Harriet Nowell created the illusion of a hoop skirt by the types and placement of the fabric in her design.
She remembered her mother thinking the Colonial women would look similar to the Holly Hobby doll. Yvonne fashioned the boots out of leather and her daughter remembered that her mother made her dress with the yellow background fabric.
They made their drawings, cut out the various pieces of fabric and create what we would think of as a typical farm scene. The farmer tilling the land and the woman working the home.
This was the actual starting point of the quilt anniversary project.
She was a great volunteer and devoted her time to helping others. She was a member of the Shelton Historical Society, she volunteered for the Girl Scouts and helped take care of the fountain.
Rita chose the Brownson House because she passed the house every day going to work and when the sun was shinning on the windows it seemed to have a presence.
The search for Rita was complicated by the task of determining the letters she embroidered in her last name. We had lots of possibilities.
Virginia got involved in the quilt project because of her cousin Yvonne Meyer (quilter of #26). She picked the piano company because she liked the piano and she wanted to design a motif around the company.
