Quilters converge in Moses Lake

MOSES LAKE - Vibrant, colorful quilts filled the commons at Moses Lake High School Friday and Saturday for the Piecemakers quilt show.

"It went really well," said Barbara Bolton, co-chair for the quilt show. Approximately 150 people attended on Friday and she thought more than that attended on Saturday.

Shirley Kinyon came to view quilts with her husband Don. She said she's been quilting for six or seven years.

"It's an amazing pastime," she said. "It allows you to be creative. I don't have a whole lot of artistic ability, but this helps me."

She makes quilts for her church and the senior center group Creative Cutouts to donate to various charitable causes.

"I don't sell my quilts, I give them away," she said.

Sisters Debbi Brown and Ginger Kidder from Ephrata said it was their love of quilting that led them to the quilting show Friday.

"It's a great community thing, I think," said Kidder. "We like designing our own quilts and putting them together so we make kind of like one-of-a-kind and then, you know, taking other people's patterns and adding our own colors to them."

Debbie Snyder was at the show promoting her business, "Sew Simple Patterns." Snyder designs original quilting patterns that are sold internationally. She's been quilting since the early 1980s when she took quilting classes with her mother, she said.

Coming to quilt shows gives her an opportunity to spread the joy of quilting, she said.

"A lot of my patterns help the young gals and young men who want to sew learn to sew because everything I do is on a very simple, very beginner scale," she said.

Cheryl Walker, a member of Piecemakers, won a quilt that the Piecemakers raffled off during the event.

"This is wonderful," said Walker. "I'm excited!"

The quilt was designed by Virginia Cole and quilted by Gail Earl.

"The quilting is a pretty big part of the prettiness of the quilt," said Walker.

“So You Think You Can Dance” Top 20 Finalists Revealed ...

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“SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE” TOP twenty FINALISTS REVEALED

FINALISTS COMPETE LIVE FOR FIRST TIME WEDNESDAY, JUNE fifteen ON FOX

Special Performance by Jessie J on Live Results Show Thursday, Jun 16

After thousands of auditions by a little of the strongest dancers ever, the judges of SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE tonight voiced the twenty finalists who will contest to be declared America’s Favorite Dancer. This season’s Top twenty are Jordan Casanova, Alexander Fost, Tadd Gadduang, Marko Germar, Ricky Jaime, Wadi Jones, Mitchell Kelly, Chris Koehl, Caitlynn Lawson, Jess LeProtto, Iveta Lukosiute, Miranda Maleski, Sasha Mallory, Melanie Moore, Missy Morelli, Clarice Ordaz, Ryan Ramirez, Ashley Rich, Robert Taylor Jr. and Nick Young.

On Wednesday, Jun fifteen (8:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed), the Top twenty dance for the judges and America on the season’s initial two-hour live opening show. The Top twenty will be interconnected in to 10 couples who will any work with a world-renowned choreographer to harmonise a dance slight representing their reserved genre. After any Wednesday opening show, the phone lines and online choosing by casting votes window will open and the predestine of these twenty finalists – a singular of whom will be the declared America’s Favorite Dancer – will be left up to the choosing by casting votes fans.

Then, on Thursday, Jun sixteen (8:00-9:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed), America’s opinion is suggested during the initial live formula show. The 6 contestants comprising the bottom 3 couples will be given a possibility to perform piece for a single person routines in the hopes of credible the judges to keep them in the competition. The judges will afterwards confirm which dancers stay and which two will be eliminated. Also that evening, locate British cocktail star Jessie J behaving her ultimate single, “Who You Are,” from the SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE stage.

The SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE Top twenty finalists are:

Jordan Casanova Dance Specialty: Jazz Hometown: Chino Hills, CA Currently Resides: Chino Hills, CA Age: eighteen Jordan Casanova lives in her hometown of Chino Hills, CA. She graduated from Ruben S. Ayala High School in 2010, and has been dancing given she was 8 years old.

Alexander Fost Dance Specialty: Contemporary Hometown: Alhambra, CA Currently Resides: Alhambra, CA Age: twenty-one Alexander Fost was Mr. Dance USA in 2006 and also won the Mr. Dance International in 2007. A year later, he warranted a mark with the Los Angeles Youth American Grand Prix, and went on to dance with the Media City Ballet, San Pedro Ballet and the Festival Ballet Theatre companies.

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