Home of the Brave Quilt Project
Please go to http://www.oregonhomeofthebrave.org which has links to other sites dealing with this very important project. You can contact the
other Oregon Coordinator, Kaye Hansen, at embroideredlegacies@comcast.net. You can also click on my Home of the Brave page shown above on this page to be taken to my personal page
about Home of the Brave.
Kaye and I work together to cover the State of Oregon -- she is located in the northern part
of Oregon near Portland, while I am located in the southern part of Oregon near Medford. Many quilters throughout the
State have been making quilts, quilting, making blocks, and helping in other ways to get quilts to the families of the fallen
soldiers. Won't you join us?
This quilt project makes reproduction quilts from the Civil War when 250,000 quilts were made by the U. S.
Sanitary Commission and given to the soldiers. Our reproduction quilts go to the families of the fallen soldiers
from Oregon who have fought and died for our freedom in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is a national program with
Coordinators in nearly every state in the USA. It's a grass-roots project, everything is donated by the quilters,
and there are many ways to assist in this project, even if you are not a quilter. Just ask us what
you can do to help.
But if you ARE a quilter, you can help by making blocks, pinning quilts together, helping with deliveries
to the families of the fallen, quilting the quilts, making tops.....the list goes on and on, as do the numbers of our fallen
soldiers. Oregon has now lost 83 of its fine young men at this date (3/25/07). Contact me or Kaye or go to the
other sites for more details on how you can help comfort the families of the fallen.
You may have known me a few years ago in the Sacramento, CA area -- my former business name was The Quilt
Castle -- but in honor of moving to our little farm in Oregon, I needed a new business name. Since we live on Foots
Creek Road, we have named our little farm Foots Creek Farms, Home of "The Quilted Rooster."
Farms? So what are we going to be farming, you ask? Hopefully lavender and other aromatic
herbs, as well as vegetables -- and we've planted a fruit orchard. But we have to stay home and quit traveling
so much if we're going to get Foots Creek Farms to a producing farm. Of course right now we are primarily
"growing quilts" -- and traveling to quilt shows, appraising quilts, judging quilts, making quilts, teaching about quilts,
studying quilt history.........if it has to do with quilts, we do it!
We also are involved with Super Thimble -- a new type of thimble that is in development and which you'll hear
more about as it gets to its testing stage.
Check back every so often when you have a few minutes to see the progress of our quilt studio, how our herbs
are growing, and what our next project turns out to be.
Since the City of Rogue River is the "Home of the World Famous Annual Rooster Crow" held each June, what
could be a more appropriate name for our quilt studio than "The Quilted Rooster"? Watch for us in the Rooster Crow Parade
the third Saturday in June!
Remember "The Quilted Rooster" -- Quilts to Crow About!
Marilyn Maddalena Withrow
and
Eugene L. Withrow
Eugene proudly states: "I am the rooster and I rule the roost!"
Marilyn replies (what else?) "But I rule the rooster."
