SEQUIM — Sunbonnet Sue Quilt Club quilters will expand their annual quilt show to a two-day event during this year’s Sequim Lavender Weekend.
After a series of post-pandemic one-day shows at Pioneer Memorial Park, organizers will shift to Trinity United Methodist Church, 100 S. Blake Ave. in Sequim, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Entry is a suggested donation of $5.
As is tradition, the event includes quilts on display from local quilters, demonstrations, vendors, fan votes, a boutique and more.
The club’s Salish Sea raffle quilt will be on display with $1 tickets available at the show. It will be on display with tickets available before and after the show at A Stitch in Time Quilt Shoppe, 225 E. Washington St., until all raffle tickets have been sold. The winner will be drawn on Dec. 11.
Proceeds from raffle tickets contribute to the purchase of materials needed to sew more than 500 quilts each year to donate to agencies such as Head Start, Volunteer Hospice, Habitat for Humanity of Clallam County and Olympic Medical Center.
The quilt’s designs are all original and created by Peninsula Art Quilters Gladis Marr, Anne Davies and Marianne Nolte, with piecing and applique by members of the Art Quilters’ community and quilting by Alana Levesque.
It includes bodies of water that surround the Olympic Peninsula and orca and salmon.
Quilters say the raw edge applique used colorful Batik fabrics to create flowing water, fish scales and orca forms.
Featured quilter
Past featured quilters chose Nancy Wilcox to be the Sunbonnet Sue Quilt Club’s 2024 Featured Quilter. Her work will be on display at the show.
In her artist’s statement, Wilcox said she started quilting with a group of women who wanted to expand art appreciation in their children’s schools by sharing art prints and introducing the rules of art.
“We decided to sew a quilt for each school to make money for more art prints,” she said. “We knew nothing about quilt making, but we were all good seamstresses.”
They continue to meet after 40 years, Wilcox said.
She loves fabric, having fun and exploring different techniques, and particularly loves applique, paper piecing, embroidered, hand-pieced and machine-pieced.
Lavender quilt
Also, during the Sequim Lavender Festival at Carrie Blake Community Park from Friday through Sunday, another quilt will be raffled to benefit a scholarship through the Sequim Lavender Growers Association. Tickets will be $1 at the festival’s merchandise booth.
Sunbonnet Sue Quilt Club member Nancy Foro pieced and quilted the quilt and donated it to the SLGA with all raffle proceeds helping with the fund.
This year, the SLGA granted a $1,500 scholarship to 2024 Sequim High graduate Kimberly Flores, who plans to attend the University of Washington and begin her pursuits toward becoming an emergency room physician.
She volunteered at both Graysmarsh Lavender Farm and at the festival and has fond memories of helping out each summer, she wrote to SLGA.
For more about the Sunbonnet Sue Quilt Club, visit sunbonnetsuequiltclub.org.
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Matthew Nash is a reporter with the Olympic Peninsula News Group, which is composed of Sound Publishing newspapers Peninsula Daily News, Sequim Gazette and Forks Forum. Reach him by email at matthew.nash@sequimgazette.com.
