Choctaw County
Quilting
Gail Doggett was privileged to have learned sewing and quilting
from her paternal grandmother. Gail began sewing clothes for herself at age
fourteen. Her grandmother took scraps from these early projects and created a
“Trip Around the World” quilt for her budding seamstress of a granddaughter.
Gail watched her grandmother work on a suspended ceiling frame that Gail’s
father made as a young man. This family legacy of sewing is vitally important
to Gail and she sees her work as a continuation of a passion for sewing.
Gail prefers to use older style fabrics of florals and prints. For
most of her quilts, she creates her own patterns and arranges her blocks in a
manner that is pleasing to her eye. The “Stack and Whack” quilt uses solids and
a repeating pattern print. Six and one-quarter inch squares are cut from
six layers of the pattern material, which have been lined up, in precisely the
same direction. The squares are then cut on the diagonal and pieced
together in a pinwheel design. Although the blocks appear to have been cut from
various fabrics, an optical illusion is created from the artistic placement of
the same fabric.
Gail’s
quilts are also available for sale at her home studio by appointment only.