Judy Howard collects, studies, buys, sells, makes, and honors quilts. As a dealer of quilts, Judy is always on the lookout for a new one to join her ranks. And did I forget to mention that Judy also writes about quilts?

     The full-color, hardcover, coffee table gift book is available in this limited collectors edition for $39.95. It contains the eighty centennial quilt contest winners with stories, along with fifty-six stories of other Oklahoma historic quilts and thirty-two pages of a sampling of 1800’s cherished legacy quilt photos that would have traveled into Oklahoma in covered wagons prior to statehood. “Centennial Stitches” inspires and entertains as it transports you into the lives and hearts of pioneer and contemporary women. This book celebrates the 100th birthday of Oklahoma. Oklahoma’s Centennial is November 16th, 2007.  The Downtown Cushing Main Street program proudly presents Judy Howard’s collection of Centennial Oklahoma art quilts July, 6 - 8 in Downtown Cushing. Exact location and times to be announced. An admission fee of $3 will be charged.

     On a side note, there is an entry in the book made by an officer of my local quilt guild, The Pryor Patchers. In this entry, Susan Hatchette interviewed Mrs. Willard Stone. Many of you may have heard of Willard Stone; a famous Native American sculptor that was born in 1916 on a rocky hillside farm east of Locust Grove, Oklahoma.

     ”Centennial Stitches” would make a great purchase even if you are not a quilter! It is full of interesting stories and the photographs are amazing. This book is sure to capture the interest of anyone seeing it laying atop a table or on a shelf beneath an end-table.

      All book profits go to non-profit groups making charity quilts.

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