BMQG Harvest of Quilts Show & Mysterious Quilt Journey
Welcome to the 2024 Belknap Mill Quilt Show & Mysterous Quilt Journey!
When: September 28th & 29th, 2024
Times: Saturday from 10 am - 5 pm & Sunday from 10 am - 4 pm
Where: Downtown Laconia: at the Belknap Mill, the Laconia Senior Center and at the
Conference Center at Lakes Region Mental Health.It's Time to Register Your Quilts! We are happy to announce that the 2024 Harvest of Quilts Show Registration is NOW OPEN! The deadline for registering your quilts is July 9, 2024. Out of consideration for the size of our show venues and the number of members in our Guild, we will be accepting ONE ENTRY PER PERSON PER CATEGORY at this time. We are limiting the total number of Large Bed Quilts to 30 based on available space at the Laconia Senior Center, so please get your entries in early. Please check out the Categories Tab above to review category requirements.
Quilt Show Props
Your Quilt Show Props Committee will soon be looking for Props for the upcoming quilt show. Props not only make our show more attractive, but they make it safer. The set-up committee places small props at the base of our quilt racks to prevent our guests from tripping over the rack supports. Small props such as children’s rocking chairs, toy cribs, dolls, plant stand (to display smaller quilted items) and other antique items are welcome.
Check back the closer we get to the show for more details.Mysterious Quilt Journey
Registration for the “Journey” will involve a different form and will follow at a later date. For now, please be thinking about the quilts you are working on, or may have already made that match a particular business in downtown Laconia. The Mysterious Quilt Journey is a fun, interactive, family event, made all the more whimsical by matching quilts to the businesses, so please be thinking of all the quilts in your inventory! Just a reminder: Quilts in the “Journey” will NOT be voted on, nor will they be included in the Program Booklet.
We’re getting excited about this year’s Quilt Show Extravaganza – hope you are too!!
Katie & Ila, Quilt Show Co-ChairsAttic Corner
If you find yourself home and cleaning your sewing room, please keep the Attic Corner in mind. We will be taking fabric donations at the donation bins anytime and at the meetings in June, July, August, and September.
Any questions contact - Joanne Wilhelm [email protected]
or Kathy Allen [email protected]
Please clearly mark the items “Attic Corner” when dropping them off.Quilted Treasures
Hello Everyone!!! I would like to let you know that our team will be able to collect donated items at the monthly quilt meetings.
The goal of the Quilted Treasures “Table” is twofold;- To showcase our amazing talents, and the fact we are a super generous and giving group;
- And the second is promoting all of the things our Guild offers when you become a member.
Any handmade item is welcome. I will have some different ideas, patterns and premade kits for members if that sparks your creativity. Also, I will even have a few UFO’s for you to finish if you are feeling courageous. Consider joining the Quilted Treasurers team, if you are a person who likes to organize, play with fabric and cut, cut and cut !! Thank you for your team spirit!!2024 Harvest of Quilts Show & Mysterious Quilt Journey Board
Harvest of Quilts Show & Mysterious Quilt Journey Committees For September 28-29, 2024 Show
Harvest of Quilts Show & Journey Co-Chairs Ila Mattila and Katie Haddock
Admissions – Chair, Cheryl Goldenberg, Della Kapocius and Jean Vaillancourt
Attic Corner – Co-Chairs Joanne Wilhelm and Kathy Allen
Baskets Galore Team – Linda Claveau-Chair, and Susan Sciotto-Brown
Fire Marshalls – Jody Saulnier—LRMHC Conference Center; Cathy Bowler (for 1 day) & Kim Gregoire – Belknap Mill; Donna Tondreau & Pam Horvath – Laconia Senior Center
Golden Scissors – Chair, Lorraine Barrows
Hanging – Quilt Show Logistics Chair, Jean Durfee
Location Hanging Chairs – 1. June Pease, Donna Tondreau & Pam Horvath @ Laconia Senior Center, 2. Kim Gregoire @ Belknap Mill and 3. Michelle Plourde & Sue Goodwin @ LRMHC-Conference Center
Photographer(s) for Event – Deb Derrick
Program Booklet – Chair, Anne Bole
Program Booklet Ad Sales – Chair, Anne Bole
Props – Lena Nirk, Chair
Publicity – Chair, Anne Bole and Jody Saulnier, Co-Chair
Quilted Treasures – Chair Dawn Lovell, and Co-Chairs Kathy Higgins & Deb Balcom
Quilt Registrations – Kim Amicangioli, Michelle Plourde, Sue Goodwin
Quilt Check-In/Quilt Pick-Up – Kim Amicangioli, Michelle Plourde, Sue Goodwin
Quilt Proofing for Program – Kim Amicangioli, Sue Goodwin, Katie Haddock, & Mary Jo Vick
Raffle Quilt 2024 – Cheryl Goldenberg
Raffle Quilt 2025 – Lynn Poulin & Maureen Bird
Raffle Quilt Ticket Sales – Administrative Co-Chairs Pam Horvath
Raffle Quilt Ticket Sales—Outside Sales – Nancy Smath, Chair, Eileen Lovett, Lena Nirk, and Beth
Shehadi
Signs – Outside Directions – Heidi Lee, Joni Belser & Hope Kokas
Signs—Internal –Jody Saulnier
Square Credit Cards – Chair, Mary Heartquist
Take Down/Breakdown – Chair, Jean Durfee
Vendors – Chair, Jennifer Wright, Co-Chair Cathy Bowler
Volunteer Coordinator – Lori Gardiner
***White Gloves – Dawn Dupak & Wendy Solomon
***Still have slot(s) available on this sub-committeeVOTING Categories for the 2024 BMQG Harvest of Quilts Show
- Small Bed Quilts – A quilt intended as a lap quilt, baby quilt, or bed runner with a total outside perimeter not to exceed 240” (3 layers).
- Large Bed Quilts – A quilt that is made to go on a bed with a total outside perimeter of 241” or more (3 layers).
- Small Wall Hangings – A quilt that is made to hang on a wall with a total outside perimeter not to exceed 90” (3 layers).
- Medium Wall Hangings – A quilt that is made to hang on a wall with a total outside perimeter between 91” - 175” (3 layers).
- Large Wall Hangings – A quilt that is made to hang on a wall with a total outside perimeter of 176” or more (3 layers).
- Machine Embroidery – Entries in this category include items made by using computer programmed design/stitching.
- Wearables & Accessories – Entries in this category include items that may be worn (jackets, vests, and other articles of clothing) as well as purses, totes, briefcases, planner covers, etc. which would be considered accessories to wearables/clothing.
- Home Décor – Entries in this category include items used in household decoration (table toppers/runners, kitchen or sewing room accessories, pillows, rugs, holiday décor, wool runners, penny rugs, etc.) Quilts and/or wall hangings do not qualify for this category.
- Original Design – Entries in this category include quilts that are designed by the entrant. While these items may be inspired by other work, they should not be made using a published pattern. Traditional blocks used in innovative ways may qualify. No size or technique limitations, but all entries must have 3 layers and contain some quilting. Both design and workmanship must be by the entering quilter/artist.
NON-VOTING Categories for the 2024 BMQG Harvest of Quilts Show- Non-Voting – Vintage quilts, quilt tops, etc. Displayed, but not for popular vote.
- Junior (Non-Voting) – A quilt made by someone 17 years of age or younger. BMQG Junior Members may choose to enter their quilts in the appropriate voting categories. (No registration fee is required.)
- My Very First Quilt – A quilt made during the Beginner Quilting Workshop series, Jan-Mar 2024. (No registration fee is required.)
- BMQG 2024 Challenge - "Inspired By A Song" – The 2024 challenge quilts will be displayed as part of a non-voting special exhibit. Quilters may enter their challenge quilt in the Original Design (voting) category if they so choose, and the entry will be identified as having been created as part of the challenge.
- Small Bed Quilts – A quilt intended as a lap quilt, baby quilt, or bed runner with a total outside perimeter not to exceed 240” (3 layers).
Hanging Sleeve for Quilt Show Display
1. The hanging sleeve for your quilt does not need to be a permanent hanging sleeve. If however, you put a temporary sleeve over a permanent sleeve (for instance, if the show sleeve needs to be wider than the permanent sleeve), be sure that permanent sleeve is completely covered.
2. Cut a 11.5” strip of washed muslin or cotton fabric, making it 1” shorter than the top edge of the quilt. Turn under 1/4” twice at each end and stitch in place.
3. With wrong sides together, stitch long edges together 1/2” from raw edges. Baste the long folded edge loosely, 1/2” from edge.
4. Roll the seam to the middle of one side and place this side against the quilt backing. Press open or to one side; either way is fine. The basted seam should be away from the quilt, opposite to the stitched seam.
5. Slipstitch the top edge of the tube to the quilt backing about 1” below the inner edge of the binding and the lower edge of the sleeve flat to the quilt backing, catching the lower layer of the sleeve. Remove the basting so the front of the hanging sleeve is a little larger than the side which has been slip stitches to the backing. This excess will be taken up by the pole, allowing your quilt to hang smoothly without a ripple at the top.- …AND THE WINNER IS… BMQG Quilt Show 2023 Winners
Large Bed Quilts- 1st Place – Kathy Allen “Patchwork of the Crosses
Quilted by Michelle Plourde - 2nd Place – Ginny Canning “Birds of a Feather” Quilted by Michelle Plourde
- 3rd Place – Dawn Lovell “In Remembrance” Quilted by Michelle Plourde
Large Wall Hangings- 1st Place – Carole St. Onge “At Home In The Woods”
- 2nd Place – Ginny Canning “Holiday Snow Village” Quilted by Michelle Plourde
- 3rd Place – June Pease “Flower Garden”
Medium Wall Hangings- 1st Place – Kim Gregoire “Dream Big 2023-1”
- 2nd Place – Ginny Canning “Country Quilts”
- 3rd Place – Cheryl Goldenberg “Bird Dance” Quilted by Michelle Plourde
Machine Embroidery Quilts- 1st Place – Lynn Poulin “Tabitha”
- 2nd Place – Jody Saulnier “The Enchanted Chapel in the Vale”
- 3rd Place – Deb Wyman “My Neighborhood”
Small Wall Hangings- 1st Place – Michele Slock “My Brother’s House”
- 2nd Place – Diane Beaman “Buttons Blooming in Bottles”
- 3rd Place – Michelle Plourde “Blue Beaches”
- 1st Place – Susan Goodwin “Getaway Bag”
- 2nd Place – Ginny Canning “Color Me Kaffe Hooded Jacket”
- 3rd Place – Michelle Plourde “My Tool Bag”
Small Bed Quilts- 1st Place – Maureen Bird “Red and White Sampler”
- 2nd Place – Deb Balcom “Log Cabin in Fall”
- 3rd Place – Nancy Townsend “Fantasia”
Original Design- 1st Place – Diane Beaman “Sunset Abstraction”
- 2nd Place – Maureen Bird “Candied Pineapple”
- 3rd Place – Susan Goodwin “Montana”
Home Décor- 1st Place – Cheryl Goldenberg “Wildflower Garden” Quilted by Michelle Plourde
- 2nd Place – Kathy Rice “Rainbow Fish Tuffet”
- 3rd Place – Rebecca Baergen “Squash Squad Pillow
If prior shows took a Village to put on—this Show took a City! Many of our volunteers dedicated hundreds of hours and a lot of blood (yes we provided band aids), sweat (yes we provided towels), and tears (yes we provided tissues) to put this together. We are grateful, thankful, and bursting with pride from the amazing results! Congratulations and THANK YOU for a job well done by all of our volunteers who helped bring this Show back to the Belknap Mill and to downtown Laconia in a very GRAND way!
With our sincerest thanks, Ila and Katie, Co-Chairs
Harvest of Quilts Show & Mysterious Quilt Journey - 1st Place – Kathy Allen “Patchwork of the Crosses