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Show WEEKLY REFLEX, DAVIS NEWS JOURNAL, MAY 2, 1984 Food For Quilters 12? By DONETA GATHERUM quilt with stitches small and know, a century hence, someone will gasp and say How neat! wrote Myrtle Fortner, 1930 quilter. I THIS IS a favorite quotation used frequently by Sandi Fox, 19th century American quilt expert. The works of students of Sandi Fox will be on exhibit at the Layton 28 daily, noon to 6 Heritage Museum, April through May 13 p.m. Almost as memorable as the handcrafted artistic quilts that were created in the 19th century and are being created by 20th century quilters is the food that traditionally is served at all quiltins. Preparing for North Davis Junior High Schools upcoming Oklahoma production, to be presented May 11, 12 and 14 at 7 p.m. at the school are: standing, Tina' Anderson, left, Stephanie Buoy. Michelle Steed, Maria Lobato, Tammy Bean, Glenna Cook, Tecia Tanji Thurgood, Heidi Clawson and Melinda Shipley; sitting are Taunya Mullins and Karen Bodily. PRACTICING UP A CENTLRY ago, quilts were usually made outside. Ladies from Fin-linso- n, would an entire neighborhood gather for an afternoon of quilting, talking and eating. Children accompanied their mothers on these outings. They enjoyed an afternoon of playing, teasing, racing and eating the salads, pies, cakes and desserts prepared by the quilters in advance. Today, there is still a special comradery felt at any quilting. Conversation is pleasant. Quilting is still a fine art. The food served is most delicious. ONE OF the favorite menus Sandi Fox enjoys preparing for quilters or other special guests includes pork chops and baked potatoes with curried sour cream. To prepare the pork chops, brown the meat. Add whole mushrooms and sliced green peppers, sauted. Simmer the meat, mushrooms and green peppers in a little white wine. Before serving, add quartered tomatoes. EXHIBITS Sandi Fox shows off one of the many entries in the nationally-ranQuiltmaker II. exhibition now in progress. ked salt, carrot, quartered, cup celery, chopped, 12 parsley sprigs, tsp. savory salt, medium onion. 1 1 1 Boil and simmer until the chicken is very tender. Remove chicken from kettle and strain broth. Return broth to heat and simmer until it is reduced to half its measure. Remove meat from bones; leave it in small pieces. Hospice Plans Fun Run CURRIED SOUR CREAM FOR BAKED POTATOES Use pint sour cream to which you add tsp. of each of the following ingredients, curry powder, course ground black pepper, salt, powdered sughr, orown sugar. Add 'A tsp. garlic powder. Hospice of Northern Utah and 1 the Newgate Mall are 1 IN 1868 the Reverend David Macrae, a Scot, observed the fol- lowing about American women, My private impression is the culiar paleness of the girls connects itself with too much pie. I have strong convictions on this subject of pie. 1 dont see how the Americans can live to the age they do, considering the amount of pie they eat and the rapidity with which they generally eat it. I rarely sat down to dinner in America without finding pie often of several kinds on the table. I believe the prohibition of pie would precipitate a revolution. Certainly one of the rewards of attending a quilting would be a large slice of pie. An 1883 recipe book gives these tips on pie making. To be a good pie baker can only be accomplished by continual practice. THE SECRET is to use as little water as possible to get the dough into shape. Put a cupful of lard to a quart of flour and a teaspoon of salt. Work the lard in the flour with your fingers before adding the water. Work the lard in the flour with your fingers before adding the water. The under crust should be a little the thickest. If it is a fruit pie, dust a little flour on the bottom before putting your fruit in. In making pies of fresh fruits put your sugar in the bottom. n A egg rubbed with a bit of cloth over the lower crust of pies will prevent the juice from soaking through it. The juice of fruit pies, if thickened with a level teaspoonful of cornstarch to a pie will not boil over. A very flaky pie dough is made by adding a level half teaspoonful of baking powder to a quart of flour in which case lessen the quantity of shortening. well-beate- POTATO SALAD is another popular quilting day dish. QUILTERS POTATO SALAD , A cup minced onions tsp. dry mustard tsp. salt 3 Tbsp. sugar ! 1 1 2 eggs 3 Tbsp. melted butter 'h cup vinegar cup heavy cream, whipped 1 COOK POTATOES in theirjack-et- s until tender. Cool, peel and dice. Add chopped onion, eggs (if desired), salt and pepper to taste. Combine mustard, salt and sugar. Beat eggs with melted butter and hot vinegar. Cook over boiling water until thick. Combine with whipped cream when the dressing is cooled. mixture. Fold into potato-onio- n Ground or pressed chicken is a simple to prepare dish that can be eaten as a meat or used as a sandwich spread. Quilters served pressed chicken with hot biscuits fresh from the oven. , hard-boile- brown-cruste- d Engagement Announced Mr. and Mrs. John D. Morrill of Centerville, formerly of Fruit Heights, announce the engagement of their daughter, Diana Leinani, to Ronald Douglas Pierson, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. Douglas Pierson of Bountiful. THE FUTURE bride is a graduate of Davis High. Ron and Nani are planning a June 11 wedding in the Salt Lake Temple to be followed by a family luncheon at the Lion House. PRESSED CHICKEN co- sponsoring a 6.2 miie fun run June 2 to help raise money for Hospices volunteer work with the terminally ill and their families. CALLED Run for it, the race around the back of the mall and Pacific Avenue will also include a two-mil- e health walk. Wheelchair racers are invited to join the 6.2 will mile competition. Run-for-- it begin at 8:30 a.m. by the Food Court entrance to the mall and end there, with ribbons and trophies to be awarded inside in special ceremonies. Over 25 ribbons will be presented in 10 different categories, plus ribbons for all first and second place finishers and trophies for two overall winners in the race. PREREGISTRATION fees are $6, rising to $7 for registration the morning of the race. Preregistration will take place at Footlocker in the Mall and also at Sportshoe, 4201 Harrison Blvd. Mail-i- n forms are available from Newgate Mall merchants. Currently, Hospice volunteers work with patients in Box Elder, Morgan, Weber and northern Davis Counties, coordinated with the family physician. Taking first in the regional LDS basketball playoffs held at Ogdens Ben Lomond High School, recently, were the Kaysville 13th Ward boys team, winning are: front, Fred Whicker, left, Kyle Knowles and Rodney Webb; back, Rick Hutchinson, left, Blake Green, Coach David Kemp, Tom Winward and Eric Frank. 54-5- 1. TOURNEY CHAMPS Team-membe- rs BP Clinics Thursday The monthly blood pressure clinic at the Silver Age Center, 34 E. 100 N. will be held Thursday, May 3 at 10:45 a.m. Join us for lunch that day. ALSO ON Thursday, May 3, the supplemental insurance specialist will be here to help with your health insurance problems. Please call 1 for an appointment. The staff and senior citizens would like to 546-220- take this opportunity to publicly thank Jim Herndon for all his volunteer hours given to help the elderly with their income tax returns. We appreciate you Jim! THE ANNUAL Governors Mini Conference will be held May 17 at the Golden Years Center in Bountiful. Silver Age people, now is your chance. We need a good representation from the community. Your voices, ideas and priorities are important. Topics to be discussed are political awareness, veteran's benefits, insurance for the elderly, property, life, hazard-catastrophi- By DONETA GATHERUM LAYTON - Sandi Fox, author, guest curator of leading quilt exhibitions, instructor, and leading authority on 19th century American quilts, will present an exhibition of work by her Utah students at the Heritage Museum, 403 Wasatch Drive, Layton April 28 through May 13 daily from noon until 6 p.m. -- preparedness. There will also be a representative from the Public Service Commission present. Transportation will be available. Cheese and butter will be distributed May 24 from 9 until 4. Only one allotment per household. There will'be no home delivery of commodities this time. Someone in the household must pick it up. np n Layton THE PROFESSIONAL quality museum show will feature 77 pieces contributed by 32 quiltmak-er- s who have studied under Sandi Fox. The skilled crafts people live in Wasatch Front communities. All quilted pieces in the show are completely hand sewn. There is no machine stitching even in the piecing of blocks. THE VARIETY presented in this exhibition is interesting. There will be full size quilts that are used on beds. Wall quilts, crib and cradle quilts will also be shown. Doll quilts will be exhibited with appropriate doll furniture pieces. The Quiltmakers II is a command performance showing that is being given in response to The Quiltmakers I show that was exhibited two years ago at the Heritage Museum. Different pieces will be shown. A catalog will be published. The exhibition will be a first rate, professionally hung show that will give each exhibited piece the proper respect for the quilted work of art. SANDI FOX lives in Los Angeles, Calif. She received a $10,000 master craftsman grant from the California Arts Council in 1982. She is one of eight American craftsmen featured in a series of television documentaries entitled Handmade in America. She has been designated Honored Craftsman by Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. In addition to presenting seminars and workshops throughout the U.S., and at universities and museums Sandi has worked as an instructor at UCLA, University of tury formal, structured patterns Sandi had normally associated Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Art Center. SANDI WOULD separate the quilts carefully to examine the Utah, Los Angeles County IN 1983-8- 4 Sandi Fox was the guest curator for a special 19th century American quilt exhibition supported by the American Embassy in Tokyo, Japan. The exhibition was set up through the Seibu Museum of Art in Tokyo and it traveled throughout Japan. A 1977 exhibition entitled America in Patchwork was held at the Seibu Museum of Art in Tokyo with Sandi Fox as the guest curator. Another outstanding quilt exhibition curated by Sandi Fox was called Pieces of Lives. This exhibition was hung in the Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles Music Center in conjunction with the West Coast premier of the play Quil- ters. SANDI FOX has shown exhibitions at the Kimball Art Center in Park City and the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles. SANDI FOX says she has always been interested in needle work. At the age of 15 she saw her first 19th century quilt. It was different. There was a naivity and spontaneous flavor to the 19th century art that was lacking in the 20th cen one-wom- c; consumer education, disaster National Quilt Show d Cut three chickens (3 pounds) in pieces. Put in large kettle and add the following ingredients: 8 tsp. Add chicken to cooked-dow- n broth: simmer 5 minutes. Pour into loaf pan, cover and weight down to press. Chill overnight. To serve cut slices or mix with a in half-inc- h salad dressing to make a sandwich spread. Note: some people simply process the chicken and other ingredients through a food grinder and use the broth as base for a soup. with quilt making. The beauty of 19th century quilts quietly motivated Sandi to search for biographies, diaries and journals of 19th century women. She also sought antique quilts. Some pieces were found in small cabins between sets of bed springs. techniques, designs, colors and fabrics. This interest in quilts tied in closely with her educational pursuits. Sandi received a BA degree in English literature from Pomona College. Coupled with the degree was a strong background in the humanities, folk art, history, sociology, folklore. TEN YEARS ago Sandi Fox began teaching quilting in Utah. The beginning group was about 15 people. Today, Sandi visits Utah two days every other month to teach quilting to an expanded class of 50 students. Many of the original 15 are still in the quilting classes. Sandi has taught at the U. of U., Kimball Art Center and Salt Lake Art Center. where. The quilters are tied to traditions that are not visual but are meaningful. In the ten years we have been together, weddings, births, deaths, marriages have all occurred. When a person looks at a quilt, she knows what was happen- dearments publication will be ing when she was making the available this fall by Schribners. piece. A CASUAL observer at The Quiltmaker II exhibition has to feel some of the emotional conotations as the quilted pieces are viewed. All pieces in the exhibition follow 19th century techniques. Traditional patterns are used. Sandi Fox says there is a great challenge in taking a geometric pattern and making it your own. She takes a spontaneous approach to quilt construction. Nothing is carefully planned out beforehand. Each quilted piece evolves as the quilter works with design, color and emotions. FOLLOWING the 19th century format, all quilted pieces are made from 100 percent cotton fabric. The battings are either cotton batting or a cotton flannel. The natural fibers are asthetically more pleasing. There is a certain feeling you get when you work with natural material, Sandi says. light-weig- ht Pieces are functional. The QUILTING as taught by Sandi show pieces represent the best. Fox is more than sewing pieces of They are use but don't abuse material together. Quilting is quilts, Sandi explains. placed in a historical and socioloMANY OF the exhibition pieces gical setting. This is one way women have of expressing themreflect a concept that Sandi has selves. They are doing the best of presented to her students in a class session. Children and doll quilts on whatever they choose to do, Sanexhibit reflect the research Sandi di says. You can read many things into has done in the area of 19th century a single quilt. This Utah group of quilts for children and dolls. This quilters has grown very close. We information was given in a special have observed the rites of passages show at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. that are universally noticed every 4 Entitled Small Endearments: Century Quilts for Children and Dolls, the 1981 exhibition was supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. A revised and expanded Small En19th ALTHOUGH many people believe quilting is for the idle person e or inwho is not working volved with family, church or civic commitments, Sandi Fox claims full-tim- anyone can become involved in quilting if they take pleasure in what they are doing and if they are truly committed. Her Utah quilting group is a of people with varied unrelated occupations, interests, religions and backgrounds. Quilting is the work of busy hands. An idle person seldom becomes a devote quilter, says Sandi. IF A PERSON is interested in learning how to quilt, Sandi Fox says the first step is to be committed to a quality of excellence. This means you will have the confidence to take time to do careful work. Second, Sandi recommends you study with someone who understands traditional techniques which are the best. Get the correct fundamentals. Learn to choose materials. Learn to use the tools of the trade correctly. You can go completely abstract in the construction of a quilted piece but you must construct the abstract work using the best way possible, Sandi believes. A special anagram used on many 19th century pieces says No cross, no crown. You can achieve nothing without sacrifice. Set high standards and respect yourself and your work. Sandi concludes. cross-sectio- n socio-econom- ic li |