Marque Jacobs works on her quilted jacket in Leslie Peacockâs Wearable Art class. Eleanor Johnson (left) and Leslie Peacock discuss trimming options on Johnsonâs quilted jacket in the Wearable Art class Peacock teaches at Gila Community College. Cheryl Hull makes measurements for the quilted jacket sheâs sewing in Gila Community Collegeâs Wearable Art class. She began teaching the wearable art classes in the 1990s, and this semester marked Paysonâs first wearable art class.

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Every year six local quilting shops hold a spring fling in Superior- and this year it’s a competition. Quilting is an immensely popular pastime in the Northland. Northland’s NewsCenter and its affiliated companies are not responsible for the content of comments posted or for anything arising out of use of the above comments or other interaction among the users. We reserve the right to screen, refuse to post, remove or edit user-generated content at any time and for any or no reason in our absolute and sole discretion without prior notice, although we have no duty to do so or to monitor any Public Forum.

The Kalona Quilt Show at the Kalona Community Center is a showcase for 250 to 300 quilts. Two-thirds of the quilts on display are new, meaning they haven’t been part of the show before, and the rest are antique quilts, said Brenda Herington, store partner of the Woodin Wheel in Kalona, one of the event sponsors. People come from all over to view the quilts, including people from Texas, California and Utah who stopped Friday, Herington said. New quilts range in price from $500 to $11,000, while antique quilts cost between $300 and $5,000 this year, Herington said. Most of the antique quilts at this year’s show are pre-1940s, with the majority made around the turn of the century to the 1920s, she said.

JESSICA KELLER | ARGUS OBSERVER Fabriholics Forever & More co-owner Louise Wingert (left) cuts a length of fabric for a customer, while her partner Paula Winsor looks on Friday. PAYETTE-Fabric, flowers and ice cream — but mostly fabric — are three things Payette residents Louise Wingert and Paula Winsor are bringing to Payette with their business Fabriholics Forever & More, situated in downtown Payette. Self-proclaimed “fabriholics,” Wingert and Winsor thought their hobbies of sewing and crafting with fabric were the perfect basis for a store they wanted to open in town. They were contacted by a flower distributor about possibly selling flowers, Wingert said, and the pair decided flowers would be a nice addition to their business and also fill that gap left in town after Sandy’s Flowers, which was previously situated where Fabriholics Forever & More is, closed. The ice cream was something Wingert, who used to manage a Baskin Robbins, thought would be another nice addition to the business, so she and her partner have been working with the health department to offer the product, and Wingert said she and Winsor hope to be able to sell ice cream at their shop in time for the Apple Blossom Festival next month. Wingert said, since opening, a number of people have come in and said they either used to know how to sew, but have grown rusty, or want to learn how to sew or teach somebody else to sew, and for that interest, Wingert and Winsor are going to offer basic sewing classes.