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Show Sunday. July 20. opsiMO t Unorthodox camp shifts focus to fabric rather than canoes - By JENNIFER ROTHACKER Douglas loves to fish. So camp, it seemed - IMII V Ml IV KAl I), Provo, Uuh I70lfi - W" l'T ' Auociated Presi Writer WASHINGTON aaSii ceaeiniiniiiOB1 IW 1 HI: nJl 1- S Eleven-year-ol- d . Tuckhorn at summer the perfect activity stitching cloth fiBh unto a quilt. Doug and 14 other kids spent a week of their summer vacation not playing soccer or shooting hoops, but sorting through vibrant fabrics, designing patchwork patterns and threading needles. At the end of Quilt Museum Camp at the Daughters of the American Revolution Museum last week, Doug didn't bring home improved layups, but a quilt featuring fishermen in canoes and trout, a work he titled "Marina Pish." Carie Sartin, a from Washington, is going to a hang "The Love of Music" and blue to pink homage hearts, flowers and music notes in her bedroom. But isn't quilting supposedly for grandmas? "The stereotype of the quilt maker, which used to be of the little old lady, is totally false now," said Nancy Tuckhorn, Doug's mom and the DAR museum's textile curator. "You do soccer camp and basketball "camp, but you want to do something that's a little bit different," she said. "Quilting is a cool thing to y. Happy camprs: Samantha Phillips, 9, of Washington, D.C., sits in a window while Fiona Forcey, 9, also of Washington, D.C., works on her quilt Friday at the Museum DAR in Washington. "You do soccer camp and basketball camp, but you want to do something that's a little bit different. Quilting is a cool thing to do' nine-patc- h ":r y. j I.KSI.IK KOSSOKK In The AwkmciI Pk stitches: Megan Miller, 12, of Huntingtown, Md., right, and kate Bobbin, 12, of Fairfax, Va., work on their quilts Friday during Quilt Museum Camp for kids at the DAR Museum in Washington. do. It's something that's in their household, in their life." will be displayed um. When the museum spread the word about quilt calmp, all the available slots were quick- A 1994 quilting survey sponsored by Quilter'8 Newsletter Magazine found the average quilter's age to be 52. But it aiso found that of the estimated 15.5 million American quilters, a third were between 18 and ly filled. As the only boy, Doug said, "The first day it was kind of embarrassing, but after a few hours I didn't really care." His mom said the day camp was so successful it will be held again next year, and possibly even extended to two weeks. And in the fall, all 15 quilts at the muse- sometimes ... they're set in their ways, or they have a particular idea in mind. But these kids were just so open to that offers quilting classes for children, said the craft appeals to youngsters' creative side. "I think kids like to play with colors and shapes," said Morris, ideas." Monica Joshi, 9, wanted to year-roun- d express her American Indian heritage, so she appliqued silhouettes of Indian girls on five of the patches in her quilt. Kimberly Oparil, 9, loves the four dogs she has had in her life. In her quilt, there are crooked heads of all four adding that quilting mostly makrequires straight lines ing it easier for young, awk- 44. ward fingers. The reasons children are drawn to the art vary. Mary Morris, a book buyer for G Street Fabrics in Rockville, Md., a fabric store "They're so uninhibited," observed Jan Carlson, a Baltimore quilter who led the DAR class of "When I teach older people pre-teen- Nancy Tuckhorn, mother canines. At the end of camp, as the parents came to pick up their s. young quilters, the kids rushed out to show off their accom- plishments. Twelve-year-ol- Meg.in d Green's mom, Patti Watson, said she signed her daughter up so she could learn an American art form. She was surprised at Megan's accomplishments. "I thought it would just be some small little thing, but it was beautiful," said Watson, admiring Megan's quilt with m image of pink ballet toe shoes in the center. "They really did something." Disney angers Catholic group with new ABC television series By DAVID BAL'DER AP Television Writer NEW YORK A group that already urged Catholics to boycott Walt Disney Co. because of the 1995 movie "Priest" is upset with another of its products, an ABC series called "Nothing Sacred." The Catholic League demanded Friday that the drama be pulled from the network's fall lineup because of its "sick look" at priests. '"They're belittling what is sacred," said Bernadette Brady, vice president of the 350,00 member Catholic group. ABC, a subsidiary of Disney, was standing by "Nothing Sacred," which stars Kevin Anderson as a young priest in parish. It is scheduled big-cit- y to air Thursdays September. starting in Catholic League President William Donohue hadn't seen the show before calling for its cancellation. He was angry about a Disney news release describing Anderson's character as an "irreverent priest who questions the existence of God, feels lust in his heart and touches people's souls." Brady said she has seen the pilot episode and was upset by its "very, very negative portrayal of the priesthood." character Anderson's unwisely counsels a pregnant teen-agto follow her own said. The show is she instincts, also riddled with factual errors er about Catholicism, particularly in its depiction of a rehearsal of a baptism, she said. ABC said that "Nothing Sacred" offers an honest portrayal of a young priest. "It is our hope that through subsequent episodes, they'll come to find that the series reflects positively on the issues of faith, for that is our intention," ABC said in a statement. 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