The first floor of the downtown brick building serves as the quilt shop, O’Susannah’s Quilts & Gifts, and the second floor houses The Upstairs Inn, a tranquil space for quilters to unwind and sew.
Front row, from left: Jean Lathrop, Karen Rhodes, Wilma Coots, Sue Knapp (owner), Deborah Sanford, Vicki Olmstead, and Sharon Bristol; back row: Cathy Mathews and Eleanor Lattin.
Subtle scrappiness and hints of machine appliqué set the scene in a holiday-theme quilt. Susannah Knapp and Jeanne Knapp designed Happy Holly Days for Quilt Sampler® Fall/Winter 2013 magazine.
Deborah Stanford machine-quilted holly leaves in each “O” formed by adjacent Oh Susannah blocks, pebble and crosshatch motifs in the tan print block backgrounds, and a meandering swirl and holly leaf motif in the border.