Our new raffle quilt was designed by Gail Garber and Cynthia Figueroa-McInteer.  It features the Barn Owl, one of our most favorite of owls.  Rather than holding a weekend long stitch-a-thon, we divided up the sections and distributed them to Gail’s small quilting group of friends.  The sections were stitched by Mary Chappelle, Barbara Deshler, Pat Drennan, Vicky Harms, Carol Meincke, in addition to Gail and Cynthia.  It was machine quilted by Tisha Cavanaugh, whose exquisite needlework has graced many of our quilts in the past.  Liz Roberts, our senior educator, helped to stitch the binding along with all the rest of us in an afternoon work day so that we could present the quilt at the Monte Vista, CO, Crane Fest this past weekend.