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Stitchers on Sumac celebrate 10 years of quiltin
Lynda HIIIman-Rapley
Cousins Carrie Anne and Diane wanted to
get together someplace just to sew for a couple
days without interruptions. "We have busy
lives and never have time to enjoy just relaxing
at our sewing machines," says Diane Carson.
"We talked to Carrie Anne's Morn Millie
Steeper about using her unfinished basement,
in fact her whole house for a girls weekend of
sewing. And that is how the Stitchers on Sumac
began. After Steeper agreed the cousins invited
a few more relatives and friends to join them. It
was a couple years before they called them-
selves the Stitchers on Sumac (a street in
Sounthcott), but the name suites them.
Carson says a couple of friends have gone
and new ones are only too happy to be invited.
"It has been 10 years now and we look forward
to being together to spend the weekend. "
She explains they all bring their own
projects and have lost track of the number of
quilts made during this time. "Some quilts
take the weekend and return the next year for
our show and tell, while others return with no
more done on them since the year before. We
learn of weddings in the family and new
babies coming. All these occasions mean a
new quilt must be made. " She adds that they
also show up with new recipes, eat too much,
gossip, exchange quilt ideas, learn the newest
quilting trends, and sometimes a relative of
the next generation joins us to learn this won-
derful past time.
fellowship
Some of the quilters
this year (Back
L -R) Becky Wright,
Cassandra McAlpine,
Norma Wright, Carrie
Anne McAlpine,
Sherri Dodge, Millie
Steeper, Ginger
Weber Front; Abby
Wright, (future
quilter) & Diane
Carson.
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