By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
If it’s a craft, Jan Molesky of Carverton will try it.
She enjoys doing all kinds of crafts, needlework such
as crewel and just recently completed a new project —
punching a design in a parchment lamp shade, a craft
using a sharp needle-like instruemnt to punch in the
design.
Jan’s favorite craft work, however, is quilling. She
makes candy canes, wreaths, gift cards, pictures and
other items, and as fast as she makes them she
usually gives them away as gifts. Quilling takes hours
and hours to do and the completed project is too
expensive to sell. If it is a picture at least $15 is
invested in the frame alone.
The paper used in quilling comes in varying widths
and colors and in a weight similar to heavy art paper
or parchment. Jan learned how to quill from a
magazine and among the first items she did were
wreaths and candy canes. It takes a lot of practice to
become good at doing it, according to Jan.
Special tools are used in quilling — some slotted,
some similar to a blunt edged nail atached to a wood
handle, some thicker than others. The tool used is
determined by the design being done. The designs are
glued to a special backing.
The latest item Jan has been making are three-
dimensional pictures and each time she has completed
one, somebody has admired it and she has given it to
them.
So few people in the local area do quilling that no
No injuries
one locally handles the quilling materials any more so
Jan sends away fro them. The Della Robbia used to
handle the material, but has so few calls for it they
discontinued stocking them.
Jan also enjoys crewel work and when her son
Adam, third grade student, was born, she did a picture
in crewel and included the date of birth and his name.
When her daughter, Michele, a first grade student,
‘was born, Jan was into quilling so she made a new
picture in crewel for Michele.
Her newest project is making pine cone wreaths.
She and a friend made them for last Christmas and
this year they will make more of them for friends who
are interested in having them.
When Jan saw the quilling in a magazine about nine
years ago, she admired it and began learning to do it.
She enjoys the craft and finds it relaxing but says you
can’t work on it while watching television or visiting
since it requires concentration.
Beautiful African violets decorate the divider
between Jan’s kitchen and diningroom, most of which
were her mother’s before her mother went to Florida
to live.
A graduate of Dallas Senior High School, she was
the former Jan Birnstock of Kunkle. Following grad-
uation, she worked at Leslie Fay, then at Sterling
Products until after she married Chris Molesky of
West Wyoming. She left Sterling Products to stay
home and raise her two children and is contented to
stay at home and do crafts in her leisure time.
She and a friend recently signed to take stencilling
and tin punching courses at The Porches in Dallas.
They're crafts, so Jan Molesky will try doing them.
Woman injured
was not injured.
| CHES FET ETE
TABLETS - 325 mg each
One-car crash
Dallas Post/Fay Broody
Senator lists
area fair dates
Fresh fruitpies, prize-winning
farm animals and crafts abound in
an air of friendship at Pennsyl-
vania’s county fairs.
A brochure listing the date and
location of county fairs around the
state is available in Sen. Charles D.
Lemmond, Jr.’s district office. Lem-
mond said the fairs in the counties
in the 20th Senatorial District are:
Luzerne County — Dallas Area
Fall Fair, Sept. 3-7.
Monroe County — West End Fair,
Gilbert, Aug. 24-30.
Susquehanna County — Harford
Fair, Aug. 19-23.
Wayne County — Green-Dreher-
Sterling, New Foundland, Aug. 26-
Sept. 1; Wayne County Fair, Hones-
dale, 4-10.
“County fairs provide a showcase
for Pennsylvania’s agricultural
community while at the same time
offering wholesome family enter-
tainment,” Lemmond said. ‘I hope
Pennsylvanians will view the great
number of fairs around the state as
providing an opportunity to see
Pennsylvania this summer.”
Lemmond said the brochure lists
phone numbers for additional infor-
mation concerning each county fair.
The senator’s district office is
located at 701 Market St., Kingston,
Pa. 18704.
Subscribe
to
The Post
Anderson
will be
honored
Fredric W. Anderson, Executive
Director of the Wilkes-Barre Scrat-
non Branch of the Volunteers of
America has tendered his resigna-
tion after 12 years of service.
Anderson began his career with
V.0.A. in 1974, when he was hired to
develop a group home program for
troubled adolescents of the area.
Under his direction, Wilkes-Barre
Scranton Branch of this nationally
affiliated Christian social service
organization was founded.
Fred is an active member of St.
Paul’s Lutheran Church in Shaver-
town, where he has served as coun-
cil member. He is a board member
of the Council of Churches and the
Evergreen Cemetery Association.
Fred is married to the former
Roberta Williams, also of the Back
Mountain and a graduate of West-
moreland High School. Roberta has
worked with Fred in the develop-
ment of the Wilkes-Barre Scranton
Branch of the Volunteers of Amer-
ica since its beginning.
They are the parents of seven
children: Scott and Mark Carey of
Buena Vista, Colorado, Mrs.
Pamela Karmilowicz, San Fran-
cisco, Cal.; Fredric Anderson III,
Regular Strength
Caplets
100s
4,95
Safety Sealed
Regular Strength
Tablets
100's
(SEE
[ZARITY $s4400 |
AR STRENGTH
YLENOL
Nr
2 675-4013
Fernbrook Plaza
Q, Route 309
Dallas
Tues. & Thurs. Evenings :
HEAVY HAND
SPLITS
%4"’ 10 5/4”
Va X06 wooo sone
TEXTURE T-1-11
%”—4'x8’ S.Y.P.
%—4’x9’ S'Y.P.
%"'—4’x8’ FIR
(NO GROOVE)
aCe
©
SPECIAL ORDER
2" CEDAR DIM. LUMBER
2” REDWOOD CONST. HEART
TAIL GATE
AV
SHUARE {+ LUMBER
MEN’S SUITS
MEN’S SUITS
FROM $49.95
HAGGAR SLACKS
From 15.95
DRESS SHIRTS
Le Tiger or Woolrich
Carport ® Basswood Shades ©
Aluminum Roof
“sw FREE ESTIMATES 288-7447
MON.-FRI. 9 A.M.-5:30 P.M.
SAT. 9 A.M.-1 P.M.
Reg. Values To *8.00 Sale Priced s1 2.95
Men’s Walk Shorts By Sandpiper
Sale Priced $998 Reg. Values To $17.99
NAME BRAND MEN'S CLOTHING FOR LESS!
Shavertown; Christine, Joel and
Karen Anderson at home.
An open house reception will be
held on Friday, July 18 at the
Central Methodist Church, corner of
Academy and Franklin Streets in
Wilkes-Barre. The reception will be
held in the afternoon hours of 3 p.m.
to 6 p.m. Light refreshments will be
served. Those wishing to attend
should R.S.V.P. by calling 825-5261.
265 CHARLES ST., LUZERNE
SAT. 10 A.M. T0 5:30 P.M.
~