Our Antique Quilt Show
The Antique Quilt Show held September 14-15, 2007 in the Old Clubhouse at the Antelope Hills Golf Course as a fund raiser for the Elks Opera House was a huge success for the Prescott Pines Questers.
This is Ann Culler; she and her husband Virgil owned the antique quilts we featured. Ann is pictured here holding the antique quilt which she and Virgil donated for the raffle.
Our show was dedicated to the memory of Ann Culler, who was a good friend as well as an inspiration to all of us. She died just before the show.
Thursday, the day before our show, most of our group worked hard to get everything ready.
Several of our husbands came with us and did a lot of the heavy work. We were very thankful!
Shown here, left to right, are Tom Horne, Don Niebuhr, and Marv Wright.
The day of the show was sunny, not too windy, and warm enough that we didn't need jackets. Looking back, it was the best weather weekend of the month.
Publicity and signage proved effective in bringing in approx. 200 viewers.
By early morning on Friday, we were ready. The quilts were all placed and the raffle display was ready.
Raffle chair Eleanor Sigmon, Publicity chair Donna Cummings, Cheri Romley, and Set-up Chair Bev Wright are pictured.
Pat Ireland Williams and Chair Cam Waguespack got ready to sell beautiful craft items.
Antique Quilt Show Chair Joan Brown visits with early guest May Baker, past Arizona State Questers President
Owner of the 65+ quilts, Virgil Culler, enjoyed talking to the visitors about the history of the quilts and seeing them all displayed at one time.
A couple of guests check out the names, dates, and places on this 1920s signature quilt.
Participants took away good ideas given by the quilt demonstrators from how to quilt simply to the quilt story in the Underground Railroad saga to scrapbooking with material to appliqueing. They certainly promoted quilting for the masses.
Alice Obrenovich told about the Underground Railway Sampler she made to illustrate quilt blocks which were probably used as a code to guide slaves to freedom
Everyone had the opportunity to view various patterns, designs, and methods of quilting.
All appreciated the informative program book given to each entrant. Along with information about the Questers and the names of the contributors and workers for the show, the book had five pages of quilting history and thirteen pages with pictures of the quilt collection as well as a page dedicated to Ann and Virgil Culler who made the show possible.
The six historical vignettes were an added attraction using quilts. The bedroom scene had a lovely gold gilded dresser set and mirror. The laundry scene brought back memories of Mondays with the washboard and tub. The four antique portable sewing machines and pin cushions were objects of art as well as utility. The attic vignette brought memories of toys of yesterday. The historical spinning wheel, the living room items of books and leisure activities were typical Quester program subjects. The vignettes put the Quester stamp on the quilt show.
We had sixteen lucky raffle winners. Suzie Fields of Prescott Valley won the grand raffle of the antique quilt.
Most winners were not present but here is a photo of lucky Prescott Pines Quester Elaine Horne showing her prize.
The crafts and bake sale items were nearly gone by the end of the second day. Members' hard work and creativity paid off.
Our goal of fund raising for the Elks Opera House was met, and the funds have been handed over to the Elks Foundation.
We enjoyed working with one another and appreciated the learning experience.
All of this adds up to SUCCESS.