New Addition to Upstate Heritage Quilt Trail

A new addition has been made to the Upstate Heritage Quilt Trail.  Lucy and Dale Harwards’ Hay Day Farm located at 130 Hay Day Farm Drive in Pickens joins the trail.  A quilt block designed by the Reverend and Mrs. Harward and executed by her, is called Harwards’ Hay Day Farm.  It depicts their life together and their many vocations and interests. The center square of the quilt is a variation on the Grandmother’s Flower Garden pattern and represents the many flowers and other products from Dale’s garden.  The border is a variation on the Rail Road pattern, and includes appliqués of a church representing Dale’s work as a minister in the United Methodist Church.  The schoolhouse represents Lucy’s work as a teacher and the bears circling the schoolhouse represent the bears that have cleaned out their hives nine times during April and May of this year.  The bees and skeps in the corners and middle square represent the bees the Harwards keep for pollinating their gardens and for honey production.  A skep is a beehive. Lucy Eleanor Boozer Harward is a self-taught quilter, but has attended many classes and workshops over the past 40 years.  She made the quilt between February and April of this year.  Her plan is to give the original cloth quilt to her daughter, Lucinda “Cindy” Diane Harward Rainey.  The quilt block was hung on the Harward’s barn.