Originally Posted by dunster

I used to belong to a very small guild in Oregon. We usually held the show in a school gym, a church, or a community center. The picture below is from one of the shows held in a gym.

and we invited members of the community to bring in their quilts as well as those made by guild members.and usually the facility also had things we could use to hang quilts, such as room dividers. Sometimes we were allowed to pin smaller quilts to the walls. We charged for admission and had door prizes and raffle baskets with all kinds of things, mostly donated by local businesses. One guild member wrote to major fabric suppliers asking for donations and was surprisingly successful.

I enjoy going to the big professional quilt shows, but I really enjoy the small local shows more. Good luck with yours.