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Quilt show drawing crowds
The end result turned out to be a beautiful quilt containing circular patches of material and stitchery that represent the various stages of cancer cells.
“It was therapy,” said Ihnat of Avella, who is cancer-free today and displaying her thread art blanket at the Martha Washington Quilters Guild show.
There are nearly 200 quilts on display at the show that continues Saturday at the Church of the Covenant in Washington.
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“It’s the thing right now,” Faust said. “People like to be creative.”
Younger women are taking to the craft, she said, to have a second income because some quilts in the show are on sale for nearly $1,000.
Other quilters prefer to give theirs to relatives as heirlooms, said Diane DeVecchio of Canonsburg.
“They’re passed on through the generations,” she said. “They are all signed.”
There is a lot of pink on display because the theme this year is pink ribbons as a show of solidarity with breast cancer victims. A large, pink floral quilt is been raffled to raise money for low-income women to undergo mammograms at Washington Hospital, DeVecchio said.
The guild also makes smaller quilts each month in designs that appeal to kids to give to each child who is served by Washington County Children and Youth Services.
The show was drawing a huge turnout Friday, with admirers standing for long periods studying the stitches and patterns.
“It’s like an old car. How long are you going to look?” said quilter Yvonne Brenner of Washington.
“This is our passion,” she said. “We look at them for a long time.”
The show is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the church at 267 E. Beau St., Washington.
