Friday, September 13, 1991 - North Shore News - 19

HOME & GARDEN
i NV guilt-maker wins
nat’l honors for work

Gail Hunt receives Quilt Canada award

EVERY SO often, the ques-
tion of whether tapestry and
quilting qualify as fine art
gets raised.

By Evelyn Jacob
News Reporter

Opinions on the subject will
continue to vary. There will be
those who fight to elevate the
forms from mere craft; others will
continue to relegate them to a less
worthy position.

People like North Vancouver
quilt-maker Gail Hunt will keep
the debate alive.

This summer Hunt's en-
vironmental-inspired quilt was
chosen from 100 entries to win
Quiit Canada’s national award.
The annual competition is the on-
ly national juried show of quilts in
the country.

Hunt,

a former home

economics instructor, says Cana-
dian quiltmaking isn’t getting the
kind of attention it deserves.

“Canadian quiltmaking is not
as developed as American
quiltmaking,’’ says Hunt, who has
created more than 20 quilts. ‘I
think it’s part of an inferiority
complex of Canada. On the North
Shore, for example, we’ve got at
least 200 quiltmakers that I know
of.”

Three years ago Hunt enrolled
in her first quilting class and never
looked back. ‘‘It (quilting) sat-
sifies me in its precision and
creativity. Quiltmaking is not cre-
ative for everyone, but [ want to
make it less of a craft and turn it
into a fine art.””

Part of that means encouraging
galleries to accept quilts as a legit-
imate art form.

Hunt's award-winning quilt
took roughly 500 hours to create.
It is entitled, Wharever Man Says,

That He Will Also Reap. She
chose an attic window as symbolic
of looking toward the future.

The circular theme inside each
window frame symbolizes the
earth. One scene depicts the
Bush-Gorbachev summit meeting
of November, 1989; others show
practical things people can do to
save the earth.

“I think that people believe
they can’t do anything to change
things — my quilt speaks to that.
It’s a bit of a preachy quilt, but
people aren’t aware as I'd like
them to be. If everyone paid at-
tention, we could make a huge
difference."’

Hunt will demonstrate piecing
tops at the North Shore Museum
(at Presentation House) tomor-
row, Sept. 14 and 15, from 1-4
p.m. as part of Heritage Week.
Private classes at her home begin
Sept. 28. Phone 985-2425 for in-
formation.

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NEWS photo Cindy Goodman

GAIL HUNT’S environmental quilt won Quilt Canada’s national
award. She will demonstrate piecing tops at a 2-day quiltmaking

workshop at the North Shore Museum and Archives.

Sale offers unusual

and inexpensive plants

THE VANCOUVER
Rhododendron Society is hav-
ing a sale.

Members’ plants will be sold

at Clay’s Nurseries, 3666 -
224th Street in Langley, on
Sunday, Sept. 29, from 1 to 4
p.m. (Come early for preview
but no early bird sales.)

This is a good opportunity to
purchase well-grown, inexpen-

rhododendron collections.

By choosing the right
rhododendron gardeners can
enjoy continuous bloom from
early February right through to
August. The sale offers
thododendrons that will not
grow over six inches high or
thododendrons growing to
heights of over 20 feet.

There will be white, red,
blue, yellow, pink, purple and

ANNUAL

$Q.YD.
OR LESS

sive plants. Many of these
plants are hybrids and species
not commonly found in
nurseries. There will also be
companion plants and shrubs
to complement existing

even green blossoms, as well as
two-toned, frilly-edged, _ flat
blossoms, deep trumpets, large
trusses and individual blossoms
at the sale.

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