Cheryl Hobbs (Irrigon) has been a quilter since at least 1990. She made all of her own clothes while growing up and then progressed to quilting.
Bio
Cheryl Hobbs is a quilter in Irrigon who started sewing at the age of 8. She made all of her own clothes while growing up. Next she progressed to quilting, which she has been doing for over 25 years. She won first prize at the Morrow County Fair for a quilt she made and embroidered that took her over a year to complete. Her family moved to Dayville, Oregon in the early 1950s. Hobbs explains that the most important things to remember about quilting are to square your blocks as you build the quilt, to be accurate in your stitching, and to line up your points in the squares so that they’re true. She likes traditional patterns, and she has 8 grandchildren for whom she is making elephant quilts. There are twelve elephants to a quilt, and she notes that she’s up to 96 elephants and counting. Hobbs uses “Warm & Natural” batting. A traditional and professional cook, Hobbs makes her mother’s old German recipes such as cabbage rolls. She worked for 25-1/2 years as the head cook for the Morrow Co. school district. For six and a half years, she also supervised inmates who cooked at the Two Rivers Correctional Institution.
