RACINE — A longtime West Racine store will soon close, but that doesn’t mean the owners are quitting the quilting business. The partners — Jane Wnuk, Kathi Mundigler and Linda Green — had tried to sell the business, but that never happened, Wnuk said. Mark Hertzberg Journal Times Kathi Mundigler cuts fabric for a customer Tuesday at Calico, Canvas and Colors, 3305 Washington Ave. Click here to view The Journal Times On-line community rules and guidelines. Click here to view The Journal Times On-line privacy policy. read more

Tags: owners, machine quilting, long arm quilting machines, journal, mdash, quilting patterns

Quilter Susan Downs Schlegel shows a quilt off to Chris OâBrien, off camera, during the Quinobequin Quilters Guildâs 11th Spring Quilting Show, which was held this past weekend at the Masonic Lodge. The patterns on the quilts quickly catch the eye, with images of animals on several quilts, hypnotic patterns on others and vivid colors on most. Jane Evans of Great Plain Avenue said the show has 145 quilts from about 55 quilters, with 15 Massachusetts towns represented. Evans had several quilts at the show, including one called “A Rotation of Reptiles,” featuring frogs and lizards and a lot of tropical colors — a blue background with splashes of orange and green. Evans made the quilt as part of the guild’s summer challenge, in which members must incorporate a theme into their quilts — in this case, animals. One of the most imaginative quilts in the show was “Fall Leaves on an Old Screen Door” by Margaret Rolph of Walpole, which resembles a weather-beaten screen door covered with fall leaves. read more

Kathleen Bentley Tackett of Blaze Branch, Dorton, is a seamstress and a quilter. The daughter of Joe Bentley of Myra and the late Fronie Bentley, Tackett grew up at Dorton and attended Dorton Elementary and high school. She returned to Pike County and until 1980, made all of the uniforms for the Virgie High School Band (then under direction of Helen Colley) and altered cheerleading uniforms for Pikeville, Jenkins, Dorton and Virgie high schools. Kathleen has been married to Phil Tackett, a retired trucker, for 32 years. A knee replacement four years ago gave Kathleen the incentive she needed to take up quilting . Kathleen belongs to the Pike County Quilt Guild that meets at the Pike County Extension Office and won a prize in the guild’s Hillbilly Quilt Show, in the Miscellaneous category. read more

It’s a scene found nowhere else. The parents of a 10-year-old boy. Mariah Carey looks certain to . Unauthorized distribution, transmission or republication strictly prohibited. read more

Tags: beatles, quilting patterns, 10yearold, distribution, free quilting patterns, machine quilting