Local quilter makes fire hall presentation

Local quilter Carol Vogeltanz presented Chief Tay Robertson and his department last week with a colorful quilt depicting firehouse activities.

The cheerful ceremony ended last week’s Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire Association meeting. The quilt is now hanging in the fire station’s meeting room.

“It all started after a recent quilt show in Camp Sherman,” said Vogeltanz. “After the show Bruce Shaull, a volunteer firefighter from Camp Sherman, was helping take down the hanging quilts and mentioned how the men were helping with the quilts and wouldn’t it be nice if there was a quilt hanging at the fire station. Well, that got me started on a quilt for the fire department.”

The colorful quilt is outlined with Dalmatians, fire hoses, hydrants and a ladder surrounding smaller representations of all of these plus fire trucks and safety nets in the quilt’s interior.

“It took me two weeks to do the top and another two weeks to finish the hand quilting,” said Vogeltanz.

“My daughters got me started over 10 years ago in quilting and I’ve been quilting ever since. Earlier, I was in 4-H and enjoyed sewing.”

Vogeltanz, lives at Black Butte Ranch and is a member of the Pine Needlers quilt group in Camp Sherman.