Carol passed away in August 2014. We will miss her deeply.
I was born and raised in Seattle Washington. While growing up there I shared my bedroom with my Grandmother who we all loved. My Dad played the violin and had jam sessions with his friends at our home. One of my fondest memories was going dancing with my father on my 13th birthday. On holidays relatives would all gather at our home. I designed clothes for a fancy doll I had and made a number of my own clothes too, including formals. After graduating high school I worked as a secretary for Boeing Airplane Co. in the Bomark Missile Program. This is where I met my future husband of 54 years, who was a parts buyer for the company. Later he became a teacher and I taught piano. We enjoyed a lot of time camping. I involved myself in PTA, religious classes and Cub Scouts and Campfire Leader. Our oldest son Don and his wife live in Steilacoom Washington. He is busy being a environmental engineer and she is a writer for American Plywood. Our daughter Lois is a teacher like her father and her husband works for the Health Dept. We have 3 wonderful grandchildren who live in Boulder City. Our youngest Robert is a policeman and his wife does background checks in Fairbanks Alaska. Burrrrr! They have 5 Great kids. All the grand children have received quilts. I design the quilts for them with their help. So I got to practice making castles, ferries, music symbols snowflakes and rainforest birds. I really enjoyed designing these. The Boulder grand kids chose more traditional designs. I've made wall hangings for my daughter-in-laws. I'm now making a lot of Prayer Shawls. (You are wrapped in the prayers of our Prayer Shawl group). I am now doing watercolor painting.
I was born and raised in Seattle Washington. While growing up there I shared my bedroom with my Grandmother who we all loved. My Dad played the violin and had jam sessions with his friends at our home. One of my fondest memories was going dancing with my father on my 13th birthday. On holidays relatives would all gather at our home. I designed clothes for a fancy doll I had and made a number of my own clothes too, including formals. After graduating high school I worked as a secretary for Boeing Airplane Co. in the Bomark Missile Program. This is where I met my future husband of 54 years, who was a parts buyer for the company. Later he became a teacher and I taught piano. We enjoyed a lot of time camping. I involved myself in PTA, religious classes and Cub Scouts and Campfire Leader. Our oldest son Don and his wife live in Steilacoom Washington. He is busy being a environmental engineer and she is a writer for American Plywood. Our daughter Lois is a teacher like her father and her husband works for the Health Dept. We have 3 wonderful grandchildren who live in Boulder City. Our youngest Robert is a policeman and his wife does background checks in Fairbanks Alaska. Burrrrr! They have 5 Great kids. All the grand children have received quilts. I design the quilts for them with their help. So I got to practice making castles, ferries, music symbols snowflakes and rainforest birds. I really enjoyed designing these. The Boulder grand kids chose more traditional designs. I've made wall hangings for my daughter-in-laws. I'm now making a lot of Prayer Shawls. (You are wrapped in the prayers of our Prayer Shawl group). I am now doing watercolor painting.
Featured Boulder Cut-Up
Featured Boulder Cut-Up Eleanor Beckett was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1920. Her degree was in Applied Science at the Michigan State University. Eleanor
was featured in an article in 2008. ” Women in Science by Don Heggem”. These are some excerpts from the article. She become a microbiologist and worked in the public health laboratories while her husband served in the Navy and after WWII. Don truly believes that Eleanor was a pioneer for the women of science. He is thankful to Eleanor for her unwavering resolve to move her science forward.
Eleanor met her future husband in a college class Plant Pathology. He wanted to know what she was doing there. At the time women didn’t take these kinds of classes. They didn’t hit it off and later she learned it was because she was
wearing a red dress. He didn’t like red! One week later they went on their first date to‘Gone with the Wind’. He walked her home and just kept staying and staying! She couldn’t figure out why! When it turned to midnight he asked her to marry him. The night had turned into Valentines’Day. They were married 7 months later. It was wonderful to see the light in her eyes when she remembers this. At his passing they had been married 44 years. When you speak of Eleanor’s life you have to speak of her husband Bill’s also. His work was in Forestry which brought them to about 12 states over the entire country. Both were busy with business and art. Once both went to a Elderhostel to take painting and quilting classes. He enjoyed woodworking. It is evident in the St Francis of Assisi carving, a cute little duck that sits on the top of a unique quilt hanger he made and Eleanor shows proudly. Her other love is her Niece /daughter, Naomi who has been close to her since she was about 6yr old. When Naomi comes to town she spends time with us at our monthly meetings.
When asked how many paintings she may have painted she pauses and hesitantly thinks there may be 200. She’s made about 10 bed quilts, but
moved on to smaller items that are easier to manage and finish. She now spends a lot of time making replicas of her water color prints.
Eleanor’s talent range from being in the Bell choir, a Cellist, a cello teacher, a painter, a needle worker and teacher, and a quilter. She played cello in college, the Boise Symphony, the Las Vegas Civic and Henderson Symphony
which she was a part of until 2011. She played her cello in small ensembles with her brothers and friends over the years and over the country. She is an
accomplished water color artist, worked and taught needle point and loves
quilting.
She holds the Honorary Life Membership in the Boulder City Art Guild. Her work can be seen atthe BC Art Guild Gallery and in the Boulder Dam Hotel and at times at the Boulder Library.
Eleanor also sells her Art both water color originals and prints and fabric pictures at small art venues throughout the year.
Eleanor started quilting with Alice Godwin (our first president
of the DQN guild) and made her first quilt from a Georgia Bonesteel pattern made of two tones of blue. (Pictured in side show) No one told her that polyester was notthe proper material for good quilting. However it was in vogue at the time. Gosh how it wears well! She has progressed to mirroring her water color paintings in fabric. Until recently she hand quilted everything. Her quilting now is usually gifts for her family. Eleanor always shows up to quilt club with something new she is workingon. When our holiday gift exchange come along we wait to baited breath to see whatshe has gifted. Eleanor also holds the record for the most opportunity quilt tickets sold. In the nineties the Boulder Cut-Ups worked on two quilts that are featured at two prominent locations. At the Veterans’ hospital on 93-95 is a pieced Flag that was featured in the 2003 quilts across America book. Another awesome quilt is a pieced Boulder Dam quilt that is housed at the Boulder Chamber of Commerce main meeting room. They hold special memories for Eleanor and all the ladies that took part from conception to completion of these wonderful quilts.
Eleanor and ladies like her is one of the reasons so many of us join and stay in our quilt guild. To know that growing old does not mean growing stale and incapable of learning new talents.
The Pictures below are all Eleanors' work and special personal photos.
was featured in an article in 2008. ” Women in Science by Don Heggem”. These are some excerpts from the article. She become a microbiologist and worked in the public health laboratories while her husband served in the Navy and after WWII. Don truly believes that Eleanor was a pioneer for the women of science. He is thankful to Eleanor for her unwavering resolve to move her science forward.
Eleanor met her future husband in a college class Plant Pathology. He wanted to know what she was doing there. At the time women didn’t take these kinds of classes. They didn’t hit it off and later she learned it was because she was
wearing a red dress. He didn’t like red! One week later they went on their first date to‘Gone with the Wind’. He walked her home and just kept staying and staying! She couldn’t figure out why! When it turned to midnight he asked her to marry him. The night had turned into Valentines’Day. They were married 7 months later. It was wonderful to see the light in her eyes when she remembers this. At his passing they had been married 44 years. When you speak of Eleanor’s life you have to speak of her husband Bill’s also. His work was in Forestry which brought them to about 12 states over the entire country. Both were busy with business and art. Once both went to a Elderhostel to take painting and quilting classes. He enjoyed woodworking. It is evident in the St Francis of Assisi carving, a cute little duck that sits on the top of a unique quilt hanger he made and Eleanor shows proudly. Her other love is her Niece /daughter, Naomi who has been close to her since she was about 6yr old. When Naomi comes to town she spends time with us at our monthly meetings.
When asked how many paintings she may have painted she pauses and hesitantly thinks there may be 200. She’s made about 10 bed quilts, but
moved on to smaller items that are easier to manage and finish. She now spends a lot of time making replicas of her water color prints.
Eleanor’s talent range from being in the Bell choir, a Cellist, a cello teacher, a painter, a needle worker and teacher, and a quilter. She played cello in college, the Boise Symphony, the Las Vegas Civic and Henderson Symphony
which she was a part of until 2011. She played her cello in small ensembles with her brothers and friends over the years and over the country. She is an
accomplished water color artist, worked and taught needle point and loves
quilting.
She holds the Honorary Life Membership in the Boulder City Art Guild. Her work can be seen atthe BC Art Guild Gallery and in the Boulder Dam Hotel and at times at the Boulder Library.
Eleanor also sells her Art both water color originals and prints and fabric pictures at small art venues throughout the year.
Eleanor started quilting with Alice Godwin (our first president
of the DQN guild) and made her first quilt from a Georgia Bonesteel pattern made of two tones of blue. (Pictured in side show) No one told her that polyester was notthe proper material for good quilting. However it was in vogue at the time. Gosh how it wears well! She has progressed to mirroring her water color paintings in fabric. Until recently she hand quilted everything. Her quilting now is usually gifts for her family. Eleanor always shows up to quilt club with something new she is workingon. When our holiday gift exchange come along we wait to baited breath to see whatshe has gifted. Eleanor also holds the record for the most opportunity quilt tickets sold. In the nineties the Boulder Cut-Ups worked on two quilts that are featured at two prominent locations. At the Veterans’ hospital on 93-95 is a pieced Flag that was featured in the 2003 quilts across America book. Another awesome quilt is a pieced Boulder Dam quilt that is housed at the Boulder Chamber of Commerce main meeting room. They hold special memories for Eleanor and all the ladies that took part from conception to completion of these wonderful quilts.
Eleanor and ladies like her is one of the reasons so many of us join and stay in our quilt guild. To know that growing old does not mean growing stale and incapable of learning new talents.
The Pictures below are all Eleanors' work and special personal photos.
Rain Forest
2012's Opportunity Quilt, is a stack and wack,which includes 2 sets of matching
pillow cases and 2 queen pillows...
Sandy, Karen Wilette, and Mollie Kluver of Boulder Cut-Ups pieced it and Karen Garth this year's President of the Guild, quilted it.
It will be raffled off on March 11, 2012. at the Quilt Las Vegas "Trip around the World" quilt show.
We have an update on the Rain Forest .... It was won by a Desert Quilter __________________ and was appraised for $6500.00
pillow cases and 2 queen pillows...
Sandy, Karen Wilette, and Mollie Kluver of Boulder Cut-Ups pieced it and Karen Garth this year's President of the Guild, quilted it.
It will be raffled off on March 11, 2012. at the Quilt Las Vegas "Trip around the World" quilt show.
We have an update on the Rain Forest .... It was won by a Desert Quilter __________________ and was appraised for $6500.00