Thompson’s machine holds about 1,300 patterns, and with a press of a button, she can make them larger or smaller to fit the space. “It’s amazing what you can do with these programs,” she said.

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Sometimes it takes outsiders to show the hometowners what they have. Such is the case with Jan and Peter Hutchison of Sedgwick. They basically moved here from Colorado Springs for the quilting.

Dawn Thompson threads the needle of her long-arm quilting machine in Davenport, Iowa. Thompson used half-square triangles left over from the making of other quilts for this creation. A completed ...