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Quilting is pastime for retired teacher Barb Hoff
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By ZACH ANDERSON, Daily Leader News Intern
| 08/04/2009 |
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Rural Madison resident Barbara Hoff isn't idle in her retirement. The former school teacher will be showing her quilts at the Biennial Quilt Show at The Crossroads in Huron on Sept. 18-20. The theme of this year's show is "Quilting Through the Seasons."
Hoff will present the trunk show after the Saturday night banquet. At the trunk show, Hoff will address other quilters from around the region, telling how she got started in quilting and how quilting has changed for her over the years. She will take between 30 and 35 of her handmade quilts to the Huron show.
Hoff has made some 200 quilts and has about 150 of her creations in her home. She has exhibited quilts at the Lake County 4-H Achievement Days and at state fairs, winning many ribbons at events through the years.
Hoff is a retired Family and Consumer Science teacher who taught at the Madison Middle School for 25 years. She also taught Family and Consumer Science to grades 8-12 at Ramona for nine years and at Oldham for three years. She retired from teaching in 2000.
Hoff has been sewing since she was about 10 years old, she said. While she was a 4-H member, she did a lot of sewing.
She started quilting in 1992. She made a quilt for her granddaughter as a high school graduation present.
Joyce Schrepel owned The Sewing Patch, a local fabric shop, where Hoff would take her eighth-graders to learn about quilting. Schrepel started offering a quilting class and Hoff signed up.
"I have always loved sewing. I did a little bit in class with the eighth-graders," Hoff said.
Later, Mary Kenyon owned The Fabric Patch in downtown Madison where Hoff would go to get new ideas for quilting.
She has been a member of the Prairie Piecemakers Quilt Guild in Madison for seven years and is a past president. She is a member of the Sioux Falls Quilters Guild; has also been a member of the South Dakota Quilter's Guild for three years; and belongs to the Friendship Club at Always Your Design in Dell Rapids.
Hoff said that she spends about six hours a day quilting.
"It's my pastime," Hoff said. "I don't like to watch TV or read."
Some of Hoff's other hobbies are working with her grandchildren on their 4-H projects and doing yard work.
She has given away several quilts as wedding gifts, and her five children and 10 grandchildren have all received her handiwork. There is also a newborn great-grandson who will soon be getting a quilt.
Hoff has passed on her love of sewing to her three daughters, Ellen, Michelle and Jody. Ellen works at Dakota State University and does a lot of handwork with sewing. Michelle is a school teacher in Scottsbluff, Neb., and Jody also does a lot of sewing.
Hoff also has two sons, John and Kevin.
Hoff has made all of the quilts she has, with the exception of one her husband Paul's late mother Mary gave to them.
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