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Around 200 entries will be featured in the 2010 Little Balkans Quilt Show, scheduled from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday in Pittsburg Memorial Auditorium.
The event is sponsored each year by the Little Balkans Quilt Guild.
“We’ve had some lovely quilts turned in,” said Lea Anita Lemmons, quilt show chairman, during the entry turn-in day on Aug. 28. “Our work crew has been busy and worked well all day long.”
As entries were turned in, they were sorted according to category and labeled. Judging will be on Thursday by a quilt professional, and local “celebrities” will come in Friday to select their personal favorites.
There are categories for machine quilted quilts, hand quilted, appliqued, quilts made by individuals or by groups, first quilts, miniature quilts, quilts made from T-shirts, quilted garments, etc.
There’s even a re-work category.
“That’s where people took one thing and made it into something else,” explained Mary Bess Albritton.
She showed a throw pillow and an apron, both made from an old square dance dress, then spread out a beautiful quilt created from three kimonos.
Also on view will be chatelaines made by guild members. These are cloth pieces that go over the shoulders.
“The guild has a pen pal relationship with an Australian quilting group, and we made chatelaines,” Lemmons said. “No two are alike.”
Little Balkans Quilt Guild has another special project that it does each year.
“Since 1998 the guild has made over 1,339 quilts that have been donated to local charities,” Lemmons said. “We’ve given them to the Children’s Advocacy Center, the Cancer Center, Sunset Manor, home health agencies, the new hospital at Lamar, Mo., and Habitat for Humanity. The guild is an active, working group.”
Members quilt for various reasons. One of them, Albritton said, is because it’s exciting.
“It’s the excitement of building your own treasure,” she said. “And these can last over 100 years, so they become family keepsakes.”
Admission to the quilt show is by a Little Balkans Days Button, which these year features a nine-patch quilt design. Buttons cost $4 and may be purchased in advance or at the door.
Around 200 entries will be featured in the 2010 Little Balkans Quilt Show, scheduled from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday in Pittsburg Memorial Auditorium.
The event is sponsored each year by the Little Balkans Quilt Guild.
“We’ve had some lovely quilts turned in,” said Lea Anita Lemmons, quilt show chairman, during the entry turn-in day on Aug. 28. “Our work crew has been busy and worked well all day long.”
As entries were turned in, they were sorted according to category and labeled. Judging will be on Thursday by a quilt professional, and local “celebrities” will come in Friday to select their personal favorites.
There are categories for machine quilted quilts, hand quilted, appliqued, quilts made by individuals or by groups, first quilts, miniature quilts, quilts made from T-shirts, quilted garments, etc.
There’s even a re-work category.
“That’s where people took one thing and made it into something else,” explained Mary Bess Albritton.
She showed a throw pillow and an apron, both made from an old square dance dress, then spread out a beautiful quilt created from three kimonos.
Also on view will be chatelaines made by guild members. These are cloth pieces that go over the shoulders.
“The guild has a pen pal relationship with an Australian quilting group, and we made chatelaines,” Lemmons said. “No two are alike.”
Little Balkans Quilt Guild has another special project that it does each year.
“Since 1998 the guild has made over 1,339 quilts that have been donated to local charities,” Lemmons said. “We’ve given them to the Children’s Advocacy Center, the Cancer Center, Sunset Manor, home health agencies, the new hospital at Lamar, Mo., and Habitat for Humanity. The guild is an active, working group.”
Members quilt for various reasons. One of them, Albritton said, is because it’s exciting.
“It’s the excitement of building your own treasure,” she said. “And these can last over 100 years, so they become family keepsakes.”
Admission to the quilt show is by a Little Balkans Days Button, which these year features a nine-patch quilt design. Buttons cost $4 and may be purchased in advance or at the door.
