Are you a proud quilt owner? If so, why not share your fabric art treasure with the whole community during the 2024 PrairieFest Quilt Show?
The show is co-hosted by the Quilters Dozen Quilt Club, the Oswegoland Park District, and the Little White School Museum.
Area residents who own heirloom family quilts, quilts they have created themselves, or quilts they have purchased are encouraged to display their treasures at this year’s show. Contemporary and antique quilts that are either machine or hand quilted are welcome.
There is no cost to display quilts at the show.
This year’s show will be held during the 2024 PrairieFest community celebration at Oswego’s historic Little White School Museum, 72 Polk Street (Jackson at Polk). Quilt show hours will be Friday, June 14, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Saturday, June 15, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and Sunday, June 16, noon to 4 p.m..
A certified quilt appraiser will be available to appraise visitors’ treasured quilts during the show on June 14 and 15. There will be an appraisal fee.
Quilts for the show should be dropped off at the Little White School Museum on Wednesday, June 12 from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. Displayed quilts must be picked up by their owners on Sunday, June 16, after the quilt show closes, between 4:30 and 5 p.m.
Quilt show entry forms are available for download and printout at Prairiefest.com under the “Be Part of It;” from Quilters Dozen members; and during the drop-off hours at the Little White School Museum Wednesday, June 12.
In addition, the Quilters Dozen have kicked off their annual fundraiser, the PrairieFest Quilt Raffle. One lucky winner will take home the 2024 PrairieFest Quilt, “Blue Chandelier.”
Quilt raffle donation is $5 a ticket or five tickets for $20. Raffle tickets are now available from quilt club members and, in groups of five, online at the Prairiefest.com website. Tickets for the raffle quilt will be sold during the quilt show. Proceeds benefit the Oswego American Legion Post 675 and the Oswegoland Park District’s PrairieFest celebration.
The Quilters Dozen meets each week at the Oswego American Legion Post 675 Home, 19 West Washington Street, Oswego.
—Little White School Museum