After a seven year absence a quilt show is returning to Greene County, and it’s returning in a big way.
The Greene County Quilt Show, a successor of the popular Heart of the Lincoln Highway Quilt Show, is slated for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 5-7, at the Greene County Fairgrounds. It will include more than 300 quilts of all sizes.
“That show was always a big success, and quilters have missed it since it was discontinued after 2009,” said Suzanne Sievers of the Stitch in Jefferson. “We’re excited to once again welcome quilters and their friends, and to showcase the variety of quilts they’ve selected to show.”
Quilts will fill Clover Hall and the north commercial building, while vendors showcase their wares in the south exhibit hall in the bus garage. Quilts will be displayed in five categories – bed size quilt; baby, lap or throw quilt; wall hanging; miniature; table décor or miscellaneous; and wearables or accessories.
Holly Hedges Carter of Emmetsburg, a self-diagnosed “scrap quilt addict” will talk about her lifelong hobby and the particular pleasures of scrap quilting. She will present “Scrap Happens” each day at 1 pm in Clover Hall.
Four vendors – Quilter’s Portable of Mallard, The Quilt Shoppe of Alta, Iowa Falls Sewing Machine Company and Suzanne Sievers of the Stitch – will do product demonstrations Friday and Saturday every half-hour from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm, and Sunday from 2:30 to 4 pm.
The Greene County Quilt Show is organized by the Greene County Chamber of Commerce and the Greene County Fair Association in collaboration with Sievers and the Stitch.
The show will be open Friday and Saturday, Aug. 5-6, from 10 am to 5 pm, and Sunday, Aug. 7, from 12 to 5 pm. There will be a $5 per day admission charge and food will be available on-site.
“Quilters and folks who don’t quilt will enjoy seeing the show. There’s an amazing variety of patterns and color palettes. Some of the quilts are very traditional, while others are more trendy or whimsical,” said Tori Riley, Chamber board secretary and a member of the Quilt Show committee. “Everyone who comes to the show will see something they like.”
The Greene County Quilt Show will be a biennial event, with the next show already planned for August 24-26, 2018.
