A spring motif on a quilt recently made by Potomac quilter Barb Sheehey.
Potomac quilter Jeanette Bush is making a baby nest for her first great grand baby who will soon be born.
Jayme Fairfield's current project has historical meaning. Since World War 2, quilts of valor have been made. She is following that tradition. "There is a young man who returned from the Middle East, is leaving the Marines and will attend the University of Montana in the fall," she said. Her quilt of valor is for him.
POTOMAC - For the last 24 years Potomac ladies have been getting together and creating quilts. Some of the quilts are donated to hospice, raffles, families in need, Potomac Bingo night, the Greenough/Potomac Volunteer Fire Department for people displaced by fire and to veterans.
In 1995 Barb Sheehy was part of the Potomac Home Extension Group, now called the Blackfoot Home and Community Club. Sheehy, who has a quilting background offered to give some quilting lessons. The group took quilting lessons from her and then the desire to continue on quilting together created the Blackfoot Peacemakers Quilt Guild.
The group has ranged from 10 members to more than 30 through the years. Right now the group includes 33 participants.
The guild holds retreats every year. In the past they have been held at Lubrecht Forest,
Camp Utmost, Deerlodge and the Potomac Greenough Community Center. They meet the third Saturday of each month during the school year and in May have a salad supper and 'show and tell' where they share their projects.
They have a Christmas party as well and provide refreshments during Potomac's Christmas Comes Home where they have quilts showcased and raffled.
Potomac quilter Jeanette Bush is making a baby nest for her recent project. Bush likes to see all the ideas that everyone is working on in the Blackfoot Peacemakers Quilt Guild of Potomac.
The group presently is working on many different quilts and projects, and the love they share visiting and sewing together shows.
Potomac resident and quilter Jayme Fairfield has been with the group for the last two years.
Sheehy said Fairfield is a very precise sewer.
Bush said, "I love the camaraderie of this group. It is so fun to get together with people who have the same interests."
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