Thank you to all who came and supported our show. It was an amazing weekend with a display of nearly 200 quilts, along with our featured speaker, Sylvia Hernandez, multiple raffles, I-Spy games, silent auction, vendors, and more!
Enjoy a walk through video of our show HERE.
Two beautiful raffle quilts—a modern Wonky Cross quilt and a Sunflower/Ukrainian Benefit quilt have been made for the show. Buy tickets for chances to win! Raffle tickets are $1 per ticket or $5 for a book of six tickets.
Wonky-Cross Raffle
1st Prize: Wonky-Cross Quilt, 96”x96”.
2nd Prize: Brother ScanNCut SDX85 cutting machine, donated by Sew Right Sewing Machines.
3rd Prize: Basket of quilting supplies.
Sunflower Raffle
Prize: Sunflower Quilt, 84”x84”
All proceeds from the Sunflower quilt will go to UNICEF for Ukrainian refugees.
Workshops and Demonstrations
Free hands-on workshops will be running throughout the show for attendees. Many with a focus on mending, repair and reuse. All materials supplied.
Workshops include:
Mending and Embellishing Techniques
Make a Bead and Fabric Necklace
Fabric Bowl Making Demonstration
Make an English Paper Pieced Patch
Make a Drawstring Bag
Paper Piecing Demo
Making Yoyos from Scraps
Sylvia Hernandez will present quilts and speak on her social justice quilting journey at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 30, 2023.
A celebrated master quilter, Sylvia creates works that address community and human rights issues. She has exhibited locally, nationally and internationally including Journey of Hope in America: Quilts Inspired by President Barack Obama, We Are the Story: A Visual Response to Racism in Minneapolis, Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories in the Fine Arts Museum of Boston, and currently in the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, and the James Museum of Western & Wildlife Art in Florida.
Free with admission.
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Follow Sylvia on Instagram.
EARTH DAY 2022
REIMAGINE: Reuse and Repurpose
Quilt Fence Show
Saturday, April 2, 2022, 11-4 pm
Honoring Earth Day 2022
In these quilts the Brooklyn Quilters Guild upcycles materials, making something creative and beautiful from a material that would have become waste.
The Quilt Challenge:
75% of the fabric in each quilt should be repurposed from things like clothing, bed and table linens, etc.
Size: 36” x 36”
“Come Together” Quilt Fence Show
Saturday, October 9th, 2021, 11 am- 4 pm
EARTH DAY 2021
Honoring Our Beautiful Planet
Quilt Fence Show
Saturday, April 24, 2021, 11 am- 4pm
The Quilt Challenge:
To make a quilt celebrating Earth Day, interpreting it in any way you feel.
Size: 36” x 36”
“Be a Rainbow in Someone’s Cloud”
Brooklyn Quilters Guild Rainbow Quilt Fence Show
Saturday, October 24, 2020
Thank you to everyone who helped put this show together and to all of you who came out to see it. We had a great day. Please enjoy this beautiful slide show, put together by Larry Sapadin.
