They say every quilt tells a story. So if the Endless Chain patterned quilt at this year’s Seward United Methodist Church Bazaar were a book, it would be shelved with the mysteries.
The maker of the striking pattern of connected hexagons is unknown.
Rosie Westerhoff, a member of the Holy Scrappers who gather each Wednesday morning at the church to hand-stitch quilt tops into full-fledged quilts, found the quilt in the church’s quilt room last summer.
The anonymous donor had left the material to finish its border and a pattern with instructions on how to make the quilt.
The note said the quilt was made in 1985 and asked them to finish the quilt and sell it at the annual church bazaar.
“And that was it,” Westerhoff said. “Nobody claims it.”
The fabric, of course, is old. Westerhoff said everyone who sees it likes the pattern.
“Whoever put it together did a very good job,” she said. “It is all pieced.”
The pattern features bright patches of color that resemble pinwheels, making a clean-lined pattern. But Westerhoff said the pieces are hexagons that are challenging to piece together.
“You don’t have a straight line,” she said. “It would be very complicated to put together.”
But the result is beautiful.
“The colors are very pretty. It took somebody a long time to sew together.”
The Holy Scrappers – which includes Alice Lorenz, Joanne Neeley, Linda Flyr, Deb Sovey, Sharon Mumaugh and Westerhoff – spent two months hand-quilting the queen-size piece.
The group also quilted the hand-embroidered rose quilt made by Phyllis Hronik which will also be sold at the bazaar.
