WISH LIST: White Bluffs Quilt Museum is teaching the generations

Pam Powell, 60, of Richland uses a rug loom to work on her project Wednesday at the White Bluffs Quilt Museum in Richland. Powell is a board member for the group.

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-- Editor's Note: This month the Herald is featuring a series of stories on the Holiday Wish Lists of Mid-Columbia nonprofits and how you can help.

The volunteers at the White Bluffs Quilt Museum are passing down a knowledge and love of arts and crafts through the generations.

On a recent day, a retired Hanford electrician was learning to crochet. On Wednesday mornings crafters gather to weave baskets. On any day someone might wander in with a family heirloom quilt, asking advice on how to repair or preserve it.

Last summer about 300 children attended small classes to learn to sew, create beaded jewelry and do other crafts. Among the liveliest sessions was Knitting for Boys Only, with young participants creating snakes and superheroes, said board member Jenny Treadway.

Calling the Richland nonprofit a quilt museum doesn't begin to describe its activities.

It was created seven years ago as a textile arts center for the Tri-Cities, serving as an umbrella group for quilting, fiber arts and other local guilds without a home base, and providing a place for arts and crafts to be exhibited, sold and taught.

It's a center for quilting, weaving, spinning, basketry and paper arts, among other textile arts.

Helping other nonprofits, in cooperation with Mid-Columbia craft groups, is one of its missions.

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WISH LIST: White Bluffs Quilt Museum is teaching the generations