Well I didn't make it over to check on the quilt progress this week - it was nearly done last week and I'm hoping by next Wednesday I'll be there to take pix of the completed masterpiece.
In the meantime, how about some pictures of quilts from past years? I've been poking through the archives (translation: boxes & notebooks from the last 30+ years) and found some beauties! Some of them have more info with them than others - these pictures span from 1974 to 1999. But isn't a picture is worth a hundred words? So without further ado here are some snapshots:
The first photo is from the 1974 autumn edition of Vermont Life Magazine - must have been the 1974 quilt don't you think? The article was about Brookline & featured the Ladies Benevolence Society quilters and the famous Round Schoolhouse - which was where the quilters met according to the article.
The second picture shows a quilt called "Blue Dahlia" and is shown with the 1986 raffle tickets that were sold for it - the raffle tickets are still the same price today!
This quilt pictured is a "mystery year" - no date included in the files. Anyone out there remember what year this one was made?
This sweet quilt is from 1989 - anyone know the name of the pattern?
Here are a few more undated quilt photos - very nice!
Last, but certainly not least, is the 1999 quilt that was raffled. I wonder who the lucky owner of this one is?
Come to think of it, next week I'll post more quilts from the 90's and the one from 2000. So y'all will have to be patient to see the 2011 Moonlight in Vermont in all its glory.
Where to begin?
Perhaps an introduction is in order. My name is Somara and I moved to Brookline Vermont almost two years ago with my husband and our dogs. What a change for us! We left Chicago city-living and bright-lit night skies for a quiet country back road and soot-black night skies (except for the countless stars which of course we can now see). Our little community of Brookline, Vermont has a town hall, a historic round schoolhouse (perhaps the only one in the U.S.A) a small elementary school building and the Historic Church of Brookline - about which much more will be written.
After our belongings arrived via moving van - no, actually before all our belongings arrived - one of the first things we did was go looking for the closest library - which we found one town over in Newfane VT. This is where we first met Judy, the current president of the Historic Brookline Church Preservation Initiative - or HBCPI for short. Judy was one of the volunteers in the library that afternoon and she asked if I was interested in joining the HBCPI: I said yes, we pass by this lovely place going to and from home, I'd be glad to help ensure it's continued existence.
And that was the very beginning of my involvement with this lovely group of folks, whose mission has been to preserve this lovely old historic building and to find new ways to make it available to the community. There is much more to tell, so more posts will be up shortly --especially as the annual "Moonlight in Vermont" Quilt is well underway!
