Cover Image: Mad As A Wet Hen, 23” x 26.5” Pam Pilcher, Portland, OR
has become one of our most anticipated exhibits each year. Each Fall our curator, Jenny Walker, publishes a Call for Entry for the
exhibit and then curates the exhibit from the submissions that are made. This year we had entries from 53 different artists from 19 US states and 7 other countries! The response to this show has been so overwhelmingly positive that we decided to create a catalog. None of the artist knew beforehand that we were going to do this, so images are not all standard sizes or quality, and we had very little text for some pieces and quite a lot for others. In spite of that, we hope you will enjoy this catalog as a wonderful memory of the exhibit. We are honored that these artists shared their beautiful pieces with us.
Executive Director
Glenys Baker, Bellingham, WA
Darlene Bayley, Edmundton, AB, Canada
Madelyn Bell, The Woodlands, TX
Paula Bergan, Arlington, SD
Linda Fjeldsted Blust, Reno, NV
Kim Brownell, Sacramento, CA
JoAnn Camp, Greenville, GA
Judith Content, Palo Alto, CA
Judy Crotts, Long Beach, CA
Sue de Vanny, Melborne, Australia
Marian Eason, Moab, UT
Noriko Endo, Tokyo, Japan
Judy Garner, Sedro Woolley, WA
Sonia Grasvik, Burien, WA
Rivka Hamdani, Israel
Jim Hay, Takasaki, Japan
Dorothy Heidemann-Nelson, Lincoln, NE
Duffy Indeherberg, Kasteeldreef, Belgium
Laurel Izard, Michigan City, IN
Margaret Jessop, Calgary, AB, Canada
Donna June Katz, Chicago, IL
Susan Fletcher King, Houston, TX
Yemima Lavan, Modiin, Israel
Mavis Leahy, Silverton, OR
Marya Lowe, Jerico, VT
Glenda Mah, Salem, OR
Irene Manion, Dora Creek, NSW, Australia
Ginny McVickar, Pleasant Hill, OR
Laurie Mutalipassi, Westminster, CA
Ree Nancarrow, Fairbanks, AK
Michele Oneil, Palm Coast, FL
Constance Perenyi, Shoreline, WA
Pam Pilcher, Portland, OR
Kathleen Rathvon, Sedro-Woolley, WA
Dorothy Raymond, Loveland, CO
Hanneke Reinalda-Poot, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Erlinda Rejino, Sarasota, FL Cindy Richard, Israel
Jameson Riser, Anacortes, WA
Susan Smith, Federal Way, WA
Jerri Stroud, Seattle, WA
Lisa Thorpe, Little Rock, AR
Emily Tull, Ramsgate, UK
Nancy Turbitt, Smithfield, RI
Cheri Ucci, Miami, FL
Suzanne Uschold, Seattle, WA
Larkin Van Horn, Seattle, WA
Debbie Watkins, Montrose, CO
Serap Whitmer, North Bend, WA
Eileen Wintemute, Mission Viejo, CA
Zara Zannettino, Highbury, SA, Australia
Debra Zelenak, Lander, WY
Nanette Zeller, Southern Pines, NC
This collage quilt is inspired by a photo by Tim Barker, a Florida wild life photogra pher and friend. The Little Green Herons are a common site along rivers and other bodies of water. I remember seeing them skip ahead of our canoe as we paddled downriver.
16.5” x 21”
Jerri Stroud Seattle, WA
My friend, J.B. Forbes took a series of photos of a pileated woodpecker. I loved this one showing the long tongue for the basis of this collage quilt. Bugs are no match for this cocky bird.
Seattle, WA
This was inspired by a photo of wild turkeys by Robert Koenig, a former colleague and friend. His photo actually had seven turkeys, but I picked three for my collage quilt. Why blue? The light on the turkeys had a bluish tint.
19.5” x 19.5”
Cindy Richard IsraelInspired by brightly colored fabric, which made me think of bird feathers. I created a quilt of the parrot. Based on my photo of a parrot at our local pet shop. I enjoyed chatting with the parrot who was super tame and friendly.
Raw-edge applique, free-motion quilting, handbound, faced.
27” x 38”
Michele O’Neil
Palm Coast, FL
This is a textile representation taken from a Snow Owl picture taken in the Adirondack mountains in New York. Using fabric collage inks and thread painting the oak piece came to life.
30”
Little Rock, AR
While paddling on Lake Baily, in Petit Jean State Park here in Arkansas, a heron lifted giant wings to serenely take flight across the glassy lily pad lake to my left and a fish jumped to my right, sending silver ripples dancing across the gleam ing water to tussle with the floating lily pads lifting them briefly like row boats on a roiling ocean. When the commotion passed, I was almost brought to tears.
This piece is an attempt to hold fast to that bril liant moment and perhaps translate the wonder of that spectacle to you, dear viewer. May your heart be open to wonders of this brilliant little life, and may you feel free to utter the prayers HELP, THANKS, WOW when that time comes.
While visiting the Tel Aviv safari I caught this action between pelicans as one dropped his prize fish right into the mouth of the second pelican. The struggle took place in an instant. Such drama! Based on a photo by my son-in-law, Yosef Zuckerman. Raw-edge applique, free-motion quilting, pencil drawing, handsewn faced binding.
18” x 21”
Kim Brownell
Sacramento, CA
This Red-headed Amazon Parrot is fusible raw-edged applique using cotton fabric and then thread sketched. I made the rainforest leaves out of upholstery fabric and fused them on using raw-edge applique.
30” x 35.5”
Hand-dyed, stamped and stenciled cotton fabric with Procion and Textiel paint. Woodpeckers drawn by hand. Machine quilted and hand embroidered
The Red Shouldered Hawk is thread painted by machine. Background a blue mottled commercial quilter’s cotton fabric.
mixed media composition celebrating life in a col orful park.
seems so peaceful, yet the bird
watching behind, just in case. You never know who
background for this piece was done with fabric inks. Other elements are added with fabric paint,
on tea bags, painted fusible web, rocks
by with hand-painted fabrics and batting, and free-motion quilting.
Colorful scrap patchwork made with commercial Hawaiian fabric. Machine applique and machine quilting. Hand painted bird. Photo by Lut Habex
12” x 20”
Dorothy Heidemann-Nelson Lincoln, NEThe flightless Dodo bird endemic to the island of Mauritius was first documented in 1598 by Dutch sailors exploring the Indian Ocean. Within 65 years, the bird became extinct as a result of excessive hunting and destruction of the bird’s natural habitat. The intrigue of this unique bird remains long after it’s disappearance from the earth, perhaps in part because of the unique body and beak as well as its name. It was a full 200 years later, that the Dodo bird ap peared in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland along with the romanticized drawing by John Tenniel. Alice Liddell, the girl who was the inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s work, saw the Dodo remains when visiting the Oxford museum. Inclusion in the book resulted in the Dodo becoming an icon for extinction. Bird is painted with Inktense pencils, aloe gel, dilute acrylic latex painted back ground on white cotton fabric.
I’ve always admired how regal the peacock appears to be when he’s strutting along. I took a photo of this guy at the Calgary Zoo and reproduced it in cotton. It took a long time (especially the feathers) but I’m pleased with the results.
This is a styled representation of a woodpecker who lives in a hole in one of the Black Oak trees in my South Florida backyard. The bird is raw edge appliquéd from my own original pattern. The tree and background are free motion quilted. the tree is my own design. The border is flanged (red) with a traditional binding at the edge.
This Gambel’s quail art quilt is comprised of commercial fabric, Prismacolored and burned Evolon microfilament textile and paint.
Larkin Van Horn
The inspiration for this extravagantly beaded necklace was the green landscape of the emerald isle and it’s wildlife - it’s forests and wetlands, the many species of birds flying overhead, and creatures of the shady places.
Color play with single crochet for nest with various fibers, yarns and threads. Peeled willow branches, wooden base and one small golden polymer egg.
34” x 10ish”
Judith Content
Palo Alto, CA
Single crocheted nest with various fibers, yarns and threads installed in a black bamboo stand with a colorful collection of painted polymer eggs.
36” x 10ish”
Palo Alto, CA
Single crocheted nest with fibers, yarns and threads installed in a willow twig and driftwood base.
Donna June Katz Chicago, IL
Thinned acrylic on unbleached muslin, curved piecing, hand and machine quilting.
24” x 34”
Glenys Baker Bellingham, WA
Adapted from a Kerrie Hubbard pattern. Hand applique, big stitch quilting, embroidery and machine quilting. The Magpie is holding a bobbin spool with charms.
This was inspired by a photo take by Mark Ahlness, used with permission. Fusible appli que.
The Woodlands, TX
I am envious of neighbors who can grow bird of paradise, so I made my own from a photo I took. Every flower deserves a hummingbird. I love them and applique them into my pieces frequently.
The plants are raw edge with netting to anchor the edges before quilting. The netting was removed from the hummingbird to keep a brighter color.
After 25 years of marriage, my husband began an affair with an old girlfriend and decided he wanted a divorce. Not only has he shredded our home and family, but I have come to realize that beneath the surface of the man I thought I knew, was a complete stranger. Handdyed, painted, raw-edge appliqued, stitched and quilted.
Suzanne Uschold Seattle, WA
This is an art quilt made with fusible applique that has been matted and framed. Inspired by a photo taken by my husband, Doug Maroney.
40” x 40”
Houston, TX
My great-grandfather was adopted by a wild crow he named Jacob. Jacob lived in a deep window sill outside my great-grandfather’s house and collected shiny treasures which he kept close by. Eventually, the towns people knew if something small and shiny was missing, it was a good bet that Jacob had stashed it on his window sill. Hand-dyed, painted, raw-edge appliqued, stitched and quilted.
Plaid-Billed Toucan
This is another fun spoof on this elegant bird. Don’t you think there should be a plaid-billed Toucan in real life?? I do. Think of all the plaids there could be in that species! It is fused and machine quilted on cotton.
I love toucans, but wanted one with a “rosy bill”. This is a fun spoof on a very elegant and colorful bird. It is machine pieced and fused, and ma chine quilted on cotton.
Catherine Theron
Stitch
over
This is a large Tasma nian Barn Owl out hunting for its prey and a textured tree trunk with moon. All collaged with blue hand dyed fabric, thread sketched, then free motion quilted.
This is of a Wattle Crane in the in the waters edge of the Zambezi River.
On hand dyed base the bird is a collage of fabrics and then thread sketched and free motion quilted once layered.
22.25” x 31”
As they fly past, a flash of blue and a rusty breast first makes you think Blue bird or at least that’s what I thought.
My colorful summer visitors are actually Lazuli Buntings. I eagerly await seeing the Lazuli’s flash of blue each year, a signal that summer has finally arrived. Machine piecing and quilting, hand em broidery and embellishment with hand thread painting.
You can grow accustomed to the background noise in cities. After a career in the Air Force I moved back to Wyoming. I was amazed by how quiet it is - so quiet it “hurt”. Now each morning the night’s relative silence is broken by the clear notes of the Meadowlark’s song greeting the dawn. Machine piecing and quilting, appliqué, and thread painting.
24”w x 19”l x 19”h
Linda Fjeldsted Blust Reno, NV
The legendary phoenix sleeps for eons until one day it escapes its earthly bonds, stretches its wings and soars skyward, finally free to follow its dreams.
Cotton fabric, Poly-fil stuffing, paint, lace, yarn, beads, buttons, fabric stiffener, polymer clay, feathers, Swarovski crystals wood and assorted found objects.
Hand and machine quilting and embroidery. The feathers are individually free-motion quilted and painted, embellished with real goose feathers and Swarovski crystals, and then stitched in layers onto the body
18”l x 11”w x 23.5”h
Linda Fjeldsted Blust Reno, NVThis bald eagle was created in 2020 during the early weeks of the Covid-19 quarantine. He waits patiently on a stack of vintage books until he can fly again.
Since stores were closed, the artist’s challenge was to use only fabrics and objects already available in her studio. These include cotton fabrics, wire, Poly-Fil stuffing, paint, lace, yarn, buttons, fabric stiffener, polymer clay, wood and assorted found objects. The bird is mounted on purchased wood boxes shaped like two vintage books: a world atlas and a history of New York.
Hand and machine quilting and embroidery. The feathers are individually machine quilted, and then stitched in layers on the stuffed body.
24”l x 18”h x 6”wL
inda Fjeldsted Blust Reno, NVRoadrunners are mischievous and intelligent birds. This life-size 3D roadrunner was inspired by the playful creature who frequented my Las Vegas backyard and enjoyed teasing my cat and then run ning away. I imagine the fleet-footed bird laughing as my cat tried but always failed to catch him.
Cotton fabric, wire, Poly-Fil stuffing, paint, lace, yarn, beads, buttons, fabric stiffener, polymer clay, wood and assorted found objects. Hand and machine quilting and embroidery. The feathers are machine quilted and embroidered, and the “turf” is machine quilted fabric covered with bits of fiber and hand embroidery.
Portrait of a Ruby Throated Hum mingbird, based on a photo by my brother-in-law. Utilizes commercial cotton fabrics and thread. The pieces are needle-turned hand appliqued and machine quilted.
In need of a crow feather to study, I talked kindly to the resident crows at a park near me where I went for a daily walk. They listened with no response. After several weeks I arrived to find one of them standing in the grass just off the path. At his feet was a perfect feather. As I approached, he dipped his head and flew off!
Commercial hand dyed fabric, assortment of cotton and novelty fabrics. Ribbon. Raw edge applique along with free motion and straight line quilting.
33” x
As Lady Feather sleeps, her friend whispers a secret into her ear. This cunning corvid carries the burden of all wit and wisdom and the mytholog ical lore of thousands of years of relationship with man. What story could he possibly wish to impart to his fairy protectress?”
Cottons, batiks, hand-dyes, glass beads. Fused raw-edge applique, machine quilting, discharged, drawn with fabric markers, beaded.
37” x
Glenys Baker Bellingham, WA
This is a Silvia Pippin 2020 Block of the Month pattern. Machine quilted by Jo Baner.
Top: Kingfisher, 31” x 19.5” Rivka Hamdani, Israel Quilt made of cotton and tulle fabric. Applique and machine quilting. Based on photo by Shmuel Hamdani, with permission.
Bottom: Winter Redpolls, 38.5” x 21” Ree Nancarrow, Fairbanks, AK Alaska, a place of cold dark winters, is often brightened with incredible pink skies. Redpolls are one of the few species of birds that stay in Alaska year-round and are well adapted to survive very cold temperatures. They are found in flocks, twittering and fluttering from tree to tree as they feed on seeds.
Nancarrow Fairbanks,
White tailed ptarmigan face habitat loss as increasing temperatures allow vegetation to grow at higher eleva tions. With warmer temperatures they are faced with plumage mismatch: they are still white in the spring after snow has melted and turn white in the fall before snow covers the ground.
Stitch resist shibori, sashiko and embroidery. Hand dyed in the Japanese style”Notan“, a Japanese term meaning “light dark harmony”. Artists use “notan studies” to explore different arrangements of light and dark elements in a painting, without having the distraction of other elements like color, texture and finer details.
11” x 11”
North Bend, WA
Pembe is a handmade realistic yet one of a kind mixed media bird sculpture. His foam body is hand-carved and paper mache and painstakingly covered with laser-cut quilt fabric feathers. His legs are made of twisted wire and covered with crepe paper. His beak is made of felt and hand stitched. His eyes are painted plastic beads.
Tux, Atlantic Puffin, 11” x 8”
Serap Whitmer, North Bend, WA
Tux is a handmade realistic yet one of a kind mixed media bird sculpture. His foam body is hand-carved and paper mache and painstakingly covered with laser-cut quilt fabric feathers. His legs are wooden sticks and cardboard and painted. His beak is cardstock and col ored with markers. His eyes are made of fabric and felt.
Facing page: Calli, California Quail, 8” x 8”
Serap Whitmer, North Bend, WA
Calli is a handmade realistic yet one of a kind mixed media bird sculpture. His hand-carved and paper mache foam body is painstakingly covered with laser-cut quilt fabric feathers. His legs are made of twisted wire and covered with fabric. His beak and top knot are made of cardstock. His eyes are made of felt.
Wild roosters run freely all over the Hawaiian Island of Kauai. These wild native jungle fowl, are known as moa. The roosters have thrived be cause they have no serious predators. Also, Kau ai’s wild jungle fowl are protected under Hawaiian state law. And, these roosters are not good to eat. This colorful rooster is definitely “strutting his stuff” with an attitude that says: “Don’t fence me in!” Cotton fabrics, lace, various cotton and polyester threads, bamboo batting. Raw edge ap pliqué, machine quilting, embellished with paint, colored pencils and fabric markers
Inspired by my photos from Fort Rock, Oregon. The high rocky outcroppings are a perfect nesting and perching environment for the Falcons. Free-motion thread painting, applique, trapunto
Jim HayTakasaki,
Compassion leads this being to turn her rooster vehicle away from per sonal enlightenment to help relieve suffering in the cyclical world, repre sented here by taichi rabbits.
kinds
crows
They
mean only “Hello, I’m here,” while other calls
that some of
communicate about
territory
cotton and non-woven;
these crows talking about?
This wall hanging was inspired by all the birdsong I am so fortunate to wake up to each morning in our little forest home in the Pacific NW. Antique linen, circa late 1800 quilt piece, circa 1900 cotton floral, circa late 1800. Hand embroidered and hand pieced.
Inspired by my photos from Pleasant Hill, Oregon. The Common Merganser family raises their young every year on a local pond often adopting other species of ducklings to raise with their own. Free-motion thread painting, applique, wool needle felting, trapunto.
I started this project in a Larkin Van Horne class. Machine embroidery and quilting. Handmade ribbon and crocheted flowers.
This piece honors the Northern Spotted Owl, a bird at the center of forest management controversy in the last 3 decades. Preservation of the species has helped save remaining stands of old growth forest in the Pacific NW.
As old growth forests fell in the 1990s, so did the numbers of the Northern Spotted Owl, considered to be an indicator species in its rapidly disappearing hab itat. Moves to protect remaining forest put this small bird in the middle of a large controversy between timber interests and conservationists. Even with pres ervation measures put in place nearly 30 years ago, Spotted Owl populations remain under pressure from ongoing habitat loss and competition from Barred Owls. Washington alone has lost over 90 percent of its old growth forest due to logging. Fewer than 500 pairs of Northern Spotted Owls remain in the state, with an annual population loss of 7.3% each year. Mixed me dia: cut and torn paper collage, machine-embroidered paper.
28.5” x 19.25”
Erlinda Rejino, Sarasota, FL
The “Los Tres Amigos” was created as an exercise with in a tiny art group which includes two water col orists an abstract painter and me, an explorer of fiber. We each render our interpretation of an agreed upon theme, in this case a picture of three ibis, using our own medi um. Raw edge appliqué, machine quilting, hand embroidery and stitching with beads on quilting cottons.
23.5” x 17”
These beautiful birds tend to thrive in the urban landscape, and as native habitat is affected by drought, the urban sprawl and destructive farming practices , these birds are often found in my neighbourhood in large noisy families that entertain us with their wonderful antics. I have heard of stories where these birds have fallen out of the sky on those increasingly common hot summer days, when the temperature reaches the mid forties (around 109 degrees Fahrenheit). This galah is seeking water in an imagined outback landscape.
I machine embroider my images, which are based on my own photographs of local birds. The challenge is to capture them in flight. The photos, are then digitally manip ulated in Photoshop. The birds are placed into a constructed background that has a elements of the Australian landscape in it. In both examples these backgrounds are taken from my watercolour paintings.
12” x 12”
Susan Smith
Federal Way, WA
I love trying new techniques to make the fiber art that makes my soul sing. Stenciled paper-towels. When I was cleaning up after I dyed fabric for several days I used a lot of paper towels. I was going to throw them away and I couldn’t. I rinsed the dye out of them, hung them to dry then ironed them. I fused them with Misty Fuse and used 4 paper towels. Stenciled, trapunto, stitched & trimmed, free-motion quilted. Fiber reactive dye, soda ash, paper towels, cotton fabric, Warm & Natural batting, Misty fuse, stencils, Shiva artist Oil Paint sticks.
240” x 23”
Yemima Lavan
Israel
I made this work inspired by a picture I took on Lake Awassa in Ethiopia. At dawn, the fisherman return with their treasure of fish. The sale and cleaning of the fish take place on the beach, and the birds pounce on the discarded bits strewn everywhere.Hand dyed and commercial cottons, fused applique, machine quilting.
23.5” x 17”
Irene Manion
New South Wales, Australia
The rainbow lorikeet has become a very common backyard bird in my neighbourhood. They once used to in habit the northern tropical regions of Australia in Queensland, but with climate change, these highly social, fast flying birds have moved south and are able to find food from plants now that Australians have converted to planting native plants in their domestic gardens. Lorikeets are one of the few species of birds in Australia which are thriving, rather than declining. They are much loved for their incredible colour and colourful personalities. In this image, the leaves on the ‘floor’ are native plants upon which these colourful birds find food when they are in flower.
31” x 39”
Hanneke Reinalda-Poot Abu Dhabi, UAE
I live in Abu Dhabi (UAE) and where I live , we have a look over the Mangrove Trees. Birds are flying over the Mangroves, especially in the season of bird migration.
Silk background, tulle hanging loose over the background with fabric and felt birds stitched to the tulle. Machine stitched, machine appli que of tree and birds.
Birds Play In The Woodland 50” x 50”
Noriko Endo Tokyo, Japan
Hand-dyed cotton, sheep leather, metallic threads, yarn, tulle, acrylic paints
Silver acrylic threads are spread on hand-dyed cotton, covered with tulle, machine quilted with gold acrylic threads. Birds are painted on sheep leather.
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Highbury, Australia
The poorly named, Black-neecked Stork reveals its striking jew el-toned iridescence to the careful observer. Screen printing. Raw edge fabric collage, without fusible webbing. trapunto. Free-motion machine stitching for details and multi-layered quilting. Batik cottons. Fabric paint, Cotton and polyester threads. Cotton and wool polyester battings. Presented on a stretched canvas.
x 34”
Judy Crotts
Long Beach, CA
Calmness, serenity, and grace are personal qualities which I admire, but elude me most of the time. Swans remind me of these traits. Calmness, serenity and grace as they glide silent ly through the water, but swans are also powerful birds and therefore symbols of strength and longevity. The juxtaposition of softness and hardness in both life and nature intrigues and inspires me. Needle-turn applique, free-motion quilting.
75” x 75”
Judy Garner
Sedro Woolley, WA
I made this in 2016 and entered it in the 2017 Skagit County Fair. This “Enduring Love” pattern is from Civil War Legacies, Carole Hopkins Designs. I used Old Sturbridge Village Collection reproduction fabrics by Judie Rothermel. Wool English paisley. Hand embroidered and hand pieced.
28” x 27”
Moab, UT
I am a long-time birder, and I’m especially taken by raptors. Owls are enigmatic beings, and this image feels as if it is looking into my soul. I felt compelled to create a portrait. I have never seen a Snowy Owl, but I hope to see one someday Raw-edge fused applique, machine quilting.
This 3 panel quilt was created for our local quilt guild’s annual themed chal lenge. The actual theme was to create a 12” x 48” quilt, and the subject and fabric were at the quilter’s discretion. We called it “The Straight Skinny”. The idea for this quilt actually came from one of my daughters. She is not a quilter but feeds me ideas from time to time. She had seen a hawk in the sky, soaring on the wind thermals; and in her mind, she could see the thermals in color. The idea morphed into a Peregrine Falcon chasing Barn Swallows, which required three pan els instead of one. It was fun creating a quilt in collaboration with her! Raw-edge fused appliqued birds, machine quilted.
This art quilt was inspired by a photo of pileated woodpecker I took at my neighbor’s bird feeder. Created using fusible applique.
Black-billed Magpies are common in the Southwest, and we have a large population of them in our area. A few years ago, a pair nested in junipers at the back of our yard. They are always poking and prodding, looking for food; and they are quite entertaining to watch. This quilt was created for a black and white challenge our local quilt guild had a few years ago. My challenge was to emulate the irides cence of their feathers with only two colors.
Raw-edge
applique,
Little miracles happen very occa sionally and if we are lucky, we might be in the right place at the right time to witness one.
Here, this great blue heron is step ping from his world into ours and gives us an exquisite moment we will always remember.
Hand-dyed, painted, raw-edge appliqued, stitched and quilted. Inspiration from a photo by Tom Wrublewski, with permission.
Mission Viejo, CA
I love the majesty of peacocks, and had some photos of them from a visit to a zoo in Hawaii. I decided that a collage technique would be a great way to show the beauty of this bird. I used a variety of fabrics, including cotton, silks, tulle and flannel, and I embellished it with paint and yarn. It was free-motion machine quilted by me on a mid-arm machine. It received the full “Royal Treatment.”
