The Ladies of the Lake Quilt Guild proudly announces its fifth annual Falling Leaves Quilt Show, coming soon to the Lake County Fairgrounds, 401 Martin Street in Lakeport. Show dates are Saturday, Oct. 7 and Sunday, Oct. 8. New this year are extended Saturday hours of 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
About 250 quilts, on loan from guild members and from the community at large, will be on display in Lewis Hall. Twelve vendors have reserved booths for selling quilt-related merchandise, such as books, patterns, notions and supplies. At the Country Store boutique, guild members will sell a variety of quilt and craft merchandise, a good place to get started on Christmas shopping. Show guests can take a chance at two opportunity quilts and a selection of gift baskets and can bid on the silent auction items. The Lucerne Senior Center cooking crew, in a return engagement, will serve lunch in Barty”s Caf? across the street from Lewis Hall each day.
Kerrie Hershey, owner of Kerrie”s Quilting in Lakeport, is this year”s “Featured Quilt Artist.” A special display of her quilts will showcase the traditional patterns and colors she favors and the colorful, scrappy quilts that she loves to make. Show guests will see why she earned the award for “Best Machine Workmanship — Traditional” at the 2003 Pacific International Quilt Show in Santa Clara. Hershey, who has been quilting since 1980, opened Kerrie”s Quilting in 1991, first located in her home and now located at 1853 N. High Street in Lakeport.
For more information about the quilt show, contact Jane Alameda at 263-3831 or Cheryl Jones-Murray at 263-5171, or visit the Ladies of the Lake Quilt Guild Web site at www.LLQG.org.
