Local quilter finds inspiration in myriad places
Lanette Cuffe stands for a portrait in front of her quilt, "The Marketplace," which she has entered into the Flathead Quilt Show, at her home near Columbia Falls on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
"Grandma Eslinger" quilt by Lanette Cuffe
Lanette Cuffe's "Floors of Bannack" quilt was inspired by the linoleum flooring patterns in the buildings of the ghost town of Bannack near Dillon.
When Lanette Cuffe was 5 or 6 years old she used to sneak into her grandmother’s sewing room and sit in her grandmother’s chair, surrounded — and fascinated — by all the handmade cardboard pattern cutouts and scraps of fabric from old aprons, flour sack towels and even her grandfather’s old pajamas....
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