FEATURED QUILT - July, 2008

Each month the work of one of our talented members is featured.

Kennalee Mattson's Flag Fan Quilt, 1991
39" X 39"

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Members of SMQG all know Kennalee Mattson from her many years of membership and service. She has been a member since
March of 1991. She points out that she is not quite a charter member, but almost, since the Guild was founded in October of 1990.

Since that time she has served the Santa Monica Quilt Guild in almost every possible way. She has been President, Membership Chair, Parliamentarian, and now serves ably as Guild Treasurer. She was also the Chair of the first Santa Monica Quilt Show and was in charge of producing the beautiful Opportunity Quilt for the 2007 SMQG Quilt Show which successfully provided a considerable donation from the Guild to Cure Autism Now.

Kennalee has lived among quilts her whole life in a family that has quilting roots going back through generations on both maternal and paternal sides. She made her own first quilt in 1967 for the birth of her daughter and then put it aside for almost 20 years. Surprisingly, it was her father who took up quilting after finding an old sewing machine that got her and her mother and sister involved again. In the 1980s she joined the South Bay Guild and then the Santa Monica Quilt Guild after its establishment in 1990. Kennalee says that she has always been interested in craft and handwork and has done more than quilting - macramé and cross-stitch are among the techniques she has tackled over the years.

This quilt in red, white and blue and patriotic fabrics and motifs is most appropriate to the month of July . It was made in 1991 in a fan class at a community college given by Margaret Schucker. It is machine pieced and entirely hand quilted .

Kennalee now has three grandchildren and lives in Venice with her husband Bill.