Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
The label for Tristan Ryan's quilt. The service members who received quilts and the Florida “SewWhat” quilting buddies of Susan Ryan Walter. Front: CPO Sean Harrison, SrA John Moffet, SSG Daniel Pate, Carol Ethington. Back: PO2 Harrison Atchinson, Susan Ryan Walter, SSG Tristan Ryan (Susan’s daughter), Roseanne Westenzweig, SSgt Christopher Hill, Mary Kovalovsky, SSG Sean Forsythe.
“As my daughter was heading off to Afghanistan in March 2011,” said Susan Ryan Walter of Odessa, “she said that it would be cool if I could make patriotic quilts for everyone. Lovely idea, but all my red, white and blue material was home in Washington, and I was in Florida to house- and pet-sit for her while she was gone!”
Walter asked members of the Yahoo group, Stashbusters and members of the quiltingboard.com if they would donate a 12-inch block so she could make the quilts. After that, 38 quilters from Maine to California, Washington to Florida, England and Australia sent her blocks, yardage, quilt tops, and complete quilts!
In Florida, her “Sew What Bee” group helped her put the blocks together, quilt and hand bind the finished product. In October 2011, quilts were delivered to seven of the nine service members deployed with Walter’s daughter.
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