Quilters on the Information Highway
A Quilt Made by
Betty Reynolds
Quilt is 64 x 88"
This quilt is a composite of several block and signature swaps conducted
on the internet during 2000 and 2001. The center consists of 30 "logon cabin"
house blocks with telephone poles swapped with members of QuiltSwappers. The
pattern for this block by Patti Anderson from the "Byte
by Byte quilt" is no longer available online. At the bottom of the
quilt are 11 "paper doll" blocks swapped with friends who attend
Quilt Camp in the Pines in Flagstaff, Arizona each July. The
center is surrounded by the "information highway" and finally by approximately
150 signature blocks from friends on QuiltSwappers and quilters
who participated in the Y2K quilt exhibit in Houston in 2000 as well as other quilters I correspond with via
email.
Here's a closeup of some of the logon cabins, featuring Katie Medlin's ranch house in eastern
New Mexico with a windmill instead of a telephone pole. The houses are
embellished with tiny doorknobs and buttons representing cats, a squirrel, birds,
and Katie's sewing machine in her window. The telephone poles are wired to one onother and also to each
house with lines of black quilting thread.
Here's a closeup of some of the paper doll blocks. Each doll is
intended to look like the quilter who made it. Kathie even has a red felt
poodle skirt, silk neck scarf, and red silk stockings with pompoms on her shoes.
Here's a closeup of the "information highway" and signature blocks, alternating with
various darker fabrics to create a checkerboard border.
Quilters represented in the logon cabin blocks are:
Top row: Kathie Serlet, Joyce Serra, Teresa Coles, Carrie Torres, Anita Brown
2nd row: Clarice Wendland, Cynthia Hague, Dagmar Kuhlmann, Elaine Windsperger, Helen Case
3rd row: Tiffany Harwood, Eileen Jacobs, Judy Migliori Heintz, Betty Reynolds, Sherry Moore
4th row: Kathy Robinson, Katie Medlin, Leigh Hay-Martin, Rick Merenick, Dianne Stucki
5th row: Kathy Carbonneau, Linda Farrell, Anne Dovel, Faye LaCourse, Hannah Wilde
6th row: Paula Elliott, Tammy Baldi, Mary Ann Kingston, JJ Page, Pam Bennett
Paper dolls on the bottom row are: Polly Lassettre, Carol Olsker, Kathie Serlet, Eileen Jacobs, Pam Bennett,
Katie Medlin, Betty Reynolds, Nancy Dotson, Joy Hamilton, Leigh Hay-Martin, Beth Sprague
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