Sussex Vale Quilters' Guild: Autumn Splendour 2016

It is always interesting to watch a quilt show come together...it seems like mass confusion at first but then it just seems to gel and everything works. Marilyn got herself a keeper in Kevin , he stayed right to the last quilt being hung and his help was so very much appreciated. He worked with the other hubbies to get the racks all organized then he used those lifters, climbed those step stools and helped hang the quilts where we asked...what a guy....and he did it with a smile. His reward!!! he went on a weekend golfing with his pals.

It's always great to be around organized people and Agate got everything arranged numerically and it all got set up with ease....smart cookie, that woman!

The ladies were wonderful, bringing their quilts in early...it's always a bit of a bottleneck and annoying to wait in line but they did and things went very smoothly.

Here's our raffle prizes....Joanne's Legacy quilt...a whole cloth quilt that she had marked so beautifully and the ladies quilted in her honour. Having such a pretty quilt on the table certainly made it all look great.

Hard to believe how much the ladies make to sell ...should have taken a picture at the end of the show to let you see how much actually left in the delighted arms of the purchasers.

Our Guild quilt on the right....Friends around the Square and beside on the left the star of our antique quilt display. The quilt in the foreground is one of our "Chemo Quilts" being quilted.

What you saw when you walked in the door...a little oomph and a lot of "wow"....it continued all the way through.

This is our guild corner...just a small sample of the projects we did in the past two years.

A couple of lights burned out....we had the option of having an electrician coming in to repair during the show and we opted against that , it would have been much too disruptive.