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The 2004 Quilt GalleryThe 2004 Quilt Gallery is now online!
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The Quilt Auction -- a sale favorite -- features over 250 beautiful hand made quilts, wall quilts, afghans, comforters and other quilt-related items. The quilt auction tradition is one very special way that Mennonite women of Kansas use their abilities to provide resources for those in need throughout our world.
Viewing of displayed quilts begins at 4pm Friday, when reserved seats for the auction also go on sale. Individuals purchasing reserved seating for the auction will be limited to eight tickets this year. The quilt auction begins Saturday at 8:45am, continuing into mid-afternoon in the Meadowlark Building.
There will be a special mini-auction featuring items not classified as quilts, but which are traditionally interspersed throughout the quilt auction. Included are dolls, afghans, quilt racks and other similar items. This takes place around noon. Refer to the Quilt Buyers' Guide for the exact time.
A picture gallery of the quilts is available for viewing on this website starting March 1.
Quilters' Corner located in the Meadowlark Building generated over $9,600 in donations last year selling quilt supplies and unfinished quilt projects to recycle.
Sale shoppers will find finished and unfinished tops, quilt blocks, old or damaged quilts, and linens (such as dresser scarves, pillowcases, tablecloths, chenille bedspreads, doilies, potholders, aprons, and cloth sacks). Also available are quilters' equipment, quilt books, magazines, buttons, wooden spools, patterns and fabric (denim cut in blocks, no double knits).
Those who wish to donate these quilt-related items may bring them to a participating Mennonite Church, or to the MCC Central States office, 121 E. 30th St., North Newton before March 21. For more information contact Rose Wiebe Haury at 785-271-7568 (haury@juno.com) or Mary Beth Goering at 620-241-4107 (mjgoering@dtnspeed.net).