Helena Quilters' Guild presents the 2011 Quilt Show: REFLECTIONS; Quilts! At the Civic Center on Saturday, May 21, 10:00-5:00 and on Sunday, May 22, 10:00-4:00, 2011. Admission $4.00 (under 12 free.) The 2011 Helena Quilters' Guild Quilt Show will be held again at the Helena Civic Center. The Helena Quilters Guild Raffle Quilt is entitled Reflections, an original design by local quilt artist, oil portraitist, and other art mediums, Andrea Atwood. There will be vendors featured in the Merchant Mall. There will be ongoing quilting demonstrations throughout the Quilt Show, a featured Helena Quilters' Guild Quilter and the Featured Quilter's quilts will be shown. Also on display will be the Helena Quilters' Guild's charity quilts called Quilts for Comfort.

The Guild is again calling for quilt show entries from the public. Please print the entry form and entry information by selecting in the lists at the top of this page.

The 2009 Quilt Show was a huge success. Award winning quilts were: 1. Debbie's Quilt by Diana Simpkins, 2. Blest Be the Ties by Karen Parker 3. Wedding Star Beige by Deb Plant 4. Blue and White Star by Sue Kissinger 5. Thimbleberries Quilters' Garden by Diane Jackson 6. Big Fork Quilt by Deb Plant 7. Pictogram by Marilyn Petek 8. In the Rose Garden from Dusk to Dawn by Madeline Engelking 9. Journeys by Cheryl Liedle 10. Pretty in Pink by Karen Parker. Vendors' Choice is Glorious Oceans by Ann Lauer. People's Choice is Blest by the Ties by Karen Parker.

The Helena Quilters' Guild has a biennial Quilt Show. The 2009 Quilt Show named "Bits and Pieces" opened on Saturday, March 28, and continued on through Sunday, March 29, 2009 and closed at 4 p.m. on Sunday, March 29, 2009. Hours for viewing the quilts were Saturday, March 28, 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.; Sunday, March 29, 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. There was an admission charge of $4.00.

The Helena Quilters' Guild produces their quilt show every other year. Again, in "Bits and Pieces" Quilt Show 2009 there was a large contingent of quilt shop vendors from as far away as the Pacific Northwest featured in our quilt market. All quilt-related items were available from these vendors for purchase. Free demonstrations were presented throughout the two-day quilt show extravaganza. This 2009 Helena Quilters' Guild Quilt Show had more than 400 entries; which made any extra space very limited.

The Guild members sold sold raffle tickets before and during the Quilt Show $1 each or six for $5. The "Bits and Pieces" Quilt Show 2009 was a rodeo and cowboy theme with a quilting play on words "Bits and Pieces" for the quilters' manner of cutting fabric into little bits and pieces. The multicolored raffle quilt was called "Rodeo Romance" in which the Guild members sewed blocks using the "Patch Abilities" patterns available at (www.patchabilities.com) depicting cowboys and cowgirls in their rodeo costumes of jeans, boots, cowboy hats, scarves and generally western rancher wear. The "Rodeo Romance" Raffle Quilt drawing took place the last hour of the Quilt Show on Sunday, March 29, 2009 and was won by John Chinadler. The Raffle Quilt proceeds help the Guild with the costs of the Quilt Show.