C4o—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 5,1980
Bradford-Sullivan ladies learn
about piecing lives and quilts
BY JANE BRESEE
Staff Correspondent
MIDDLETON - “If you
can sew, you can make a
quilt”, said Joyce Nichols of
Milan, Bradford County.
Joyce was speaking to the
farm women attending
Ladies Day Out at the
Monroe ton Fire Hall. She
was the morning speaker at
the annual luncheon affair
sponsored by the Women’s
Committee of the Bradford-
Sulhvan County Farmers’
Association.
Joyce, now a veteran
quilter and volunteer
teacher for county extension
classes in quilting, started 13
or 14 years ago, she said, and
for the most part is self
taught.” If you really want
to do something, you can do
it,” she encouraged the
audience of 30 farm women.
Making one quilt a year is
her goal. Her latest is a
butterfly quilt, with plain
brown quilted squares in
terspersed with squares of
apphqued butterflies. One of
her favorite designs is the
sun bonnet girl One such
quilt top took 500 or 600 hours
of work, she said, which
doesn’t include putting on
the backing and doing the
quilting.
Some quilts on display
were made by Bea Simons,
another quilter, who also
helps teach extension
classes Others included a
log cabin quilt, a heavily
Bea Simons, left, and Joyce Nichols, speaker at
the Bradford-Sullivan County Ladies Day Out,
show off the Butterfly Quilt. This is the latest quilt
made by Joyce.
I INTRODUCING*
♦
♦
tjMAg.
♦ ymmmm aiepcL BMatME ca t to
• Full Line of Attachments
• 100% Financing Available
MARTIN HARDWARE & EQUIPMENT CO.
Rt. 501, VA Miles South of Schaefferstown, PA
Phone 717-949-6817 Open Mon.-Fn.BtoB. Wed Btol2;Sat Btos
embroidered crazy quilt,
flower garden, postage
stamp, and a baby quilt done
m a yo-yo design by Joyce
for her first grandchild.
The day long meeting was
chaired by Jean Tiffany,
county women’s committee
chairman, and also a
member of the state
women’s committee of the
Pennsylvania Farmers’
Association. She introduced
her husband, Fred Tiffany,
state director, who spoke
briefly about the local
structure of PFA. Jeff
Patton, Regional
Organization Director, also
talked, explaining the
organization at the state
level.
Following the luncheon,
June Langan, director of
treatment of Quo Vadis, a
drug and alcohol
detoxification unit and half
way house located in North
Towanda, was introduced.
She said that the most
abused drug is alcohol and is
most frequently misused
together with other drugs.
Quo Vadis is a house where
people may come for 3 to 7
days to get the drugs out of
their system. Then they
usually go to a rehabilitation
center for treatment such as
the one in Blossburg, after
which they come back to Quo
Vadis where they make their
home while they are trying
to get back into the stream of
normal living.
Group therapy is used both
YANMAR |
DIESEL TRACTORS I
Joyce is proud of her patchwork apron which she
frequently wears when teaching quilting classes.
at the Center and Quo Vadxs
to try to get the person with a
drug problem m touch with
reality and with his feelings.
We try to tell them, she
explained, that there is
nothing to be afraid of when
they take charge of their own
lives.
Presently, June said, she
and the staff are trying to
make an assessment of the 7
high schools m the county to
find out what drug problems
the students have. It is a
frustrating job, she worried.
Some high schools won’t
admit they have problems
while others welcome them
to come and start
educational classes about
drug abuse.
During her presentation, a
film about an alcoholic wife
and mother, called “The
Secret Love of Sandra
Blam” was shown
The afternoon was
climaxed with the ap
pearance of Shanna Learn, a
7 year old from Ulster, who
sang several hymns and
western songs. Accormg to
her mother, the child knows
over 60 songs by heart and
has been singing for chur
ches and other groups
throughout the state since
she was 3 years old.
The program was ad
journed after the awarding
of door prizes. Jean an
nounced that the Regional
Ladies Day Out will be held
July 14, the place to be an
nounced later.
The little big performer ha§ X
rugged, reliable, easy-on-the- %
fuel Yanmar diesel horse- ♦
power And a feature-pa eked ♦
compact frame To let you X
take it into the tight spaces {
larger tractors can’t go And ♦
take on the jobs other small ♦
tractors can’t handle With X
all these features, it's a J
breeze to operate And your ♦
biggest little time and money ♦
saver 2
2 & 4 WHEEL DRIVE
13, 15. 18 & 24 HP
MODELS AVAILABLE
Attend i
The Church i
Of Your A
“1
SliPf To Everyone
NORTHEAST AG
DIVISIONS. INC.
14 Greenfield Road
Lancaster, PA
717-291-2249
CUSTOM BUILT HAY WAGONS
Ipwlsa-'
★ BUILT FROM SOLID OAK ★
OUTSIDE
CALF HUTCHES
With Metal Roofs
And Feeders
• Painted and
Creosoted
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WRITE OR CALL
STOITZFUS WOODWORK
RD 2, Box 2280, Gap, PA 17527
HAPPY
1?1 I
4s*
t '