Thank you for coming!
Well, we did it again. 143 quilts hung on every inch of pipe and drape we could borrow, and 1,186 visitors
signed the guest book over two days. That's a record, and a good share of it was the bus of ladies from the
Extension clubs down along the Platte, who arrived at ten on Saturday and stayed until we turned the lights off.
Visitors came from eleven states. The couple from Oregon said they saw our sign from the highway and
turned around. That's the best compliment a show can get.
The tea room served 71 pies (the church ladies are still recovering) and the vendors all said they would be
back. Mrs. Adeline Kuhlman's bed turning on Saturday afternoon was standing room only. For those who don't
know, that's when someone turns back a stack of old quilts on a bed one at a time and tells the story of each. Adeline
is 88, and she had quilts from her grandmother's homestead days, a feedsack Dresden Plate from the Depression, and the
crazy quilt her mother made from the velvet of an old church dress. People cried. I cried and I've heard her do it
four times.
Best of Show: "North Star Homecoming," a king-size Mariner's Compass with a
pieced border of flying geese, pieced and hand quilted by Marjorie Hellwege. Eighteen months of evenings,
fourteen stitches to the inch, and she says she only threw it across the room twice.
Viewers' Choice: "Grandma's Garden," a Grandmother's Flower Garden hand pieced from
hexagons of 1930s feedsack prints her mother saved, by Wilma Doerr. The paper ballots weren't even close.
Best Hand Quilting: Ione Ruhl, "Wholecloth for Emma," a white wholecloth made for her granddaughter's wedding.
Judge's Choice: Teresa Morales, "Sandhills in August," an art quilt of the hills at sunset
in strips of batik, and the most talked-about quilt in the building.
See every ribbon winner, category by category >>
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We know, we know, you want pictures! My son-in-law has one of those new digital cameras and he has
promised to come out at Thanksgiving and photograph the winners so I can put them on here. Until then, you'll have
to take my word for it that they were beautiful.
