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NORTH VANCOUVER resident Delores Bell has won
an award for her courses on quilt making.

A NORTH Vancouver
quilting instructor is one of
five Continuing Education
teachers who have won
teaching excellence awards
from the North Vancouver
District 44 School Board
(NVSB).

By Surj Rattan
News Reporter

Delores Bell,
teaching people how

who has been
to make

’ quilts for the last seven years, was

recenily honored by the NVSB for
her work. Other North Vancouver
Continuing Education instructors
who picked up teaching excellence
awards include Joan Berry, a
word processing and computer in-
structor, Roy Jonsson, a home
gardening instructor, Irene
Poskitt, who taches painting
classes, and Maureen Purdy, an
English as a second language in-
structor.

Award winners were nominated
by their students.

Bell says most of her students
initially doubt that they can make
a quilt but are soon surprised
after seeing what they have ac-
complished during her 10-week
course.

‘*They’re so sure they can’t do
it and once they get started they

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(students) so sure
they can't do it
and once they
get started they
find they can do
it. It always
amazes me how
they realize this
personal goal
that they didn’t
even know they
had.99

— Delores Bell

find they can d> it,’’ says Bell.
“It always amazes me how they
realize this personal goal that they
didn’t even know they had.”

Bell says that several mien have
now started taking her quilting
classes and adds that there is
something special about a quilt.

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‘People love to look ai quilts
and to touch them. There’s a
physical warmth and a_ visual
warmth to a quilt. Everyone
relates to them because almost
everyone has seen one,”’ says Bell.
“There seems to be a need for this
relaxation. Quilts, large or small,
traditional or contemporary, leave
the viewer and the maker with a
wonderful feeling of physical and
visual warmth.”*

Bell says a quilt is ‘‘a very per-
sonal thing’’ and is rauch more
than just a cover or a blanket.

She adds that people can ex-
press their likes, dislikes, emotions
and thoughts through quilt
designs.

But Bell says the first quilt she
made turned out to be less than
successful.

“I’ve been reaily making them
seriously for about !5 years. I
first’ started out to use up the
scraps of fabric that | had
gathered over the years making
clothing for my children. So I
thought the way to get rid of all
of the fabric was to make a
quilt,’’ says Beil. ‘I then made
my first quilt and it fell apart on
me.”’

And while Beil is in the business
of teaching others the art of quilt
making, she has taken several
courses on the subject herself and
has attended quilt-making
workshops in the United States
and Japan.

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