Katherine Burris is the featured quilter in the “Stitches-in-Time” quilt exhibit at the Museum Center at Five Points Feb. COPYRIGHT ® 2007 Cleveland Daily Banner, a division of Cleveland Newspapers, Inc. The information contained herein is protected by the copyright laws of the United States. The copyright laws prohibit any copying, redistributing, retransmitting, broadcasting or repurposing of any copyright-protected material. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. read more

For the last 10 years, a group of Hamilton women gather every winter in their warm church for a new-fangled version of an old-fashioned quilting bee. Each January, Penelope Stoddard introduces a new pattern and offers guidance, advice and assistance in piecing the patterns together to a group of more than a dozen women ranging in ages from pre-teen to mid-70s. A queen-size quilt can cost up to $300 to make after totalling receipts for quality fabrics, notions and the final touch of professional long-arm quilting. This year, the group is following a pattern called “Cornerstones” piecing together approximately 750 2-inch squares using their chosen spectrum of coordinating fabrics. Stoddard has taken over the volunteer responsibilities of instructing the church quilting class and appreciates the friendships she gained with women young and old who “didn’t seem to have anything in common before but I consider close friends now. read more

SCOTT CITY — The quilt and sewing shops are a little closer to each other in the eastern part of the state — close enough for quilters to do a “shop hop,” or hop from one store to the next in search of tools for their craft. Saturday’s event, held in the Four-H Building at the Scott County Fairgrounds, included the guild’s quilt show and also the “shop hop” portion allowing participants to wander around to six different vendors and view quilting demonstrations. Radnor said the quilt show and “shop hop” event usually has six or seven vendors and brings quilting merchandise closer to the area to provide convenience to shoppers for one day out of the quilting year. Kirk used to drive to Liberal with a group to participate in the Liberal quilt guild, but the group got stuck in a snowstorm one year during one of its many trips. The quilt, named “Stars, Red, White and Blue,” consists of quilt blocks made in 1976 by Mary Scott, a 100-year-old Scott City resident, in honor of the U. read more

We believe in your right to know what information is collected during your visit to our web sites and how the information is used and safeguarded. To make use of certain features on our websites (such as contests, story comments, personalized web pages and other interactive forums) visitors need to register and to provide certain information as part of the registration or participation process. Our web servers automatically collect limited information about your computer’s connection to the Internet, including your IP address but not the e-mail address, when you visit our sites. We use this information to deliver our web pages to you upon request, to tailor our sites to the interests of our users, and to measure traffic within our sites. This policy statement does not apply to those companies’ web sites; please refer to these affiliated sites to obtain information on their privacy policies. If you can’t find the privacy policy of any of these sites via a link from the site’s homepage, you should contact the site directly for more information. read more