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Coastal Quilters Chapter Banner #3

Children’s Chapel, also known as Vesper Chapel, is in Rockport on the small peninsula that separates Camden Harbor from Rockport Harbor. I drafted a pattern of this chapel which is a favorite for summer weddings. I could probably hold maybe 40-50 people if you really crammed folks in, and is on a steep hill that overlooks Penobscot Bay, the islands in the bay, and the Atlantic Ocean beyond. Roxanne Wells, our co-president extraordinaire this past year-plus, is a wonderful quilter who loves color as much as I do, and she volunteered to take on this tricky block:

Gail Galloway-Nicholson, who made the Belties Block, also generously offered to help with the center panel of the quilt. I prepared the background (easy peasy and fast), and Gail created her own patterns for the archetypal New England steepled Church (we have at least four in the village–the Baptist, the First Congregational, the Catholic and the former Methodist churches, and then the Episcopal Church in stone next to the Baptist church, plus a few more…lotsa churches for a town of 6000!) and the two Belties, who are placed on the coastline right where Aldemere Farms is. Aldemere is part of the coastal trust…there is this amazing network of land conservancies that has preserved and protected open spaces and coastline here in Maine. We are lucky!

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