Dolly Scaff spends hours daily enjoying her love of quilting
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Marlene J. Bohr
Nimble fingers have not slowed down with age; they seem to have only increased in their flurry with the needle and threat. Dolly Scaff just turned 94 in May and spends the majority of her days quilting.
Born and reared in the Naples-Omaha area, Mrs. Scaff moved to Daingerfield in 2000. According to Ula Scaff, her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Scaff has been quilting since she was 7 years old.
“She would stand by the quilting frames with her aunts and mothers,” Ula Scaff said. “They used to have the quilting frames that hung from the ceiling. An aunt taught her how to do a few stitches. I don’t know when she actually made her first quilt, actually not until she married, but she learned watching others.”
Dolly Scaff does all her quilts on her fingers and uses a frame.
“She has a frame that sits on the floor,” Ula Scaff said. “They had it built for her; she has had it forever. “When she’s not quilting she has big boards that go across it and that makes a cutting board for her.
“She averages one quilt a month, and she’s already finished six quilts this year. She just got through doing an around the world. She makes them full size up to queen size.”
Almost any of the hour of the day or night, Dolly Scaff can be found at home quilting.
“She quilts all day long; she doesn’t do much of anything else,” Ula Scaff said. “You might go to her house at 4 a.m. and she is quilting or at 10 at night and she is quilting. She watches and listens to her programs on television or listens to county western music while she keeps on quilting.”
Last year Dolly Scaff had a complete shoulder replacement; however, that did not slow her down.
“Within two weeks she was back quilting,” Ula Scaff said. “She gives away most of her quilts. She has been giving one to raffle off for the November bazaar at the First United Methodist Church in Daingerfield for probably 12 years or more. She has given many quilts away to people that have been having a benefit in Naples and around the area. She gave us one last year for our 50th class reunion. We donated all the money from it to the gala at Paul Pewitt.”
Mrs. Scaff has four children and one sister.
“She comes from a talented family; she had a sister who knitted right up to a month or so before she died,” Ula Scaff said. “She had a brother who painted; her entire family was talented.”
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