The Madrid Heritage Quilters 27th Raffle Quilt, Stars and Swirls, is now on display at Medicap through July 30. See the quilt at City State Bank July 30 through August 20 and then at Uni Clip August 20 through September 3, 2010. The quilt will also be on display during The Annual Quilt Show, Saturday, September 4 at St. John’s Lutheran Church and at the Madrid Heritage Quilters Booth in Veteran’s Square, Sunday, September 5. Drawing the lucky raffle quilt winner happens Monday, September 6 in Edgewood Park after the Lions Club Chicken Dinner.
The Stars and Swirls quilt contains 18 different star blocks with stars also in the boarder. The antique blue, red, and off-white tons highlight the many fabrics each member chose to complete their quilt block. Each member made at least one large star block, sashings, border cornerstones, and sashing cornerstones.
A different twist for this year’s quilt is that it was machine quilted, with stars and swirls. The club decided to forego the traditional hand-quilting to enable members to make quilts to donate to Central Iowa organizations, as the club had done in the past. Also, two pillow cases* were made from the background fabrics to go with the quilt.
Purchase your raffle tickets at Medicap, City State Bank, The Uni Clip, Bank of the West, Hairworks in the Parlor, at the Quilt Show and Quilters Booth, and from any Quilt Club member. The profits from the raffle fund the next raffle quilt and enable the Quilt Club to make donations. Annually, the Quilt Club makes a donation to the Madrid Labor Day Celebration since the club’s beginning. Most recently, the club has also donated to the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation for the High Trestle Trail.
*The pillow case pattern is available on this blog.
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