Raffle quilt was a highlight at Quilts in the Garden at the Boldman House Museum

DAYTON-In a diary entry dated March 5, 1933, Marie Boldman mentions making the "Flower Garden Quilt," similar to the raffle quilt, which was on display at last Saturday's quilt show at the Boldman House Museum.

Sylvia Beuhler said Marie Boldman saved quilt patterns from newspapers during the 1920s and 1930s. Ruby Short McKim published the "Flower Garden Quilt" pattern, sometime in 1929 or 1930. The Spokesman-Review published in their newspaper between 1930 and 1933 and Boldman saved it.

"She was an excellent embroiderer, and she embroidered most of that type of quilt in the Boldman Collection," Beuhler said.

Early in 2018, embroiderers Sylvia Beuhler, Mary Luce, Susan Richter, Sue Rittenhouse, Eulalee Schreck, Katy Wamble, Dianne McKinley, Tamara Fritze, Donna Molesh, and several others, began working on a new quilt based on "The Flower Garden" pattern.

This King-size quilt has 25 nine-inch square stamped blocks, alternating with blocks of green, and a white picket fence border.

"Donna Molesh drafted and pieced all the fence pattern blocks that border the quilt because the newspaper quilt pattern measurements were off," Beuhler said.

Susan Richter put the quilt together in July 2019, and Vonda Kay Anderson quilted it on her long-arm machine, using green thread. Susan Richter bound the quilt in January 2020.

Beuhler said the women contributed "hundreds" of hours to the project.

"This is an amazing quilt," she said. "So many people came together to make this quilt, it will be a treasure for whoever wins it."

Raffle tickets are $5 each and may be purchased at the Dayton Historic Depot Museum by phone at: (509) 382-2026, or by sending a self-addressed stamped envelope to the Dayton Historic Depot Museum at 222 E. Commercial St. Dayton WA 99328, or from any Boldman Steering Committee member or Deport Board Member.

The raffle will be held on December 7, at 7 p.m., on Ladies' Night Out, at the Dayton Historic Depot Museum. There is no need to be present to win. All proceeds benefit the activities and events of the Boldman House Museum.

A virtual exhibit of the Boldman Museum's 2020 Quilts in the Garden Event is viewable at https://tinyurl.com/y6auxdsp. Congratulations to Sylvia Linton Beuhler for winning the People Choice award for her antique quilt, "Dresden Plate."