passionate about certain things. Injustices for one. That’s where both the

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“Making quilts helps me remember experiences. They’re like a quilting travel-journal. ” — Carol Dixon ‘Hobo’ and ‘Underground Railroad’ quilts came from. I used darker colors to reflect times that were somber,” she said.

Dixon says books or photos in a magazine can get her mind rolling. For a while during the pandemic, Dixon said, her creativity just dried up and nothing was coming.

“I read more during the depth of the pandemic,” she said.

But when she found out she received the Featured Quilter honor, she was determined to finish the James Rizzi and the Quail pattern.

Both are ready to go, full of color and concepts dear to her heart.

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As soon as it’s safe, more traveling is on the horizon for Dixon and her husband, Stephen.

“There’s something about Africa that speaks to my soul,” she said. “The colors, the people, the animals, and the energy in the air. It’s just an incredible place. We planned to go to Africa again but the trip was postponed. Until we can go, if I can’t go to Africa at least I can make a quilt that speaks to what I love about it.”

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The many faces of Freddy Moran

By Katy Yoder Correspondent

Freddy Moran meets a new face every day.

COVID-19 may have kept the 91-year-old closer to home but it hasn’t stopped her from creating faces from fabric and her colorful imagination. Moran’s bright and thoughtful “face” quilts will be on display at Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show (SOQS).

Freddy couldn’t join her creations in Sisters this summer, but she’s optimistic that next year she’ll make the trip from her home in Orinda, California. Moran has been attending the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show for decades. She began as a spectator, then later participated as a teacher.

“I had my 70th birthday in Sisters,” said Moran from her brightly colored home.

Jean Wells, SOQS founder, headed south to visit Freddy and bring back pieces for the show.

“We had 30 of her pieces last year and the proceeds from the sales helped SOQS,” said Wells.

This year Moran’s quilts will be in The Open Door courtyard area. Wells spent time visiting with Moran in her garden on top of a grassy Bay Area hillside.

“She has an abundant rose garden and hydrangeas so big they look like trees,” said Wells. “It’s beautiful. I woke

up from my nap and she was outside watering.”

Viewers are often curious as to who the women are in Moran’s face quilts. To understand how they came to be, Moran explains that she took a class from a woman from South Africa, Rosalie Dace.

“S he taught a c lass inspired by the bold color of painter Henri Matisse. I fell in love with the class,” she said. “Matisse’s faces inspired me. After her class I was ill.

When I began to get better, I promised myself I’d make a face every day. I came into my studio and made a face. Like learning anything, I wasn’t very good at it, but pretty soon the faces began to take on personalities all their own.

No two are alike. I’ve been doing them for the past four years now.”

In the design process, Moran plays around with materials and unconventional features.

“You never know how the face will turn out. I begin by selecting the background, then cut out the face, then I add the hair. It might be spikes, or fish, or flowers, or even french fries,” she said, laughing. “I make them because I need to. It really stirs my soul.

I have fun fabrics from fabric designers like Brandon Mably in hot pink and maroon, and fun funky circles. The faces become all kinds of people, just like all of us.”

Moran made a wall in her bedroom with her faces. A friend came and asked her how she could sleep with eyes looking at her. Her answer was simple and full of her infectious sense of humor: “I said, well, I usually sleep with my eyes closed! I have a really good time with these faces. I don’t know who I’ll meet next. The important thing is to try not to be realistic about anything.”

Always a teacher, Moran’s still sharing her love of quilting and creating. She’s teaching a workshop in Berkeley just over the hill from her home.

“I teach once per month,” she said. “Right now I’m thrilled to be asked to teach. I don’t remember ever having a teacher my age.” At this point, Moran doesn’t teach for the income. It’s strictly for pleasure. “Making the faces is like therapy. I just lose myself and stare at that piece of fabric and an hour may go by. I am thrilled to keep doing it.”

Moran is an inspiration to Wells and so many others.

Especially as she navigates physical restrictions.

“As our body ages, you find ways to still do something you love, instead of getting frustrated and giving up,” said Wells. “Freddy is a very determined woman. She tells herself, ‘I can’t do that but I can do this.’ She uses a craftstore glue stick and sends it

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off. It’s amazing someone her age still has so much desire.

It’s why she’s so creative. She has something to do every day when she gets up. I’m sure it’s

why she’s doing so well. She sews every day, even if it’s just sewing two strips of fabric together and then cutting shapes out of them later.”

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2021 Special Exhibit Map Guide

1 Cherrywood Fabrics – Bob Ross Challenge, at Sisters Fire

14 Featured Quilter: Carol Dixon,

17 Journey’s Quilt Artists,

2 Featured Gallery Artist: Helen Brisson, inside Clearwater Gallery,

15 Portland Modern Quilt Guild,

18 High Desert Quilt Guild of Redmond, at Raven Makes

at The Open Door courtyard, Hood Avenue & Oak Street.

20 East of the Cascades, between

Door courtyard, Hood Avenue & Oak Street.

12 Stitchin’ Post Employee Challenge Quilts, presented by Stitchin’ Post, on the east wall of Stitchin’ Post on Oak Street.

13 KONA Color of the Year: 2021 HORIZON sponsored by Robert Kaufman Fabrics, at Stitchin’ Post,

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7 Sue McMahan Quilts, inside

of Commerce, corner of Main Avenue & Spruce Street.

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Clearwater Gallery, Hood Avenue & Oak Street.

at Dixie’s, corner of Cascade Avenue and Elm Street.

Additional exhibits throughout town including Next Generation Quilters Exhibit, look for light blue exhibitor ribbons.

28 Mountain Meadow Quilters Guild, at Sisters Chamber

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5 Central Oregon Studio Arts Quilt Associates, at The Open

6 Freddy Moran Faces, at

24 Mt. Bachelor Quilt Guild,

Sisters Cascade & Cascade Trailstop, 140 block of Cascade Avenue.

hanging on the Western Title building, 220 S. Pine St.

on Elm Street between Cascade & Main avenues.

at Town Square, 141 E. Cascade Ave., between Elm & Fir streets.

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presented by City of Sisters, located inside Sisters City Hall, 520 E. Cascade Ave.

27 The Undercover Quilters,

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4 “Renewal” SOQS Poster Quilt for Auction by Donna Rice,

of Cascade Avenue & Fir Street.

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at The SweetEasy Co., 170 W. Cascade Ave.

located at Three Creeks Building, on the corner of Hood Avenue & Ash Street.

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for sale by various artists, at The Open Door courtyard, Hood Avenue & Oak Street.

22 Celebrating Winnie!,

26 Central Oregon Modern Quilt Guild, at Habitat Thrift Store, corner

on the corner of Cascade Avenue and Fir Street.

at Candy Corral, corner of Cascade Avenue & Elm Street.

19 Sandy Koch Quilt Showcase,

16 Machine Embroidery Showcase – Kim McCray,

29 Two Rivers, Three Sisters,

S. ELM ST.

3 Storytellers Book 2021, “Renewal” Storybook Quilts,

25 Blockin’ Robins, at Sisters Saloon

N. ASH ST.

corner of Hood Avenue & Oak Street.

Gallery, corner of Hood Avenue & Fir Street.

at Paulina Springs Books and Sisters Gallery & Frame Shop on Hood Avenue.

21 Busy Bees Quilt Group, located from The Jewel to Sisters Olive & Nut Co., in the 200 block of West Cascade Avenue.

at Bedouin, 143 E. Hood Ave.

S. ASH ST.

Community Hall, 301 S. Elm St.

at Ponderosa Properties, corner of Hood Avenue and Ash Street.

S. PINE ST.

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2021 Special Exhibit Map Guide

1 Cherrywood Fabrics – Bob Ross Challenge, at Sisters Fire

14 Featured Quilter: Carol Dixon,

17 Journey’s Quilt Artists,

2 Featured Gallery Artist: Helen Brisson, inside Clearwater Gallery,

15 Portland Modern Quilt Guild,

18 High Desert Quilt Guild of Redmond, at Raven Makes

at The Open Door courtyard, Hood Avenue & Oak Street.

20 East of the Cascades, between

Door courtyard, Hood Avenue & Oak Street.

12 Stitchin’ Post Employee Challenge Quilts, presented by Stitchin’ Post, on the east wall of Stitchin’ Post on Oak Street.

13 KONA Color of the Year: 2021 HORIZON sponsored by Robert Kaufman Fabrics, at Stitchin’ Post,

Ranger Station

W. ADAMS AVE.

Est. 1986

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E. ADAMS AVE.

E. MAIN AVE.

To Medical To 242

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E. ASPENWOOD AVE.

ATM

W. MAIN AVE.

Fir St. Park & Restroom

27 19

20 13

Gas Station

12

Stitchin’ Post

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8 3 30

4 5

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24 22

Barclay Park & Restroom

E. CASCADE AVE.

Chamber

Library City Hall 29

25 26

23

Medical

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126

18

15 2 6

28

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Gas Station

20

W. CASCADE AVE.

21

9 10 11

311 W. Cascade Ave.

BEDOUIN

Elm Street divides downtown Sisters into east and west.

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W. HOOD AVE.

$

E. HOOD AVE.

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ATM

16

Three Creeks Building

+ Fire Station & 1

Community Hall

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N. LOCUST ST.

ATM................... ATM

E. WASHINGTON AVE.

Village Green Park Playground & Restroom

20

Gas Station

S. LOCUST ST.

sponsored by Island Batik, on the lawn behind Stitchin’ Post, West Cascade Avenue & Oak Street.

Medical

N. CEDAR ST.

11 SOQS 2021 Raffle Quilt,

Volunteer Booth .. V Restrooms ...........

S. CEDAR ST.

the lawn behind Stitchin’ Post, West Cascade Avenue and Oak Street.

E. BLACK BUTTE AVE.

Sales Booth ........ $

HWY 242 WEST: McKenzie Pass To Outlaw Station and Three Wind shopping centers

+

N. LARCH ST.

10 Quilt Block Contest 2021, on

First Aid..............

S. LARCH ST.

lawn behind Stitchin’ Post, West Cascade Avenue & Oak Street.

Info Booth .......... I

N. SPRUCE ST.

9 Wish Fabric Postcards, on the

Water station .......

S. SPRUCE ST.

at Beacham’s Clock Shop & RE/MAX Key Properties on West Hood Avenue.

HIGHWAY 20 / 126 WEST: Metolius Recreation Area, Camp Sherman, Black Butte Ranch, Suttle Lake, Hoodoo, Portland, Eugene, Salem, Albany

N. FIR ST.

8 The Tentmakers of Cairo,

Clemens Park Playground & Restroom

N. OAK ST.

Beacham’s Clock Shop, corner of Hood Avenue and Oak Street.

Post Office

Sheriff’s Office

Where to find...

S. OAK ST.

7 Sue McMahan Quilts, inside

of Commerce, corner of Main Avenue & Spruce Street.

SISTERS PARK DR.

N. PINE ST.

Clearwater Gallery, Hood Avenue & Oak Street.

at Dixie’s, corner of Cascade Avenue and Elm Street.

Additional exhibits throughout town including Next Generation Quilters Exhibit, look for light blue exhibitor ribbons.

28 Mountain Meadow Quilters Guild, at Sisters Chamber

Recycle Center

5 Central Oregon Studio Arts Quilt Associates, at The Open

6 Freddy Moran Faces, at

24 Mt. Bachelor Quilt Guild,

Sisters Cascade & Cascade Trailstop, 140 block of Cascade Avenue.

hanging on the Western Title building, 220 S. Pine St.

on Elm Street between Cascade & Main avenues.

at Town Square, 141 E. Cascade Ave., between Elm & Fir streets.

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presented by City of Sisters, located inside Sisters City Hall, 520 E. Cascade Ave.

27 The Undercover Quilters,

S. FIR ST.

4 “Renewal” SOQS Poster Quilt for Auction by Donna Rice,

of Cascade Avenue & Fir Street.

23 Grange Girls,

at The SweetEasy Co., 170 W. Cascade Ave.

located at Three Creeks Building, on the corner of Hood Avenue & Ash Street.

30 Made by Men, quilts will be

N. ELM ST.

for sale by various artists, at The Open Door courtyard, Hood Avenue & Oak Street.

22 Celebrating Winnie!,

26 Central Oregon Modern Quilt Guild, at Habitat Thrift Store, corner

on the corner of Cascade Avenue and Fir Street.

at Candy Corral, corner of Cascade Avenue & Elm Street.

19 Sandy Koch Quilt Showcase,

16 Machine Embroidery Showcase – Kim McCray,

29 Two Rivers, Three Sisters,

S. ELM ST.

3 Storytellers Book 2021, “Renewal” Storybook Quilts,

25 Blockin’ Robins, at Sisters Saloon

N. ASH ST.

corner of Hood Avenue & Oak Street.

Gallery, corner of Hood Avenue & Fir Street.

at Paulina Springs Books and Sisters Gallery & Frame Shop on Hood Avenue.

21 Busy Bees Quilt Group, located from The Jewel to Sisters Olive & Nut Co., in the 200 block of West Cascade Avenue.

at Bedouin, 143 E. Hood Ave.

S. ASH ST.

Community Hall, 301 S. Elm St.

at Ponderosa Properties, corner of Hood Avenue and Ash Street.

S. PINE ST.

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Historic quilts on display

By Sue Stafford Correspondent

The making and giving of quilts has a long history here in Sisters Country and on July 10, during the annual Sisters Outdoors Quilt Show (SOQS), two historic quilts with Sisters roots, loaned by the Deschutes Historical Museum in Bend, will be exhibited at Three Sisters Historical Society Museum located at 410 E. Cascade Ave. There will also be a family heirloom quilt displayed belonging to museum board member Pat Leiser.

One of the earlier families to come to Sisters, from Linn County in the Willamette Valley, and for whom a local road is named, were John B. and Elizabeth Berry Fryrear.

They filed a claim for 160 acres east of Camp Polk along Squaw (Whychus) Creek.

John and Elizabeth both contributed a great deal to their neighbors in Sisters Country.

Elizabeth acted as a midwife for the birth of many new babies in the Sisters area.

They had three sons — William, John F., and David — and one daughter, Susan. An infant son named Benjamin died a few weeks after his birth in 1858.

Father John died in 1919 and was buried in Camp Polk Cemetery, where the Fryrear family graves can still be seen today. Elizabeth spent her later years living in Sisters, where she was cared for during her last illness by Kate Rockwell, more famously known as Klondike Kate.

When Elizabeth died in 1926, she was buried beside her husband, John.

William (Will) Fryrear married Etta Belle Taylor and they had four children: Eva, Josie, Sterling (Sterlie), and Mary. Sadly, Josie died at the age of 10. In 1913, Etta was given a quilt that had been created by a group of 30 early pioneer women of Sisters and Cloverdale, perhaps to celebrate her 50th birthday.

The Friendship Quilt is made up of 30 squares, each 13 inches, forming a patchwork design, with five rows across and six rows down.

The multi-colored cottonand-silk squares each contain the embroidered signature of the quilter who made it, thus recording the names of friends and neighbors of the Fryrears.

In 1984, Etta’s daughter, Mary, donated the quilt to the Deschutes Historical

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Museum in Bend. The museum has generously loaned the quilt several times to Three Sisters Historical Society Museum so it can be displayed in its hometown.

Granges, organized in the U.S. in 1867, played an important part in the early social life of Sisters, and in 1923 the Cloverdale Grange was built with Arial Lin (A.L.) Goodrich as its first Master.

Today, Goodrich Road east of town bears his name.

His wife, Helen Adelia Decktow Goodrich, quilted square #4 in the baby quilt made for V iva Lucille McDaniel, who was born October 11, 1934 and received the quilt in 1935 at six months of age. Viva’s parents were Marion Jake McDaniel and Clara Belle Moore McDaniel, who lived off Cloverdale Road. Her father, Marion, was employed at Sorenson’s Service Station on Cascade Avenue at the time.

Many of the quilters lived across the highway in Plainview, but, according to Viva’s descendants, they or their relatives were all members of the Cloverdale Grange.

The patchwork design is made up of 41 squares, each 13 inches, with six rows across and seven rows down. Like the Fryrear quilt, the Cloverdale Grange Quilting Circle quilt is made of multi-colored cotton and silk with many unique stitching patterns. Most of the squares are embroidered with the quilters’ signatures.

The baby quilt was donated to the Deschutes Historical Museum by Rodney Fosback, Viva Lucille’s son, and his wife Jackie, residents of Eugene.

Three Sisters Historical Society Museum will have color booklets available detailing each of the quilts, with snippets of information on most of the quilters as well as photos.

Leiser’s quilt was made

by her great grandmother, Dora Priscilla Cadwallader Gallagher of Morrow, Ohio.

The quilt has been authenticated by the Oregon Quilt Project as being constructed with 1880s red and white cotton and fine hand stitching in the triple Irish chain pattern.

As a widow, Dora moved to Berkeley, California to be near her son James, who was an engineer on the Golden Gate and Bay bridges. James was Leiser’s grandfather. Dora was one of the founding members and first secretary of the Vine Street Quaker meeting in Berkeley, which Leiser has visited.

Historic quilts that have been preserved and handed down through generations contain the history of many families in a colorful art form that provided warmth and comfort for the ancestors.

The Sister Outdoor Quilt Show has always been a free event — and always will be.

That’s thanks in large part to the support of ardent quilters who have become Friends of the Show.

“It’s a membership opportunity,” SOQS Executive Director Dawn Boyd explained. “Because our show is free to attend, we want people to be able to support us in a way that’s really valuable not just to us, but to them.”

Friends of the Show offers multiple tiers of membership, featuring perks like discounts to quilt shops and quilt museums, discounts on quilting supplies, and access to special events. At this year’s event, Friends of the Show will be offered a special showing of the Cherrywood Challenge display (see story, page 13).

Some of the most compelling perks of membership are intangible — the sense of belonging to and helping to sustain a remarkable creative community.

Marion Shimoda has been a Friend of the Show for years. A former Intel engineer, she discovered quilting more than 20 years ago.

“I started going to the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show in the late 1990s, just after we’d bought a vacation home

in Bend,” she said. “It was such a unique, fun experience to be out in the sunshine with all the beautiful quilts.”

Shimoda started volunteering, doing quilt intake for the Show, and started taking classes at Quilters’ Affair, the week-long educational program leading up to the Show.

She had found “a community of interest,” she said. That community of interest extends well beyond Sisters.

Shimoda has become a dedicated artist in her own right. She makes quilted postcards for the WISH Upon a Card program, and has become a member of the Journeys quilt group, where she was the featured gallery artist in 2018.

Q uilting is a serious endeavor for Shimoda.

“Sometimes it’s almost a full-time pursuit, if I have a deadline or I’m working on something that really interests me,” she said.

Shimoda’s engagement with the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show is exactly what was desired from the Friends of the Show program.

As Boyd explains, it ’s about “inspiring others to build community, to celebrate community and the art and heritage of quilting.”

For information about becoming a Friend of the Show, visit www.soqs.org/ friends-of-the-show.

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Discovering the Tentmakers of Cairo

By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

Fabric artists and supporters of the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show will have the opportunity to venture across three continents to immerse themselves in the heritage of the Tentmakers of Cairo.

On Wednesday, July 7, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., The Roundhouse Foundation presents a virtual event with Jenny Bowker and the Tentmakers of Cairo, where participants will learn about intricate textile artworks that are unique to Egypt. Over the past 15 years, Bowker has been instrumental in bringing the art of Khayamiya, Egyptian Tentmaker Applique, to an international audience.

Participants are invited to join Jenny with Ahmen Kamal and Hany Mahmoud of the Tentmakers as Jenny presents her story of connection with these craftsmen and their beautiful handiwork. Tickets are $25 per person and are available for purchase at www. soqs.org/events. Proceeds help support the Quilt Show.

The Street of the Tentmakers in Cairo wends its way back into the mists of time. There, stitchers operating out of tiny stall shops have — for centuries and all by hand — produced exquisite and intricate designs backed by canvas panels that made up the sometimes massive tents of desert Arabs and Ottoman sultans. While the work still makes up the walls of tents,

today the panels may also be wall hangings, or hung as backdrops and windbreaks for outdoor events and activities.

Designs range from images of the ancient Egypt of the pharaohs, to the designs found in Islamic mosques, to folk art that recounts fables.

Bowker, the wife of an Australian diplomat, first encountered the Street of the Tentmakers in 1979. She was intrigued by the speed and quality of their work, but she wasn’t yet a quilter and admittedly didn’t have a strong sense of connection to textiles.

“I was just thinking… this would just blow the minds of some quilters I know,” Bowker said.

When she came back during the first Gulf War in the 1990s, she revisited the street.

But it wasn’t until 2005, when her husband arrived as Australia’s Ambassador to Egypt, that a true connection was made.

“On the second day I went straight down to that street…

By then I was a quilter and I was really fascinated by it, so every week would find me down there for a couple of afternoons, getting to know the people, talking to them, finding out about the work,” she recalled.

To her surprise, Bowker found that the Tentmakers were not well known on the international fabric arts scene.

Soon enough, she would change that.

She persuaded organizers of a quilting exhibition in

Melbourne to fly a couple of the Tentmakers to Australia for a live demonstration of their ancient craft. It proved to be a tremendous hit — and it drew the interest of events in Europe and the U.S. “There was an incredible explosion of interest,” Bowker said.

Bowker started bringing a rotation of Tentmakers to events across the globe.

“They’ve probably been to 23 countries since that first event,” Bowker said.

The inter national exposure had a strong impact on the Street, where the ancient craft had been in slow decline, evidenced by a shrinking number of shops. Despite their skill, the Tentmakers were not held in high esteem in Egyptian society, and guides for tourists neglected them. As they came to share in the international recognition, competitors began to cooperate— and their sense of their own worth grew.

“The fact that they held themselves a little straighter — it was magical,” Bowker said.

Bowker is also gratified that the connections made with these master craftsmen can show another aspect of a culture that has often seemed alien and threatening over the past two decades. She loves that her fellow quilters get to “see the warmth and the humor and the gentle quality that Arab men carry.”

Bowker has established rigorous protocols for events.

“I agreed with the Street

Above: Master Stitcher Mustafa El Laithy. Left: Atef in his shop on The Street of the Tentmakers. that I only take owners of shops,” she said. “They take work from all up and down the Street.”

She also insists that the work brought to shows be truly representative of Egyptian art.

Some of that work will be on hand at the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show, though the event must be virtual due to ongoing pandemic restrictions.

Bowker’s presentation is a visual feast, and the history and cultural depth of the work is profound. Bowker also hopes that quilters who participate will take inspiration from the sheer

simplicity of the Tentmakers’ endeavor. That in itself can carry a powerful message in a field that can convince fabric artists that they can only work effectively if they have the latest equipment. “Gadgets” can be wonderful, but the Tentmakers’ ancient way of work shows that there is another way, a way that brings its own kind of satisfaction.

“The process for them is dead simple,” she said. “It doesn’t have gadgets. It can be something that is done for the sheer joy of it, with very minimal tools.”

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Right: Work from 1940s in Tarek al Safty’s collection.

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Machine quilters showcased

By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

For Kim McCray, there is nothing more satisfying than to bring her machine-quilting skills to bear to help other quilting artists bring their visions to life.

“I consider it such an honor to help people complete their quilts,” she said.

McCray’s own quilt work will be featured in a Machine Embroidery Showcase located at the Three Creeks Building, on the corner of Hood Avenue and Ash Street.

“I’ve tried to find my own voice in my machine quilting,” she said. “It’s such an incredible honor to show my quilts that I have spent so much time with. I would like to be an inspiration.”

While she had sewed as a youngster, she put the needle aside in her 20s. Quilting came into her life through gifts. Her grandmother and her husband’s grandmother each gave her family quilts.

“I fell in love with those two old quilts. Both were probably made in the 1930s,” she said.

Around 2010, McCray made a connection at Quilt Works, a shop in Bend.

“The quilt shop owner had a longarm quilting machine,” she recalled. “I ended up working at Quilt Works and learning to machine quilt.”

Currently, she’s in the business of taking people’s quilt tops and stitching together

the batting and the backing to make that finished product.

There’s something about the work that resonates deeply.

“For me it was taking a quilt top that was beautiful… [and] adding the texture or thread on it and bringing it to completion, helping my clients complete their quilts so they were ready to be used and loved and passed on to people,” she said.

Helen Brisson delved seriously into quilting after retiring from Hallmark, where she worked as a graphic designer.

“I’m a machine quilter,” she said. “I do art quilts. I use my machine mainly to draw with,” she said.

She operates a 12-foot longarm machine.

“You can pretty much sketch with the machine,” she said. “I don’t constrain myself to blocks like traditional quilting does.”

Brisson noted that she also does liturgical work — stoles and altar cloths — mainly for the Episcopal Church, including Sisters’ Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration.

Brisson’s art quilts will be featured through the month of July in a display at Clearwater Gallery, 303 W. Hood Ave. in Sisters. At least seven different sizes of quilts will be on display.

“I’m basing it mainly on trees, dedicated to some of the juniper trees that I so love around here,” she said.

As is the case with so many quilters here, the work itself is

Helen Brisson is an art quilter, using her machine as a drawing implement.

satisfying — but relationships are what keep the creative fires burning.

“There’s such sharing that goes on in Sisters and Bend, and just in Oregon,” Brisson said. “The artists all respect each other and treat each other really well.”

Kim McCray works professionally as a machine quilter, bringing beautiful quilt tops to completion.

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Cherrywood Challenge features painter Bob Ross

By Sue Stafford Correspondent

The Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire Hall community room will be transformed on Quilt Show Saturday into a gallery of art quilts created by quilters taking inspiration from the iconic PBS painting instructor Bob Ross.

Each year, Cherrywood Fabrics chooses a particular theme and color palette to challenge quilting artists to create a unique piece of art. In past years, the themes have run from Lion King to Prince. SOQS board member Jeff Omodt acts as host for the event every year — and this year he will appear as Bob Ross, curly hair and all.

A few simple rules guided the quilters in their creations: The quilts must measure 20 inches by 20 inches, must be designed with only the eight colors chosen by Cherrywood, and must be an original design based on the theme.

Any embellishments and any techniques may be used.

There were 400 submissions, and 200 finalists were selected by a panel of jurors.

The Bob Ross show has been traveling around the country to various quilt shows and exhibits. This is the fifth year the Cherrywood Show has come to Sisters.

The Cherrywood fabric color names were loosely based on all paints used by Ross: Prussian blue, phthalo green, sap green, cadmium yellow, Indian yellow, alizarin crimson, dark sienna, and Van Dyke brown.

According to literature from the exhibit, Ross, born in Florida on October 29, 1942, discovered oil painting while he was enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in the early 1960s.

He studied the “wet-on-wet” technique, which allowed him to produce complete paintings in less than an hour. He then became an instructor himself, eventually teaching a TV audience of millions on the PBS show, “The Joy of Painting,” from 1983 to 1994.

Ross became known for his light humor and gentle demeanor, as well as his ability to complete a painting in the 30-minute show. He recorded more than 400 episodes, making it one of the most popular and well-known shows on public television. Ross is known for catchphrases he used while painting, such as “happy little trees.” Dedicated fans spanning several generations enjoy the friendly clouds, happy accidents, and calm encouragement that make busy lives a little easier to bear.

There is also science behind the dulcet tones of Ross’s voice and the gentle tap-tap-tapping of the twoinch brush. Ross’s voice and manner created the audiosensory meridian response that keeps people tuned in and watching his every move.

Ross filmed wildlife (squirrels in particular) and took in injured or abandoned animals.

Small animals often appeared on “Joy of Painting” canvases.

He died from lymphoma at age 52 in 1995. Most of his original oil paintings were donated to charities or to PBS stations. His passion for teaching lives on today through thousands of “Certified Ross Instructors” who teach Ross’s method a ro u n d t h e world.

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