Quilts Etc. Sale and Auction –version 2021 has some great new additions! And that is to be expected–quilting is a very diverse art. So many methods, so many styles, so many end products. Plus all the beautiful fabrics. Several years ago, the quilters made a loose pact, that anything offered at the Quilt Sale needed to be fabric based. But this year we had a offer we could not turn down….Barn Quilts!
Dale Strattman is a local artist…he has had several photography exhibits at galleries in Wichita and the Ulrich Museum. He taught art in the Wichita Public school and at Wichita State University and Tabor College for forty one years. When he offered to give us three barn quilts for the sale, it was a resounding “Thank You” from all the fabric quilters.
The three pieces are each 32″ square. They are weather proof–he has one on his garage. His and these three are his first venture into “quilting” with paint and plywood. The colors in each quilt block are very reminiscent of the Amish Barn Quilts. With out further delay—
Each one is $75 –a Dale Strattman original! SOLD
Before I close this post, I want to share my first memory of Dale. I had just joined the Church Class I attend with Dale and his wife, when the Church’s preschool had a Scholastic Book Fair. I was at the cashiers when I discovered I had used my last check …no way to pay for my armful of children’s books! Being new to the Church, I was terribly embarrassed. I was getting ready to quickly leave, when the man behind me insisted on paying for the books. In the forty plus years of friendship and being Church Classmates, I am constantly amazed at their generosity.
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