02.26.08
“This is New Hampshire!”
I understand that my latest article in the May 2008 issue of The Quilter magazine reached at least one subscriber yesterday. I received a lovely phone call from a friend across the country to exclaim how much she just loves Jim’s photos and my writing.
For us, the article is a very special one! Why? The needlework and quilts we talk about were made by four generations of the Lewis family, Jeff Lewis being my husband’s first cousin.
This is the first time that we sought and found the gravestones of quilters about whom we have written. We traveled to South Sutton, New Hampshire. Knowing that I can still see and hold their work is strong testimony to the way that textiles are a tangible representation of a person’s life and what was meaningful to them. These quilts speak of New England frugality and using what you have.
South Sutton is not on the way to anywhere, and although I have lived in New Hampshire for most of my life, with the exception of about five years, I had never visited the lovely, still quiet town that has changed little since Jim, my husband, was a boy and accompanied his Uncle Harry Lewis when he delivered grain there, by truck.
Deciding which quilts to photograph was a difficult choice. I hope you enjoy seeing the selection of nineteenth and twentieth century quilts, etc. that I’ve chosen to share in print. See The Quilter magazine: coming to a newsstand near you … soon. (May 2008 issue)
To see who visited us, the day we visited S. Sutton, view the front page of our website: http://www.quiltersmuse.com
