Shelter Tour
Pages 6-7
Bridal Expo
Pages 14-15
Volume 9, Number 41 • 28 Pages
JANUARY 25,2007
704-872-1200 • editor@iredellcitizen.com
Published Weekly in the Crossroads of the Caroiinas
Statesville, NC 28677 *50C
Lee Ann Sherrill/CITIZEN
Micki Batte, left, and Karen Haynie enjoying the quilt of love.
Lee Ann Sherrill
IREDELL CITIZEN
AS WINTER ROLLS ON, KAREN
Haynie will be sleeping under a
quilt made and given with a lot
of love. *
Her new queen-size, log-cabin
patterned quilt has made quite
a journey. Members of the
Beaucatcher Quilting Bee in
Ashesville made the quilt to
honor long-time friend and Bee
member Jean Haynie, Karen’s
mother, who passed away last
year.
Twenty-six of the Bee’s members
took home packets of fabric
strips to make a cabin square.
One member volunteered to
stitch together the honorary quilt
on a long-arm sewing machine.
After the quilt was finished, the
Bee’s decided to raffle it and use
the monies raised to help Karen
with her expenses to participate
in the LifeSpan Enrichment
program in Troutman. LifeSpan,
a non-profit organization, began
in 1973 to support children and
adults with disabilities.
Tickets were sold from the
piedmont to the mountains and
$700 was raised. On Dec. 20,
members of the Beaucatcher
Quilting Bee came to Statesville
to let Karen draw the lucky
ticket. The winner turned out to
be Micki Batte of Ashesville,
a member of the Beaucatcher
Quilting Bee.
“Jean was a special, wonderful,
humorous lady and as a way to
honor her, we turned to quilting,”
Micki said.
On a recent Friday morning,
Micki made the trip from
Asheville to LifeSpan to give
Karen a “warm” surprise. Soon
after saying hello, Micki showed
See Lifetime Quilt page 9