They call it art over alcohol. One building in a northwest Nebraska village transformed into something providing much needed jobs and hope to a troubled area. In today’s Signature Story, Nebraska Public Media producer Mike Tobias takes us inside the Whiteclay Makerspace. The story is part of our “What If…” project on innovation and creativity in Nebraska. Watch this story in a new episode that premieres tonight at 7 p.m. CT on Nebraska Public Media.
Nadine Morrison is a master of the room-filling quilt machine. Using something like a steering wheel to easily guide a sewing machine sitting on eight feet of rails, back and forth to create a full size star quilt.
Morrison sketches the design first, then “we have a pattern that we just trace for all the lines and then we just follow it with the needle,” she says. “I do two to four star quilts a week.”
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