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Most of the quilts on this page were pieced by various groups, mostly from donated fabric, and quilted by Realizations for the cost of thread and batting only. The completed quilts are then donated to one of several agencies, mostly for patients of Hospice or the Cancer Center. Some are raffle quilts made as fund-raisers for non-profit organizations.

Most of the quilts are from the Comforters, a group of Bitterroot Valley quilters in Montana that I was invited to join in the Fall of 2002. The Comforters have been making quilts for Marcus Daly Hospital for more than six years.

This page also includes art quilts donated to various charity auctions in western Montana, benefitting the Daly Mansion, Teller Wildlife Refuge, and Safe Harbor. The title photo is of the finishing stages of machine quilting on the "Daly Mansion" quilt, a group project of the Bent Needlers, a mini-group of the Bitterroot Quilters Guild specializing in applique work.

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A flower basket lap quilt. Quilted with pansies in the border, tight stipple around the baskets, and quarter-inch outline in the basket bases.

Quilted February 20, 2003, for the Comforters.

Our 100th customer quilt!

A lap quilt with nine-patch squares on point. Quilted with roses in the center background squares, feather in the border, and arcs in the nine-patch squares.

Quilted February 20, 2003, for the Comforters.

A nine-patch lap quilt, quilted with stippling and a meander in the borders and circles in the squares.

Quilted February 20, 2003, for the Comforters.

"Bears Need Homes, Too," an 85" by 85" Log Cabin and Bear Paw design by Evelyn Sloppy, from her book, Log Cabin Fever. This quilt is a raffle quilt made by members of a railroad workers association for their annual benefit to support Operation Life Saver, a railroad crossing safety program. Quilted with lots of quarter-inch treatment in the bear paw blocks, feather bows around the log cabin border, and a feather medallion in the center log cabin block .

Quilted February 6, 2003.
Two-section composite photo.

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