My favorite recipe - Meet Bonnie Swannack, Lamont

The license plate frame on Bonnie Swannack’s red mini-van pretty much sums it up: “Quilting is My Passion.”

“I make quilts. It took over my life about 30 years ago,” Bonnie said.

Growing up as Bonnie Mays in Hooper, her mother quilted but Bonnie didn’t even know how to thread a needle until she took Home Economics in high school.

After graduating from LaCrosse High School, Bonnie attended Whitworth College in Spokane and the nurses training at Deaconess Hospital where she met her husband, Bill, who was a patient at the hospital.

“He couldn’t get away,” Bonnie remarked. They have been married 4...