Kootenay Quilters Quilt Show will be held at the Prestige Inn on October 1 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and October 2 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Entitled Everything Quilted, the works of 50 local quilters will be displayed. A vendors mall is included with the festivities.
Of special interest will be the display of unique garments created for the Quilted Wearables Challenge.
The Kootenay Applique Ladies Society will also display their beautiful work.
Guild members Gin Tomlins and Elsie Gates share the feature quilter honours.
Tomlins has been a member of the guild for 13 years and specializes in hand quilting. Her painstaking hours of fussy cutting and careful stitching were rewarded in 2007 when she won the Canadian Quilters Association Ribbon for the best in show. Gates, an award wining quilter, belonged to the Abbotsford Quilt Guild for 10 years before moving to Nelson to be closer to her children.
Throughout the year Kootenay Quilters contribute quilts to a number of charities including the New Year’s baby recognition quilt, Transition House, quilts for healing heroes and Rotaplast. They are best known for their contribution of colourful baby quilts displayed for sale in the Ladies Auxiliary Gift Shop at Kootenay Lake Hospital.
Kootenay Quilters Day Group meets at 10 a.m. on the first and third Thursday of each month at Christie Lees Hall. The Evening Group meets weekly at 7 p.m.
Quilters and prospective quilters are invited to come and experience the camaraderie, support and encouragement fostered by the guild.