La Costura de Saguache
Colcha embroidery revival came to Saguache in 1976 under the tutelage of Carmen Benavente Orrego-Salas, who was hired by the Virginia Neal Blue Foundation, a Denver based non profit organization. Saguache is a small town at the northern end of the San Luis Valley. The colcha embroidery project brought together participating artists including Mary Baker, Cathy Baxter, Margaret ‘Mugs’ Batchelder, Mary Anne Gallegos, Patsy Garcia, Margie Gurule, Yvonne Halburian, Brenda Lovato, Sandra Lovato, Virginia ‘Bena’ Lovato, Mary Pacheco, Sadie Pacheco, Marcella Quintana, Nettie Quintana, Brenda Rowe Heckathorne, Francis Russell, Lupe Tafoya, Nyla Thompson Orvis, Evelyn Trujillo, Tiva Trujillo, and Delores Worley.
