The Pioneer Quilters show, “Our Quilting Family,” begins Tuesday morning, April 23, at the Lane County Historical Museum, Eugene, Oregon! Today the show was hung, a quilt set up for us to work on during the show, and the Pioneer Quilters Boutique was set up! We are ready!
This show is the largest fundraiser of each year for the Museum. Our dedicated group works all year to provide Boutique items to sell during the show, and 100% of all those proceeds go to the Museum. In addition, the Museum has purchased a few hard-to-find quilting books you might be interested in:
This one will go in my collection, by Gwen Marston
Barbara Brackman’s books belong in all our libraries. She is the authority on quilt blocks
Another Brackman I need to own…
This one is delightful!
A DVD! The staff was thinking of quilt visitors when they stocked up…
This is a great DVD, what a talent!
This whole shelf is filled with quilting goodies. They even have a sewing machine pencil sharpener!
Here are just a few photos from setup:
Our quilt take-in crew, ready for some action.
Our featured quilters Joyce Garrett and Jamie Wagle. Barbara Ganzel is sitting in the middle.
I will have some photos of Boutique items for you tomorrow, but for now I’ll show you a quilt that John sewed and I quilted. This is his first Jellyroll quilt, all in soft pastel batiks. He likes to use Minky backing, because it is so soft and cuddly. I added some fancy quilting, and we are offering it for sale at the quilt show. All proceeds will go to the Museum!
It measures 55×63, just the right size for a lap quilt
Here’s a closeup of the center quilting from the front
I really love quilting…I got a little carried away with this one…
A bit of the back
The photos don’t show the color accurately. The Minky back is a nice lavender.
So here’s the deal. The materials and quilting for this quilt would come to over $250. I donated my quilting time, and the materials, and John donated the sewing time. We’re offering this work of art (that you can snuggle with) for $175. And, yes, you can buy it by calling me. But I’ll be at the quilt show all week, so if you really want t, come to the show! Soon!
The crew loading the quilt for our group to work on during the show
These are the raffle blocks we are offering this year. The blocks were made using the original 1929 Nancy Page patterns, printed in the Portland Oregonian. There was a contest and monetary prize for the best quilt. We have two quilts hanging beside the blocks that were made during that contest!
Raffle tickets are $1 each or 6 for $5, and the winner will also receive some coordinating fabric yadage!
So this all starts tomorrow morning at 10! Admission is $5 per person. You can buy a weekly pass for $10 and come several times to enjoy the speaker presentations and demonstrations. See you there!
Robin
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