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This entry is from Brenda Hagood.

This quilt was made by my Grandmother when I was a little girl. It was made from flour sacks and old clothes. 

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This entry is from Brenda Hagood.

My Grandmother made this quilt for me sometime in the 70's. She called one day and said she had a surprise for me. When I got to her house she showed me this quilt and said "I just learned how to make this quilt and I want to give it to you."

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This entry is from Corkey Vann.

This quilt is hand pieced and quilted. It is mostly made from scraps given to me by a neighbor who has since passed away.

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This entry is from Kathy Retherford.

 My Grandmother made this quilt for me about 50 years ago. She was trying to make one for all of her granddaughters, but her her arthritis and failing eyesight prevented her from finishing the job. I have wonderful memories of time spent with my Grandmother and the quilt she made for me.

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This entry is from Rhonda Bolan.

I purchased this small quilt from the Gee's Bend Collective when Stephanie and I drove the ladies  home from their first visit to Decatur.This quilt was made by Lucy Witherspoon. She was one of  the four ladies who visited with us last year. When we were looking at all of the beautiful quilted items, I knew I wanted something done by one of the ladies we had gotten to know on the trip. This quilt had colors I liked and was very representative of Lucy's style. All of her quilts had a very soft puffy look that I liked.

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This entry is from Phyllis Roberts.

The name of the quilt is not known, but my Mother thought perhaps it is "Around the World". The topper was pieced by Martha Davis, not too long before her death. She died in 2007 at  age 100 or 101.Verna Holcomb completed the quilt in 2016.

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This entry is from Corkey Vann. 

This printed fabric sampler was hand pieced and hand quilted. 

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This entry is from Kathy Retherford.

My Mom made this quilt for me about 20 years ago.Since she has passed away, the quilt hangs on a quilt rack over her bed in my spare bedroom.

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This entry is from Phyllis Roberts. 

This fan quilt was pieced and quilted in 2016 by my mother, Verna Holcomb, for the purpose of using up the last of her quilting scraps.

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This entry is from Corkey Vann. She calls it Monet Print Sampler.

This is the first quilt I ever made. It is machine pieced and machine quilted.

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This entry is from Cathy Smothers.

Each family of our Church did a square for this quilt. The quilt was presented to my husband and me for Christmas around 1985. My husband is Pastor of New Friendship Baptist Church.

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This entry is from Stephanie Cates. 

Earlier this year we were fortunate enough to be able to host four of the magnificent Quiltmakers of Gee’s Bend here at Decatur Public Library.  Rhonda and I partnered with DCS teacher Beth Young (and many others) to bring the ladies here and help make their stay as easy and pleasant as possible.  When we drove them back to Gee’s Bend, they invited us into the Gee’s Bend Quilt Collective where we were able to look at the hundreds of quilts and quilted items available for sale.  We also got to prolong our visit with these amazing women!  I couldn’t leave without purchasing something, but due to their world-wide fame I could only afford a smaller one.  And if I had to paw through pretty much every stack of quilts in the place, that was just a bonus!  Ultimately I found a small quilt that will grace my wall (protected by a shadow box, of course) that makes me smile and lifts my heart.

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This entry is from Suzie McBride. The quilt is named Echoes of Heme.
  “When my children were young I always tried to tell them I loved them, fearful of things happening. As my son got older and he was at work and places it would embarrass him so we made up a phrase: ‘The Heme is the Heme’ and if I wrote a note or told someone to tell him that it meant ‘I love you.’  My son passed away this year so this quilt was made with the hope that even now it echoes throughout eternity that I still love you, son!”

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This entry is from Marty Lawson.

This is my Denim Cathedral Windows quilt. It was made in 2014. It only took about 3-4 months to complete. My daughter had picked out the gold and blue fabrics to be put together with denim for a quilt for her. We collected jeans from our closets and yard sales and she was going to cut out squares. Then she got sick and couldn't finish the cutting and passed away in 2011. I discovered this pattern in 2014 and thought it would be a great way to use her fabrics. It's made from circles of denim sewn around squares of cotton fabric and sewn together. There is no traditional quilting because it's a "quilt as you go" design. I gave a presentation on how to make this quilt to my quilt guild on what would have been my daughter's 40th birthday.

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This entry is from Pat Payne. I made this quilt in 2015. This is my therapy. I would like to thank Martha Shipley for showing me the art of this beautiful quilt.

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This entry is from Suzie McBride. The name of the quilt is A Season for Every Purpose Under Heaven. A time to be born, a time to die. It comes, we just don't always know when or how.

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This entry is from Mary Lou Rose. I started this quilt last February at the Gee's Bend workshop that I was fortunate to attend. It is made from jeans that I have saved since my kids were young many moons ago! Because of the weight of the denim I didn't use batting and the backing is fleece (see lower right corner) that blended very well. I made this as a Christmas gift for my son. I call it Gee's Bend Inspired Denim.

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This entry is from Heather Ward.The name of this quilt is Aloha. Quilt story:  A friend of mine was recently widowed, and she wanted to have a  quilt made in remembrance of her husband using some of his favorite shirts. He was known for wearing Hawaiian shirts, and so I was given about 20 such shirts to work with.  I decided to make a patchwork of squares, but bordered with traditional Hawaiian applique. Quilt size is about 72” square. The center patchwork was machine pieced; the applique was hand stitched and the quilt was hand quilted. It took me quite a while just to find the pattern and lay out the piecing the way I wanted, and then with the handwork, it took me a total 4 months work to finish the quilt. I know it was because of the associations and memories the fabric held, but I’ve never had my quilts or artwork move someone to tears before. That made it a very special and successful  quilt project for me, and also for the recipient.

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This entry is from Teresa Jett. Pattern is by Jennifer Ofenstein from Fandom in Stitches website. It took 1 1/2 years to complete. I found this pattern by accident when surfing the internet one day. It reminded me of my daughter and all those years of going to the book store at midnight for the new Harry Potter book release. This quilt was a lot of fun to make  and brought back  many memories of both the books, movies, and things my daughter quoted from the books. In this quilt, each scrap of fabric was only used once. There are 87 books on the bookcase including one "invisible book". Only 9 books have no titles embroidered on them. All of the book titles come from the Harry Potter book series.

October Gauntlets

We are in the homestretch for this year’s Adult Reading Challenge. With only 2 months left to finish, we want to go over the requirements for each level:

·         Page:  read 15 different authors (6 of those must be monthly gauntlets)

·         Squire:  complete 30 quests; of the 30, you must read 25 different authors and at least 8 of them must be monthly gauntlets

·         Knight: complete 60 quests; of the 60, you must read 50 different authors and at least 10 of them must be monthly gauntlets.

If you have any questions or are not sure about any of these requirements, please contact Stephanie or Rhonda for clarification.

You may start turning in your Charters on the 7^th of November. Because the Challenge is complicated (anything pertaining to math is considered complicated to StephRhonda) you must surrender your charter in order to be eligible for the prize drawings. The Charters will be returned at the Friends’ Christmas Open House on December 8^th. If you are unable to attend the Open House you may stop by StephRhonda’s office (anytime during office hours after December 8^th) to get your charter back.

Now for the reason most of you are reading this…

The October gauntlets are:

Read an author who is known for writing Horror stories. There will be a list of authors for this category in the Challenge Notebook. (The notebooks are now in front of StephRhonda’s office.) While the author has to be known to publish horror stories, you are not technically required to read a horror story for this gauntlet.  For example, Stephen King is a name that comes up on all lists of horror authors, but he also writes non-fiction. If you are not inclined to read horror, you can read any of his books and it will still count for this gauntlet. That said, if you decide to read someone not on the list in the book or listed on the horror writers website, you may want to get it cleared as counting, especially if you are going to be close on having the correct number of authors to make the level you wish to complete.

The second gauntlet is to read an author who is LGBTQ. While the LGBT Fiction brochure for DPL is a good place to start, you will need to check to make sure the author you choose is LGBTQ, not just an author who writes LGBTQ. There are a few of the authors on that brochure who will not qualify for this gauntlet.  Please do not hesitate to ask for assistance or clarification on this or any part of the challenge. Thanks for taking the challenge.

Happy Reading!

StephRhonda's Schedule for October

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
						1. Not Available
2. Not Available	3. 9-5:30	4. 9-5:30	5. 9-5:30	6. 9-5:30 *RoundTable 12-2	7. 11-8 *Movie Extravaganza	8. Not Available
9. Not Available	10. LIBRARY CLOSED	11. 9-5:30	12. 9-5:30	13. 12-6:30 *Movie Night	14. 9-5	15. Not Available
16. Not Available	17. 9-5:30	18. 9-5:30 *Adult Color Club	19. 9-5:30	20. 9-5:30	21. 12-4 *3rd Friday	22. 9-5
23. 2-5	24. 9-5:30	25. 9:30-5:30	26. 9-5:30	27. 12-6:30 *Movie Night	28. Not Available	29. 9-5
30. 2-5	31. Not Available

 ** This schedule is accurate as of 10/3/2016, but subject to change. If you have questions or wish to make sure we will be available at a certain time, please contact us.

Email: stephrhonda@decatur.lib.al.us

Phone: 256-353-2993 ext. 106