Our Wednesday group, Day Stitchers, is a pretty casual group. No mission statement, no meetings, no officers, no dues. Just a group of women who enjoy quilting, as well as other kinds of needlework. We gather once a week at a local library in a conference room. Nobody has to play hostess, and nobody is required to bring treats (except often somebody does). It’s perfect. It’s a place you can go and spend four hours working on some handwork and enjoy the company of others.
Then somebody decided we should have a show! (Doesn’t that sound like the old Our Gang movies? I can just hear Darla saying, “Let’s have a show!”) With limited space for display, we decided to do a quilt show of miniature quilts. So our humble little group spent several months in 2007 working their hardest to produce over 100 miniature quilts.
Since this was before I began life as a blogger, I thought I would share some pictures.
Here are Joan, Betty, and Arlis hard at work doing set-up.
Since the quilts were miniature, we decided the ribbons should be gi-normous. Here is Pat’s Carolina Lily (I think that’s the name) sporting a ribbon.
I know I missed getting a picture of one bank of quilts, but this is a pretty good representation of what we accomplished in 2007. It was a lot of work, a lot of fun, and looking at these pictures makes me think, “We should have a show!”
–Sue
oh that looks like fun!
inquiring minds want to know…
1.did you have any guidelines for the overall size of your quilts?
2.and did you make any distinction between a small size quilt vs a full sized pattern reduced to miniature?
Lots of beautiful little quilts there. Tell me, what kind of frame did you use to hold up the quilts in the corner? We display our quilts for Quilter’s Day Out each year and something like that would be very handy.
Oh how cute and I can only say oh how time consuming to cut out all those little tiny pieces and not to mention sew together all those little tiny pieces!!!
Would just drive me crazy!
We did have a size limit, and I haven’t thought about it for a while, but, Cathy if you’re reading this, maybe you remember? It seems like it was maybe 120″ total around the four sides. We did ask for quilts that were representative of a full-sized quilt, only miniature, as opposed to a cute wall hanging, but we took whatever we got!!! It was a great show.