Our little town of 400 has an annual event called Old Settlers every year and it celebrates our history as a pioneer town founded in the mid 1800s.

We have a quilt show every year in the church that sits beside the park in the middle of town.

So you will see quilts laid over the pews.

This year was the first time I got to show all 8 of my doll quilts at the Quilt Show and show off all the pretties I got from my friends!!!

WOW - They are all fabulous.

What a creative and fabulous way to display quilts. I would have loved to have seen them in person. Congrats!

Very nice. Thanks for the show.

Fantastic!

What a beautiful way to display the quilts, I love to see churches used like this as community centres. And am honoured to have a piece of mine included. :-D

Awesome! I see that the local guild was making tree skirts this year! I love that design and wish I had it!

The quilts are all lovely! I'm looking forward to our local quilt show which I thought was this fall but it looks like it isn't. maybe they are on the every other year plan?

Thanks for the quilt show of ALL the awesome quilts!! I love all the mini's, the crazy quilt and the cathedral windows quilt!!

thanks for the show. those are all so fantastic. what talent you get to see here on this board. love it.

Our quilt shows used to be alot bigger. This one only took up about half of the pews with only about 5 pieces hung on the wall. A lot of quilts are not brought in due to people passing away and or going into nursing homes and the quilts are either passed on or the family members are not particularly quilt lovers.
the lady who had always organized the show is now in a nursing home herself and unable to do the show anymore. The lady who now does the organizing is not particularly liked and a lot of people don't bring their stuff because they don't want to deal with her. Which is sad.

I know Marsha(first organizer) worked hard to bring in lots of quilts and there would be so many that it was hard to find room to display them. The church has 4 rooms with dividers at the back of the vestibule(where the pews are) and they would be full to overflowing as well as all the walls would be covered. A few years back they had to drape quilts on the organ and the pulpit as well as the railings in front of the pulpit.

I just hope some of these quilters will come back next year and bring their quilts in again.

wow-great quilts

Wow! Great quilts! Neat to see a quilt show, and not even be there! Thanks for sharing the pics! :)

Thank you so much for sharing all these beautiful treasures. Isn't is amazing how people interpret quilt designs and share so much of themselves through their work!

Thank you for sharing this quilt show with us :D:D:D

Beautiful eye candy! Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for sharing these!

Cool! I really like the idea of tree skirt in not so Christmas-y colors.

Thank you for sharing all the beautiful quilts! I always look forward to seeing the blocks you make, and to see what others have shared and showed is really a treat.

It is a great event. I hope they come back too.

That's a wonderful quilt show!! :thumbup:

Thank you for sharing - 'reminds me of the pics I have seen from Sisters Oregon quilt show!

THEY ARE WONDERFUL THANKS FOR SHARING

I love quilt show pictures. All of the quilts are beautiful!

Love all the quilts, the christmas tree skirts are beautiful. where can we get a pattern of it. I also liked the sweatshirt. I could go on and on. I like all of them.
Marg.

I can check to see who owns the jacket. I would guess it is possibly a Fons and Porter Pattern. I know I have seen something similar on their show.

Thanks for sharing and letting us attend your town quilt show. Really lots of quilts for such a small town. I live in a small town and wouldn't trade for any place else.

Do you know what the block is called in the third picture from the bottom...I'd like to find and hand piece that one!! Great show for 400 people....amazing!

sorry don't know the name. Someone on the board might now it tho. I can post a pic and ask.

Thanks Ronda, would be great!

Love your tree skirts. What is the name of the pattern. I would love to make some for Christmas presents!

I have no idea but I can ask. I didn't look to see who they belonged to. But the lady who organized the show will know.

Thank you so much for the online quilt show since otherwise so many of us wouldn't have seen it! We traveled through Iowa a few years back and came across an old church that was a quilt shop, the bolts of fabric were lined up down the pews, thought it was a great idea! Great job to all the quilters there!

so much to look at and drool over, Rhonda! wowee...thanks!!! :thumbup:

Wow!! That was a pleasure to look at. Thanks

Beautiful quilts. Thanks for sharing the show with us.

You're welcome everyone!

isn't it sad that even though i live about 15 miles away i don't know that you even had a quilt show there and don't know what the date is maybe i can find out more next year

What a nice way to start Sunday morning a quilt show in a church.. Thank you so much

Where do you live? Are you familiar with Old Settlers? It is always the last weekend in August. Sometimes it is the same weekend as Old Threshers but this year it was the week before.

They are all beautiful, You did a stunning job on all. God bless.