Quilt Show

2010 Appalachian Festival Quilt Show
Appalachian Treasurers Quilt Show
The Lovely Baskets

 

 

Needles are flying in preparation for the annual Appalachian Treasures Quilt Show!  This year's theme is The Lovely Baskets which features baskets. Any type of basket may be used.  What's important is that the basket be the primary focus of the quilt.

 

Don't miss a unique story-telling!  On Saturday during the festival, the show will be offering its second annual bed-turning. At 2:00 pm antique quilts, layered on a bed, will be turned down individually as a narrator provides the story behind each particular quilt.

Another feature of this year's show will showcase antique quilts.  Quilts, 50 years and older, in good condition with a great story to tell will be on display.

Quilts entered in the Appalachian Treasures Quilt Show will be judged under 17 different categories. The quilts will be compared with each other and judged on things like excellence in needlework, design, color and, essentially, all of the elements that make a good quilt. There are categories for youth, first-time quilters, and co-operative effort quilts. Contestants are competing for ribbons that will be distributed by judges from outside areas.

 

There will be two or three vendors in the quilt area of the Arts and Crafts Festival. The vendors will have fabric and quilting tools available for sale.

 

In the center of the Convention Center, suspended from the ceiling, will be four quilts of honor on display. The quilts of honor will be chosen based on someone the committee would like to honor, or to show off exemplary quilters and past winners.

 

Demonstrations will go on throughout the show in the quilt area, including techniques like hand quilting, piecing and appliqué.

 

For additional information, an application, or to register a guild, contact Sharon Price at 304-228-8030