Pine Needle Quilters Trunk Show Marie Bergsbaken from Cecil April 19, 2004 Copyright © 2004 Pine Needle Quilters - All Rights Reserved

04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell

04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell Marie was assisted in her presentation by her friends Rosemary Risen and Marge Kasten

04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell Rosemary, Marie and Marge

04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell Prior to the time that Marie began quilting, she raised sheep, hand spun the yarn and knitted many garments.

04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell She displayed a beautiful hand-knit coat for which she had… Raised the sheep Hand-spun the yarn Wove the facing for the coat Knit the coat Hand embroidered a design on the lining inside the coat However, she has never worn the coat.

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04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell This quilt was made by Marie’s great-great grandmother who lived in a sod hut in Kansas. She made it for her daughter to keep warm when traveling to Green Bay. Lots of used clothing was used to fill the quilt. It was found years later in a bag in an attic. Moths and mice had made holes in it.

04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell

04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell Made by Marie’s grandmother over 70 years ago

04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell This block contains Gerber baby faces

04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell Matching pillow

04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell Double Wedding Ring (large rings)

04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell About 30 years ago, Marie lost her leg in a farm accident and spent 9 months in hospitals. Her friends made blocks for this lap quilt for her, while she was having plastic surgery. It is the first quilt that Marie hand-quilted. Most of the friends who made the blocks are now deceased.

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04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell Mariner’s Compass (improvised the border) Had to repaint living room to match before it could be displayed

04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell The pattern is the design on the floor of the rotunda in the state capitol in Madison (took 2 years)

04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell Done to prove to herself she could still do something

04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell Iris Gardens (own border design)

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04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell Marie’s husband built her a greenhouse so that she could grow her orchids. She enters them in competitions. She now has hundreds of orchids, and many different varieties.

04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell Lady Slipper (an orchid)

04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell Crazy Quilt

04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell Signature in corner

04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell Look for embroidered angel, spider’s web, spider and orchids (drawn from her own)

04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell White Orchids - drew her own pattern

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04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell Friend bought bag of fabrics for $1 at auction. Marie hates blues but made it for grandson.

04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell Label is a sugar sack from Green Bay Sugar Company

04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell This is her Hoffman Challenge Quilt. It toured the country for a year. Marie traveled to Paducah that year to see it displayed.

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04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell Paper-pieced Irises (also an orchid)

04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell Trillium (all hand pieced and hand quilted)

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04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell Pink Lady Slippers & Ferns (own pattern)

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04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell Cats - decorated to resemble family members

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04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell California Nites

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04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell reverse side

04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell Hand painted label

04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell October Sky

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Pine Needle Quilters Show ‘N Tell April 19, 2004 Copyright © 2004 Pine Needle Quilters - All Rights Reserved

04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell Kathleen Tokarczyk Ducks and Blocks

04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell Mary Ehlinger flannel quilt

04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell reverse side

04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell Leah Giese Mexican Star

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04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell Helen Kadlec Adirondack Bears (Debbie Field design)

04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell notice quilting in center of block

04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell machine quilting in border

04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell Aletha Mittelstaedt Butterfly wallhanging

04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell Norene Piontek Boys and Girls

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04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell Ruth Kennedy Chick-lets baby quilt

04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell Ruth Kennedy Fly Me Kite baby quilt

04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell Ruth Kennedy Rug Rats Attic baby quilt

04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell Ruth Kennedy Little Boy Blue baby quilt

04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell Marge Kasten Scrap quilt

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04/19/2004Trunk Show & April Show 'N Tell Peg Piepkorn Double Heart

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