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This new contemporary white rock home was built by Joe Platt of Custom Homes. The living room, formal dining room, bar area, breakfast nook are open and flow together. The master bedroom suite is on one side of the living area and a sitting room and two bedrooms and Hollywood bath on the other. (Photo by Pat Patton)THEATRE, from Page 1_Williams—Vera Carp; Emily Davis, Alexis Klossner—Hank Bumiller; Ethan Chappell—Coach RaymondThere is a need in your own hometown. Please join yourlocal chapterAmericajiRedCrossChassie; Jesse Brown Tentative Friday CastThurston Wheels; Wes SeguinArles Struvie; Ethan Chappell—Elmer Watkins; Sam Mercer—Didi Snavely;Alexis Klossner—HaroldDean Lattimer; BrianWilliams—Leonard Childers;Sam Mercer—Petey Fisk; Brian Williams—Peari Burras; Wes Seguin—Jody Bumiller; Nick Chappell— R.R. Snavely; Sam Mercer— Stanley Bumiller; Ethan Chappell—Rev. Spikes; WesSeguin—Charlene Bumiller; Alexis Klossner—HankQUILTS, from Ffcge 1-tural background of thisarea.Several of the quilts in the show were quilted in the Dobie House by Daisy andEmma Dobie, two sisters who married two brothers.Two of the quilts were quilted locally by Sarah Leinneweber around the turnof the century and showburned areas from 1914 when the Leinneweber house burned and Sarah rushed back through the flames to save her quilts.What she risked her life to save is more than a pieceBumiller; Sam Mercer—Chad of quilted fabric stuffed witlHartford; Brian Williams— cotton,. It is the unique blencPhinas Blye; Ethan Chappell Vera Carp; Alexis Klossner—Coach Raymond Chassie; Wes Seguinof love and necessity tha have made quilts such ai icon in our culture.Quilts, says local auilteiJoyce Platt’s mirrored dining area adds an ultra-modern flavor to their luxurious homThe Platts also have one of the best views of the golfing action on the Woodcreek coursethere is a wonderful view of the green from the rear windows, where you may see the golfe as they tee off. (Photo by Pat Patton)Eva Lee Murphy, who will be showing her “Fifty State Quilt, were passed on from one generation of women to another, sometimes from mother to daughter, or from grandmother to granddaugh-above all, pracTheybeauty, ticality.“Everyone made their own quilts back in those days,afforda Lee, “They to have anyone else do them. They was for cover. If you didn’t have them, you was cold.Quilts were emblems of cooperation, of sharing. Women shared their hard-won time, patters, and fabric scraps to quilt them. “Everyone done their own sewin’, and what was left (ofthe fabric) was quilted up, to work on a quilt. Youto steal the time, she jsays Eva LeeMothers taught their daughters to sew before the large frames that hung from ceiling to floor, and they shared stories, problems, and laughter between the stitches.during the day, says Eva Lee, because the men came homeat night and the women couldn’t see well enough by the kerosene lamps to stitch.Quilting might not have been as social an activity in the Wimberley area as it was in other towns, she says, because people lived so far apart, but she remembers getting together with women from her family at least once, maybe twice a month,and a quilt could take t six months to finish.The work on the c quilts is often more intr and the stitches sm; than those of some ofThatThe quilting was done bomLee _ ^____with cotton picked froir families’ own fields ginned locally. The wo then carded the cotton tl selves, using “carders, three- by six-inch bo; with handles on one side wire on the other, carders were pulled thrcthe cotton to create about the same size as carders.See QUILTS, Page 3
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Wimberley, Texas, US
Sat, May 02, 1992
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