It’s not even officially fall and Humboldt quilters have already finished their holiday decorations. Well, for the nations’s Capitol, anyway. Since the Capitol Christmas tree (named Sugar Bear, by the way) and dozens of other smaller trees for congressional offices were selected from the Six Rivers National Forest, the quilted tree skirts are coming from […]
Redwood Empire Quilters Guild
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Respect the Quilt
Quilters, says Susie Freese, are like Rodney Dangerfield. “We get no respect,” she said in a telephone interview a month before the Heart of the Redwoods Quilt Show. “People don’t really understand what we do, and they don’t know how to value it.” Freese and the 175-member Redwood Empire Quilters Guild to which she belongs hope […]