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RainFest offers quilt lecture, shows

Published 12:01 am Sunday, April 22, 2012

Barb Kelso of Forks looks over the Supper Quilt on Friday afternoon at Forks Congregational Church. Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News
Barb Kelso of Forks looks over the Supper Quilt on Friday afternoon at Forks Congregational Church. Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News

FORKS — The creator of the 15-foot-wide, 6-foot-high Supper Quilt will tell how he did it in a presentation on the final day of RainFest.

Donald E. Locke, a dentist from Waxahachie, Texas, will talk about how the Supper Quilt, a quilt replica of “The Last Supper” by Leonardo da Vinci, was made during a lecture at 12:30 p.m. today at Congregational Church, 280 S. Spartan Ave.

Supper Quilt

Admission is by donation.

The Supper Quilt, which has been displayed in 22 states and five countries, is being exhibited for the first time in Washington state.

It has been on display at the church since Friday and will be exhibited there from noon to 4 p.m. today.

The quilt was made by blowing up a photograph of da Vinci’s artwork until it “pixillated” and recreating each pixel color in a 1-inch fabric square.

Fabrics of the Forest

Across the street at the Forks High School auxiliary gym at 261 S. Spartan Ave. is the Fabrics of the Forest quilt show, which offers more than 100 quilts made by the Piecemakers Quilt Club.

The American Hero Quilters will display 15 quilts — all made of American red, white and blue fabrics to comfort wounded soldiers — at the Peninsula College Extension site at 71 S. Forks Ave.

Both are from noon to 4 p.m. today, with admission by donation.