Sue's News - October

Arizona Quilt Documentation Project – Tucson

By Sue Franklin

In September, the team finished documenting team member, Bea Kabler’s Hopi quilts.  Other Hopi quilts documented belonged to team photographer, Peggy Hazard.  Bea also brought a change of pace for the team, her Mimbres Queen quilt.

Now, let’s review the quilts.  Bea’s quilts will be covered first. 

1)  A Mud Hen Katsinas, a lovely four block quilt with identical rust colored mud hens on white ground.  The blocks, framed in black, were hand painted by Bonnie Nampeyo Chapella, Corn Clan. 

 2) Hopi Pottery Blocks, hand painted by Bonnie Nampeyo.  Bonnie used her Great, Great Grandmother’s pottery blocks for the design for this four block quilt encased in shades of brown.

  3) Another Hopi Pottery four block, again hand painted.  This one separated by either salmon or gold print sashing or blue print and red or salmon sashing.  It has short saw tooth borders on sides; strips, picking up the colors of the sashing, on the quilt’s top and bottom.  

4)  Bea’s last Hopi Pottery block is rectangular with three hand painted blocks separated by sashings of green with pieced rectangles between.  Saw tooth borders on each side.  Warm brown shades predominate on this quilt.  

Bea brought another quilt that she hand pieced and then had hand quilted; her Mimbres Queen treasure.  This quilt, done in turquoise, black and cream is Bea’s daughter’s favorite.

Peggy’s first also is a Hopi 1) Long Hair Kachina Paintings with windmills in yellow, turquoise, purple, and bright pink. 













2) The next, a One Patch Hopi is made of corduroy with a flannel back.  The tied quilt is made from greens, blues, and browns and looking at it from a distance, one can imagine butterfly wings. 

3) Peggy’s last quilt, Hopi Scrappy Sampler, contains a wealth of vintage fabrics.  Red ties hold this gem together.

Details of this program are available on the AZQS web site www.azquiltstudygroup.org/.

Anyone is welcome to visit our meetings!  We love guests.  For questions about either quilt documentation or joining the team, please either call or email Tucson liaisons Sue Franklin, (520.490.4721; suevette63@comcast.net) or Terry Gryzb-Wysocki, (520.749.9326; terry-gw@mindspring.com).  New team members are welcome. Monthly training sessions are held from 9:30 until 12:30 at the Ellie Towne Flowing Wells Community Center on Ruthrauff Road.  The next meeting is Monday October 2^nd.  Another date to mark on your calendars is the Public Documentation on November 11^th at the Arizona History Museum.  Contact either Sue or Kate Clark (520.742.1000) to register no more than two quilts.

Information about quilt documentation teams throughout Arizona may be obtained from Lynn Miller at either 480.202.1230 or azquiltdoc@yahoo.com.  Lynn also needs people familiar with the computer to aid her with data entry for the Quilt Index.  Lynn does distance training which takes about two hours.