More Quilt Show

This will be the final set of pictures from the quilt show.

We again visit the quilts that are black, white and red only to find my camera skills lacking. The colors are not crisp and the red shows as pink. My photographic abilities need to be honed.

The quilt pictured above is recent construction using vintage fabrics from the 1930's. It seems quilters are either fabric hoarders or excellent recyclers.

This quilt is a double wedding ring quilt with feathers. It is absolutely stunning, very well done and technically very difficult. The skill required to take something flexible, like fabric, put it together in a complicated pattern and have all the points and lines match shows tremendous technical ability.

This is another quilt that demonstrates great technical ability in the piecing and in the quilting.

This quilt was not part of the show but was brought by my mother and several other ladies from the Wataga Congregational Church. It belongs to the church now and it was brought in to be appraised. The quilt was constructed in 1900 most likely as a fundraiser. You would pay a certain amount and your name would be embroidered on the quilt and you would have an opportunity to win the quilt when it was finished. The quilt has almost 360 names. One of the ladies who was present is the granddaughter to one of the ladies named on the quilt. At quick glance I recognized a couple of family names of folks who still live in Wataga. The ladies are going to try to research the names and figure out as many as they can.