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  • PATTY MILLER | THE EDMOND SUN Bob Kellogg and Donnie Davis arrange racks to hang quilts for the Edmond Quilt Festival to be held in Hamilton Fieldhouse on the University of Oklahoma campus Friday and Saturday. Kellogg’s wife, Alice, and Davis’s wife, Becky, are both members of the Edmond Quilt Guild. PATTY MILLER

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  • PATTY MILLER | THE EDMOND SUN Edmond Quilt Guild member Laura James places a number on her quilt so that it may be judged in the Edmond Quilt Festival. More than 50 quilts are on display ready to be judged with additional quilts for viewing only. One quilt will be raffled at 4 p.m. Saturday. PATTY MILLER

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  • PATTY MILLER | THE EDMOND SUN Bob Kellogg, husband of Quilt Guild member Alice, helps Drice Hall and Donnie Davis, husband of Guild member Becky, hang a quilt at the Hamilton Fieldhouse on the University of Central Oklahoma campus. The Edmond Quilt Festival will take place Friday and Saturday from 9a.m. to 4 p.m. PATTY MILLER

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  • PATTY MILLER | THE EDMOND SUN Fred and Fiona Flamingo are the characters in the quilt made by Judy Elliott. The flamingos move from “house to house” ending up in a light house as they experience the economic downfall. Headlines and information boxes transferred from newspaper to treated fabric dot the quilt telling of the economic downturn and its affect on the couple. The quilt blocks were contributed by nine members of the Edmond Quilt Guild. PATTY MILLER

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July 28, 2010

Show to display works of quilt art

Patty Miller The Edmond Sun

EDMOND — From beginners to seasoned veterans, Edmond’s quilters will have their finest on display for the next two days during the Edmond Quilt Festival.

Quilts being shown are not the quick and simple ones that might be made for everyday use, but instead, the quilts on display are intricate works of art.  

More than 150 quilts are on display at the Hamilton Field House on the University of Central Oklahoma campus waiting to be judged by Serena Vrnak. Vrnak is an American Quilt Society certified judge traveling from Texas for the two-day event.

These aren’t your grandmother’s quilts.

“We see various art forms used in making the quilts today,” said Laura James, a member of the Edmond Quilt Guild. Art forms like felting, thread painting, embellishing with beads and crystals, using metal and enhancing that is done with actual paint on fabrics are some of the various techniques used by today’s artistic quilters.

One quilt not being judged but on display only, is based on the image of a glass piece created by Dale Chihuly on display at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art.

“Thirteen Edmond quilt artists recreated the image as realistically as possible,” James said. “The challenge was to make the fabric look like glass and to have the depth and realism of a 3-D piece.”

“With more than 200 members, the EQG only has one male that has made a quilt that is part of the show,” James said. “Although, we have had others over time.”

The husbands of quilters do take part, though. Wednesday they were helping out with the hanging of the quilts.

Sixteen years ago James attended a silent charity auction and bid on quilting lessons. She won and since then she has completed more than 50 quilts for gifts or contests.

“I try not to think about the time and money I put in a quilt,” James said. “The time spent on the quilt depends on the complexity of it.”

James said she has a large room dedicated to quilting, because quilters also tend to be fabric collectors.

Quilt categories included in the judging are: First-time quilt, traditional pieced, large art, small art, traditional appliqué, innovative, seasonal and miniature quilts.

“We have a miniature quilt that is 100 square inches and one that is 5 inches by 5 inches with more than 100 pieces in it,” James said.

Handmade ribbons and prizes will be awarded in the various categories.

Although some quilts are hand quilted, the majority of the quilts on display are machine quilted.

“I think our quilt show shows that quilting is no longer your grandma’s quilt,” said Pam Forrester, organizer for the quilt show. “Quilts are used to not only cover a bed, but they are used to enhance a room. A quilt is a way to show your creativity.”

Edmond’s Quilt Guild is an amazing group of women with talent in many different art forms, Forrester said.

“The uniqueness in our show is to show artistic quality within our guild and in quilting. Not only will a quilt keep you warm, but it is also a work of art,” Forrester said.

EQG, a not-for-profit organization, has been in existence for three years.

“We participate in a number of charitable projects including place mats for Meals on Wheels,” James said. “Last year at Thanksgiving we made each participant in Meals on Wheels a place mat, and we also make birthday place mats that they keep.”

In addition to youth quilts and baby quilts for Hope Center, the organization made 600 quilts last year for the neonatal preemie unit at a local hospital.

Specialty vendors will be on hand during the quilt show from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Hamilton Field House. Free parking is available on campus. Admittance is $5 per person.

The next guild meeting will be at 7 p.m. Aug. 17 at Memorial Road Church of Christ. For more information about the guild or to view the raffle quilt visit www.eqg.us.



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