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Educational programs of the Cooperative Extension Service serve all people regardless of race, color, age, sex, religion, disability, or national origin. UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, KENTUCKY STATE UNIVERSITY, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, AND KENTUCKY COUNTIES, COOPERATING Quilt Blocks & Counties Featured in this Book: The packet of squares attached can be used to construct your Hylo Brown Johnson County own 9-patch quilt block. Use the Larry Cordle Lawrence County following diagram to piece them Charlotte Conley Johnson County together! Maxine Davis Johnson County Five Miles From No Where Johnson County Crystal Gayle Johnson County Johnson County Herman Webb Johnson County A B A Schoolhouse Quilt Block Floyd County Kentucky Bluegrass Floyd County Best of All Floyd County Double Wedding Ring Floyd County B A B Billy Ray Cyrus Greenup County

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Plus, don’t miss Page 11 for a special gift! Material to make your very own 9-Patch Quilt Square like the one pictured on Page 9. Greenup County Hylo Brown

The “Achy Breaky Heart” quilt in honor of Hylo Brown’s Billy Ray Cyrus. nephew Brian Brown holds an original quilt based on 30 of Hylo’s albums.

Betty Price, Myrna Clark, Brenda Cockerham, and the Wittensville Homemakers Club painted this block in honor of Brown. It is displayed on The Black Barn Country Store on Route 3224 just off of U.S. 23 in route to Hylo’s former home. Larry Cordle ts & Murals Along U.S. 23 (A special note from Larry about the project)

You know, when I was a kid all families had quilts that their families made, it was just what people did. To have a quilt made for you, “Best of All” such as a double ring quilt common when a family member got married (it was often made a wed- is located at ding gift) was a great honor...... my family was of Stone Crest course no different than any other Golf Course Appalachian family farm folk...... they had a great pride in at the top of their small farms, their houses, their gardens their cooking their Maggie church & their faith in Mountain. God...... when my mama passed away in May (2006) one of the first things I noticed was a quilt hang- ing on the back of a rocking chair in the living room of my mom & dad’s house at Blaine...... it is very interesting in that it was made in an old fashioned way, I believe it is called tacking...... my grand- mother (Myrtle Bryant Martin) my mama's mom quilted it in the David 1970's...... what she did was have all the neighbors (well the women Appalachian anyway, I'm not sure whether any men participated or not) sew their Crafts is names on a patch of fabric that she gave them.....& indicate the home to this year that it was done...... this was done over a 3 or 4 year period.....the quilt is what's known as a Double "friendship" quilt hence, getting all the squares embroidered with all her neighbors names and the dates...... it was 1976 our coun- Wedding try's bi-centennial so the quilt is red, white & blue...... also, it was made to raffle off to buy seats for the Cordell Freewill Baptist Ring Block. Church & they raised about 500 or 600 hundred dollars for the

Church...... then after the lady who won the quilt in the raffle

died, her family sent it back to my grandmother & said their mother so...... my mom was a rural route mail carrier for 50 years & she took the squares around to all their neighbors who participated & brought Other Quil them back to mamaw when the embroidery was done & they then tacked & quilted it Floyd County I believe I am right about this, they were all members of the church there (The Cordell Freewill Baptist Church) & I'm just sure this was a The church project probably.....I'm Schoolhouse kinda sketchy about the details I guess....anyway I'll try to shorten the Quilt Block story, that quilt (which my sister wanted & has in her home now) is located at brings back such a flood childhood memories for me....I can remember the Auxier the people's faces, what wonderful folks they were, the box that Learning the patches were kept in until she got all the names from all her neighbors Center at how fiercely independent & self suffi- cient they were....yet as the same time Auxier. having the comfort of knowing that their neighbors had their backs & how they could always be counted on in times of crisis. ...Mamaw's quilt takes me back to a time like that, “Kentucky It really means so much to me, Bluegrass” my sister & all of my family, really.....it represents the strength of neighbors can be seen and families & takes me back to a at the time now all but gone...of a far simpler time of life, when everyone I love was Mountain still alive....of Eastern Kentucky, what Arts Center it means to me, where I was born and, raised & so proud to be from and where I will return when this on Route life ends to rest in … "The Fields of Home that I love so much…Thank you for asking me to be a part of this ...... just writing this short note 114 just off about it though heart wrenching for me has in a way been therapeutic U.S. 23. as well....take care & God bless...... Larry Cordle The Larry Cordle Family Quilt will be displayed at the Sun Pavilion on U.S. 23 at Louisa. Herman Webb, brother of Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle, with original Webb Quilt. “My job was to sit under the quilt when Mommy was quilting, and push the needle back through the fabric from below” ~ Herman Webb

This Utilitarian Charlotte Conley 9-patch Quilt is Charlotte is a singer a the Oil Springs showcased in the Church and was once secretary of the Oil Webb Home Place Springs School which is now the OSCAR in Butcher where all different types of art forms are Hollow. The block was painted by taught—including music. She is holding an Norma Burchett umbrella quilt made by her mother and and is displayed other ladies of the church. The block will be on a barn at painted by Esta Johnson and displayed on Herman’s farm in the side of the OSCAR at Oil Springs on Van Lear. Route 40 in Johnson County. Loretta Lynn This quilt block was painted by artist, Debra Burchett. The quilt design was selected because Maxine Davis this was the center of the quilt commissioned by Maxine writes music and sings, performed years Paintsville Tourism for Loretta Lynn in honor of ago on the same stage as and now her work. It was presented to her after the has a farm in Stambaugh. The block for the Kentucky Apple Festival and now hangs at the quilt shown here was painted by Debbie Lemas- Country Music Museum. ter and is displayed at the Gary Davis Farm on Route 3387 at Stambaugh in Johnson County. Five Miles From No Where Crystal Gayle

This cottage quilt was presented to Crystal after performing a concert for Habitat for Humanity. Tina Penix will be painting this block and it will be displayed at the Van Lear Coal Miners Museum.

Another one of Crystal’s favorite quilts is the This maple leaf quilt was made by the lead Cathedral Window singer, Donnie Witten’s mother. The block quilt pictured will be painted by artist, Anna Wells, friend here. and patron of the band. Witten stated, “it is my favorite quilt, because my mom made it.” When the quilt block is completed it will be hung at the community center at River in Johnson County—about 5 miles from U.S. 23.