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| The Squares of Kate's Quilt |
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(by holding the cursor over any square the name of the Chatliner, responsible for the square, is shown)
At the four corners of the quilt there is a Globe representing the Federations, with a label "To Kate from Soroptimist Chatliners of........."A green cord connects the 4 globes.
The lovely border was done by Merrilyn Shepherd, and her crew from SI Deakin, Region of Victoria, SISWP.
Merrilyn's own square shows the world with the green light
circling and the computer with the cyber message.
Merrilyn writes: "We used much the same design in each corner of the border. The worlds represent the four Federations with green lights circling and each Federation is connected with a green beam of light. The colours in the border represent the earth (base and right hand side) and the sky (top and left hand side). The worlds are positioned so that they hopefully appear to be spinning around the quilt taking our messages of love to Kate. The luggage labels carry those messages. Clever Janet did the labels."
How Kate's Quilt "happened"
Irma Galloway wrote:
"A newer Chat Liner just asked me about Kate's Quilt.
Briefly, Joy Donelson asked
those of us to make quilt squares to be made into a quilt for Dear Kate.
She is such a marvelous person and has worked so very hard not only for
our Chat Line, but for Soroptimist. Joy asked that each person makes a
square and try to have it represent how Kate has touched us, and then when
we had them done, to send that information to her.
"My own square is made
from flowered material that I had purchased in Hawaii at Convention. That
is where I met not only Dear Kate, but Linda Lee. They both bunked with
Ann Reeder and me. Kate's Quilt is a lovely work of art and also of love.
I can't wait until she returns and tells us about it. Thanks to you Joy!"
Chris Knight wrote:
"I managed to donate several squares which
depicted my travels to Helsinki and around the globe.
"If it had not been for the Chatline I would never have ventured so far afield in the comfort
of knowing that I had sister Soroptimists waiting to greet me with open arms."
If anyone wonders why there is a picture called "Kate's Hankies" - Cecelia explains: "I added the hankie on the back after someone said Kate was sure to cry when she saw her Quilt."
About SI Plymouth's Square - Susie Cattley writes: "Nautical signal flags spelling out 'Kate Moore'- the comment about 'before the Chatline....' was meant to indicate that before Kate, we all communicated the old fashioned way - now it is via chatline and cyber space, ( notice the sky
in the background, representing the ether- or something!!) -
On ships/yachts, signal flags always fly from the masthead, and are hauled up there by halliards fixed at the top of the mast, thus always run from top to bottom - i.e. vertically.
It was just a bit of fun and a brainteaser devised by Moira
and I, symbolizing Plymouth's naval tradition, and linking it to the debt we owe Kate."
