Staff Reports

PENDLETON — Spring Valley Quilt Guild will honor Melanie Clawson with a Lifetime Achievement Award for 2019.

She will be the featured quilter at the guild’s annual quilt show at Pendleton Historical Museum from Sept. 5-8 during Heritage Days.

Clawson has been quilting since she learned the craft from her grandmother at age 6.

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She used a treadle sewing machine until she got married.

She is known for her applique and pieced quilts, which will be on display during the quilt show.

She has won many awards, most recently an Award of Merit ribbon from the National Association of Certified Quilt Judges at a quilt show in Florida. Clawson shared the honors with Elaine Reed, who quilted for her.

Clawson is a member of three local quilt guilds and one in Sebring, Florida.

She had a rewarding career in nursing, the last 20 years working at St. Vincent Hospital, Anderson, in the Surgery Center.

Since retiring, Clawson has immersed herself in charity quilts, producing at least one quilt a month for local children’s charities as well as many nursing home items.

She and her husband, Ed, enjoy their family of three children, seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild.