Festival offers quilted 'eye candy'

Nell Hardin of Arch has pieced together 28 quilts for her 28 great grandchildren since January 2008. With another great grandchild on the way, she says she’ll have to make another quilt.

Hardin is one of the more than 50 quilters and quilting groups displaying and competing with about 175 quilts this weekend at the fourth annual High Plains Quilt Festival. She is displaying four of her great grandchildren’s quilts, ranging from a purple one with an appliqu