Membership Highlights
Handmade T-Shirt Quilt on Display at the NNC
The NNC team poses with the 2004 Region VI T-shirt Quilt made by Roy Easley and donated by Region VI Member Darcy Bingham for display at the National Center. Staff members pictured are (front row) Karen Bach, Kent Blumenthal, Carole Hobrock, George Looney, (second row) Cheryl Williams, Kiki Alexander, Valerie McCutchan, SpongeBob SquarePants, (third row) Pat McCord, Mary Martin, Mark Jacobson, Ryan Rjeda, and (fourth row) Barry Brown, Melody Ball, Sarah Hubert, Nick Todorovich, Cory Granholm.
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Thanks to the creative genius of Roy Easley, CRSS, of California State Polytechnic University (Pomona), NIRSA National Center Team Members can enjoy a stunning work of art in their midst every day. Roy's Region VI Conference Quilt hangs in the front stairway of the NNC where both visitors and staff members can take a close look at the amazing final product all
26,430 stitches of it!
Other specs on the 2004 Region VI Conference Quilt are as follows:
- Twelve T-shirts were incorporated.
- Roy started the quilt July 1, 2004, and completed it around November 10, just before the Region VI Conference in Phoenix about four and one-half months.
- He completed machine sewing at home in July and hand work each morning and late evening while he traveled through Canada and Alaska.
- In sewing hours, Roy calculates that he spent about 400-500 hours totalabout three and one-half hours for each square.
- Nearly $1,250 was raised in the raffle for the quilt at the Region VI Conference. It was won by Darcy Bingham, CRSS, who donated it to the NNC.
- The quilt is embroidered with humorous customized embellishments, such as dolphins and a palm tree on the University of Hawaii square, tattoos on pigs in the University of Las Vegas "ooze ball" square, a bear and equations adding up to twenty on the square commemorating the 20th anniversary of UCLA's John Wooden Center, and a devil with tridents and flames on the Arizona State University Sun Devils square. The Cal Poly square contains Roy's signature: "Roy C. Easley, aka Hoodoo, 2004."
Roy recalls admiring the quilting expertise of his eldest sister, Alpha, when he was a small boy in her care. "When I saw the first t-shirt quilt that Paula Opal [another quilting member from Texas A&M UniversityCollege Station] made," Roy says, "I began to save for constructing a quilt for our university." That was in 2000, he recalls: "My first quilt for Cal Poly Pomona Intramurals featured twenty-five squares (king-size bed) and took 4th place in the Los Angeles County Fair 2002. It now hangs near the Intramural-Recreation Department in our new University Union Addition. I have completed six quilts now but don't own any of them since most have all been for fund raising purposes. One that I did for our Cal Poly athletic department raised $6,000. It was dedicated to our retiring president and now hangs in our gymnasium lobby."
After launching his new hobby, Roy kept quilting "to fill my idle moments that are otherwise wasted watching TV in the evenings or on sporting events" on weekends. He explains: "I hate to be non-productive. I have entered my fourth quarter of life and have many things left to complete before going to the happy hunting ground. The game is always won in the last minutes."
The NNC Team is proud to display your handiwork, Roy!
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