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Multipurpose Quilts Going on Auction Block
By SHANNON HAUGLAND
Sentinel Staff Writer
Quilts come in all sizes – and fill all sorts of needs, Ocean Wave Quilters say.
Annette Blankenship’s giant quilts have covered any number of dormitory beds over the years, and an assortment can be found around her house, serving their purpose as “cuddle quilts” for slumber parties and for overnight guests.
Megan Pasternak, left, and Annette Blankenship hold up quilted items that will be auctioned at the 17th annual Ocean Wave Quilt Guild Scholarship Auction Tuesday at UAS Sitka Campus. (Sentinel Photo)
“They make great gifts,” added Blankenship, one of the organizers of the upcoming 17th Annual Ocean Wave Quilt Guild Scholarship Auction on Tuesday. “I make lots, and give lots away.”
Megan Pasterak, another longtime guild member, keeps a steady rotation of her miniature quilts on the walls of her home as artwork.
“As one of my friends says: ‘you just like little things,’” said Pasternak. “I don’t have a lot of room. With smaller quilts you can display more.”
And next Tuesday, handmade quilts by Blankenship, Pasternak and dozens of other guild members will serve yet another purpose: raising funds for scholarships for high schoolers and the Sitka Fine Arts Camp.
Quilts of all sizes – and other handmade or antique items – will be on the auction block at the annual fundraiser, which will be held this year across the bridge at the University of Alaska Southeast, Sitka campus.
Funds raised go to scholarships for one Sitka High or Pacific High student, one Mt. Edgecumbe High School student and the Sitka Fine Arts Camp, which is used to help children attend camp. High school scholarships can be spent for any educational purpose.
The quilt event is open to the public. There will be an open outcry auction, a silent auction and a “fast and furious” secret auction for the miniature quilts created by guild members.
The secret auction allows a maximum of 10 bids for each of the mini quilts to be placed in an envelope, with the successful bid kept secret by auction organizers. But Pasternak and Blankenship said the prices last year on the mini quilts ranged from $15 to $200, with an average price of $85 per quilt.
“It’s down and dirty, fast and furious,” Blankenship said.
Items up for sale at the auctions include miniature quilts, tote bags, wall hangings, vintage quilt tops, pieces of quilting fabric, children’s toy sewing machines, a vintage lamp, baskets with sewing kits and vintage wooden spools.
The Ocean Wave Quilt Guild meets every month for nine months of the year, and membership is open to everyone of all skill levels and areas of interest. Projects during the year include making quilts for various organizations to use as fundraisers, baby quilt work days, and Quilting from the Heart, a project to create lap quilts for people at care facilities around town.
“Places in need of comfort,” Pasternak said.
The guild also sponsors an annual quilt show in May, with the finest quilts on display as works of art. Pasternak and Blankenship said the guild always has projects in the works. And while members take their quilting seriously and like to get work done at the meetings, they say they also enjoy the social aspects of getting together. Many of the quilters have been guild members – and friends – for years.
“Like all of the arts, quilting is a way to get your art and creativity out – and there are no rules,” Pasternak said. “There are the quilt police, but we don’t pay any attention to them. Use the method that works best for you.”
Tickets will be on sale at the quilt auction for the annual drawing for a quilt made by the guild for the Sitka Cancer Survivors Society.
There is no charge for admission for the scholarship fundraiser. Light refreshments will be served.
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March 2004
Matthew C. Hunter of Sitka recently returned from Cuba as part of a St. Olaf College International and Off-Campus Studies program. Hunter, a junior physics major at St. Olaf College, is the son of Robert and Kim Hunter of Sitka.
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March 1974
Eighth graders have returned from a visit to Juneau to see the Legislature. They had worked for it since Christmas vacation ... Clarice Johnson’s idea of a “White Elephant” sales was chosen as the best money-maker; Joe Roth won the political cartoon assignment; highest government test scorers were Ken Armstrong, Joanna Hearn, Linda Montgomery, Lisa Henry, Calvin Taylor and David Licari .....