Quilt Show - Our 30th Year

One of the many quilts on display at vendor's booths

We've been busy all week at work setting up for the Warren County Historical Society's 30th edition of its Lebanon Quilt & Fabric Arts Show & Sale.  Quilt show week is always stressful because it is held inside the museum's conference facilities and galleries so we have been busy transforming the place into booths and special exhibits.  The show is Friday and Saturday, March 1, & 2 from 10 to 5 and Sunday from 11 to 4. Admission is just $5.00 and all proceeds go to the operation of the museum.

Quilt show is always wonderful fun. The entire show is a gorgeous display of some of the most beautiful new made quilts you will see anywhere. Each vendor's booth is hung with an amazing array of quilts and wall art and we can't get enough of the colors and patterns while we ooohh and aaaww over the intricate stitching. 

Betty Sue O'Dell's needle work 2012.

But its not all quilts. Each year the vendors bring new and exciting fabric arts ideas which they offer for sale either ready made or in kits.  Last year's hit was Rose Cheap Reynold's punch needle kits. Rose is back this year with some great new ideas.  Other favorite trends are wool felted items of all kinds, a variety of kits for everything from rugs to dolls and much more.

This year Julie Dawson, a fan of quilt barn art, has a collection of bird houses she hand made and hand painted with quilt patterns as if they were miniature barns displaying quilt barn art. They each have a tin roof as well. What a great idea.

A perennial favorite is the button jewelry booth. We always budget a bit of our quilt show spending money for a new button jewelry pendant or ear rings or bracelet.  This company comes up from Texas every year and has some wonderful jewelry all made from antique buttons.

Special exhibits include spinning and weaving demonstrations by Stringtopia of Lebanon and a vendor selling alpaca fleece and products. Also on display are examples of quilts from the Ohio Quilts of Valor chapter and the Lebanon Methodist Church's Ronald McDonald House quilters.

There is so much to see and do!  Come early and plan to stay all day.