Antique Quilt Show helps kick off fair
Hearth and Nome Quilters Guild will be demonstrating quilting techniques during the fifth annual Antique Quilt Show scheduled Sept. 7 and 8 in Fairfield Village Courthouse, Warren County A&L Fair. Hours for the two-day event helping kick off the week-long county fair are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday.
“Qualified personnel will be on hand to discuss the quilts, and information will be available on the special care of antique quilts,” said Lena D. Jones, show chairwoman.
Ribbon awards will be given to designate first, second and third-place winners, Best of Show and People’s Choice. Various classes available are pieced, appliqu?d, embroidered, Crazy Quilt, unquilted tops, most unusual and Friendship.
All entries are required to have been hand-pieced and hand-quilted prior to 1973. Most of those submitted in years past have been dated from the 1890s to 1930s. Information attached to each entry includes the approximate date of the heirloom, the name of its present owner and the identity of the original quilt maker, if known.
Among the outstanding examples of fine stitchery featured last year was the quilt winning the People’s Choice Award. Melba Pistole’s quilt, circa 1915, had been sewn with double rows of narrow quilting stitches in an Around the World postage stamp design.
Claiming Best of Show honors in 2001 was the heirloom owned by Faye Lusk. Her embroidered Crazy Quilt had been made 107 years ago by Mrs. Lusk’s great-grandmother, Louise Jaco York. The quilt was given to Mrs. Lusk’s grandfather, Uriah Jaco York, when he was about 11 years old, then passed down to his daughter, Louise York Simmons. It had been in Mrs. Simmons possession until her death in 1993.