The event will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. with a $10 admission.

“We’re a group of quilters that go from beginners to very experience quilters,” Barb DeVelder, a co-chair of the quilt show, said. “Its a wide range of abilities, but they all love to quilt, so they come together.”

The guild has been meeting since 1994 and has over 80 current members that come to the monthly meetings that are held from September through May. For over a decade, the group has been presenting their works at the show.

“We have over 300 quilts for the quilt show this year,” DeVelder said. “Those are basically quilts that were made in the last couple of years by our members.”

The 2024 quilting show had a variety of quilts on display, and this year’s show offers more of the same. Submitted photo.

Meetings are are held on the second Thursday of the month at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church at 7 p.m. and consist of classes, demonstrations and learnings of new techniques shared by members and guests. The guild will also quilt pieces for the community as a group, including “Compassion Quilts,” given to members of the community experiencing a crisis, as well as “Quilts of Valor,” given to Brown County veterans, and “Stitch of Hope” Quilts, given to oncology patients at the New Ulm Medical Center. Finally, “Tummy Time” quilts are given to first-time parents for their little ones. The guild welcomes all who wish to attend their classes and meetings.

“Anyone is invited,” DeVelder said. “It doesn’t matter if it’s just beginning or have been sewing for many, many years. It’s open to everyone. I always seem to learn something new either from the other members there or from the classes or whoever is presenting the program at our meetings. There’s always something to learn.”

The show serves as a fundraiser for the guild, but also works to demonstrate the abilities of its members.

“It showcases their talent, but it’s also a fundraiser for the guild to be able to keep making these quilts that we give out to the community,” DeVelder said. “There will also be some members that will do share-and-tell with their quilts. They will be next to their quilts and then people can ask them questions about how they did a particular technique or what they used to make it.”

Vendors will be at the show providing quilting-related items, and a second-hand boutique will be selling gently-used items for sewing and quilting.

This quilt was a “mystery quilt” — made by putting together clues and directions given each month to those particpating in the class, but the end result is unknown until the very end. Submitted photo.

“We have a featured quilt that we have each show, and this year, her name is Theresa Westrup, she’s a founding member of the quilt guild,” DeVelder said. “She has been very active in the guild and continues to be very active. Her favorite love of quilting is to do small piecings of scrappy quilts. She will have a special display of her own quilts as part of the show.”

Another quilt, designed and sewn by Darlene Sellner and quilted by Judy Olson, is available to be won by raffle at the quilting show. For more information, visit the guild’s Facebook page, “Prairie Piecemakers Quilt Guild.”

This quilt was a “mystery quilt” — made by putting together clues and directions given each month to those participating in the class, but the end result is unknown until the very end. Submitted photo.