Eight different categories of quilts will be judged during the 40th Quilt Show at the Vermilion County Museum, which runs all through July. Museum director Sue Richter recently joined Laura Williams on 1490 WDAN’s Community Connection program. Richter talked about one Quilt Show where some ladies from Japan, visiting Danville on a business outing with their husbands, stopped by.
AUDIO – And it completely fascinated them that people would take whole pieces of material, tear them or cut them into little squares, and then put them back together again, to fashion something. So the concept of quilting, and as you said, to reuse all the scraps of material that you had on hand, was really something that was done for thriftiness.
Another point Sue Richter made was that you do not have to be into quilting to enter the Quilt Show. If you or your family own a special quilt that you would like to show off; by all means, enter it in the show.
AUDIO: Maybe it’s a quilt that’s been passed down through your family. Maybe it’s one you purchased at an auction or a store because you liked it, and you put it on your bed or hung it on your wall. You don’t have to have made it yourself.
Quilts need to be entered by Friday, June 23rd. Then, during the Quilt Show in July, regular admission to the museum of five dollars, during regular hours, will get you into the Quilt Show as well. Just head over to 116 North Gilbert in Danville.
To hear Laura Williams’ entire interview with Sue Richter, please go to https://vermilioncountyfirst.com/the-community-connection/
